Google Earth Overlays: Empire and 1901 Exhibitions

[Ventilator]

Hi folks ~

A wee while ago I put together a couple of Google Earth overlays based on maps from Perilla and Juliet Kinchin's 'Glasgow's Great Exhibitions' book. I met up for a chat about this with Neil Baxter, whose father had drawn the maps, and he seemed to be OK about me distributing them. Have only tackled the 1938 Empire Exhibition and the 1901 Kelvingrove job so far; hope to get round to the others someday soonish. I was kind of inspired by 'amcd's stuff on Google Earth Hacks (damn, just noticed he's tackled the Empire Exhibition too, and probably made a better job of it).

They're only sketch maps and therefore tricky to match perfectly with GE's projection, but might be of interest to somebody...

Actually, I maybe should have posted this in the 'Google Earth Overlays' discussion... please relocate if that seems appropriate.

Here they are:

http://www.small-media-large.com/transfer/1901%20Glasgow%20Exhibition.kmz

http://www.small-media-large.com/transfer/Empire%20Exhibition,%20Glasgow%201938.kmz

[engineer]

looking forward to trying these out.
i see the new google has historic data feature, to let you compare the previous images. sadly not for glasgow yet

[engineer]

excellent overlays, well done!

[Ventilator]

Glad you like 'em. All geared up to work out the 1888 and 1911 Kelvingrove maps - when I get around to it!

I keep thinking I see the supports from a bridge lurking in the Kelvin downstream from Kelvin Way, and would like to know if they're a relic of 1888 or 1901...