Koldov Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 Found an interesting thing whilst searching an area for moving house... If I search for maps in Bing my top search result seems to be Google maps... Anyway, I digress... that's not the interesting thing... I persevered and got on to Bing maps instead, chose the 'Birdseye' view and found they must be using quite old images. Can't quite place it in time if I'm honest, but maybe +10 years? You have to zoom in quite close otherwise it chooses a defined area and the rest is a more up to date satellite view, but this can be quite eye-opening in itself! Below is the M1 junction 11a before it was built, along with the surrounding new housing developments and industrial estates (such a shame, I can really say 'it was all fields round here when I was a lad' and it's completely true)...
Koldov Posted April 25, 2024 Author Posted April 25, 2024 (edited) Here's the A5505 > M1 (Woodside) link road that ploughed through some lovely woods I used to take my son walking through to explore nature when he was little... Before... After... The housing estate went up about 2011 so the images are definitely over 13 years old! Edited April 25, 2024 by Koldov
Koldov Posted April 25, 2024 Author Posted April 25, 2024 Here's the northern A5 > M1 link before and after in one picture... it used to look all green like the inside of the square, but now looks like the outside with a massive housing development there. At least they got a Domino's pizza... yay for progress!
HarryMonkey Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 And now, of course, what was the Vauxhall factory/warehouse is now just a pile of rubble. (Complete with a man sitting in his car all day just inside the gates).
Koldov Posted April 25, 2024 Author Posted April 25, 2024 (edited) Also interesting (not really I know it's very dull) Google Maps 'Street View has 'Image Capture: 'DATE' I don't remember seeing that before, but maybe I just wasn't paying attention... Google satellite doesn't have the massive Lidl warehouse... But street view shows it being built in 2021... Bing satellite shows it fully built... And the obligatory 'when it was just fields and no A5 > M1 link (Woodside) road from Bing 'Birdseye'... EDIT: Bing also has a 'Streetside' view which I didn't know about (seems very limited on the amount of roads though)! It says 14/10/2020... Edited April 25, 2024 by Koldov
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