The Montgomery
County, Maryland Department of Technology Services - Geographic Information
Systems (DTS-GIS) team, in cooperation with the Montgomery County Archives
(MCA), developed the Digital Aerial Photo Image Server (DAPIS) to scan and
archive original aging photos and to enable the
public (customers) to locate, display, download, and print archived
high-resolution digital aerial photo or ortho-photo images over the Internet. Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) software, developed
by Lizardtech, Inc., and GIS software, developed by Environmental Systems
Research Institute (ESRI), were used to prepare and to serve available archived
digital photos from 1951, 1970, 1979, 1993-1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002.
Microsoft’s Active Server Page (ASP) technology was used to create a web-based
aerial photo map index application to enable customers to find and select a
photo by map grid on the digital image archive server. An image viewer is used
to display selected digital images and allows customers to adjust zoom scale and
image size. Customers can also print or download the photo image using their web
browser. Additional image viewers are also provided to enable the customer to
better display, pan, and zoom about the photo image. DAPIS can be accessed by
visiting the Montgomery County Government GIS web site.
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