The Roundabout Drone
Milton from above, one story at a time.
Real 3D of the real place, the way a drone would show it, without the drone. Press Fly, watch the tour, then drag to look around and scroll to zoom. Best on a computer; on a phone it wants a good signal, about 30 megabytes of imagery per flight.
Preflight…
The church's 29 acres
Two parcels at Arnold Mill and New Providence, outlined on the real ground. A 100,000-square-foot campus is planned there, neighbors told Council. No application has been filed.
Every license plate camera in Milton
All 55 mapped readers, ringed in gold, from Deerfield to the north end. The city says it runs 36. Both numbers are explained on the map page.
How this works, and what it costs
The imagery is Google's photorealistic 3D of Milton, drawn in your browser by CesiumJS, an open-source globe engine. Parcel lines come from the Fulton County tax digest. Camera positions are the same OpenStreetMap snapshot as our map. Nothing here is generated; every rooftop is a real rooftop, photographed from a plane.
Google charges us for the imagery: less than a penny a flight, and the first thousand flights a month are free. When a month's flights are used up, the drone rests until the first. That is the whole business model of this page, and it is a good one.
The Roundabout
A new flight most weeks.
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