Bluesky Launches Web Service for Historical Aerial Photography of the UK

COALVILLE, England, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

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Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has launched a brand new web service
offering an online window to the largest collection of UK based historical
aerial photographs. Visitors to http://www.oldaerialphotos.com can search
through millions of aerial images dating back as far as the 1940s by simply
entering a postcode, address or grid reference. Detailed search results,
including the age and ground coverage, of every image that matches the search
criteria are displayed and the visitor can choose to purchase either a hard
copy print or digital image file. http://www.oldaerialphotos.com is a joint
venture between Bluesky and air to ground oblique photography experts
Skyscan.

"This is an important development for anyone with a personal or
professional interest in the past," said Rachel Tidmarsh, Managing Director
of Bluesky. " By giving visitors to http://www.oldaerialphotos.com the
ability to search through literally millions of images with just a few clicks
of a mouse we are bringing together for the first time a valuable and
comprehensive record of our past. Many of these images have previously only
been available to archivists or those with specialist knowledge of how to
find them, now it will be easy for everyone to search through these historic
collections."

Visitors to http://www.oldaerialphotos.com can search through a number of
historically significant collections of both vertical and oblique aerial
photography. Through an ambitious and ongoing acquisition programme and
agreements with a number of historically important private, commercial and
government organisations Bluesky has already secured, and will continue to do
so, unrivalled access to a photographic record of the country's past.
Bluesky's own team of photographic experts have collated and formatted
information about every image creating a Master Aerial Database that powers
the online service.

Images that are available to purchase from http://www.oldaerialphotos.com
include some of the earliest commercial aerial survey images, military
photography from World War II and one of the largest collections of oblique
photography in the UK. Offering a record of most major UK cities and towns,
transport and utility infrastructure and commercial property developments
http://www.oldaerialphotos.com is an invaluable resource for anyone with a
personal or professional interest in local studies, genealogy, boundary
disputes, environmental land use research or town planning, for example.

http://www.oldaerialphotos.com is a joint venture between aerial imaging,
remote sensing data collection and processing specialist Bluesky, and air to
ground oblique photography experts Skyscan.

Contact: Bluesky, tel. +44(0)1530-518-518

Website: http://www.bluesky-world.com and http://www.oldaerialphotos.com

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