Google Maps is no more.

Well it was good while it lasted. I have spent the weekend plugging away at the battle of Hastings book and its all coming along nicely. However, this morning I returned to Google maps to draw the second map of the battle sequence and I found a flaw in my plan for using Google Maps to recreate the battle. I thought when I started that I could just create a duplicate of the previous map and add the new troop positions when needed. It turns out this isn't possible. Shame.

As a result I have returned to a more traditional method. I have taken a map snapshot from Google Maps and imported into Adobe Fireworks. In this application I was able to draw in all the units etc. I used my original Google maps to get the distances correct.

Here's the opening positions:

Here's the first infantry attack:

Here's the left wing collapse:

 

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