<div dir="ltr"><div>I think better "Great Britain", don't think NI EA likely to release anything with a suitable open licence.</div><div><br></div><div>WMTS services are quite useful, but it seems one cannot use the underlying pixel values to derive other data (<a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/339074/read-pixel-values-from-wmts-rasterlayer-in-pyqgis">for instance</a> in QGIS).which is needed for things like building heights. At present I have to download the rasters & process them: an example of a furniture factory in Merthyr Tydfil <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Furntiture_factory_nrw_lidar.png">here </a>on which I'll do a diary entry shortly.</div><div><br></div><div>For an idea of what could be possible have a look at the EA's <a href="https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/ecae3bef-1e1d-4051-887b-9dc613c928ec">Vegetation Object Model</a> (allegedly Open Data, but Master Map was a significant input, so not sure).</div><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, I looked at NRW Lidar in Snowdonia. It mainly covers valleys, so I don't know how useful it will be for outlying climbing cliffs.</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 20:30, Tom Crocker <<a href="mailto:tomcrockermail@gmail.com">tomcrockermail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div>Following Keith's email I was checking whether LiDAR tiles are served up for Wales (they are:
<a href="http://lle.gov.wales/services/tiles/lidar/wmts" target="_blank">http://lle.gov.wales/services/tiles/lidar/wmts</a>) and was going to add this to the wiki. At the moment there's a page <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/English_Environment_Agency_LIDAR" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/English_Environment_Agency_LIDAR</a> *<br></div><div>to which I've previously added Scottish LiDAR datasets. Shall I rename this as "LiDAR sources for the United Kingdom"? That way we could also add smaller local LiDAR if they are available under a suitable license. Or is there a preference for separate pages?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Tom<br></div><div><br></div><div>
* this was renamed in 2015 from UK EA LiDAR because the EA is England only and all the data was England only at the time.
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