12-26-2006, 11:16 PM
Another pressie (and Kate guessed the nature of this one).
Be warned: don't try this at home if you use Opera, Seamonkey, or a KHTML-based browser like Safari or Konqueror. For reasons best known to Micro$oft, it only works with Internet Exploder or Firefox (probably something to do with the Javascript). On the other browsers, all you see is a rather crummy search engine interface.
Here are aerial atlases of the milecastles, forts, and outpost forts of Hadrian's Wall.
The Microsoft 'Virtual Earth' system (also known as local.live.com and maps.live.com) is much flakier and more clumsy than Google Maps or Google Earth (which I would have used by preference) but has the virtue of having the Getmapping hiresolution aerial photographic coverage of England and Wales, so makes it preferable for a project like this over the landsat covereage available elsewhere. You may have varying success getting the server to work (the collections are stored on a central server, whereas Google saves .kml files on your computer) so be patient and don't blame me; just petition Google to buy the Getmapping coverage ;-)
Another, very different, present follows, possibly tomorrow.
Mike Bishop
Be warned: don't try this at home if you use Opera, Seamonkey, or a KHTML-based browser like Safari or Konqueror. For reasons best known to Micro$oft, it only works with Internet Exploder or Firefox (probably something to do with the Javascript). On the other browsers, all you see is a rather crummy search engine interface.
Here are aerial atlases of the milecastles, forts, and outpost forts of Hadrian's Wall.
The Microsoft 'Virtual Earth' system (also known as local.live.com and maps.live.com) is much flakier and more clumsy than Google Maps or Google Earth (which I would have used by preference) but has the virtue of having the Getmapping hiresolution aerial photographic coverage of England and Wales, so makes it preferable for a project like this over the landsat covereage available elsewhere. You may have varying success getting the server to work (the collections are stored on a central server, whereas Google saves .kml files on your computer) so be patient and don't blame me; just petition Google to buy the Getmapping coverage ;-)
Another, very different, present follows, possibly tomorrow.
Mike Bishop
