Online Earth viewer with OS support

[spamel]

I know of Google Maps, Streetmaps and a few others, but there never seems to be the facility to input an OS grid Reference and then view the area in anything other than an actual standard map display. I want to do aerial recces of sites without buying and flying my own light aircraft or helicopter and the only way I've found to do it is to put the GR into one of the sites that uses them (Streetmap, Get A Map, etc) and then cross referencing them with one of the Google Earth type systems! Time consuming and slightly annoying!

Anyone know of a good site that will allow me to input OS GR (and not Lat/Long!) and be able to get a satellite image of the position?

[andy_e]

Multimap takes OS Grid references but only in the format AB123123 as far as I can tell e.g.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=56.43588,-5.20984|14|4&loc=GB:56.43588:-5.20984:14|NN022317|NN022317

Aerial coverage isn't complete though.

[crazyclimber]

Not come across anything yet, useful though it would be. Ordnance survey have their own preview map thing which can be useful for getting maps in 1:25k as well as the more usual 1:50k...
I personally use http://www.obliquity.com/cgi-bin/osgb.cgi to convert OSGB to lat / long (Live maps and Google Earth are my usual) though everyone has their preference. Google 'convert OSGB to lat long' or something to that effect and I'm sure there're plenty more.
If you do find one you can put OSGB in directly I'd appreciate knowing also!!
Btw... always thought this would be a fun toy to have, could be useful for recces too if you're nearby http://gearthblog.com/blog/archives/...e_control.html

[crazyclimber]

or.... you could just hire a plane or heli

[spamel]

That's brilliant Andy, cheers! Makes life so much easier!

Just in case anybody was wondering, I'm lookin in to HAA Sites used during the war, I have grid references but a lot of them have been demolished so it saves a trip to find a ploughed field! For instance, SK273937 and SK321964 were both HAA Sites but there is nothing to see now. If you check SE149131, you'll see the HAA Site I visited not too long back. It's in pretty good shape but being used by the farmer to dump farm waste in to.

[crazyclimber]

cheers Andy also! Never realised multimap would do it!!

[Chainsaw]

http://www.flashearth.com/ can be useful if coverage is patchy as you can flick between different view providers to get the best.

Cheers,

Alan

[spamel]

http://www.flashearth.com/ can be useful if coverage is patchy as you can flick between different view providers to get the best.

Cheers,

Alan

Does it allow OS Grid References?

[andy_e]

Hehehe! You've got me looking around now Spamel!!

Found this ...

http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi?p=SE149131&f=full

[bushscout1]

HAA sites?

Sorry, curiosity killed the cat etc.

[Martyn]

HAA sites?

Sorry, curiosity killed the cat etc.

Heavy Anti-Aircraft

[Chainsaw]

I used to play in one of these all the time when I was a wee lad, hope this works;

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=55.81...&r=354&src=msa

It's between uddingston and blantyre and I understand it used to protect the local coal mines and have a pop at the guys going back after hitting Glasgow. They used to be in pretty good nick with a fair but of underground tunnels which were partially filled in.

Cheers,

Alan

[spamel]

That looks very similar in design to te one I visited. You can clearly see the two gun pits with their walls and what looks like a magazine and accomodation. Got any pictures?

[Chainsaw]

I don't I'm afraid, I've not been there for about 30 years(!) however, next time I'm going to be in the area for a bimble I'll take my camera.

Cheers,

Alan