I find that the www.Multimap.com aerial photos are higher resolution. I can see my car parked by my carafan in Porthmadog! Ian Jolly . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Roberts" <welshladymegan@yahoo.co.uk> To: <WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:46 PM Subject: [CAE] New feature Google feature >I recently came across a new feature on Google, which if it develops will >prove quite useful in trying to get an idea of locations. It's their map >section which is a combination of Google Earth and a street map locater. >For those who don't know Google Earth its using satelitte pictures, so with >this new feature you can get satelitte pictures overlaid with with street >maps. Unfortunately there's not much detail on the rural photos, so where >as I can see my flat in London, I can't see any real detail in Wales. >Anyway if you are interested in seeing what it's got to offer when you get >to the Google front page you will see a button saying "more" follow that >link and after that choose maps, and then its fairly intuitie as to what it >will do. > > Best wishes > > Megan