The real tragedy is that I find myself in Coventry this morning.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I am to be taken for lunch, apparently. Are we to drive 130 miles for the midday repast, one wonders? Surely there is no place here for a civilised am to refresh himself? One certainly despairs for the pre-prandial cocktail.

[Berni]

afraid. You might get a half-decent curry, I suppose. :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

a Negroni. :hehe:

Imagining them trying to pronounce these terms is even more amusing imo.

[Berni]

a Negroni. Let alone hearing them trying to pronounce these words. :hehe:

[Classic Jorge]

Have you gone on holiday by mistake yet?

Watch out for Michael Elphic

[Berni]

[7evens]

I wonder if Dresden faired any better ?

[Berni]

The weird thing is that you only have to go a short distance outside Coventry to Kenilworth to see how nice it could have been.

[Pat Vegas]

Unlike the poor ones in London that have been destroyed with horrid paint.

[Ashberto]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uhAOLbmuX_0/TsFtNuy5j_I/AAAAAAAAAHk/mPJpLV41nLA/s640/spon1a.jpg

[Ashberto]

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/96/40/1964006_dd745a0e.jpg

[Ashberto]

It's basically like much of Yorkshire, you see.

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.ferodobridges.org

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

Looks like something off of Spaced.

[Ashberto]

looking for architectural curiosities.

[Classic Jorge]

You should catalogue some of this ****, seriously.

Geddit on a blog FFS. I for one would love to read about my old manor.

[Ashberto]

Not because anyone else would actually want to look at a picture of an old piano factory or incongruously detatched villa amongst a row of terraces, but because it's the only place where I could put such a document where I wouldn't lose it.

I actually found what appeared to be a stink-pipe for a sewer on Bartholomew Road next to the railway line. I didn't even know of these things until I started tracking the lost rivers.

[Classic Jorge]

I just did a really nice project with a curated and geotagged audio/video upload feature which is being committed to the british library.

Plenty of stuff there I could chuck your way by means of geo stuff

[Ashberto]

Speaking of google maps - I've been thinking that while having a map based on a satellite image has its merits, it also has its negatives. Basically a map is supposed to show us where things are and what the roads are called, rather than how narrow the roads are compared to the spaces between them.

You have to keep zooming in just to see the road names then zooming out again to see where the road is. Repeat ad infinitum. Massive UI fail imo, especially on a phone. The old Nicholson map (now streetmap.co.uk) does a much better job of representation. Is Apple's map a satellite trace or a representative one?

[Classic Jorge]