Note: This layer has been provided to enable potential users to identify the coverage of photography for Mainland NZ flown on behalf of the Crown between 1936 and 2005.
This layer shows the extent of each photograph taken. The NZ Aerial Survey Footprints, Mainland NZ, (1936-2005) polygons layer shows the extent of each survey undertaken.
The physical Crown Aerial Film Archive is managed for LINZ by WSP New Zealand. Most Crown photographs have been scanned and are available digitally from LINZ upon request. See the Crown Aerial Film Archive historical imagery scanning project for direction on how to access the digitised photos. The photos are not downloadable from the LINZ Data Service.
Photos not yet digitised by be ordered from WSP NZ. You will need to provide the survey, run, and photo number (values in the ‘SURVEY’, 'RUN', and 'PHOTO_NO' attributes) covering your area of interest. WSP NZ will be able to provide information about the cost of providing images in various formats. Contact them at WSP Photo Sales.
The New Zealand Aerial Mapping photo archive has been aquired and added to the Crown Aerial Film Archive. These images will also become available from LINZ once digitised or may be ordered from WSP NZ. Historic Aerial Photos, Survey Footprints, NZAM (1939-2008) shows the extent of each survey undertaken.
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With much of New Zealand photographed multiple times over the years, the Crown Aerial Film Archive facilitates analysis of landscape and environmental changes through time. Historical photography is also useful for mapping terrain as it was prior to development or changes in land use.
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Location Data Analyst - Historical Imagery, Topography
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LINZ and its predecessors, Lands and Survey and the Department of Survey and Land Information (DOSLI), commissioned aerial photography for the Crown between 1937 and 2005.
A database of the coverage, with additional information such as the survey number, run number, and photo number; also the camera used, focal length, altitude, and coordinates of the photo centre have been converted to .shp shapefile format for loading into the LINZ Data Service.
One of the predominant uses of aerial photography was in photogrammetric mapping of New Zealand, initially at imperial 1:63,360 scale (1-inch to 1-mile), followed by metric series at 1:50,000 scale.
Updates to the 1:50,000 data (currently the Topo50 map series) were initially made using aerial orthophotography. Today, orthophotos created from both aerial photography and satellite imagery are used.
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