The Dotka Collection
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The Dotka Collection is a national collection of aerial photography and maps digitally remastered from several photoprint archives made to accurately visualize over 200 years of Dutch history. The continuously growing Dotka Collection already contains hundreds of thousands of images and maps, making it the single biggest and most important collection of historic aerial photography and maps of the Netherlands.
The collection includes the digitized and enriched aerials of Dutch Cadastre and Library Wageningen UR. Aerials taken for topographic purposes start from 1932 and are available in stereo and orthomosaic; topographic maps start from 1798.
The Dotka Collection enables a unique view on historic events, landscapes and developments. Significant Dutch developments like creating land out of the sea (polders), reassigning rural grounds in the thirties, the Second World War, post-war reconstruction and urban expansion in the seventies; all of which and more of the Dutch history is now visually available.
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