Spot The Christmas Landmark...

The nice people over at TrackLogs generally run a Christmas compeition on their site. Usually it involves dashing round the country taking snaps of landmarks, but this year you can do it all from your desktop.

Starting from today, 1 December, every day at 12 noon, a new 3D aerial movie of a well known UK landmark will be appearing on the Tracklogs Digital Mapping site. All you have to do is decide where the movie is taken and the first correct answer will win a daily prize.

The daily prize is a site centred 60km x 60km TrackLogs Digital Mapping Aerial Photography CDROM centred on the landmark location (SRP £48.00). That's over £1000 worth of prize maps. The game starts today, 1st December. and runs right up until Christmas Eve.

The Technical Bit

Apparently the movies that form the centrepiece of the competition were generated using TrackLogs Digital Mapping v3 software. Elevation data from NASA is combined with visual terrains from TrackLogs Aerial Photography to produce real world 3D models.

TrackLogs Aerial Photography products were launched earlier this year and include seamless aerial photography of the UK taken by aerial survey at 5,000ft. The aerial photography data is fully georeferenced to allow route planning and navigation and is best used with an equivalent TrackLogs Ordnance Survey digital map. Complete coverage of England and Wales is available now with data for Scotland expected just as soon as the Scottish weather clears.

You can find the competition at www.tracklogs.co.uk