The Lands department has recently upgraded its online Mapping Service system, significantly increasing the availability of products and services. Previously useful access to many of these products required a trip to the Mapping and Survey office in North Point or elsewhere. . I have summarised a few of the most useful parts of the new service to people researching Hong Kong History below.
The HK Mapping service website can be reached here
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1937
Are there any mapping enthusiasts out there who have access to this map/diagram which is a pre-war air pilots aid to finding and landing at Kai Tak aerodrome?
Dated 1937, it was produced by SHELL AVIATION, an off-shoot of the SHELL OIL Company.
SHELL initially create and distributed airfield diagrams for the many new aerodrome being constructed around the UK, and when fliers started flying further afield, the company started producing them for airfields overseas. Prior to this, pilots made their own hand-drawn route maps and airfield diagrams <Read more ...>
