Please see the new link for Picasa....hopefully this will work. Lots of photos taken from the helicopter this summer!

Thanks,
Alex
Lochaber Highland Estates


http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lochaberc ... rialShots#

In pictures 6, 7 and 8 those white sticks are deer protector tubes from some tree planting this year.

Great picutures I hope one day to see it in person.

Lady Lynda

GREAT PICS!!!

Great Photos

Using Google Earth, Google Maps and Streetmap.co.uk, I've been able to pinpoint my plot,
however the satellite photos of the Laird's Wood area are really bad, so these helicopter photos was a great help, and I have been able see my plot for real (within 10 meters or so),
so now I know my plot is on a steep hill with a lot of trees, very beautiful spot.
(aerial photo 10, from the middle of photo, 1 cm down and 2 cm to the left)
But not a good spot for camping

I do have a question though, on the Streetmap.co.uk and the OS Ordnance Survey,
there are several thin black lines.
Checking the map key, the lines shouldnt be paths.
Are the lines some kind of boundarys
Does anybody know

Yours, aye

Jan Billy
Lord of Lochaber

Going to a Fairport Convention concert this evening. Great

The black lines are indications of hight. Showing the map-reader the terrain, look for numbers on the lines, this is the actually hight of the terrain.
This is the way you can see slopes and hills on at 2d map. Standart value of zero is waterlevel and positive numbers is above waterlevel and of course any negative numbers is belowe.

Gerulf, You might be right, but I'm not sure.

If one looks at www.streetmap.co.uk scale 1:25000,
the black lines dosent follow the terrain, which is indicaded by brown lines.
Some of the lines seems to mark the borders of plots, others just start and end in the terrain,
possible the lines is used to indicate multiple things.
Such as plot borders, slopes, and more.

Yours, aye

Jan Billy
Lord of Lochaber

Hej Jan

Du har ret i at de brune linjer er højdekurver. De sorte linjer ser ud til at være et mismask af veje, stier og bevoksninggrænser.

Englænderene kan lære noget af Dansk geodætisk institut.




Hyggeligt med en Dansker mere herinde..


Gerulf.

The thin black lines are fences. Some of them, for example the ones near the road - by Keil - do not connect to anything. These are the remains of old walls (dry stane dykes) - a reminder that this was once farm land (in-bye). The thought of ploughing this land, planting it and harvesting bere (the old barley that the highlanders relied on before the potato), all with only oxen to help, is quite sobering. They dragged the stones that they encountered in the ploughing to the edges of the field and created unmortared stone walls to keep the deer and grazing stock out. Their cattle (the small black cows) were taken away to summer pastures where they were looked after by the women and bairns - living in temporary hovels (sheilings). Their main job was to process the milk and return with butter and cheese for the winter. It was viewed as a long holiday and the teenagers, with little to occupy them, got up to all sorts of naughtyness. This land simply oozes history. Families have carved a precarious living from it for the last 10,000 years, since the last ice sheets retreated. All the map shows is a few black lines.....