Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven't mapped all of it yet. In particular, mapping roads can be tedious: even after taking aerial images, companies like Google still have to ...

Viewing aerial imagery today is as easy as reaching into your pocket and opening your phone, but how did we get to this amazing technology? Beginning in the early 1800s, cartographers began production ...

Government agencies are increasingly turning to high-precision aerial imagery to solve city-planning conundrums. Three recent case studies show how emergency 9-1-1 services gather data to provide ...

Julius Neubronner's piegon with a camera strapped to it circa 1909 Drones are often celebrated for their ability to capture a new vantage point on the world, revealing the beauty of our planet from ...

THE progress made of late years in topographical surveying by means of aerial photography is strikingly illustrated by a recent report from the Canadian Department of the Interior. The Dominion of ...