Historic Aerials

[Teegate]

They now have historic topo's.

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Cool. Also note that just one week ago the USGS completed the project of placing their own historic topo's online. I wrote about this here before, but can't find the thread now. Anyway, here's how to access the USGS maps (which are free): http://nationalmap.gov/historical/help/download_instructions.html

Here is the USGS press release about the historic topo collection: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3176#.T5isiFHOX8v

In 1884, the second USGS Director John Wesley Powell briefed Congress on the need for a national mapping program, stating, "The map once constructed should be enduring…"

In keeping with that spirit, The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has publicly released more than 161,000 digitally scanned historical maps spanning in excess of 130 years and covering the conterminous lower 48 states. This Historical Topographic Map Collection provides a comprehensive repository of the landscape of our Nation and tracks changes through time, providing essential clues critical in the understanding of our Nation's topography, geography and development.

"Just as parents might keep a photo album to record their children as they grew, these historical maps are the cartographer's physical quantification of how the land changed as the Nation grew over the last 130 years," explained USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "This historical collection contains immense scientific value as we shaped the land that shaped us."

With the recent completion of the states of Massachusetts and Florida, the Historical Topographic Map Collection can now offer, for free download, digital versions of the USGS legacy topographic map series which includes all scales and all editions originally published for the entire continental U.S.