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Old 10-22-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Kilgs View Post
For my game (PbP), I've found that Google Maps is a great tool. Clicking on the Map--->Terrain button provides a great view of the surrounding area.
I use Google Maps a lot for both TMP and T2K. Topozone used to be great, it had a lot of cool old topographical maps that have more detail than Terrain on Googlemaps (maps.google.com) but Topozone is no longer free.

I'm very happy to see that this information is still online, in the form of "MSRMaps" (Microsoft Research Maps) which has older topo maps and satellite imagery available for free:

http://msrmaps.com/default.aspx

Check it out, the "real" Riverton (compare to the autonav map in PF-01):

http://msrmaps.com/tile.ashx?t=2&s=14&x=211&y=1546&z=16


Tony
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