[Talk-GB] LiDAR in the UK

[Jez Nicholson]

Maybe NI won't publish, but if you named the page to "LIDAR in the United
Kingdom" and included an NI section it would be consistent with other wiki
pages.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, 09:48 SK53, <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think better "Great Britain", don't think NI EA likely to release
> anything with a suitable open licence.
>
> WMTS services are quite useful, but it seems one cannot use the underlying
> pixel values to derive other data (for instance
> <https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/339074/read-pixel-values-from-wmts-rasterlayer-in-pyqgis>
> 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 here
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Furntiture_factory_nrw_lidar.png>on
> which I'll do a diary entry shortly.
>
> For an idea of what could be possible have a look at the EA's Vegetation
> Object Model
> <https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/ecae3bef-1e1d-4051-887b-9dc613c928ec>
> (allegedly Open Data, but Master Map was a significant input, so not sure).
>
> 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.
>
> Jerry
>
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 20:30, Tom Crocker <tomcrockermail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Following Keith's email I was checking whether LiDAR tiles are served up
>> for Wales (they are: http://lle.gov.wales/services/tiles/lidar/wmts) and
>> was going to add this to the wiki. At the moment there's a page
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/English_Environment_Agency_LIDAR *
>> 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?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> * 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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