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	An index of un-projected Historical aerial Image tiles
Initial Publication Date	19/10/2021
Data Currency	24/04/2025
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	Unclassified
Data Access Policy	Open
Data Quality
Terms and Conditions	Creative Commons
Standard and Specification
Data Custodian	Spatial Services \| NSW Department of Customer Service
Point of Contact	DCS Spatial Services Customer Hub
Data Aggregator	DCS Spatial Services
Data Distributor	DCS Spatial Services
Additional Supporting Information
TRIM Number

Historical Image Index