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A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photograph , but also a drawing, and are often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps.
An 1897 pictorial map of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler and James B. Moyer. Pictorial maps (also known as illustrated maps, panoramic maps, perspective maps, bird's-eye view maps, and geopictorial maps) depict a given territory with a more artistic rather than technical style. [1]
Birds Eye View of New York and Environs John Bachmann, Bird's Eye View of New Orleans, 1851 (Library of Congress) John Bachmann, Sr. (Jan 31,1817–May 22, 1899) was a Swiss-born lithographer and artist best known for his bird's-eye views, especially of New York City. He was a journeyman lithographic artist in Switzerland and Paris until 1847.
The carriage house has been converted into a community center with a rooftop deck and porthole skylights. There's a new community garden, set against a stained-glass wall made from repurposed building materials and architectural elements. Mr. Hooper's store has retained its art deco barstools and lunch counter, but now has free Wi-Fi.
The earliest depictions of aerial landscapes are maps, or somewhat map-like artworks, which show a landscape from an imagined bird's-eye viewpoint. For example, Australian Aborigines, beginning in very ancient times, created "country" landscapes—aerial landscapes depicting their country—showing ancestral paths to watering holes and sacred ...
Bird's eye view may refer to: Bird's-eye view, a view of an object from above, as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps Bing Maps#Bird's eye view, the angled photographic views from Microsoft; Birds Eye View, a platform for emerging women filmmakers founded by Rachel Millward and Pinny ...
In some ways, elevated photography is more flexible than imagery taken from a commercial aircraft, or an orbiting satellite, in that it is capable of getting highly detailed images, from a birds eye view. This method allows for image collection that offers synoptic timelines - making this process a useful tool for construction management ...
Bing Maps (previously Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps, Windows Live Local, and MSN Virtual Earth) is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps Platform framework which also support Bing Maps for Enterprise APIs and Azure Maps APIs.