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	Streetmap - Online maps with detailed streetmaps of London. Search by postcode, place name, London streetname or grid reference.
	UK Multimap - Online maps of the UK, down to street level. Search by street name, postcode or placename. Based on O/S data.
	UK Contrail Pictures - Aircraft contrail images, detailing how different patterns and effects can be formed.
	EDINA Digimap - Online Ordnance Survey maps for tertiary education and research users.
	Old Maps - Online Ordnance Survey maps of 1846-1899 covering England, Scotland and Wales at 1:10,560 scale.
	Skylibrary - A UK-based aerial photography company with a large archive of UK aerial photographs.
	Mapstore - Online company selling Ordnance Survey maps. Also specific OS maps for walking, cycling & road user.
	Oxford Cartographers - Online supplier of all Ordinance Survey maps, full UK coverage. Also specialist maps for motorists, cyclists & walkers.
	UK Perspectives - A large concise collection of aerial photos of the UK
	Anquet Maps - Friendly software that lets you print out the maps you need at home.
	United Kingdom - Map of the administrative divisions as they stood in 1988, from the Library of the University of Texas.
	Celtic Shadows - Photographic tour of Northeast Scotland and England from a native's viewpoint.
	AskMaps - Has index of streets and city monuments ready for printing.
	Map24 - Full minor road and street level coverage for the whole of Great Britain. Enter a UK address to access maps. Zoom and roam features.
	Ordnance Survey - Britain's national mapping agency. Historical, touring, landline, superplan, GB, Landranger, Explorer, road and street maps.
	OS MaterMap - Ordnance Survey Business Partner responsible for delivering mapping products online.
	Your Old Maps Online - Scans of out of copyright maps and etchings, organised by country and county.
	The Landmap Project - Orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution digital elevation model for the British Isles. Requires subscription.
	UK 360s - Panoramic photographs from around the British Isles by Craig Wilkinson.
	Francis Frith Collection - Photographs of 7,000 towns and villages taken between 1860 and 1970. Available as prints and in book collections. Thumbnail views, watermarked enlargements and ordering details.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Maps and Views I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Maps and Views "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." 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