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free online map/satellite pictures

If anyone hasnt seen this yet, google do an amazing interactive map/journey planner. You can type in a place or a postcode and it will take you straight there. The buttons on the left let you toggle between map, satellite, and a hybrid of the two!

click on the satellite and search using your postcode to bring up your street, and get a free birds eye view of your house!

http://maps.google.co.uk/


enjoy!

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  • grabbit
    grabbit Posts: 63 Forumite
    and if you enjoyed that download google earth and fly along the route looking at a satellite image as you fly !
  • B&H
    B&H Posts: 38 Forumite
    That is cool! I am from Hungry and can see the town I came from, even the boating lake!
  • frestuffwooo
    frestuffwooo Posts: 420 Forumite
    You can also use "multimap.co.uk" to do a similar thing
    :rotfl: :j :T :bdaycake: :xmastree: :bdaycake: :T :j :rotfl:
  • Amphibian
    Amphibian Posts: 33 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Another brilliant free map site is Old Mapswhere you can search for your address, bring up a map of your area in the 19th century, these maps are often better than modern ones. You can also view a higher resolution ariel shot, than the one offerred on multimaps.

    It's very interesting to see what was where your house is today, and what was once there and now isn't. I discovered that my house was built on the site of a windmill, which, when looking at the frequent wind destruction in my front garden, makes a lot of sense.
  • irisrose
    irisrose Posts: 4,248 Forumite
    I am tracing my family tree and on Old Maps I have found where my ancestors once lived.
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