File under tools for the tool kit: Jarrett Walker of Human Transit shares details about Nearmap, an aerial photography tool that serves as a helpful alternative to Google Earth.
According to Jarrett Walker, "when it comes down to questions of rights-and-lefts, at the lowest level of planning altitude, one source of information is critical: aerial photography."
To aid planners of all stripes in the acquisition of useful aerial photography, Walker shares news of resource called Nearmap, which he describes as "an alternative to Google Earth that has grown more and more impressive. Initially confined to Australia and New Zealand (I used it all the time when I lived there) it now includes all large US cities. The site's best feature is the very recent, high-resolution imagery it offers, but it also has nice image capture and layer overlay tools, all in-browser."
FULL STORY: nearmap brings its high-resolution satellite imagery to the US
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