Google Earth thread!

Generally if the photos have town and village names printed on them they are OS published versions and normally censored, mainly airfields but the odd mysterious cloud usually hides a post-war AA site. The ones that do show airfields tend to be RAF originals. Some exceptions will be where original un censored stock has been fitted in. A lot of the sections match those on Getmapping.com and UKaerialphotos.com but not entirely. I suspect more will follow but you have to wonder why you would want to pay for the same images on the commercial sites as the quality of the purchsed product is similar to that on GE.
There are some oddities and one that springs to mind is Rougham (Bury St Edmund) which is shown under contruction!

Forgive me for being thick but I seem to have lost the 'go back button' - how do I find it?

norwichpaul;53990 wrote:

Forgive me for being thick but I seem to have lost the 'go back button' - how do I find it?

It's only available in Google Earth version 5 upwards. If you have that you need the clock symbol in the toolbar (see screen grab)

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I also spotted a a very patriotic embellishment to the landscape just south of Thetford - see attachment

Of interest (to me at any rate) is that the Rushford Bombing Range is of a different date to that in the Norfolk Explorer. The key difference is the lack of the two strips at the base of the range arrow that signal individual aircraft. On the GE imagery they are missing which would indicate a later date than that shown, which seems to be a generic Mar 5 1945.

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