Should 1:25000 maps be military secret?

[Dauphin]

You can make out individual houses. What resolution do you need? 1:1?

[Harovan]

"Accurate to 100 metres."

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by JohnT
And your country is... ? I could look up the flag, but why?

Just hold you cursor over the flang for a second or two.

[Datajack Franit]

As if someone would waste his precious bombs for a place like Croatia

[Sava]

In the US, knowledge is protected by the first Amendment. If you know where to look, you can find out how to make an atom bomb.

[DaShi]

Using household items.

[Goingonit]

Because I stock U-235 in my pantry...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Just hold you cursor over the flang for a second or two.

Do you know that if you click on a flag, you can find out everybody who uses the same flag?

[Sava]

You can make dynamite with a high school chemistry set and items from a hardware store. You can make napalm from styrofoam and gasoline. Uranium is certainly harder to get, but if you were a good geologist and knew how to refine uranium, U-235 isn't that hard to get.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
You can get ariel photo maps of the UK on the net at that resolution.

Bat and Ball

1) You can see the station on the bottom right, two gas tanks in the top left, and a small lake on the left.
2) You can make out most of the town and surrounding fields.

Both maps are set to overlay such that you can see the road names and other details.

Edit I can't get the first link to work, but you can zoom in twice in the link to see what I meant.

That is a really cool map link. I've never seen one like it before. It couldnt be used for arty fire though since it doesnt give map references.

EDIT I found em

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Not bad, but not detailed enough to plot artillery attacks.

Perhaps, but then again you could just buy an Ordnance Survey map for £5. They were originally intended for military use but have been freely available for over a century. Britain is the most mapped country on Earth, contour by contour.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Perhaps, but then again you could just buy an Ordnance Survey map for £5. They were originally intended for military use but have been freely available for over a century. Britain is the most mapped country on Earth, contour by contour.

Now that's interesting. Why would the Brits do such a thing?

[Alexander's Horse]

You don't need maps to plot artillery attacks. You just need an observer to advise fall of shot.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
You don't need maps to plot artillery attacks. You just need an observer to advise fall of shot.

True I suppose, but I'm sure the observer would prefer that everyone had a map so that he isn't hit with the spotting round.

[Alexander's Horse]

Ah yes, the drop shorts.

Only an artillery man would ever think the nine mile snipers were that accurate.