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Post by Jaga on Nov 25, 2005 0:08:10 GMT -7
I was trying to find out some nice airview photos (zdjecia lotnicze) of Poland but I could not. It seems that the website created for the popular program "Para w Polske" is gone. They had wonderful airview photographs from different regions of Poland! szczecin.tvp.pl/parawpolske/grafika/lotnicze.gifdoes anybody knows whether this website was moved maybe somewhere else? I cannot find it anymore The other choice would be: www.zlotuptaka.org/but resources there are a bit limited |
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Post by Eric on Dec 7, 2005 3:58:08 GMT -7
When I was flying to Russia in September, I noticed something very interesting. It was the first time I flew over Poland, and looking from the sky, Polish towns look a lot like American towns - so many individual houses, not so much empty space between large cities, etc. You can immediately tell when you get to Belarus and Russia, though... the number of "suburbs" drops considerably, and there is a lot more emptiness and wilderness between the large industrial cities.
Also, from the air, Polish cities look less like former Soviet cities than I would have expected.
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Post by Jaga on Dec 7, 2005 9:28:07 GMT -7
When I was flying to Russia in September, I noticed something very interesting. It was the first time I flew over Poland, and looking from the sky, Polish towns look a lot like American towns - so many individual houses, not so much empty space between large cities, etc. You can immediately tell when you get to Belarus and Russia, though... the number of "suburbs" drops considerably, and there is a lot more emptiness and wilderness between the large industrial cities. Also, from the air, Polish cities look less like former Soviet cities than I would have expected. Eric, interesting point. For me Poland and the USA from the air are very different. Yes, you are right there is less empty space in Poland but the roads are not that big and build only in the certain specifica directions - North-South or East-West. Polish roads are meandering and smaller. You are right in the part that the houses are just chaotically arranged - it is because of private farming and agriculture but I think it is pretty this way! |
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Post by Eric on Dec 10, 2005 5:20:23 GMT -7
It certainly was quite a difference... you immediately noticed the change once you flew over the Poland-Belarus border.
One of my friends who visited Massachusetts a couple of years ago said the whole state (at least the eastern half) was like one big city to her, because you could never tell where one town ended and the next began. In Russia, of course, it's usually different. Even small towns often have some emptiness between them. Pushkin is very close to Petersburg, but even between these two there isn't really any "town" to connect them - only a railroad and a highway travelling through the forest.
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