Currently, these pages are mainly an experiment in which a clickable aerial image of the Malvern Hills linked to various web pages. Depending on how successful this experiment is, and how much free time I have, I might develop it into a more useful resource.
	Ground level photos were shot with a Fuji MX700 digital camera, which takes 1280x1024 sized JPEG-compressed images which are typically 650 kByte in size (assuming you use the camera in its highest quality image mode). After experimenting I found that I could subsequently reduce this size typically by a factor of 10 without much degradation of the image on the computer screen (assuming you don't zoom in for a closer look). To do this I used Corel PHOTO-PAINT 7 as follows: read in the raw JPEG image from the camera, then save it as a JPEG image with a suitable "quality factor". For convenience, the quality factor used is appended to the JPEG filename. I have assigned the copyright of these photos to myself, but you can freely use them as long as you say where they were obtained from.
	Aerial photos were obtained from a link that used to appear on the Technical Working Party on Mobile and Terrestrial Propagation home page. I checked with the administrator of that web page that these photos have been freely published - i.e. there is no copyright to worry about. I'm disappointed that the original aerial photos no longer appear to be available on-line.
	Where they are used, image coordinates are written in (pixels across, pixels down) notation.
	Locations are identified using British National Grid References of the form "SO eee nnn". The "SO" identifies which map is being used. The "eee" triplet is the easting, which says how far east the grid coordinate is. The "nnn" triplet is the northing, which says how far north the grid coordinate is. The overall grid reference identifies the location to within 100 metre.

This page was last updated on Friday, 01 September 2006 .