1/2/2013 more Maps (on Google Maps)

As a follow-up to my last blog, I want to see how some of my favorite areas/images/maps look on Google Maps. I first visited Stonehenge in July 1971, and was blessed to be able to take my wife Wendy there in June 2008. Coming from the east, you go over a rise and the Salisbury Plain is spread out before you, with Stonehenge in the middle of a fork-in-the-road (A303 is the main road going southwest, and A344 is the other road going northwest). In 1971 you could wander among the stones themselves, but the area had been restricted by 2008. In response to research stressing the importance of "the Avenue" to the northeast of Stonehenge, English Heritage (the organisation [love British spelling!] responsible for sites of antiquity) recommended the closing of a section of A344 because it "severs the alignment, to enable the stone circle to be reunited with the Avenue." I did a search on Images for "stonehenge site plan" and grabbed seven that look like fun.

The links are http://www.dennisdixon.net/Stonehenge/Stonehenge1.htm through .../Stonehenge7.htm:

Another series of maps that I love are those that were done by the Federal Government of the three days of battle at Gettysburg in the Civil War. The link to this map-on-Google-Maps is http://www.dennisdixon.net/Stonehenge/Gettysburg1.htm:

Have fun zooming-in, panning around, and turning the layer on-and-off.