A website that shows aerial views of Ireland?

gerbilgranny · 06-10-2005 12:53pm #1

A few years back, when we first got p.c., we used to look at some site that showed aerial views of Ireland - you could zoom right in and see your own estate (em, as in housing estate, not private demesne)...I'd love to be able to locate that site...does anyone have a link?

Thanks, anyway...

06-10-2005 1:18pm

maps.google.com goes into a lot of detail. also google earth

Dave · 06-10-2005 1:19pm

Google Earth does something like that for Ireland. But only around the more urban areas.

BuckRogers · 06-10-2005 4:33pm

http://www.iavi.ie

click the map ,

I can see my car and my neighbour sunbathing and I can see the exercise yard in mountjoy jail .

static pictures tho .

Rb · 06-10-2005 4:38pm

BuckRogers wrote:

http://www.iavi.ie

That's a great site

Vikings · 06-10-2005 5:05pm

Very old photo's on it though ... at least 6 months old at my estate.

Rb · 06-10-2005 5:08pm

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Very old photo's on it though ... at least 6 months old at my estate.

Yeah the photo of mine is at least a year and a half old, still cool though.Wonder will Google Earth ever get as detailed?

Flukey · 06-10-2005 5:15pm

Try satellite photos on Met Eireann's site for full views of the country. There would be other satellites that you can view shots from too.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 06-10-2005 6:08pm

rb_ie wrote:

Yeah the photo of mine is at least a year and a half old, still cool though.

This is the same sat image that's been around for years, it's pretty much what I remember from the IOL Get-a-map service that closed down eons ago.
If you notice, a lot of these sites sat images are watermarked by Mapflow, who I suppose provides the same map to everyone.
As for age, I'd say at least 5 years old judging from some places that are still only building sites in the sat photos, that have actually been fully finished buildings for many years.

Alvis · 06-10-2005 6:33pm

The proper M50 from the N81 Interchange down to the M11 interchange doesn't even exist yet! :eek:

irishgeo · 06-10-2005 6:55pm

Dave wrote:

Google Earth does something like that for Ireland. But only around the more urban areas.

i disagree, i can pick out my brother car in the drive way and i live on achill island.

Mollytt · 06-10-2005 7:40pm

Google earth is amazing! you can even see trees. But your right it can be really sketchy in rural areas.

Capt'n Midnight · 06-10-2005 8:45pm

www.siteviewer.ie

gerbilgranny · 06-10-2005 9:21pm

God - I'm fierce impressed. Didn't expect any replies. Thank you very much.!!

But I live in 'North County Wicklow'....haven't managed to find photo yet...could be just that I'm thick...

senordingdong · 06-10-2005 9:54pm

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Very old photo's on it though ... at least 6 months old at my estate.

Yeah...try a few years old!
Also...it doesn't zoom very close does it?

MrJoeSoap · 06-10-2005 10:08pm

senordingdong wrote:

Yeah...try a few years old!
Also...it doesn't zoom very close does it?

Lol! But I guess if its getting that close from space it could really be reading the Evening Herald in the back seat of your car!

billy the squid · 07-10-2005 12:31am

some of google earth's images of dublin have been updated. they picked a pretty crap time of day to do it though, the southern quays are in darkness practically.

as for how good the zoom is, heres a shot of the millennium spike on o'connell street.

http://homepage.eircom.net/~billythesquid/spike.jpg

apart from dublin, cork wexford and somewhere in the middle of nowhere in galway and kerry, the maps of ireland are pure crap on google. earth

Dell Campus Liemrick
http://homepage.eircom.net/~billythesquid/delllimerick.jpg

Dells Factory is the only thing you can make out in the whole of Limerick City. the one with the blue roof.

Dell emf3 was built in 2000, it is still a green field site according to mapflows shots of Limerick.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 07-10-2005 12:39am

Ah some day maybe it'll all be realtime... that'd be super.

MrJoeSoap · 07-10-2005 12:43am

Its not too far off my friend, not too far off at all.

Wibbs · 07-10-2005 9:33am

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Very old photo's on it though ... at least 6 months old at my estate.

More like 6 yrs old. The shot of my house has a car on the verge I haven't owned since 99. Cool though

irishgeo · 07-10-2005 1:44pm

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Ah some day maybe it'll all be realtime... that'd be super.

Yeah, as long as it not cloudy.

gerbilgranny · 07-10-2005 5:57pm

Em...it turns out we had a print-out of one of those aerial photos - it had come from iol.ie - iolmap. But there seems to be no such link now.

billy the squid · 07-10-2005 10:05pm

AA roadwatch also have these outdated mapflow images. http://www.aaroadwatch.ie

Nightwish · 07-10-2005 10:08pm

use the "search by map" function on www.myhome.ie and you can zoom in pretty close on the pics. The photos are from Mapflow and pretty out of date though-probably 6 years old at least

08-10-2005 2:56pm

Well besides "pic" views... http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/gbr/tpl/hme/MaHomePage.htm is one of the easiest to use map sites about. Just draw a square with you mouse and bingo! For directions and what have you.

And that myhome etc is about 6 years old. The roundabout near my gaff in ballycullen is under construction in the pics... so yeah about 5 or 6 years old...

Can still see the shed in my back garden though

1huge1 · 08-10-2005 8:35pm

Mollytt wrote:

Google earth is amazing! you can even see trees. But your right it can be really sketchy in rural areas.

outside dublin,cork,limerick and wexford (dont ask me how wexford got on that list) its like a map rather dissapointing really strange why belfast and galway arnt shown a lot better
its like galway is covered with some sort of cloud

billy the squid · 08-10-2005 9:13pm

its view of limerick is ****. dublin cork the aran islands and a portion of wexford get hi resoloution coverage though.

guess they would rather get new shots of dublin over and over again rather than take shots of the country which they havent covered properly.

08-10-2005 9:43pm

billy the squid wrote:

its view of limerick is ****. dublin cork the aran islands and a portion of wexford get hi resoloution coverage though.

guess they would rather get new shots of dublin over and over again rather than take shots of the country which they havent covered properly.

they follow the population.

Understand and relax.

gerbilgranny · 08-10-2005 11:57pm

The My Home one would be perfect - if only a neighbour would put their house up for sale. Next time I see one of those signs in a garden, I'll be checking out the site.

Why am I posting something like this at 00.57 on a Saturday night?

A website that shows aerial views of Ireland?

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