GEHistoricalImagery is a utility for downloading historical aerial imagery from Google Earth... and now also from Esri's World Atlas Wayback
Features
- Find historical imagery availability at any location and zoom level
- Always uses the most recent provider data
- Automatically substitutes unavailable tiles with temporally closest available tile
- Outputs a georeferenced GeoTiff or dumps image tiles to a folder
- Supports warping to new coordinate systems
- Fast! Parallel downloading and local caching
Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| info | Get imagery info at a specified location. |
| availability | Get imagery date availability in a specified region. |
| download | Download historical imagery. |
| dump | Dump historical image tiles into a folder. |
Ideally you should use the Release binary packaged, but I've provided gehinix.sh to download, build and run GEHistoricalImagery.
The script will:
- download and install the dotnet sdk (if necessary)
- Clone and build the master branch of this repo (if necessary)
- And finally run GEHistoricalImagery with arguments
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mbucari/GEHistoricalImagery/refs/heads/master/gehinix.sh
chmod +x gehinix.sh
./gehinix.shUpdated 2025/02/26