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? >> >> -- >> *Vinay Gupta * * [email protected] * *http://re.silience.com* >> <http://re.silience.com> >> > *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* >> UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt >> "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was >> in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
