Cool - Old Map & Google Maps matched site

[DJFish]

Brilliant!
I was looking for something like this earlier today, great timing!

[ninja-lewis]

tribbles said:

mjb1 said:

Does anyone know what the source of the satellite/aerial imagery is? Because it's more recent than the google maps/earth aerial images where I'm looking.

The maps are much later than Google for my area (near Guildford, Surrey) - something like at least 3 years old. It's showing my old garage. For a while Google had my new garage with its old roof; they've now got the new roof (which was done a year later). But it's now smaller, so I know it's more than 6 months old.

It's using Microsoft's Bing Maps rather than Google Maps.

https://www.bing.com/maps

[Jonesy23]

Also worth tracking around other bits of the site and looking at the sheet maps, they have a lot more versions than what is currently on the overlay version.

The 1:2500 / 25 inch maps are good.

[jinkster]

Nothings changed. My house was built in 1704

[Riley Blue]

Very interesting.....

[lufbramatt]

Amazing, love stuff like that. Theres a guy on a local facebook page who's doing a blog about the farm that existed on the site where the estate I live on was built in the 1930s-50s, great to be able to see what the landscape was like that he's talking about.

[wildcat45]

Fascinating. I've a few friends who will love this. Thanks.

[LeoSayer]

Thanks for posting, superb!

[red_slr]

Top stuff, thought I had seen all of the internet but it seems not!

[Front bottom]

lufbramatt said:

Amazing, love stuff like that. Theres a guy on a local facebook page who's doing a blog about the farm that existed on the site where the estate I live on was built in the 1930s-50s, great to be able to see what the landscape was like that he's talking about.

Yes, that's the sort of stuff I look for too.

Also, as I work on the railway (It gets under your skin), I find it fascinating that some of the roads I travel on in Coventry for instance were once branch lines, which I didn't know until looking at these maps.

Great stuff!

Edited by Front bottom on Thursday 27th July 09:17

[Mexman]

Frightening how much development has taken place in the last 100 years or so.
All of that open farmland just disappeared under concrete.
Quite sad really, overpopulation has a lot to answer for.

[RicksAlfas]

Great post, thank you.

[XM5ER]

Awesome. Thanks.

[DJFish]

Disregard my earlier thanks, I've just spent an hour looking at old maps when I should've been working, this site is going to get me sacked.

I remember when all this was just fields.......

[Equilibrium25]

That's brilliant, thanks for posting!

[Boydie88]

Awesome site. The transformation around Milton Keynes, scary.

My village has had a whopping one road added.

[Legacywr]

Could somebody please write an idiots guide to using this?

[LordGrover]

The slider. Move the slider towards the left.

[Legacywr]

Thanks

What's the best historic road map you've found?

[Rick101]

Amazing how accurate the old map lines are.