[Talk-GB] LiDAR in the UK

[Gruff Owen]

A quick note that NRW are currently processing the results of an all-Wales
lidar survey on behalf of Welsh Government.

The data will apparently be made freely available to the public by WG,
presumably under OGL?

Source:
https://naturalresources.wales/about-us/news-and-events/news/nrw-flies-high-to-capture-3d-wales/?lang=en

Cheers,

Gruff



On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 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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