Cool - Old Map & Google Maps matched site

[Mothersruin]

This site is superb - you can look about in Google Maps then move over the transparency and it's fully aligned with OS maps going back to the 19th century.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=9&lat=53....

Well, I've found it interesting...

[motco]

Excellent, thanks!

[judas]

Great find!

[mybrainhurts]

Great stuff, thanks...

[threespires]

Brill - thanks for that

[MrBrightSi]

Great link, sent it to a few people. It's been fun having a look at the surrounding area and how relatively young my home village is in comparison to the surrounding towns.

[JagerT]

Cheers for that really cool !

[Front bottom]

Thanks very much for posting that!

Very interesting!

[Robbo 27]

Thanks for posting, going to explore that in more detail.

[chrisxr2]

Thanks, very interesting.

[Spare tyre]

Interesting

Footpath up the side of my gaff has been there forever!

Thanks

[ian in lancs]

Fantastic!

[miniman]

Nice!

[Quhet]

Absolutely love things like this, great find. Thanks!

[1878]

I love this kind of stuff - thanks!

[Hawmaws]

Thanks! My daughter has just told me she had to do this for her geography degree!

[DoctorX]

I'll lose many hours to this. Thanks OP.

[mjb1]

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.

[SeeFive]

I had a look at the landscape where my house is on the 1960s map. It was about 200 yards offshore in the sea with an island further out!!

My current other place was all fields, a bit like this place when I joined.

Needless to say, I am old enough to see my childhood homes well established on that map

[tribbles]

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.