British suburbs

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Richard Thorp <obby at b...> wrote:
> Monday, November 18, 2002, 11:52:32 PM, Melody wrote:
> 
>MELODY: 
> M> In the beginning of CoS there was a wide shot of the neighborhood
> M> the Dursley's live in.  The houses were perfectly matching and 
> M> went on forever.  I was actually shocked and wondered...do y'all 
> M> have suburbs like that?  ... ... ...  Is this normal 
> M> for England?
> 
> For some parts of England, yup.. Lots of cheap post-war housing I
> believe. Our house is similar to all those down the street, altho we
> have a back garden, no front garden to speak of, and the
> outside/insides are diff.. the layout is the same tho..
> 
> We don't have the same sort of room to make diverse houses as other
> countries do :) Have to use up all the space economically!
> 
> -Rich
> msn: obbles at h...

bboy_mn:

Well, I'm going to stray a bit from the main topic here, but there is
a European 'Map' website that has complete ariel photograps of Britian
down to 5,000:1 resolution/scale. That's actually pretty detailed. You
can very clearly see houses in neighborhoood, sports stadiums, and you
can see ships on the Thames River. Reasonably good quality photos. 

http://www.multimap.com/

Select your country first, then move to the area you want to see, and
start zooming in on it, when you get as close as you can, select the
Aerial photos.

Under the drop down box where you pick you resolution or scale
(1,000,000:1; 100,000:1 etc.... is a very tiny small gold camera that
says AERIEL PHOTOS. 

The maps cover about 99% of the UK and much of the rest of Europe. 

You can look around Otter St. Mary and see if you see the Burrow
anywhere. Fun stuff like that. See the shops on Charring Cross Road.
See Chinatown. Fastinating stuff.

Unfortunately, this site has recently been redesigned from a very
obvious intuitive interface, to a nasty think that is hard to navigate
and works best with MS Internet Explorer which is a program I really hate.

bboy_mn