{"product_id":"ports-and-airports","title":"Ports And Airports","description":"\u003cp\u003ePORTS \u0026amp; AIRPORTS is a compilation of 100 vertical aerial photographs of British docks and airports, taken from the Millennium Map.\u003cbr\u003e\nHeathrow, the world's busiest passenger airport; St Mary's on the Scilly Isles, perhaps Britain's most exotic holiday destination; Duxford in Cambridgeshire, site of the RAF museum; St Ives, popular Cornish cultural centre and working fishing village; Dover, white cliffs and ferries to France; Skegness, Lincolnshire's famously bracing resort; Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, no longer quite next to the sea due to shifting sands; Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire container port; Stranraer, Ayrshire gateway to Northern Ireland… PORTS \u0026amp; AIRPORTS brings a surprising new angle to places such as these, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\nABOUT THE MILLENNIUM MAP\u003cbr\u003e\nStill being created, the Millennium Map is a fascinating venture. Inspired by the Domesday Book, Tristram Cary and Joe Studholme of Getmapping.com commissioned four specially equipped aircraft to fly the length and breadth of the country in strips – rather like a lawnmower – each one carrying state-of-the-art camera equipment valued at £250,000. These planes are systematically taking vertical photographs of the whole of the United Kingdom from an average height of 5,500 feet, recording every object right down to a minimum size of 25cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nSo far over 30km of nine-inch-wide film has been taken. After processing, each photograph is scanned at high resolution, subsequently undergoing a process known as geo-correction, which removes distortions caused by the tilt of the aircraft and the contours of the ground; the individual files are then colour-balanced and spliced together to form a single map-accurate 'mosaic' of the entire country.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn what must be the ultimate endorsement of its national significance, Her Majesty the Queen is a private investor in The Millennium Map; and when completed, the map will provide a snapshot of life in the year 2000 as historically important as William the Conqueror's survey of 1086.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173426749619,"sku":"9780007122790","price":396.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/41m6TzZmeHL.jpg?v=1765446025","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/ports-and-airports","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}