Simplified by Duha, a nice fast clean way to use Google Maps for simple “where is it?” lookup, with only major tourist attractions pinned and all the pin-and-label spam gone.

Regrettably only the ‘known to officialdom’ green-spaces are marked, and for instance you can see here that the green bit of Festival Park is not green. That’s because it’s not mown by the local Council, but rather is tended privately by St. Modwen. Thus it’s not on the Council’s GIS maps, and thus “doesn’t exist” when it comes to showing the world the green spaces in the city. But, for a simplified map it’s still pretty good.

No little yellow “Google Streetview guy” to drag and drop, but the far faster-to-load option for that on a desktop is an install of the free Google Earth. Google Earth also has access to StreetView.