[Talk-us-massachusetts] Talk-us-massachusetts Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1

[Peter Cooper Jr.]

On 6/1/2023 9:57 AM, Joseph Holmes wrote:
> This is exciting. However, I am disappointed that it took 27 months 
> after the flight for the data to be posted. I live now in Western Mass, 
> in an area recently developed. The 2015 data for here will not be useful 
> for my mapping. 

Definitely a shame that they didn't have the funding or whatever to do 
new LiDAR for the whole state. I'm honestly surprised that it's as far 
out west as I live, usually people in Boston think of anything outside 
of 128 (or at least outside of 495) as "Western Mass."

> Arial photos are also out of date. So it looks like GPS 
> tracks are all I will have for the next 10 year.

The current 2021 photos are of the whole state, and the 2023 photos they 
took a couple months ago should be available early next year, according 
to their newsletter.
<https://mailchi.mp/fec799bd9ccb/may-massgis-gisette-newsletter-6272334#Article2>

Very easy to take the imagery we get here for granted; a lot of the 
country (and the rest of the world) doesn't have it nearly as good as 
getting every-other-year 15-cm imagery. I always want more too, myself, 
though.

-- 
Peter