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    Aerial Photography (Orthophoto) - 2017

    Metadata Updated: February 4, 2025

    2017 Orthophoto - 3 inch resolution imagery service. Data produced for the District of Columbia from 2017 digital aerial photography. It was flown in early March, completed on March 8, 2017. Due to technical difficulties, the downtown area is not comprised of true orthoimagery. The contractor worked to minimize building lean by using the increased side-lap of imagery. The aerial imagery acquisition was flown to support the creation of 4-band digital orthophotography with a 3 inch/0.08 meter pixel resolution over the full project area covering the District of Columbia which is approximately 69 square miles. The contractor received waivers to fly in the Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ) and P-56 areas. The ortho imagery was submitted to the District's Chief Technology Office (OCTO) in GeoTiff/TFW format tiles following the tile scheme provided by OCTO. MrSID and JPEG2000 compressed mosaics were delivered as well using a 50:1 compression ratio. All District geospatial data is stored and exported in Maryland State Plane coordinates NAD 83 meters. This dataset provided as an ArcGIS Image service. Please note, the download feature for this image service in Open Data DC provides a compressed PNG, JPEG or TIFF. The compressed MrSID or JPEG2000 mosaic raster datasets are available under additional options when viewing downloads. Requests for the individual GeoTIFF set of images should be sent to open.data@dc.gov.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 4, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 4, 2025
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7551578a1cbc4e6c80d8c1821f7a9695
    Data First Published 2019-09-30T15:24:52.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-10-09T15:05:32.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 31ccf004-4db3-414e-b329-259ddf15d90b
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::aerial-photography-orthophoto-2017
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1220,38.7855,-76.9007,39.0017
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7f49a3383eae2765e7e36f705a65f1652b14e68e3c24022ce190d18a23282978
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1220, 38.7855, -77.1220, 39.0017, -76.9007, 39.0017, -76.9007, 38.7855, -77.1220, 38.7855}

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