Comments on: Canary Wharf

By: callum

callum — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:48:29 +0000

if you scroll to the west, you’ll not only see half a plane (this is the main landing route for Heathrow LHR airport) but also the tide is in on one side of the river and out on the other exposing the mud flats on one side!!!!!

By: Olly

Olly — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:15:08 +0000

As you might have noticed, the Google Earth links are now functioning again.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:09:18 +0000

Wikipedia says 655 feet, which is 199.64 metres, or 200m to three significant figures… (I’ll have to add it to the page!)

I thought they’d been deliberately designed to be the same height (despite the different architects). Citigroup is listed third as it’s No. 25 as oppsed to 8.

Then again, Structurae gives the height as 210m!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:08:35 +0000

Wikipedia says 655 feet, which is 199.64 metres, or 200m to three significant figures… (I’ll have to add it to the page!)

I thought they’d been deliberately designed to be the same height (despite the different architects). Then again, Structurae gives the height as 210m!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:42:13 +0000

Mugros, with a bit of luck the GE files will be back for the weekend. The problem is not fixing the files, it’s that the script that generated them was eating all our resources as it generated all the links. We’ll post just as soon as the links are back, promise

Jonathan, I could only find a measurement for the Citigroup building in feet, which converted to 199.x metres. I realise they’re probably the same height(ish), but even Wikipedia cites Citigroup as being the *third* tallest building!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:13:24 +0000

It looks better now than when I submitted it a while back, as they’ve fixed the distortion since.

No.s 8 and 25 Canada Square are usually quoted as being 200 metres each (even on Wikipedia). I don’t think Citigroup would be pleased to discover their tower is a metre shorter than HSBC’s!

By: Timhogs

Timhogs — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:00:19 +0000

At the seam about one frame to the left, half an airplane in flight.

By: Clint

Clint — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:52:50 +0000

It’s not that hard either to click the thumbnail, copy the coordinates out of the address bar, and paste them into Google Earth.

By: Mugros

Mugros — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:42:48 +0000

When will the Google Earth links work again. It can’t be that hard to fix links to some small files.

By: Papapenguin

Papapenguin — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:59:32 +0000

The Thames Barrage (flood prevention in case of very high tides) is located nearby:

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth