[TowerTalk] RE: satellite images on web

[Pete Smith]

At 03:26 PM 8/18/03 -0500, Bill Aycock wrote:
>John- the tabs on mine say "print map" and "e-mail map". However, Bob 
>Nielsen has done an impressive job- he went to a map with the proper tabs 
>and move the image area to my place.
>He got my house almost dead center!
>He sent me a URL that was about six full lines, that put me there, with 
>the "photo" tabs and all.

More times than I care to admit, I've been foxed by the cache of my browser 
storing an old version of a page.  I suspect this may be the case with 
Mapquest, because I don't recall it ever having an aerial photo option 
before, but it does now.  I recently dumped my cache, so I didn't have to 
remember to hit "Refresh" or "Reload" to get a fresh copy.

This implementation is much better than some others, by the way -- the 
Microsoft site that attempts to match up topo maps and aerial images does a 
truly lousy job of finding the same place when you switch from map to photo 
or back.


73, Pete N4ZR
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