Just to add to the possible options:<div><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3057582/fast-feed/this-drone-can-map-the-world-in-3d"><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3057582/fast-feed/this-drone-can-map-the-world-in-3d" target="_blank">http://www.fastcompany.com/3057582/fast-feed/this-drone-can-map-the-world-in-3d</a></a><br></div><div><br>Regards</div><div>Todd<br><br><p style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 0; margin-top: 0">On Monday, February 29, 2016, 15:44, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Mark,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>The Lidar data we took a look at for OpenStreetMap was the Environment Agency data - we didn't collect anything ourselves. For OSM you'd need 50cm resolution or better plus lots of people dedicated to then converting that in to map data.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>You may want to look at "StreetView" type images for interesting sites. Have a look at <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.mapillary.com/"><a href="http://www.mapillary.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mapillary.com/</a></a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Best,<br clear="all"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);"><b>Rob</b></span><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div>
<br clear="none"><div class="yQTDBase yqt0423208793" id="yqt57685"><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2016 at 10:02, Andy Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ajrlists@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">ajrlists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">>From my experience, albeit from a few years ago now, the acquisition isn’t perhaps the main challenge, it’s the processing of the huge amount of cloud point data that lidar produces that makes the process complicated.<br clear="none">
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i seen people posting about lidar data being intergrated with open street maps. Has anyone got the ear of the people doing the lidar scanning because it would useful/interested to scan redditch if there are over this way it would make sense.<br clear="none">
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We have a number of interesting sites - the most interesting is <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordesley_Abbey"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordesley_Abbey" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordesley_Abbey</a></a><br clear="none">
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Not sure if they had anything like lidar done but they sent up a drone the other day.<br clear="none">
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how hard is it too attached lidar to such a drone? maybe a raspberry pi project?<br clear="none">
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