AIR CAMERA AND MAPMAKING
Some years ago air-surveying was carried out by one. of the Government Departments in an experimental way, and its possibilities were glimpsed. Since then the technical factor has improved, and the Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation, Mr. F. Jones, announces a comprehensive programme of air-surveying in Hawke's Bay. That province contains enough different kinds of country—farm land, shifting floodable rivers, rough lands, highland protection forest, mountain lops, and earjJiguake-alleE.ed aroas-^rto give
the efficiency of the camera eye, carried in an aeroplane, a really good test. One of the most remarkable discoveries to date is that the camera in England can give photographs which disclose to archaeologists the lines of old roads and walls not visible on the ground; thus archaeology is directed by bird's-eye views. New Zealand has a large amount of back country never surveyed in detail. The creeks in mountain bush land look pretty on the map. They are also pretty in themselves, if the weather is right, but quite often they are not exactly where the map puts them. If the air survey could gradually correct the maps at no great cost the gain would be substantial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1936, Page 12
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195AIR CAMERA AND MAPMAKING Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1936, Page 12
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