Where to get aerial photos

Click on the measure button on the left. A flyout dialog appears on the lower left of the viewer. Click on the icon left of the option to Create a new measurement. Further instruction will prompt you to add points on the layer by clicking.

When you are finished adding points, click the finish option. Another dialog will appear with your measurement. You can leave the object on the screen or remove it by clicking on the delete option on the result dialog. Like the other buttons on the left, clicking the measure button will toggle the measurement dialog on or off.

Looking at historical photos is certainly interesting, but what if you want a snapshot of an area unencumbered by watermarks? You can purchase imagery in the form of digital images jpeg, png, or GeoTiff. Or you can purchase a printout of a selected area. An arrow to the left of that text points to yet another button.

If you have selected a layer other than 'map' you can click that button to make a selection within the viewable space. After you click that button with the square, you'll see the center area of the viewer remain lighter while the outside area becomes darker.

This lighter area is the selected area you want to purchase. To change the size of the selected square, click and drag on one of the four corner handles indicated by a small white square. After you have positioned the viewer and selected the area you want, click on the ' Purchase Selection button now displayed at the top of the viewer.

If you are a registered user, your selection will be added to your shopping cart where you can select your purchase options. Did you get a ' Guest Order ' page? That's because you aren't logged in as a registered user. That's okay, we'll save your work and direct you to the registration page.

Registration is easy, and free! Hopefully you're feeling like a pro by now, effortlessly navigating our historic aerial imagery from coast to coast.

As you continue using Historic Aerials we hope that confidence grows. Our only advice is to try stuff. By now hopefully you've discovered that action buttons have hints by just hovering your mouse over it. You may also notice advantages of a mouse wheel in changing the zoom level. These, along with other tips will become apparent as you use our product. When in doubt, give it a click, and see what happens!

Added aerial photo coverage for Los Angeles County California in the year Save to Gallery Cancel. Purchase Selection Cancel. North South. East West. Please provide a title that will help you identify this snapshot. Save Cancel. Let's get started! Navigation Chances are, you aren't interested in the area we present to you by default.

Aerials Maps are used for orientation, and we don't deviate from their utility. Topographic Maps Ready for this? Atlases Like the aerials and topos selectors, the atlases will let you view additional historical representations of the viewing area.

Many regional and local governments have aerial imagery available free or at low cost. To determine the status of state-conducted imagery programs, contact your state GIS coordinator. The primary function of these organizations is to catalog and make aerial imagery discoverable.

National Agricultural Imagery is a mosaic collection of 1-meter color, geo-referenced aerial photographs. The NAIP imagery can also be ordered online. Most of this imagery is available for rural areas sometimes urban areas are not available. If you need an image primarily for spatially referenced visualization without analysis e. Aerial photography became an important part of the mapmaking process in the twentieth century. Aerial photographs provide a straightforward depiction of the physical and cultural landscape of an area at a given time.

When skillfully interpreted, these aerial images supply geographers, historians, ecologists, geologists, urban planners, archaeologists, and other professionals with a pictorial basis often critical to their studies. Increasingly, members of the legal profession have used aerial photography in the settlement of cases involving property disputes, riparian rights, and transportation rights-of-way.