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Re:Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps by AdamTReineke on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:28PM (#27966258)
What's the source for your LIDAR data? Publicly available government sets or do you have to commission your own scans?
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Re:Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps by mparr4 on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:31PM (#27966284)
All public. At this point if the data doesn't exist, we're out of luck.

I don't anticipate wall art being lucrative enough to commission our own scans. For areas the size of what we tend to map you need an airplane, a drone would take weeks to survey some of them.

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