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The History Of Aerial Maps And Mapping

Maps have been around for centuries, it isvillage; he followed this feat with another
hard to image how our forefathers were abledepicting Paris in 1868. Unfortunately these
to so accurate depict the world with theaerial maps no longer exist, but James
limitations they face. Babylonian clayWallace Black's aerial shot of Boston in 1860
tablets are the earliest surviving signs ofis  still  in  existence  today.
any maps made. These showed the world as
flat; because no one knows for sure when orBy 1906, the full range of what could be done
where the first map was drawn the Babylonianwith a camera in mid-air was being realized.
depiction hold the honor as the world's firstPhotographer George Lawrence captured the
map. This map was found in 1930 in presentaftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of
day  Iraq.1906 using a number of kites equipped with
cameras. This showed the use of aerial
While we can trace the history of maps tophotographs as a map to identify what
ancient times, the history of aerial maps isdestruction was done to the area. The first
much shorter. The discipline came about onlysuch picture using an airplane was done by
after the advent of photography and flying.Wilber Wright, of the Wright brothers, in
The first aerial maps were photographs taken1909.
from hot air balloons in the mid 1800s. The
first record aerial photograph was taken overToday many aerial maps are available from
France in 1858 by Nader (Gasper FelixMicrosoft TerraServer, which includes
Tournachon). He took a picture of a Frenchthousands of spy maps from the Cold War era.
village, Petit-Bectre from a hot air balloon.These are a great addition to the developing
This picture showed the houses in theknowledgebase on the history of aerial maps.



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