The Georgia Aerial Photographs database is now available through
the Digital Library of Georgia web site: (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu).
Those able to use the University System of Georgia GALILEO system can
find it at: (Express Link: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gaph).
       The Georgia Aerial Photographs database was produced with a grant
form the University System of Georgia GALILEO program.  All USDA and
USGS aerial photograph indexes held in the University of Georgia Map
Collection that covered Georgia were scanned for the program by East
View Cartographic, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN. Some 50,000 individual
aerial photographs, of the 220,000 Georgia air photos in the Map
Collection, were scanned, some by East View and some by The Digital
Library of Georgia.  The indexes and air photos produced by the scanning
program have been put up online in a database created by the Digital
Library of Georgia and University of Georgia Libraries staff.
       The indexes and individual aerial photographs, produced from 1938
to the 1980s, are only part of the University of Georgia Libraries' Map
Collection's holdings. Individual air photos are available online in the
database for only the following 47 counties: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon,
Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb,
Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Cherokee, Clarke,
Cobb, Coweta, Decatur, Dekalb, Dodge, Dougherty, Early, Effingham,
Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hall, Houston,
Jackson, Laurens, Lowndes, Madison, Muscogee, Oconee, Oglethorpe,
Richmond, Screven, Seminole, Tattnall and Tift. Holdings for the other
counties will be added when additional support is received. Other parts
of the collection will be added when possible. To see a listing of the
aerial photographs held in the University of Georgia Map Collection see
the Map Collection Web Site:
(http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/ahtml/mchpmcf4.html).
      The Georgia Aerial Photographs database program would like to
include all photography of Georgia, and will actively try to include
photographs not held by the University of Georgia Map Collection.
      The current database will change as improvements are made, and
users are incouraged to make recommendations for changes. One of the
first changes will be to make indexes easier to read.

      The Georgia Aerial Photographs database is the first of several
online databases the University of Georgia Map Collection is planning to
develop over the next few years.  The goal is to make available online
to Georgia all the Georgia cartographic holdings of the Map Collection.

Johnnie D. Sutherland
Curator of Maps
Map Collection
University of Georgia Libraries
Athens, GA  30602

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