Wow - Bing aerial map view beats Google!

Until now I've stuck to Google and avoided Bing for search purposes, and likewise for maps - but now it seems that Bing's aerial views have become significantly clearer than those provided by Google.

Take this view of Petit Port...
maps.google.com
... now check it out in Bing!
www.bing.com/maps/

And it's more recent, too....

The waterfront hotel is just a building site on Google...
maps.google.com
... here it is in all its glory....
www.bing.com/maps/

Likewise, Gas Place is still a car park...
maps.google.com
... and now it's a Millennium Park...
www.bing.com/maps/

and kind of the other way around, Ann Place as housing...
maps.google.com

... is now a carpark...
www.bing.com/maps/

Portelet as it was...
maps.google.com
... and as it is now....
www.bing.com/maps/

St.Ouen : Snow Goose present, bare field next to Parish Hall:
maps.google.com
... new houses instead, and Village Green:
www.bing.com/maps/


Other things we haven't seen yet....

The new incinerator...
www.bing.com/maps/

New estate near Sandybrook:
www.bing.com/maps/

Sunset Nurseries - glass houses gone:
www.bing.com/maps/

Creepy Valley -
www.bing.com/maps/

Amaizin' Maze - bigger and better -
www.bing.com/maps/

and have a look at the Lion Park before it goes...
www.bing.com/maps/
... and the Living Legend...
www.bing.com/maps/

Jersey Pottery, already gone... here in mothballs with gate at the entrance...
www.bing.com/maps/

I wonder if Google will compete? :)
And we're still waiting for Guernsey Streetview too......

Misc and Mist

 First, the terrible news that the Lions have left the Lion Park.

:)

On Sunday the sky looked like a freeze-frame of choppy waters, all peaks and troughs. By the time I decided I actually would slow the car down and pull over for snap, the effect wasn't so dramatic.

The gate at St.Brelade's Church...

... closer, with Ouaisne beyond.

Compare and contrast : luxury homes, seaside hotel leisure - and the ever-present inevitable :)

Again, a half-hearted rushed snap, trying to get a composition out of foreground and background, and not coming up with much!

Squint a little, and from a distance it looks like a cityscape of towers. Monuments at St.B, and a misty bay behind.

.. the same mist that engulfed St.Aubin's Fort...

 .. and Corbiere

- and to the right, St.Ouen's Bay and La Rocco Tower.