Bird's eye view

Today, I am going to tell about a tool available in the Internet. I think it can be very useful for people who live in Galicia. The address where is located this page sponsored by Xunta de Galicia (Galician Government) is http://www.xunta.es/visor/. I discovered it several years ago and it has been useful to me every once in a while. This page allows us to obtain maps and aerial views of any place all over Galicia. In addition, it provides two helpful applications for measure of distances and areas on the map or the aerial view. I have used these options to know how many kilometres I have run or to measure the area of some piece of land. And you can do it all sitting in front of your computer. Moreover, the measures are quite exact (I compare the results obtained in the page with the exact ones and the error margin was below 1%).
This page and its associated tools are more useful to real state business because it allows to identify every piece of land and obtain data about its owner. Sometimes, results obtained here can be not as reliable as they should.
People who live in other locations within Spanish territories in the Iberian Peninsula can use other version of this tool located in http://sigpac.mapa.es/fega/visor/.