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rdak:
Do you ever have a really long Internet Address (URL) to pass on to someone? Reading out a long address over the phone is obviously difficult, and even when emailing a long URL, their email programme can often split in onto several lines and they have to try and piece it back together.

a good solution is to use http://tinyurl.com/

Copy the address, paste it into a box on that website and it gives you a nice URL which will redirect someone to that website. The shortcut URL is kept forever and it's totally free!

As an example, if I wanted to show you an aerial photo of my allotment on a map, I would have to quote:

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&x=472500&y=171500&scale=5000&width=500&height=310&multimap.x=162&multimap.y=24

(it's the rectangle, just left of centre, with the dark area of trees to the right!)

If I put this URL in tinyurl, it gives me:

http://tinyurl.com/yuxb2

which is a bit easier!

Anyone care to post their aerial photos? Just go to http://www.multimap.com ,enter street name or postcode and click on View Aerial Photo when it shows you the streetmap.

allotment_chick:
Thanks Ross - looks great fun - just off to see if I can find my site!  AC

teresa:
Ross is right great site if I have to go somewhere and dont know the route I just key it in to the site.
gives written directions as well as visual one.

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