{"id":1806487,"date":"2022-03-23T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806487"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:41:21","slug":"historic-englands-aerial-photo-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/historic-englands-aerial-photo-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic England’s Aerial Photo Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historic England\u2019s new Aerial Photo Explorer<\/a> allows users access to an archive of some 400,000 digitized aerial photographs taken over the past century. From their announcement<\/a>: \u201cAerial imagery provides a fascinating insight into the development and expansion of the nation\u2019s urban centres and changes to the rural landscape. It can also reveal striking discoveries\u2014such as \u2018cropmarks\u2019 showing hidden, archaeology beneath the surface.\u201d I notice that it also includes aerial photos of World War II bomb damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historic England\u2019s new Aerial Photo Explorer allows users access to an archive of some 400,000 digitized aerial photographs taken over the past century. From their announcement: \u201cAerial imagery provides a fascinating insight into the development… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[165,989,71],"class_list":["post-1806487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-history","tag-aerial","tag-england","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1818376,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/world-war-ii-aerial-reconnaissance-photos-of-england\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806487,"position":0},"title":"World War II Aerial Reconnaissance Photos of England","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 September 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Historic England has posted some 3,600 aerial images of England, of a collection totalling more than 20,000, taken during World War II by USAAF reconnaissance aircraft. 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