I went looking for a resource for a student, and ended up spending an hour down a rabbit hole of aerial photography.

I was thrilled to discover that sixty years of Tasmania's aerial photos have been digitised and put online. Last time I saw these was in the vaults of the department.

https://dpipwe-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=01018d8cffe449ba8ac4c569a40bf5fb

#Tasmania #histodons #history #AerialPhotography #photography #maps #cartography #HGIS #GIS

ArcGIS Web Application

I really love the technical details that come with aerial photographs. The clock, the altimeter, the (not always) level.

#photography #AerialPhotography #histodons #history #HistoryOfScience

As someone who grew up in an area ravaged by Tasmania's 1967 bushfires, I naturally went looking for them in the data. Here's my local brewery, looking like someone has peeled off its lid.

#Tasmania #histodons #bushfires #history #AerialPhotography #Photography

Yesterday, I was looking at historic aerial photography of my neighbourhood. This morning it inspired my feet to take my morning walk back to the creepiest thing I've found in the bush near my house.

A dumped old car is one thing. It's the shoe that's been sitting there for decades that gets me. I check back every few years and there's a little less car each time, but the shoe just keeps going.

It isn't next to any old or new road and I've checked the newspapers for accidents in this area, nothing seems obvious, but without knowing the type or age of car it's a little hard to be sure. This land has never been built up but has had some farms, so this could well have been dumped.

Do we have a vintage car corner of mastodon yet?

#histodons #VintageCar #walking #creepy

@imo_weg
If you figure out an abandoned vehicle hashtag, I’ve definitely got stuff to contribute from elsewhere in the world!

(Also, abandoned boots and shoes. *Definitely* creepy as heck…)

@coprolite9000 maybe @AbandonedAmerica knows the 'what's this abandoned and rusted out car that only has a badge and a headlight left' hashtag.
@imo_weg @coprolite9000 I do not, I'm afraid. Never was great with hashtags

@AbandonedAmerica @imo_weg

How about ... #NowWhereDidIParkTheCar ?

(Cue an inaugural contribution from a quick rummage in Lightroom - a burned-out car in leafy Derbyshire...)