Oh wow I just saw your email, Jay.

Firstly, let me say thank you very much for the count. It must have been
quite a task - I'm pretty dyslexic and find such things very difficult.
Thank you.

Secondly WAAAAAHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Magnificent, magnificent, magnificent

Well done everybody

V>


On Fri, 13 May 2016, 18:03 Jay Batson, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did a manual count. (Yeah, it took about 3 hours).
>
> I counted 2,192 yurts. I'm sure this isn't a perfect count, but it's
> probably correct within 2-4%.
>
> I was conservative in counting structures. Unless I was *convinced*
> something was a yurt, I didn't count it. I could confidently recognize
> H-12's and 6" stretch yurts, as well as larger multi-unit structures, so
> limited myself to those.
>
> There were several obvious things that might have caused an under-count.
>
>    - Some structures under tarps. There were a number of yurts that were
>    clearly yurts, but covered with canvas or something. If I was *super*
>    confident it was a covered yurt, I counted it. But if not, I did NOT count
>    it. There were many blobs that *could* have been a covered yurt, but it was
>    not absolutely clear, so I didn't count these.
>    - Some areas of the Gigapixel weren't clear. At the edges of some of
>    the photos, the stitching didn't do a good job, or the way the camera image
>    itself was blurry, and I omitted any structures in those areas I wasn't
>    absolutely clear about.
>
> There were a decent number of shiny, but small and more irregular
> structures; these were likely Gigapods. They are a smaller diameter than an
> H12, not rectangular (like the 6' stretches), and didn't reflect light as
> clearly, making them easy to recognize once you get an eye for it. So t
> think I was fairly accurate in excluding Gigapods.
>
> If you want to see the grid-by-grid count, my count spreadsheet is here
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18NQPabbFOZmQIgmlnZZSacotHSKX0qVN1Oe8zlXkvvE/edit?usp=sharing>.
> If you look at your block and think I'm off, feel free to let me know in
> this thread; I'll listen to your case,and change if appropriate.
>
> Enjoy.
> -jb
>
> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 7:40:28 AM UTC-5, Vinay Gupta wrote:
>
>>
>> https://twitter.com/leashless/status/683398559539064833
>>
>> They just released the high res ground imagery
>>
>> wow!
>>
>> Does anybody have software which could do a count?
>>
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