CH on Microsoft Live Search mapping

Post by **jtaylor** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:31 pm

Google maps hasn't yet covered CH with high quality images, but the new Microsoft Live Search mapping has:-

Link to Microsoft Live Map of CH

Nice to see CH in all its glory....

The 3D views in London and other major areas are stunning - try New York....

Anyone know what's being built behind the sports centre (at the time the photo was taken)?

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:46 pm

Good to see but Google is still better on Spain, and probably most places except the US.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:47 am

This isn`t a recent picture - you can see the work being started on the Grecians houses.
The "work" by the sports centre is where they dumped all the soil from digging out the main car park, now all nicely greened over. I think at one point it was going to become a running track.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:34 pm

I must have an ancient operating system.

I can see 'Kit' Aitken cycling round the quad !

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:13 am

I would guess that pic was probably taken from the summer of 1998, my Deps as they had started to build the Grecians's houses iirc... also, the 'running track' carpark looks pretty new / not quite finished...

Notice that there is no 'Grange Hill' in the Art School - the Art School bogs are still there... they were demolished in the Easter holidays of 1999 I think...

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:40 pm

Bearing in mind that the google earth photos are from summer last year (I can tell that from the state of my roof, which was fixed in January this year), it makes you wonder how Bill Gates has the nerve to call it Live.

AndrewH · Post by **AndrewH** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:16 pm

I just had a look at a location near Guildford on Microsoft's thing - image is from before 2002, probably by a year or more, but then so is the one on Google!

John Knight · Post by **John Knight** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:23 pm

What is that strange track to the right of Grecians East?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:02 pm

That was probably the access road they built to get the vehicles used for building the Grecians' houses into the site...

John Knight · Post by **John Knight** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:53 pm

Great Plum wrote:That was probably the access road they built to get the vehicles used for building the Grecians' houses into the site...

Er.. No!... If it was then they were driving around in circles!

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:27 pm

Just looked at the farm in France - the screen covers about 3 miles horizontally and cannot be brought closer
(check "caudeval 11230 France"

There are far better ariel photos on the 'net

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:56 am

John Knight wrote:
Great Plum wrote:That was probably the access road they built to get the vehicles used for building the Grecians' houses into the site...
Er.. No!... If it was then they were driving around in circles!

ah, the access road is more towards Whapplegate...

that track you were looking at was used by PGL in the summer to drive quad bikes around...

For the uninitiated, PGL are a teenagers holiday camp that used the school in the summer for a few years...

John Knight · Post by **John Knight** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:10 am

Great Plum wrote:
John Knight wrote:
Great Plum wrote:That was probably the access road they built to get the vehicles used for building the Grecians' houses into the site...
Er.. No!... If it was then they were driving around in circles!
ah, the access road is more towards Whapplegate...

that track you were looking at was used by PGL in the summer to drive quad bikes around...

For the uninitiated, PGL are a teenagers holiday camp that used the school in the summer for a few years...

Ah... Thanks Matt, another one of my mysteries solved.
I thought it may be a 'pony exercising circuit'.
John.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:26 pm

PGL is Parents Get Lost. My daughter has done a couple of them. The children come back about 3 years older than they went, it is quite amazing, "I ate this, I did that", will they eat this or do that at home? will they heck!

peter2095 · Post by **peter2095** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:13 pm

When they used CH didnt they trash some of the Houses?

I remember hearing stories from some Teachers that they were a nightmare