1949 Aerial Survey of London

The original survey was taken by Hunting Aero Surveys in June and July 1949 and comprises two sets of photographs; a low-scale survey of the whole of Greater London and coverage of the old administrative County of London at a higher scale. Unfortunately it would appear that the original films are no longer in existence however the original contact prints (prints made directly from the film negatives) will be scanned by Bluesky and georefenced for prosperity and uploaded to the OldAerialPhotos website.

"It would appear that this survey was used to produce an early photo mosaic possibly for the London Authority of that time, " commented David Drabble Archive Manager at Bluesky. "Photographic contact prints would have been literally cut out and stuck together onto a large board. This in turn would have been mounted on the wall or placed on the floor and a final photograph would have been taken thus producing a seamless mosaiced image of London. A far cry from online mapping portals such as Google Earth!"

Visitors to www.oldaerialphotos.com can already search through more than a million aerial photos dating back as far as 1917 by simply entering a postcode, address or grid reference. Detailed search results, including the age and ground coverage, of every image that matches the search criteria are displayed and the visitor can choose to purchase either a hard copy print or digital image file.

I am quite interested in the old photos of London. And the good thing is that visitor can choose to purchase either a hard copy print or digital image file. That is nice !!! Check : http://lidarservices.com Lidar Monitoring Service - 23/12/2009 - 07:06

It is good to know that they discovered that Aerial Survey in London and to think that was in 1949. I dont know if Lidar technology already exist on that time. Maybe yes maybe not. Check : http://lidarservices.com Kevin Lidar Service - 21/12/2009 - 02:26