Re: Streetmap.co.uk - best mapping - maps.google.co.uk
- From: "Martin Underwood" <a@b>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:02:18 -0000
Richard Fairhurst wrote in message
1133909077.593480.316920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> FWIW, I use the mapping at waterscape.com (try www.waterscape.com/map/
> ), and that's not solely because I coded it. :)
Very nice: draggable maps at various scales such as road atlas, 1:50,000 OS,
street map. And the street maps contain a reasonable amount of information
such as individual railway sidings and buildings (eg at Quainton railway
centre): you don't get situation that you get with a lot of street maps that
you zoom in from the OS map and find that many details disappear to be
replaced with large areas of empty space! The maps are even up-to-date: they
include my road which has only existed for about 4 years - always a good
test!
The only improvements I'd suggest are:
i) allow a place to be selected by searching for the name rather than by
zooming right out and then successively zooming in by estimating where it is
ii) add a key: there are various abbreviations on the streetmap such as
"PW", "HPO", "TH" which are not obvious. Maybe "TH" is Town Hall and "HPO"
could be "Head Post Office", but "PW" has got me totally baffled - whatever
PWs are, they are all over the place!
I've found that at larger scales the map quite often doesn't redraw (either
totally or specific parts of the window) when you drag the map around.
.
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