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Re:NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban... by 7952 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:39PM (#14757287)
Not sure why this is particularly exceptional. Very high resolution lidar has been commercially available for a while. And the EA in the UK has released approx 4 TB (compressed) under an open licence.
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Re:NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban... by hanoz on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:12PM (#14758076)
To be fair, at 300 points per square meter it's a lot higher res than the highest EA 25cm resolution data, with its very patchy coverage. But the EA's 1m data covers about half the country so you're right, this featured NYU data is a long way off being the "largest public LiDAR data set ever collected", unless I'm missing something.

If anyone's interested, here's something I made with the Environment Agency (and Natural Resources Wales) data:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map

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Re:NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban... by willvarfar on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:00AM (#14759532)
Fantastically beautiful!

Had this strange feeling as I was roaming, zoomed in so I had no idea where I was, when suddenly I recognised a village - I've lived there!

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Re:NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban... by ge96 on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:44AM (#14768223)
Oh my God haha zoom zoom zoom that's awesome

Reminds me of those electron microscope photographs of fleas haha

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