Whole of England to be mapped with lasers

Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by tda on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:15PM (#16036498)

This has already been done for the Netherlands a few times, and is repeated every 5 or so years. See all the data in your browser here: http://ahn2.pointclouds.nl/

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by dan1234 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:26PM (#16036965)

It has already been done for England too[0] (although the abstract says 'over 70% of England' so some parts must be missing).

I think someone made a Minecraft map out of the current data, will be interesting to see what is made from the update.

[0]https://data.gov.uk/dataset/lidar-composite-dsm-1m1

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by aglionby on Saturday December 30, 2017 @03:14PM (#16037248)

Not sure if this is the same map you're talking about, but Ordinance Survey made a map[0] using data they had in 2013, and then again in 2014. This was based on height data at 50m resolution.

It's hard to see how OS capture height exactly, I imagine via aircraft[1]. Not sure whether they are the source of the existing data the Environment agency has; I doubt it as their data has a max resolution of 5m while the government's is 1m.

[0] https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecra...

[1] https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/international/knowledge/dat...

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by 7952 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @03:23PM (#16037316)

Most of the OS terrain data is now from pairs of aerial photos using photogrammetry. The older products were actually based on contours that were surveyed using more traditional techniques.

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by timthorn on Saturday December 30, 2017 @03:03PM (#16037188)

The Ordnance Survey converted their mapping data to a Minecraft world: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecra...

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by mrtksn on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:33PM (#16037007)

So we are back to the IE6 days, I am supposed to open specific pages on specific browsers.

2017 is so retro, I wonder if I will be able not to use Chrome in 2018.

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by SllX on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:16PM (#16037657)

I guess it'll be just like the good old days with Firefox 1.5.

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by JorgeGT on Saturday December 30, 2017 @07:33PM (#16038568)

Done in Spain as well, free to download (RGB-colored .laz), but no online 3D viewer: http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/buscadorCat...

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by qualitytime on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:54PM (#16036737)

Does not work in Firefox????

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Re:Whole of England to be mapped with lasers by mr337 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:35PM (#16037021)

Nope it doesn't not, requires Edge or Chrome. Feels like IE wars again.

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