A detailed Lidar map of England and Wales

Posted by hermitcrab on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:09AM
from the lidarmap.uk dept.

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Re:A detailed Lidar map of England and Wales by hermitcrab on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:12AM (#49120782)

Detailed down to the level of individual trees and houses. You can even see ridges near my house that might be from ridge and furrow agriculture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge_and_furrow

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Re:A detailed Lidar map of England and Wales by jonash54 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:42AM (#49180564)

Nice Work! Are you hosting the WMS yourself? I'm hosting one for my region of germany in 0,25m resolution and it's about 100gb already. Whole of UK must be a pretty massive TIF.

I am working on a site for downloading and using high-res lidar data internationally. Maybe check it out if you're interested: https://hillsha.de/

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