Aerial Photography Resources for Melbourne and Victoria   Tags: geological_maps, geomatics, map, mapping, maps, melbourne, planning, topographic, victoria  

Google is NOT the only online provider of convenient aerial photography and maps online. 

Have you tried Bing Maps, a Microsoft service, or one of the Australian State Government map providers?

Nearmap is an Australian company based in Perth that takes monthly aerial photographs of capital cities and some rural areas. You will have to use this off campus as access has been restricted by Nearmap.

Photography Copyright - From the University Copyright Office.

This is a guide to aerial photography resources, covering Melbourne and Victoria, which are available via the University of Melbourne Library Map Collection, other libraries or freely online.

Library users are often confused about the difference between aerial photography and satellite imagery:

• Aerial photography is taken from aircraft flying at various attitudes with photographic cameras, usually mounted underneath the plane, pointing downwards.
• Satellite imagery is taken from high-orbit craft outside of the earth's atmosphere.

Online mapping services, such as Google Maps, make spatial material convenient to access. However you should be careful when using such services, as the material may be out-of-date, for example the default Google imagery may be several years old.

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