The following 360 degrees panorama view shows you how the area I'm living looks like in summer (image taken on 11th July 1998). Please click onto the image to see a larger (660kB) image where significant waypoints are marked too.
Turning right where you can see the end of the Strebersdorferstrasse street which is also the border to Vienna. Unfortunately you can't see much of Vienna as it is behind the houses with the red roofs which have been built the last years, replacing a wonderful apple plantation - they are builing too much houses, but I suppose that's more the rule than an exception everywhere.
Vienna's center is about south-east just where another hill called Kahlenberg begins. On top of Kahlenberg is a television sender antenna whereas on Bisamberg are 2 radio sender antennas, as both hills are siginifcant waypoints in the area of Vienna. You may think of mountains when hearing from Austria, and indeed we have the Alps, but they are about 80 kilometers away south to west from Vienna, the Kahlenberg is the beginning of the Voralpen (pre-Alps). For skiing you need to drive about 100 kilometers away from Vienna.
Right to the Kahlenberg, which by the way ends at the Danube river is my home village Langenzersdorf, again with some new built houses in the foreground. On the horizon you can see 2 further hills, which are not part of Langenzersdorf but about that distance is the end of Langenzersdorf. Langenzersdorf, located between the Kahlenberg/Danube and Bisamberg is much larger in east-west than north-south direction.
All in all, Langenzersdorf still has the flair of a small village, unfortunately this gets increasingly destroyed by building new houses on many places previously used for agriculture, causing it to more and more look like a suburb of Vienna. On the other hand I don't have a long way to work, about 30 to 45 minutes, for both taking the car or public transportation.
At last a few words about how I've taken the panorama. Unfortunately due to OS/2's demise I had to rely on WIN NT to capture a 1 frame per second movie at 640*480 taken with a Blaupunkt HI-8 videocamera and digitized with a Hauppauge WIN/TV PCI card. Using Paint I created the panorama image manually (unfortunately I'm not NASA to be able to make such wonderful images as they did from the Carl Sagan memorial station on Mars ;-) by appending from a series of individual images copied from the Media Player. Finally I had a 14.7 MB large true-color windows bitmap of 6400*768 pixels, from where I needed to cut out the final 6390*433 pixel (as the individual frames of course weren't aligned on a common baseline).
I tried to cut that image out of the 14.7 MB one with Paint and Imagetool under NT, but wasn't able to due to not being able to scroll while selecting, one instance of the Imagetool couldn't paste what the other instance had copied into the clipboard, slowest performance and finally I ran out of virtual memory on my 128 MB dual PPro SMP machine!
I then switched to OS/2 and used PMView to crop the image within seconds! To add the waypoint texts on the large one, I loaded it into CUADraw, a gold old 16-bit (IBM internal) drawing program, and even that old application was faster than the NT tools (though it doesn't have the fancy window layout ;-). Saving the large and minimized ones into JPG files again was a matter of seconds with PMView.