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Actually, Bow Bells were the bells at the Church of St Mary-le-Bow, at Cheapside, EC2, in the City. Not at Bow Church in Stepney.

The BBC is here

To be a Cockney one needs to be able to hear the Bow Bells which are here

I'm not sure that the BBC has such good hearing!

The BBC is here

To be a Cockney one needs to be able to hear the Bow Bells which are here

I'm not sure that the BBC has such good hearing!

Multimap.com has aerial photographs for the UK that can be viewed with maps overlayed. I found it useful on several occasions, to help find directions to places by identifying surrounding landmarks or seeing how a particular motorway intersection looks in real life, before you're hitting the thing at 70mph. Cool stuff. I miss it, here in the US, but not enough to pay for it - which is probably where the whole thing falls flat.

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This won't be completely off topic, I hope - I was 12 and living in Romania when it happened. As you know (since you are all well-read Slashdot readers) Ukraine is not very far from Romania, and the radioactive cloud hit us pretty soon afterwards. I remember distinctly how frantic my parents were, trying to feed us vitamin C and iodine, along with bottled water. My brother was eight at the time - five years later he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Have been wondering ever since if Chernobyl had anything to do with it. More interestingly even - he is now completely healthy, due to the fact that it was discovered early and he followed a strict treatment for a long time. For those of you who have bothered to read this weepy story all the way, here's the final irony: for the past eleven years I have been living in Japan, I married the most beautiful Japanese woman (well, of course she's the most beautiful, she's mine ) and we're about to have a child in January. And we live in Hiroshima.

who needs computers for this sort of thing Uk has at least 2 notable pieces of road

Coventry ring road, picture the scene your decending a ramp to get on to the main ring road on the same stretch of road cars ect are leaving the ring and coming on to an extension of the ramp which runs on and off on to another road yes two streams of traffic crossing over constantly.

coventry
coventry
alternatively there is the magic round about in swindon
swindon

5 mini roundabouts arranged in a pentagon with 5 roads leading off
both scary to drive but apparently have low accident rates

He is also commemorated by a small stretch of the Ring Road aroung Manchester. We know how to hype our National Heros.

There's a Bugatti Museum just over the field from my house (Gloucestershire, UK [Map]). The site is also home to the impressive Prescott Speed Hillclimb which is open to the public- you can even enter the time trial in your own car, although I find it more fun to watch the vintage cars, including old Bugattis, race up the hill.

With a name like Hew Raymond Griffiths, this bloke is welsh, so he can also hunker down in a remote village out on the Lleyn until all this blows over. The locals would never reveal him to the Saesneg (saxons) whatever the law says.

Although that stretch of water is called (if you speak English) the Strait of Gibraltar, the embarrassing colonial leftover that is the rock of Gibraltar itself isn't the nearest point to morocco.

Have a look at the map here and you'll see what I mean.

Firstly, you started your previous reply with the one word statement "Bull", and you wonder why I got defensive?

Secondly, population density, land mass, etc are only part of the equation. Yes, a country with a low population density will tend to have a high miles of road per capita figure as will one with a large land area but other factors will play a part.

For example, cities within the UK tend to have far more miles of road within a given area than their counterparts on the continent, in the US and elsewhere. And whilst the highways figure that you quote may count just the UK's motorways, the UK's road network is criss-crossed with A roads and B roads that far outnumber those designated as motorways. If you want to see what I mean have a look at multimap.com/ and zoom in a few levels.

And, by the way, I do find it funny that you manage to start and end your posts with insults then accuse me of "just rambling" and "being annoyed".

As I pointed out elsewhere, the evidence that the UK has more miles of road per capita than anywhere else can be found in a Department of Transport consultation paper. Unfortunately, they've moved things around on their website so the link that I did have to the relevant paper no longer works but feel free to search their site if you feel the need to argue over a "miniscule detail" any further.

Multimap has great detail for pinpointing addresses on a map....but it can only handle directions in mainland GB.

In the UK try Streetmap or Multimap. IMHO UK Yahoo maps isn't very good.

Multimap is my favourite.

for all those who want to know where sealand is, i found maps.

on the sealand website it lists the location as:
51 53' 42" N;
01 28' 51" E;

which is roughly ten miles southeast of Ipswitch, or twenty miles northeast of london.

the only place I could find a map of that area was on this site, where it is simply labelled "rough twr":

zoomed in map

zooming out we can see it's location relative to the coast:



zoomed out map

for all those who want to know where sealand is, i found maps.

on the sealand website it lists the location as:
51 53' 42" N;
01 28' 51" E;

which is roughly ten miles southeast of Ipswitch, or twenty miles northeast of london.

the only place I could find a map of that area was on this site, where it is simply labelled "rough twr":

zoomed in map

zooming out we can see it's location relative to the coast:



zoomed out map

Worcestershire boasts Bell End. Note also 'Lickey End' on same map.

My favourite wierd place name is Wetwangin yorkshire, UK.

So what's to prevent phones right now from doing mapping?

Nothing really - take a look at the Garmin NavTalk for an example of a GSM phone that also provides mapping applications.

Couldn't someone write up a java applet or some other fuctionality that could do this on existing phones? The worst thing you should need is a minor firmware revision to allow java to access the GPS data.

The problem you're up against is the amount of memory required to store the map data, and also getting access to specialist map information. This is probably the constraint that prevents most phones from containing such functionality by default - adding memory increases the bill of materials, and consumers don't like that.

Of course, there is nothing to stop you using a wap/web browser on your phone and using a service like Multimap to get your map data (although you'll need to be in coverage and pay for the GSM or GPRS call depending on how you want to get your data).

Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World

My home city, (Kingston upon Hull,East Yorkshire, UK) boasts the Humber Bridge, the longest single span suspension bridge in the World. It is really elegant structure, you can walk the bridge. The Master Bridge Engineer has also been known to take people to the top towers if you ask nicely.

Some Photos and WebCams

Technical data

How about Wetwang?

The BBC article mentions that
"Developers, who include Mitsubishi and Nissan, hope that the new
supersonic plane will have noise levels similar to the Boeing
747. That would mean that it would be able to operate far more widely
than Concorde, which is notoriously noisy." This was also mentioned in
previous news stories about the planned aircraft.

Nothing I've seen, however, explains how they were planning to deal
with the sonic boom.

Or are they just referring to the noise level when in subsonic
operation? In which case, like the Concorde, it could only go
supersonic over water... but then how could it "operate far more
widely" than the Concorde?

Aerial shot of Goonhilly

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=europ e&x=172388&y=21316&scale=10000&width=700&height=41 0&rt=overlay.htm

Uh... Where do you think the major NSA listening stations for the Eastern Hemisphere are?
Hint: there's one here, and another one here.

Uh... Where do you think the major NSA listening stations for the Eastern Hemisphere are?
Hint: there's one here, and another one here.

not that fenced in. There are at least 3 going into sennen cove, cornwall,, with little radar reflectors up on the hillside above each one, to help the maintenance people find them (its the last half mile that they really armour the fibres, and where they get broken the most. Landing points for cables are based on cost and shoreline characteristics, not logistics. If they could, they would just bring them on board at NSA-morwenstow A place that is well known in the cornwall rock climbing community as a bunch of people who get really upset if you tie your clifftop ropes to their fences.

not that fenced in. There are at least 3 going into sennen cove, cornwall,, with little radar reflectors up on the hillside above each one, to help the maintenance people find them (its the last half mile that they really armour the fibres, and where they get broken the most. Landing points for cables are based on cost and shoreline characteristics, not logistics. If they could, they would just bring them on board at NSA-morwenstow A place that is well known in the cornwall rock climbing community as a bunch of people who get really upset if you tie your clifftop ropes to their fences.

Nuke plants are pretty expensive to operate. You have to be extremely
careful, which costs money. The cost of fuel is quite low - nearly
insignificant, like $10/megawatt hour.

There is a hidden cost, and I'm not sure that it has been paid
yet. Once the fuel is consumed, it must be disposed of. At the moment,
we're storing the spent fuel at the Nuke plant.

Question for all the SF fans out there. What are the odds that
there'll be some sort of natural, cyclical downturn in the level of
human civilisation within the next thousand years? Without speculating
on scenarios, it's obvious that even on a regional scale,
civilisations rise and fall with monotonous regularity. So, sooner or
later there'll be non-industrial primitive types dancing round these
things, waving spears, and saluting the Great Square Temple left
behind by the Gods of the Elder Days...

Now think of the several thousand other reactors scattered around
the world. Remember that these century-long civil engineering
projects are needed for all these, too.

Oh, and guess what happens to the radioactive dust, rubble and steel
that IS removed from the site? NO-ONE KNOWS . No nation,
anywhere in the world, is doing long term disposal of nuclear
waste. (We've worked out that dumping it in drums of concrete in a
couple of hundred feet of water isn't such a great idea.) And let's
not forget the radioactive fish and beaches all along the east coast
of Ireland - from Windscale, aka Sellafield.

The UK postcode is true

football field ?
is the postcode NG72XG

just chosen as an example, try any uk postcode yourself

Map
Send someone a postcard from Hell

You're presuming not only that there is competition, but that there is any company willing to supply at all.

In rural areas such as Canada, the initial logistical expense means that buying the service from a truly free market would be unaffordable.

Discriminating against rural areas is as unacceptable as discriminating against, say, hispanic areas or native american areas. Now that isn't a problem for corporations who only want to make profit, but it is a problem for governments who want to be re-elected.

The standard way to get around this is to set minimum levels of availability, typically as part of a company's licence to trade.

For instance, I live here (as my wife points out) in the Cotswolds.

There is NO WAY any teleco is going to be able to supply my house with digital comms for a profit for less than, I'd imagine, US$500 a month.

Yet I have unmetered dual channel ISDN for US$90 a month (plus ISP fees of US$35).

This is because British Telecom is forced to supply ISDN to my house as part of their licence to trade across the UK.

--

Scunthorpe, North Linconshire.

As an interesting aside, 'Berwick upon Tweed' should probably be known as 'Berwick in Tweed' if you treat Multi Map as gospel!