I am a sucker for maps and aerial photos, especially the glut of web-based services that have been springing up over the last few years. The latest one to catch my eye is Microsoft’s maps.live.com, which includes some pretty scary “Bird’s Eye View” photos. You can even spin it round to get a different point of view.

Here’s a picture of our house taken on a week day sometime last year, before the builders started playing about with the lockups to the rear: