These photos are copyright of Vishal Thakur. He has kindly granted permission to post the pictures here. Check out his gallery (http://www.flickr.com/photos/47765058@N00/).
There are very few overview or aerial photos of Indian cities. Kanpur is no exception. Thanks to Vishal we get to see some photos of Kanpur.

The pictures are from the Landmark Hotel, the tallest building in Kanpur.

http://img273.imageshack.us/img273/482/landmarkhotelkanpur3ig.jpg

View 1

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/9080/kanpurview4s3lh.jpg

View 2

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/760/kanpurview15dx.jpg

View 3

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5504/kanpurview2s7tj.jpg

View 4

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5720/kanpurview32dk.jpg

Not bad. :)

jabardast , UP ke photos dekhne nahi milte

that is a huge city....nice pics...and i think its quite industrialised as well...more than lucknow..

Thanks for the nice pictures Vishal :)