MAPSArc Data Online - Worldwide maps. CroMaps - Maps of various places in Croatia. Earth and Moon Viewer - Pictures of the Earth from the Moon. Earth Browser is an Earth simulator that offers real-time weather conditions and seven day forecast for the whole world. Excite Travel City Net - Worldwide basic city maps. Google Earth lets you fly around the world without leaving your PC. Infomine Directory of Map Sites - Other sources of Mapping Information. Maporama - Search for the quickest and easiest way to get from A to B anywhere in Europe. Mappy - A site offering route planning aids, though it provides a more comprehensive service than some of its rival sites by being Europe-wide. Mapquest - World and USA maps. MapSack is a new way to mark where you have travelled and where you would like to go. It uses Google Maps, tagging, and you can sign up for RSS updates. People add photos and information about hotels and places of interest and can then interact with the site's community. MapZone - This is a beautifully animated site, designed and maintained by Ordnance Survey to help children aged 11-16 years develop skills in mapping and map-related geography. NASA World Wind - check a stunning satellite views of the Earth. Windows Live Local - This site offers stunning 45o bird's-eye views of major US cities, including Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, and there are plans to expand this to other major cities, including London and other European capitals. World Timezone Map - A map showing the World Time Zones. Xerox PARC - Outline World physical map.
British Empire map - Two maps showing the extent of the British Empire in 1897 and trade routes in the interwar years. Flash Earth - This Flash-based map combines satellite imagery from both Google Maps and Windows Live Local. Google Maps is easy to use and constantly evolving. IS Map - Street map of London. Live Search Maps - Microsoft's Live Search Maps provides stunning three-dimensional aerial imagery and detailed maps. Live Train Map - A clever idea, this site shows an estimate of the progress of all the trains currently on their way to any of 13 stations around the UK. You can speed the trains up by factor of 10 if you wish, but only on the site; sadly not in the real world. London Maps - A great collection of maps from the BBC. Includes a tube map, bus routes and a walking guide. London Transport - Details of the London Travel System with Subway Map. Map24 - Excellent and fast way to find your destination in UK & abroad. Mappy - A site offering route planning aids, though it provides a more comprehensive service than some of its rival sites by being Europe-wide. Multimap - UK Local Maps throughout the UK from Post Codes or Addresses. National Rail Network Maps - Download rail maps showing which train companies operate on which stretch of line, and close-up maps of different rail networks. Ordnance Survey Outline Maps - Various small-scale maps of Great Britain with and without administrative boundaries in a variety of formats. Streetmap - UK Street and Wide Area Maps for the UK. UK Speed Camera Map - Speed cameras are everywhere these days. If you want to get an idea of just how many there are, take a look at this site, which plots the position of all of the fixed cameras in the UK. Tube Maps - You can download the standard Underground map from here, or one of the more specialised variants. Up My Street - Information on Local Environments and Services. ViaMichelin - Full of vital information on Europe travel with detailed maps of town and cities. Weather Bonk - This site shows real-time global weather conditions overlaid on a Google Map. Click anywhere on the map to view that area's forecast. Free GPS software (GPSU) - Useful software for downloading waypoints from numerous GPS devices. Free surveying software (a few of them) Any Web - UK Web Portal and Directory. CircleMakers - Check about the crop circle phenomenon. Comedy Online - News about stand-up comedy clubs and pubs, listings and events in London and the UK. Property search, prices and mortgage information Royal Mail - Recorded Delivery Track & Trace. Send an Internet Greetings E-Card Sky - The Web site of the UK's leading satellite broadcaster, British Sky Broadcasting. UK Learner Drivers - the site for UK Learner Drivers. UK Street Map and Place Locator Up My Street - Local Info and Statistics by Post Code. YellowPages - find businesses in UK. You may or may not have heard of the Segway. Read on and find out all about this awesome machine - a gyroscope-stabilized, battery-powered scooter that he hopes will revolutionize short-distance travel. Check how it works here or visit Segway Homepage here. MOVIE SITESCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
5th Shelf site lets you compile your own virtual shelf of favourite albums, books and films, and browse the choices of other users. Sensibly, shelves are limited to the scale equivalent of five feet, so you don’t get show-offs dominating things, and you can create mini-shelves based on a single theme. Social elements let you share your shelf on Facebook, Twitter and WordPress and there’s an Ultimate Shelf that pools the most popular items. Apple Trailers - Apple has carved a niche as stylish and fun company. This part of its site has free movie trailers. Classic Film Pages - A triumph of style and presentation with hundreds of images, audio clips, and intelligent features, it charts the classic movies from Chaplin's silent masterpieces to the enigmatic Garbo and the brooding Brando. Fantasy News - This site brandishes its love of sci-fi with pride. There's news about and links to upcoming movies and plenty of info on the best sci-fi TV shows. FindAnyFilm.com, launched by the UK Film Council, combines cinema listings with information about every film currently on release. On this moody black site, you can quickly discover where movies are showing, read plot outlines and view short clips. However, the best feature of FindAnyFilm.com is that it also tells you when a film will be shown on TV, released on DVD and Blu-ray, or made available to download or watch online. At the moment, you can’t leave reviews or recommendations, but cinefiles will still find this an invaluable bookmark. Future Movies adds interviews with major industry figures to its collection or round-ups, previews and reviews. Ideas Factory - This website is packed with resources to help you if you want to break into the creative industries, such as film, TV or music. It's Your Movie - The future of film is in your hands. Movies - All the latest news on what's hot and what's not in the world of cinema. MSN Video Player - Microsoft has launched this TV-on-demand service to complement rather than compete with the likes of BBC iPlayer and 4oD. Most of the content offered by MSN Video Player is sourced from the Beeb and Channel 4 including such classic programmes as Elizabeth I, The Young Ones and Around the World in 80 Days as well as recent shows such as Mock the Week, How to Look Good Naked and Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind. Everything is FREE to watch and, while the picture quality isn’t brilliant, the videos stream smoothly enough once you get past the obligatory ads. A tidy interface and clear categories like Comedy, Documentary and Sci-Fi make shows easy to find, while new and popular series are highlighted. OscarWatch - There is enough here to keep the most devoted Oscar fan happy all the way to the tearful acceptance speeches and beyond. Red Planet - watch the Webcast of the premiere or just dig the dirt on the latest Mars movie. Reel.com - check this site. SFX Online Magazine offers instant access to the latest sci-fi news, reviews and film trailers. A What's Hot list shows you the most popular topics on the site and there are fun articles such as ‘22 Great SF Insults'. There are also community elements including blogs, user comments and integration with Twitter. Spliced Online - Film reviews, news & interviews. Starpulse: Actors - this site will give you great links to pictures, quotes and interviews of your favourite movie star. The Internet Movie Database - For all your movie questions check this site. Wordplay - This site is run by The Mask Of Zorro screenwriters Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot and is dedicated to spreading the word on how to make it in the movie scribbling business. Film Unlimited - In-depth movie news and reviews, along with a high-prestige interviews. Internet Movie Database - A fantastic movie site, providing information on everything and anything to do with the film industry. BAFTA - British Academy Film Awards BBC Films - The BBC's excellent film site stuffed to the jowls with news, views, articles, and reviews. EmpireOnline - Reviews and ratings for all of the current movies ... and so much more. Popcorn - Log on to Popcorn to find out which films are playing near you and have a look at some of the reviews. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art NEWSEUM - The Interactive Museum of News The Fine Art Museum of San Francisco The Metropolitan Museum of Art British Museum - Culture vultures and history buffs will be delighted to hear that you can now browse the incredible British Museum collection from the comfort of your PC – for free. Spanning two million years of human history, 260,000 treasures are available to view online, accompanied by detailed descriptions of their origins and high-resolution images. If the wealth of delights on display leaves you unsure where to start, you can take themed online tours to explore items from specific countries and cultures. |
