Hi Andrew:
Don’t know if this fits your need because there’s no datasets, but if your professor want’s urban change visuals, try free to view NETR Historic Aerials.
http://www.historicaerials.com/
The areas in dark green have historic comparison options in aerial imagery from 1950 to 2013 and you can also compare topo overlays.
Greg
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You could use the historic topos. The interface that USGS and Esri have put on them make the swipe between the, say, 1952 topo and the contemporary map dramatic:
And the time feature on Google Earth has an almost unbelievable 1950 image. Of course you said GIS, and as far as I know you still can’t get that open in a GIS.
-jon
ps: you can also license imagery from me:
https://www.google.com/#q=las+vegas+site:http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/&start=0
www.airscalifornia.com, but then you are in the georeferencing business.
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Subject: Looking for historical GIS data and imagery for Las Vegas area
Hi everyone,
I am a GIS Librarian up in Canada at the University of Toronto, and it has been awhile since i have worked with US GIS data.
I working with a Professor interested in urban change and mapping. Would anyone know of a urban change dataset for Las Vegas that could be shared for use
in a teaching lab? I am just looking for a historical collection of aerial or sat images, census polygons, and perhaps some land use files.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Many thanks,
Andrew
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