Google Earth thread!

It has been mentioned elsewhere but in case you haven't seen it the latest Google Earth has a roll back facility to show previously published Aerial Photos. For the UK this is around 1999 but don't forget coverage was poor then! Luckily when you zoom out you can see the aerial overlays.
There are aerials dating back to the 1940's in places like the US but I only found one covering some unkown location in Washington State and it was very small. Good luck with that one!!

One GE Scotland appears to have been updated and coverage now includes the Getmapping stock. The usual holes are still there and two that I would like to see are Dumfries and Edzell but I fear by the time they get coverage it will be too late.

On the plus side Kirkwall is now visible and I know a lot of you have been waiting for that. Also for you "Strips in ths Isles" folks a lot of the Orkney airfields are also visible but the Orkney coverage is limited so misses a few WW2 sites including the one that is rude in Manchester (specifically Bury but I won't go into that right now!)

If anyone has spotted anything else please post as although some will probably have found it other might not.

That would be very useful especially to go with the lists in the as built section.

Many thanks. You are right it is by far the best I have seen. As it enables you to choose what to view you dont get a mass of differnt flags.
I am now removing the others I have that overlap.

Incidentally I was amazed at how many AA sites are still visible after all these years. A quick look at UKAerialphotos.com shows some of them in the postwar photos but others are mysteriously covered in the only cloud for miles!