New Friday Fun Amongst Google Maps

Some novel Street View imagery seems to convey appeared inwards London.

The novel imagery is dotted around the upper-case missive of the alphabet together with includes this shot (above) of the London 2012 Olympics Park. From left to correct you lot tin seat the axe run across the Orbit, the original Olympic Stadium together with the Aquatic Centre.


In fundamental London it is difficult to avoid the Shard, Europe's tallest building, which straightaway dominates the skyline of London. If you lot click on the icon inwards a higher identify together with charge the Street View you lot tin seat the axe brand the edifice disappear past times taking i pace frontwards inwards the Street View. I believe a lot of Londoners want they could practise that inwards real-life.


The LOTR Project is busy edifice a identify unit of measurement tree of all the characters inwards Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings. They convey likewise late added a mapped time-line of the novel. They haven't used Google Maps simply it is i of the best map time-lines I've seen, together with hence I idea I'd include it here.

I honey the agency the time-line automatically connects alongside the map together with the agency the map stays inwards position equally the time-line scrolls.


Spoonflower has created a slap-up tutorial, explaining how you lot tin seat the axe practise Google Maps cushions, using Google Maps satellite imagery.

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