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Hero Member
- Apr 30, 2011
- 582
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab CTX-3030, Minelab Exalibur II, Garrett AT Pro
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
One of the best "then and now" satellite photo websites, you gotta check it out!!!
I have recently become addicted to NETR Online • Historic Aerials. The website allows you to pull up a satellite or topo image of an area, and then also look at its older pictures/topo's. You can even few them side by side, with a neat slider to reveal the old and new! It will overlay street names and has a number of really cool features. Best of all its free! I think there is some premium services if you pay but I haven't looked into it.
I pull up old neighborhoods and see where old streets were that aren't there today, or old buildings, so I can go MDing. I was surprised to find parts of Louisiana with topo maps going back to mid 1800's! And I took these maps and looked at them compared to today's images, and found places where old Cemeteries were.....and now there are houses creepy.
Does anyone have any more great sites like this? I am a big fan of Google Earth, wish they would move some of this into there. I know Google Earth can do "Historic" but generally it only goes back to 1990 or so and its only Satellite not Topo.
The website historicaerials.com is a bit slow, and it uses Silverlight (yuck!), but its still very cool.
I have recently become addicted to NETR Online • Historic Aerials. The website allows you to pull up a satellite or topo image of an area, and then also look at its older pictures/topo's. You can even few them side by side, with a neat slider to reveal the old and new! It will overlay street names and has a number of really cool features. Best of all its free! I think there is some premium services if you pay but I haven't looked into it.
I pull up old neighborhoods and see where old streets were that aren't there today, or old buildings, so I can go MDing. I was surprised to find parts of Louisiana with topo maps going back to mid 1800's! And I took these maps and looked at them compared to today's images, and found places where old Cemeteries were.....and now there are houses creepy.
Does anyone have any more great sites like this? I am a big fan of Google Earth, wish they would move some of this into there. I know Google Earth can do "Historic" but generally it only goes back to 1990 or so and its only Satellite not Topo.
The website historicaerials.com is a bit slow, and it uses Silverlight (yuck!), but its still very cool.