A new website showing aerial views of Bermuda is to be launched by Government.

The online facility ? Bermuda Maps ? will give access to an archive of aerial photography, including images taken in 1941.

Finance Minister Paula Cox told the House of Assembly that the plan from the Ministry of Works and Engineering was still being developed. "This historical resource is of immense value to Bermuda," she said.

The Government is also planning a new map series at a scale of one to twenty five hundred (1:2500) which will be published as a map and a high-resolution aerial photograph.

The road name map included in last year's telephone directory will be published again this spring in booklet format.