Posts tagged with ‘aerial photo’

Revision guides? Safer to lock them up!

Sunday, 23 April 2006

I came across a site, Learn History, which offers revision materials for GCSE History exams. As part of its “Crime, punishment and protest” section, it has a gallery showing aerial photos of prisons in England and Wales.
This is the photo which they claim is of Leicester prison:

As anyone from Leicester will realise, the photo in [...]

Read the whole article...

Google Local adding a county at a time

Wednesday, 19 April 2006

Ever since Google extended their Local service to the UK, satellite photo coverage has been, quite literally, rather patchy, with not many areas covered by high resolution images. Recently, however, they have been extending the detailed images, and there has been discussion about whether they are now using aerial photos from aircraft rather than satellite [...]

Read the whole article...