Similar to the recently expanded 1930's aerials, I thought it would be nice to make a large version of the 1995 aerials. The interesting thing (unlike the 1930 aerials) is that these are part of the NAPP (National Aerial Photography Program) and versions are available for many other states. Took quite a bit of detective work but I eventually found similar datasets for NY, PA, CT, RI, MA, DE and MD from the period 1990-96. Some imagery was black and white, others were color and some were infrared. I converted them all to grayscale for consistency. Processed at 4 foot resolution which is as good as or better than most of the source imagery.
The coverage area is shown below, in the future I'd like to expand it to the full Northeast US. But this is already a heavy lift, so that will have to wait awhile. Was a challenge to fit together all the jigsaw puzzle pieces without any gaps, but just began exporting the full resolution composite, it's gonna take around 48 hours to process (finished file size around 200gb
). After that I need to create map tiles, package them up, transfer to the server and install. Still a long road to travel, but with a bit of luck, they'll be online later this week. 
The coverage area is shown below, in the future I'd like to expand it to the full Northeast US. But this is already a heavy lift, so that will have to wait awhile. Was a challenge to fit together all the jigsaw puzzle pieces without any gaps, but just began exporting the full resolution composite, it's gonna take around 48 hours to process (finished file size around 200gb
). After that I need to create map tiles, package them up, transfer to the server and install. Still a long road to travel, but with a bit of luck, they'll be online later this week.
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