jonash54

haha i know what you mean but this is neither, it's a philosophy web-magazine

A problem of open GeoData is very much their coverage and availability in the EU. While the countries and their survey offices are required to release high value datasets in standardized form, some simply don’t. In Germany we have 16 states and every one of them has their own standard and pipelines for generating that data, and everyone releases it differently. Take LiDAR: Bavaria should be distributing it through OpenData portals and is required to by the EU, but they simply ignore that and charge 8000€ for it. Building international or even EU wide geo-projects from OpenData like https://hillsha.de is difficult because of that, you never get full coverage.

But as a tool for mapbuilders for small areas or planned tours i think this could be great

I miss such a landmark feature in all available routing apps and think it will become standard in selfdriving cars where there is more possibility for the driver to look around the landscape

I agree and for me that weirdly felt more natural

don't get why this didn't get more upvotes. it's a really cool idea and very eye opening! Thank you for your work!

nice idea!

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/

I love the etymology of the word "world" it's a combination of:

weraz = “man” and aldiz = “age, lifetime”.

Literally meaning “era/age of man”

LOVE the fact that LiDAR is OpenData!

I am currently working on a website https://hillsha.de that makes it easy to download LiDAR las/laz files for almost every place in europe, the US and some other regions. I also made an iOS app for the same use-case, which can render the LiDAR data in 3D and 2D without PDAL and GDAL. It uses a vibe-coded library instead that combines both in native Swift. The iOS app is still in testing but works great.

Implementing France was a lot more comfortable than almost every other country, very well structured metadata and naming conventions. So thanks for that

(i work at the german mapping agency but this is a private project since i just love working with LiDAR hillshades)

Producing specific niche models for 100 year old industries that have mountains of data and warehouses full of folders will be the european take on AI.

It may come late but it‘ll be safe and reliable. It also requires a lot of OCR.

Exactly. As a german i can say we don‘t care about your salary, we only really care about your language and culture. If you move to a foreign country, learn their language, it‘s literally the only way to integrate into a culture. Germans frown upon rich, tax-paying immigrants that don‘t try to learn german way more than they frown upon B1 speaking ones that don‘t have a job. It‘s about culture, not money. It‘s not the US lol