Aerial Photography

Mosaic of Monroe County

There are a wide variety of Aerial Photographs and Orthophotographs of Bloomington, Monroe County and the rest of Indiana. This page provides information about those resources

Indiana University GIS Services

• http://gis.iu.edu

Monroe County Geographic Information System

• http://in53.plexisgroup.com/ (plug-in required)

City of Bloomington Geographic Information System

• Online GIS: http://bloomington.in.gov/maps/interactivemap/ (Includes 2005/2006 orthophotos. Accessible in Firefox and IE. No plugin required.)
• Map Gallery: http://bloomington.in.gov/maps/

Bloomingpedia's own processed images

The following images are available:

These images are processed from the 2005 Indiana Orthophotography.

Warning: Some of these files are very large high resolution images. Please take this into consideration before downloading them and be considerate of the bandwidth you use. You may also have trouble loading these images as some of them are more than 8000x8000 pixels in size, which can be very memory intensive.

• Comparison of IU GIS data with current Google Maps satellite imagery
• Bloomington 10x10 tile mosaic
  • 5000x5000 pixels (4.6MB image)

Mosaic of Bloomington

• Monroe County mosaic (837 tiles)
  • 2700x3500, 100x100 pixel tile size (1.1MB)
  • 4050x5250, 150x150 pixel tile size (2.9MB)
  • 5400x7000, 200x200 pixel tile size (6.5MB)
  • 8100x10500, 300x300 pixel tile size (16MB)
  • 10800x14000, 400x400 pixel tile size (36MB)
  • 13500x17500, 500x500 pixel tile size (132MB)
• Monroe County labeled tiles (837 tiles)
  • 2754x4200, 100x100 pixel tile size (1.7MB)
  • 4104x5940, 150x150 pixel tile size (3.7MB)
  • 5454x7700, 200x200 pixel tile size (7.5MB)
  • 8208x11200, 300x300 pixel tile size (17MB)
  • 11015x14700, 400x400 pixel tile size (38MB)
  • 13716x18200, 500x500 pixel tile size (129MB)

Other aerial/satellite sources

• http://maps.google.com - (Also Google Earth) Satellite imagery, currently showing data from early spring of 2006. Previously was showing data from before 2004.

• Also, Google recently went to Indianapolis to take Street View images and one of the surrounding cities it drove through and added to Street View is Bloomington. The current images seem to be from multiple dates. At least some of them are from Summer of 2007 and they added them to their site in the winter of 2007/2008. You can see these images by zooming in on Bloomington on http://maps.google.com/ and clicking on the "Street View" button.