The project is an offshoot of Nationwide Environmental Title Research (NETR), a company that provides research for investigations into cases of environmental contamination.
Historic Aerials makes money by selling historic land and property photos, but their lasting legacy may be the map tool they built to make this possible. And like many great innovations, it sort of began by accident. A cartography project called Historic Aerials is attempting to create an interactive photographic map that lets you change the year-as if Google Maps had existed since the 1940s. But since we’re living in the future, of course we’ve found a way to make maps change with time. Maps are great and all, but they’re generally just snapshots-a region as it exists at a very specific point in time. The Las Vegas strip of 2013, laid over the desert of 1950.
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