On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Presumably built between two aerial photos of the area being taken or
something.

I found an estate with no rooves on... it looks like one of those diagrams
you see in estate agent windows.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...&t=k&z=19&om=1

Ooh, nice one!

If you look at the same estate in Windows Live Local, the Birds Eye
Views show the estate completed, but the plan view shows the stuff that
was demolished to make room for it.

I've come across a couple of cases of that with roads - the A120 past
Stansted, i think, which was on the map but not the photo. The A10 bypass
from Standon to the outskirts of Ware is still missing from the photos
(unless it's in a tunnel or something):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ware...&t=h&z=13&om=1

And am i right in think that's the skeleton of a dead wartime airfield
just to the east of Stansted:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

?

There's another one:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...=k& z=15&om=1

Now a go-kart track and some football pitches.

And what are these mysterious road loops:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...=h &z=15&om=1

?

Another abandoned airbase:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...=k& z=15&om=1

It's amazing how easy they are to spot from the air (assuming they're not
decoys). Which is kind of unfortunate, given the context in which they
were built!

tom

--
Gin makes a man mean; let's booze up and riot!

In message , Tom
Anderson writes

And am i right in think that's the skeleton of a dead wartime airfield
just to the east of Stansted:

Yep - Great Dunmow, in use from 1943 to 1946:

http://www.abct.org.uk/page_1592.html

And what are these mysterious road loops:

The remains of the USAF base at Little Walden (really only used for the
D-day landings and the period after).
--
Paul Terry

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, John Rowland wrote:

I found an estate with no rooves on... it looks like one of those
diagrams you see in estate agent windows.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...&t=k&z=19&om=1

Ooh, nice one!

If you look at the same estate in Windows Live Local, the Birds Eye
Views show the estate completed, but the plan view shows the stuff
that was demolished to make room for it.

I've come across a couple of cases of that with roads - the A120 past
Stansted, i think, which was on the map but not the photo. The A10
bypass from Standon to the outskirts of Ware is still missing from
the photos (unless it's in a tunnel or something):

It's not. But these are cases of the map not matching the photo, whereas I
was talking about the overhead photos not matching the angled photos.

And am i right in think that's the skeleton of a dead wartime airfield
just to the east of Stansted:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

Yes, and you can easily drive onto the runways of this one, which is fun.

It's amazing how easy they are to spot from the air (assuming they're
not decoys). Which is kind of unfortunate, given the context in which
they were built!

Given the primitive equipment used by the British pilots returning to land
on them, it's rather fortunate they were easy to spot from the air.

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:45:53 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
And am i right in think that's the skeleton of a dead wartime airfield
just to the east of Stansted:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

Yes, and you can easily drive onto the runways of this one, which is fun.

It's amazing how easy they are to spot from the air (assuming they're
not decoys). Which is kind of unfortunate, given the context in which
they were built!

Given the primitive equipment used by the British pilots returning to land
on them, it's rather fortunate they were easy to spot from the air.

That's Great Dunmow, according to my maps. If you pan the map further
east, you can make out Andrews Field, which still has a grass landing
strip, marked 09/27, with the outline of the old runways still
showing.

See
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

It's not always easy to tell one airfield from another. A comrade of
mine on a night cross country found himself at Little Rissington,
instead of Pershore, having misread the flashing morse code of "LR"
for "PR". He couldn't understand why he was so close to the ground.
The CFS Meteors were also a shade worried about this slow aircraft (an
Oxford) getting amongst them.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org