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Subject:        Re: Idaho aerial photography
Date:   Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:37:17 -0800
From:   Matt Fox <[log in to unmask]>
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This seems to come up a lot.  One great source of historic aerial
photography is the local office of Natural Resource Conservations
Service.  9 times out of 10 they will have old aerial photographs of
their county going back to the 1940s and will usually just let you walk
in and look at them.  County Public Works office is another good one to try.

Another good one is the USGS EarthExplorer.
(http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/).  The website is a little
tricky to figure out, but they have aerials for most of the US dating
back to 1940s.  The website used to charge $3/photo to deliver via FTP,
but a couple weeks ago they changed it so now you can just download them
yourself for free right from the website.  The trick is to select
"Single Frames" and "High/Medium" Resolution in the search parameters.
That will narrow the search down to the historic aerials that are
available to download for free.

Matt Fox



On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask]
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    Subject:        Idaho aerial photography
    Date:   Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:51:15 -0800
    From:   Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]
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    To:     Maps-L <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>



    Does somebody on this list know where Idaho aerial photography is housed
    when it's no longer current, please?  I'm interested in coverage of the
    Magic Valley from 1945 onwards for the purpose of identifying structures
    that might be old barracks or parts thereof from Minidoka.

    Thank you for any light somebody can shed.

    v

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