Bill Stewart wrote: [...]
One of the Internet map sites, I think Mapquest, also has aerial photos for many US areas. I'm not sure if they're satellite or if they're airplane-based. It's good enough to clearly make out my condo complex, including the pool, and the image shows a purple blob on the street that may be my car. Amazing stuff, and free, though it doesn't cover the whole US.
Multimap has that for the UK. From planes I'm pretty sure. http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=europe&scale=1000&X=529700&Y=182000&width=700&height=410&gride=0&gridn=0 has the building I work in. Windows on upper stories clearly visible. As are cars and vans in the street - of course they are where they where when the picture was taken, which was sometime before summer 2000 going by the building works in the British Museum at the bottom of the street. Also proper maps, with contours and buildings and field boundaries and so on. It makes you wonder why anyone made a fuss about Arab-looking folk taking photos of airfields and dams. Ken Brown