I recently found this page, while searching for potential impact of leaving too close from the world’s 4th busiest airport (LHR). I live in Putney: although we certainly see a bunch of planes flying in our sky, I would think the noise pollution is fairly limited here.

Anyway, I found that LHR were extremely proactive here, by listing areas potentially affected by noise, also gathering information with regards to development plans in the pipeline. Now, imagine for a second, you purchase a property around London, and two years later, BAA develop a new terminal at the end of your garden….. I know that sounds funny, but I would bet many people have found themselves in that awkward position already

Anyway check here for more info on LHR!

Hakan.org also displaying very useful information on that subject

http://preview.local.live.com/

MSN (Live.com) has just released a new web application pushing the concept of Google Earth to the extreme

Mixture between video game, map, and Google Earth really. It does look very cool. (in a nerd way I mean). In other words, your first impression is that this is going to change the way you contemplate the world. Hmm…sure. But then, your (or least my) second impression was more in the line of “what the hell am I going to do with this???”

I still believe Google are leading the “map” vertical…and by far. MSN / Microsoft are just trying to come back to the game…unfortunately it is not just about the “hey look at what we can do” factors