RMweb Premium 47137 Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2016 The "Superfast Essex" project has a zoomable map here: http://essex.astuntechnology.com/atsuperfastsolophase2.html If you uncheck the tick box for "Superfast Essex" in "Map Categories" to remove the coloured overlays you get a plain but extremely detailed map of the county, right down to individual houses. The map detail extends across Great Britain. Perhaps similar maps exist for other regions of the UK. - Richard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 I live in Stevenage which is some way West of Essex and it shows my street in such detail that the shapes of the conservatories of my house and the two next door houses can be seen easily. A useful resource indeed. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2016 The map seems to cover the rest of the Uk as well. However, it must be 3 or 4 years out of date - my house is not on there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2016 I live in Stevenage which is some way West of Essex and it shows my street in such detail that the shapes of the conservatories of my house and the two next door houses can be seen easily. A useful resource indeed. Ed Same here - it's even got my big shed (but not the wood shed) on it and I'm a long way from Essex Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 The opposite for me, but we're in Berkshire. Our place is shown, but the extension is missing and that went up in 1996...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 47137 Posted November 22, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2016 Best keep quiet about extensions - amendments to the map might be seen by Council Tax departments. - Richard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Well it shows a house round the corner which has only been built and sold this year. Planning was applied for (notice on lamp post) a few (?) years ago, but the market fell and I'm guessing it wasn't worth doing then. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Yep, it's got the outline of our house, as it was up to ten years ago when we had it changed, but Google Maps have the change. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2016 Its probably based on the Ordinance Survey. Whether or not a structure appears on the map depends on when the last survey was done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2016 The map appears to be countrywide, but 'superfast broadbean' coverage is Essex only? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2016 Best keep quiet about extensions - amendments to the map might be seen by Council Tax departments. - Richard. Doesn't matter. The Council Tax banding would only be reviewed if the property in question is sold. Thus in the case of my house when the rating Officer visited to assess it for Council Tax banding I pointed out to her that a garage was being built, she looked out and said that she couldn't see a garage (because at that point the site had only been cleared) therefore she could not take it into account for rating purposes because it didn't exist, even if it was going to exist a few months later. But if/when we move and sell the house the garage would, as would any extension added during our time here (not that there is one) have to taken into account and the rating would be reassessed. the only other time it would be assessed is if there is a general revaluation for rating purposes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2016 Its probably based on the Ordinance Survey. Whether or not a structure appears on the map depends on when the last survey was done. Not so in our case Phil - when the OS person visited to do an update several years back I mentioned the shed and she wasn't interested in it. I suspect that in reality it probably is OS based but it has been done using satellite images rather than a proper ground level survey. In our case it reflects the situation as it was in 2007 before the woodshed went in but for two doors up it is correct for the new building erected several years later - it seems to vary a bit from property to property. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 47137 Posted November 23, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 23, 2016 I've changed the title of the post to something less Essex-centric. I expect the map data gets revised for different places at different times. - Richard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted November 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2016 It is using a mix of information as my house is showing several outside buildings which were on site from 1894 to 1973 but not all at the same time, it doesn't show whats been built since 2001. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thanks for the link- I've printed out the page with our house on it, as it shows the house names for all the neighbouring properties. Handy for the inevitable inquiries from delivery drivers and so on. Curiously, the detail on outbuildings is not great; neither our, nor our neighbour's, garages are shown, despite being 30 years ago (with planning permission, I should add) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Round our way, at maximum zoom, the railway even has SP and MP marked, corresponding to signal post and milepost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 6, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2016 I've just caught up with this thread and that map is a good find, I've just checked my house on the coast of Norfolk and it's got the double garage and mobile home and house but not the recent model railway shed, Then I deepest Wiltshire the station I'm modelling, is missing some sidings but it is a military site. the where I used to live in the outer Hebrides and there is an enormouse amount of development go on there sice I left but the buildings I knew are all there ad the flood gates. an impressive map, Now if they can back date to 1940 when I'm modelling... I'll have to stick to NLS maps fr that... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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