Metadata of ancient aerial photos of IGN

This dataset contains metadata on aerial shooting missions and images available on the Geoportal.

The oldest photos available date back to 1919, the most recent in 2010.

These aerial images are freely reusable (see http://professionnels.ign.fr/pva) in accordance with Law No. 78-753 of 17 July 1978, including for commercial purposes.

These metadata files are intended to facilitate access and reuse of this formidable heritage of more than 3 million images.

The code used to extract this data can be found at https://github.com/cquest/photos-aeriennes-ign

Here is a heat map of their distribution:

Heat map of shots