Aero Graphics has been providing aerial photography and related products since 1993. We produced what we believe to be the first large-scale digital aerial photomosaic in 1994. This was an axonometric view of the Charleston peninsula comprised from 140 separate images, and composited on a Quadra 840AV Macintosh workstation (with an eye-popping 128 MB of RAM). The resulting 120 MB raster file set records at the service bureau. This was followed by another dual-perspective view of the San Francisco peninsula in 1995. This 650-image 2GB mural was an instant classic - and one of the first
 images to test the full capabilities of Cymbolic Sciences' new LightJet 5000 digital printer. 1996 saw the first-ever digital photomosaic of Metropolitan Atlanta, seamlessly covering 2000 square miles with 900 scanned images. Tampa Bay followed in 1998. These mosaics were all constructed in Photoshop using custom color-correction and compositing routines. By 1999, the GIS industry had caught up, and subsequent mosaics (now topping out at 5000 square miles) would be done using a combination of off-the-shelf solutions. You can see the 2006 (130 GB) Atlanta photomosaic here.
Along the way, we've done standard vertical and oblique photography of commercial & residential sites, along with legal, event, and construction progress. We were among the first to produce real estate sales package presentations using Macromedia Flash® to combine aerial photography with demographic, occupancy, and sales data. We continue to lead the industry in the use of digital techniques for color correction, photographic overlays, and other image enhancements. This is especially important in areas of high air pollution, where getting an acceptable aerial shot is becoming more and more difficult.