google maps uk - includes ireland

dangerman

this is new right? or am i wrong? google maps uk

http://maps.google.co.uk/

has launched and ireland is all there, (at least i checked dublin is, i found my road) no satellite imagery, and the search seems to only search english places. and right now maps.google.ie doesn't work.

aidan_walsh

Not really a lot to it, is there? Ireland-wise, at least...

Basq

Well.. it doesn't have the satellite option like the US one has..

Hence.. not really as impressive!

themole

not much rest of europe wise either.

dangerman

hmm...ireland seems very empty. and/or it's painfully slow to load. guess we'll have to wait for a proper version.

Johnny_the_fox

feck all to see in the north...

belfast, ballymena :eek: , coleraine :eek: but no derry clearly marked on the map


<edit> zoom away out and the name derry appears :eek: </edit>

Stephen

Kilkenny and Carlow aren't marked on the map, but if I zoom in to their approximate locations you can see all the roads and stuff appearing. Can't search for them though.

steveland?

I found my road on it

eirebhoy

Its a fun way to pass time in work. Zoom in 100% on some place within a few miles of where you live and let your colleague try and find his way home. When he finds home he puts you somewhere else on the map. The time would fly.

btw, I remember there was a thing on the internet where you enter 2 locations and it will tell you the distance between each. Does anyone have a link to that?

Johnny_the_fox

eirebhoy wrote:

btw, I remember there was a thing on the internet where you enter 2 locations and it will tell you the distance between each. Does anyone have a link to that?

the aa

popinfresh

Found me housin estate. It'd be cool if it had that satelite image thing where u can see cars in the drive-way.

radiospan

popinfresh wrote:

Found me housin estate. It'd be cool if it had that satelite image thing where u can see cars in the drive-way.

Yeah they have that on the US version.

What was the address of the Irish site that had that feature? I remember having to pay by SMS to get an aerial view of my house.

Johnny_the_fox

here is a nasa site of satellite images of ireland. none close up (iirc)... just nice images.

DrIndy

I suggest that anyone reading this thread sends an e-mail to the feedback e-mail of this section of that part of google asking for ireland to be properly represented. They will do so faster if more than one person does so.

From what I can reckon, its based on ordinance survey maps, so ireland is easy to include if we encourage them to do so.......

3DES

DrIndy wrote:

From what I can reckon, its based on ordinance survey maps, so ireland is easy to include if we encourage them to do so.......

The ordinace survey charge crazy amounts of money for using their data which is why no detailed maps of ireland are available to online map sites or gps software.

In america all the data is available free to everyone to use as they please.

seamus

Much more accurate and up-to-date than anything else that's online atm.

fjon

3DES wrote:

The ordinace survey charge crazy amounts of money for using their data which is why no detailed maps of ireland are available to online map sites or gps software.

In america all the data is available free to everyone to use as they please.

Not really. OSI don't charge a huge amount iirc, but the OSNI charge a stupid amount of money (thousands sterling) to use their data.

*Angel*

Yeah the search engine sucks, and why should we be put in the UK map search?

Rhyme

Damn it, Balbriggan is just a grey smudge

PH01

Those maps need to be updated - ie there's not Dundrum byPass - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.290710,-6.245734&spn=0.007401,0.011054&hl=en

Pity there's no satilite view either - like to know where all that secret stuff is

Goodshape

My home town. The attention to detail is outstanding.

London's in the wrong place though. Right beside Derry for some reason (ba-dum-TISH!).

gonker

on the www.myhome.ie if there is a house for sale close to you you can see satelite images of the area. I have a good one of my dads house with his car parked outside. You can even see the velux windows in the roof of the house.

RuggieBear

fjon wrote:

Not really. OSI don't charge a huge amount iirc, but the OSNI charge a stupid amount of money (thousands sterling) to use their data.

Oh trust me the OSi charge crazy money too ...i work with it daily and tbh their digital data leaves alot to be desired compared to LandLine and landline Plus in Britain (OSuk digital datasets)

dangerman

google aquired a satellite imaging company and thats where they're picture data came from ... so it may be that that company already has this data for other parts of the globe...so it might be just a case of wait and see...anyone know any more about this?

_blank_

They have my road with the wrong name.

:mad:

RuggieBear

dangerman wrote:

google aquired a satellite imaging company and thats where they're picture data came from ... so it may be that that company already has this data for other parts of the globe...so it might be just a case of wait and see...anyone know any more about this?

Is that Navteq?

had a few mates of my mine in Uni work for them in Chicago.

1huge1

well in all fairness they have a lot of work to do on ireland but when google.ie/maps come out we will all be filled in

i dont even really see why they added us in the uk one (americans probably think were part of the uk lol)

Branoic

The maps programme is a beta work in progress. Additions will be made to it periodically until it's up to scratch, probably incorporating Google Local for Ireland like it does in the UK and US at the moment. Maps for other parts of Europe and the world will be rolled out and improved over time too.

snappieT

Good sat images here: http://www.siteviewer.ie/siteviewer/site_search.asp

Quite old however