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Historical Imagery Index

The Historical Imagery Index is a referenced footprint dateset created from digitised Key Diagrams for Aerial Imagery pre ADS product  captured across NSW. 

This Index supports the Historical Imagery Viewer and allows the search discovery and download of Spatial Services huge repository of digitised Historical Aerial Photography. 

This index is periodically updated as new photo centers are digitised from the HAP collections Key Diagrams 

HAP (Historical Aerial Photography)

The collection has been acquired over a number of years from 1930 through to 2005. The imagery was originally captured using a variety of cameras including the Wild RC-5, RC-10 and Leica RC-30 cameras with a variety of lenses with focal lengths of 88mm, 153mm and 304mm.  Images were captured in monochrome or colour during this period at a range of scales ranging from 1:10 000 to 1:80 000. 

Images have been digitised from either the aerial film negatives or hard copy prints up 2000dpi resolution depending on the scanned medium.

These are standard 600dpi unprocessed frames as JPG’s

The HAP collection has been digitised from either the aerial film negatives or hard copy prints up 2000dpi resolution depending on the scanned medium.

Current state: This collection exists as un-projected aerial imagery files.

Metadata 

Content Title 

Historical Image Index

Content Type 

Hosted Feature Layer

Description 

Initial Publication Date 

Data Currency 

Data Update Frequency 

Other 

Content Source 

Other

File Type 

ESRI File Geodatabase (*.gdb)

Attribution 

Data Theme, Classification or Relationship to other Datasets 

Accuracy 

Spatial Reference System (dataset) 

GDA94 

Spatial Reference System (web service) 

EPSG:4326 

WGS84 Equivalent To 

GDA94 

Spatial Extent 

Content Lineage 

Data Classification 

Data Access Policy 

Data Quality 

Terms and Conditions 

Creative Commons

Standard and Specification 

Data Custodian 

Point of Contact 

Data Aggregator 

Data Distributor 

DCS Spatial Services

Additional Supporting Information 

TRIM Number