Anne Slater wrote: > The several sites I've gone to will highlight a whole island, showing > which blob is which island, but i want to see a map that gives village > and town names. > I've finally figured out, starting with the map that Mike posted, that > Stenness is part of Mainland. Duh. > I want to do some looking and can't put my hands on my Michelin Guide... > Any site suggestions? > Thanks, > Anne in Ardmore (PA) Multimap at <http://tinyurl.com/2o6lub> - you can zoom in and pan up/down left/right. Or the Ordnance Survey is a good starting point. Try <http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk> or <http://tinyurl.com/29hy2v> Or for older maps try <http://www.old-maps.co.uk> -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> "Do you get virgin wool from ugly sheep?"
For rural areas, I think Streetmap is better than Multimap. At the right level of zoom it produces what looks like the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey map, and that gives a lot more detail on farms, coastal features, hills, small islands and so on than does Multimap. It also has a good search feature. For example, I've just tried a few searches such as Rothiesholm, Broch of Gurness, Noup Head and Noltland Castle and it recognised them all. Admittedly it failed with the Castle of Burrian. However, I've just discovered that it recognises Castle o' Burrian, so I was probably just guilty of incompetent searching. Use the zoom buttons under the map if necessary, and the "Large Map" button is also useful since it will (somewhat unsurprisingly)give a map covering a larger area at the same scale. The Ordnance Survey site doesn't seem to give a large map — or at least it didn't last time I used it. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ However, for those with an interest in Orkney, it's well worth getting a decent set of paper maps. Best for most purposes is the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey "Landranger" series, numbers 5, 6 and 7: "Orkney - Northern Isles", "Orkney - Mainland" and "Orkney - Southern Isles". http://tinyurl.com/2z5enw The more detailed Ordnance Survey Explorer maps (1:25,000 scale) are also excellent, but it takes five of them to cover the whole of Orkney, and though I've got a set of them, I think the Landranger series gives most of the same information and is somewhat easier to handle too. Norman Tulloch