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Article #193: The History Of Aerial Maps And Mapping

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Maps have been around for centuries, it houses in the village; he followed this
is hard to image how our forefathers were feat with another depicting Paris in
able to so accurate depict the world with 1868. Unfortunately these aerial maps no
the limitations they face. Babylonian longer exist, but James Wallace Black's
clay tablets are the earliest surviving aerial shot of Boston in 1860 is still in
signs of any maps made. These showed the existence today.
world as flat; because no one knows for By 1906, the full range of what could be
sure when or where the first map was done with a camera in mid-air was being
drawn the Babylonian depiction hold the realized. Photographer George Lawrence
honor as the world's first map. This map captured the aftermath of the San
was found in 1930 in present day Iraq. Francisco Earthquake of 1906 using a
While we can trace the history of maps to number of kites equipped with cameras.
ancient times, the history of aerial maps This showed the use of aerial photographs
is much shorter. The discipline came as a map to identify what destruction was
about only after the advent of done to the area. The first such picture
photography and flying. The first aerial using an airplane was done by Wilber
maps were photographs taken from hot air Wright, of the Wright brothers, in 1909.
balloons in the mid 1800s. The first Today many aerial maps are available from
record aerial photograph was taken over Microsoft TerraServer, which includes
France in 1858 by Nader (Gasper Felix thousands of spy maps from the Cold War
Tournachon). He took a picture of a era. These are a great addition to the
French village, Petit-Bectre from a hot developing knowledgebase on the history
air balloon. This picture showed the of aerial maps.






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