I've ever actually liked the oblique Bird's Eye persuasion available on Bing Maps. I actually honey these 1950's bird's oculus persuasion photos of Glasgow, Scotland.
Glasgow Aerial Photos is a Leaflet map showing the place in addition to the direction of the persuasion of 159 historical aerial photographs of Glasgow. The photos were taken onetime inwards the 1950's or 1960's past times the Glasgow Corporation Planning Department.
If you lot click on the link on whatsoever of the historical photographs some other Leaflet map volition opened upward showing simply the selected photo. You tin in addition to so zoom inwards in addition to pan roughly the photograph to inspect it inwards greater detail.
Luckily Bing Maps has corking Bird's Eye persuasion imagery for Glasgow. So, amongst a flake of detective work, it is possible to discovery the same views depicted inwards the Glasgow Planning Department photos every minute shown on Bing Maps in addition to compare the two. The Bing Maps oblique persuasion higher upward shows close the exact same persuasion of Glasgow metropolis oculus every minute the photograph at the superlative of this postal service (click on the screenshot to see the persuasion inwards Bing Maps).
If you lot desire to practice your ain Leaflet map using images or photos in addition to so you lot should cause got a hold off at Bjørn Sandvik's tutorial Showing Zoomify images amongst Leaflet. In the tutorial Bjørn explains how Zoomify tin easily survive used to practice map tiles from whatsoever image. Using Zoomify in addition to Leaflet it is thus possible to plough whatsoever photograph into a fully interactive digital map.
