I'm hoping for a conceptual push in the right direction on the following! We have many hundreds of old-school air photo indexes (pre-1950s, for example) ; these have been scanned, and we have a process in mind to georeference them with a minimal number of control points. (Labor intensive, but doable) That's not the problem though.
We ultimately need polygons in a geodatabase that represent the footprint of each photo shown on the index map. Yes, we can draw a polygon, copy/paste, move copy to right spot, attribute, repeat. Brute force, but it works.
Ideally we need a solution to help automate the creation of polygons along specified flightlines.
I thought the "generate rectangles along lines" tool looked exactly like what we need. i.e., draw the flightlines, then generate polygons. But no, the polygons created with that tool are non-overlapping. Air photos overlap considerably of course.
Is there a tool or workflow out there that could create overlapping polygons like we need? I've been googling of course, no luck so far.
Jim
