This is *really* fun. Thanks for pointing it out, Richard!
I've put up a quick-and-dirty blog post on how to render these at http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2015/taking-pictures-with-flying-governmen... - it's fairly easy, though a little fiddly.
(I don't have much previous experience with QGIS so may have skipped a step that makes it all simpler - please do correct me if so...)
Demo images are all on Commons.
Andrew.
On 1 October 2015 at 15:44, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I've just knocked up the one at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heightmap_of_Trencrom_Hill.png. I haven't added it to any articles but it's there to use if you want!
It's not much work, but the issue is that the heightmaps tend to not cover Wales or Scotland, and they tend to cover flood zones, rather than hills. This makes tracking down high-resolution data of castles/hills (which tend to be high up) rather difficult. Most of England is covered with 1 metre resolution though, with 25cm being the best.
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On 22 September 2015 at 11:20, Richard Nevell richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I think it should be downloadable as jpegs as well as the underlying data files. This gives you a visualisation of the landscape, with or without trees if you want. Very useful for landscapes, and excellent for archaeological sites which only survive as earthworks.
On 22 September 2015 at 11:11, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Forwarding to this list, perhaps someone has some ideas for how we can make use of the newly released LIDAR data!
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Waters chippy2005@gmail.com Date: 22 September 2015 at 10:34 Subject: [Talk-GB] Environment Agency LIDAR datasets OGL licensed now available To: OSM - Talk GB talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Hello,
back in June we had a thread announcing that this LIDAR data was due to be released. Well some of it has.
https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-open...
http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey#/
I think it's just for England, and appears to be 1m and 2m composite DTM and 1m and 2m DSM They do intend to release a Tiled version next, and I think 50cm and 25cm are coming also
What can we do with it?
Cheers,
Tim
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