What site can I go to, to find old aerial shots of a property?
Trying to see what a property looked like before anything had been developed. Thanks for your help.
[{"id": "d5ig96f", "text": "Google maps has a great function where you are able to go back to 2007 when some of the first pictures were taken. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d5ihhwm", "text": "some county GIS will provide historical aerials as well. Otherwise you'll be talking about sanborn maps that would be in a phase 1 (at least that's the only place I've seen them). ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d5ii1pf", "text": "Assessors office may have old photos in their parcell maps from various decades in addition to Sanborn fire maps etc", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d5ilg0r", "text": "Google Earth has the ability to look at old imagery going back as far as their records - for instance here is the world trade center in 1997.\n[](http://imgur.com/a/LOqXO)", "replies": [{"id": "d5ip6fn", "text": "This.\n\nAlso check out your state university's geology/geography archives. They are usually online and have a ton of info. Same with public libraries. Librarians geek out finding that stuff for people.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "d5j83o4", "text": "How do I access that?  It's not on my phone app", "replies": [{"id": "d5jex64", "text": "[Here](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=download+google+earth)\n\nGod help us all.  No wonder the failure rate in RE is so high.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d5yjuy7", "text": "what city/state is the property located?", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]