RE: UKNM: something I'm working on

[Paul Durrant]

>>manda Christie wrote

>I am interested to hear views from you all about a 'possible' piece of

>software.....it would be an aerial view of London that could zoom in

>at street level.  FIRST EVER, but I wonder if it  REALLY could be of

>any value?


>>Mark Dolley wrote>>

>>http://www.pageszoom.com/files/nojava/francais/plans/frame_plan.html


Nice idea but it is just depressingly slow,( unless I hit it at a bad time!)


>>Carl Christensen wrote > .... they showcase a good usage of such an application

>>where you can "zoom" to street level of Central Park and midtown Manhattan fro

>>satellite imagery....http://www.livepicture.com/zr/solutions/defense/index.html


Yes it works very quickly but its pretty useless when you've zoomed into

a fuzzy image of about 100 sq. m.  With that kind of resolution, most

people couldn't decipher what the fuzzy mass is never mind using it to

find their way around e.g. London .    (Old problem of air photos vs.

Maps, that's why Governments spend billions on thier Ordnance Surveys

converting air photos - which are far higher resolution to satellite

ones -  into maps!)


For something really useful look at WWW.KRAK.DE (Type in an address or

company name anywhere in Denmark and it pinpoints it on a map where you

can zoom right in) or WWW.SPEEDMAP.DE (take referenzen link) both

refresh really quickly and the latter cross references from yellow pages

like information.



Paul Durrant

Tarnlough Ltd.

Interactive Business Communications

pdurrantindigo [dot] ie

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