NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban development

Not sure why this is particularly exceptional. Very high resolution lidar has been commercially available for a while. And the EA in the UK has released approx 4 TB (compressed) under an open licence.

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Post by valuearb » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 12:39 AM UTC

What applications? Like most Techcrunch articles seems incomplete, more like a press release summary.

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Post by hanoz » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 1:12 AM UTC

7952 wrote: post #5

Not sure why this is particularly exceptional. Very high resolution lidar has been commercially available for a while. And the EA in the UK has released approx 4 TB (compressed) under an open licence.

To be fair, at 300 points per square meter it's a lot higher res than the highest EA 25cm resolution data, with its very patchy coverage. But the EA's 1m data covers about half the country so you're right, this featured NYU data is a long way off being the "largest public LiDAR data set ever collected", unless I'm missing something.

If anyone's interested, here's something I made with the Environment Agency (and Natural Resources Wales) data:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map

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Post by chronic6a5 » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 1:15 AM UTC

d33 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any privacy implications.

If you're concerned about privacy, you should not step outside. The drones are watching you and phones listening to you.

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Post by ant6n » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 2:18 AM UTC

I wonder whether there will be a sort of 3d model version of openstreetmap one day. Especially with drones, it would be relatively easy for individuals to start recording the world in 3d.

There are all sorts of cool parishes one could do with that (too bad Google didn't seem to have an API for their 3d map anymore).

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Post by gottlos » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 4:11 AM UTC

ant6n wrote: post #9

I wonder whether there will be a sort of 3d model version of openstreetmap one day. Especially with drones, it would be relatively easy for individuals to start recording the world in 3d. There are all sorts of cool parishes one could do with that (too bad Google didn't seem to have an API for their 3d map anymore).

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/F4_Map

take a look at the city of geelong, victoria, Australia - they collected lidar data and opened it up, so got imported.

Many users are doing the same. We are a long way from Google maps 3D coverage; but is all open data.

In Australia also have addresses datasets as open ("GNAF"), and many industries tie back to that to do variius levels of building information modeling (BIM).

Feels like in 10-20 years those movies where they pull up the blueprints to plan a heist will be a reality.