Has anyone here used balloon mapping or these tools (or similar ones) who
can share experience, pitfalls, etc.?
Public Labs is terrific. I think it shares a similar spirit to OSM in
trying to demystify mapping, to put cartographic tools into the hands of
ordinary people.
Last year I tagged
I do work with Public Lab and have a fair amount of experience with the
balloon mapping tools. I've not used PL tools to bring imagery into OSM,
but my colleague at PL, Liz Barry, gave a talk on the topic at SOTM-US this
year:
As others have said, balloon mapping is wonderful, it's great, it's
awesome, it's everything cool, but the field of vision one gets from a
kite or balloon is quite narrow.
Planes or satellites are much higher up and so can capture much larger
areas, while drones can (baring any legal
Hi,
On 28 October 2013 02:35, Ian McEwen ianmcorvi...@ianmcorvidae.net wrote:
Hi; I've been recently looking around http://publiclab.org/, especially
at their tools for doing ground-tethered balloon and kite mapping
(http://publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping). The bulk of the prose on
the
On the subject of RC and drones: I have been working on building myself a
multirotor RC platform this year. One of the ideas behind it (besides just
being fun) was to be able to go to some new construction, send it up, grab
pictures and then map from them. So far I'm still stuck on the flying it
Ian McEwen ianmcorvi...@ianmcorvidae.net wrote:
Hi; I've been recently looking around http://publiclab.org/,
especially
at their tools for doing ground-tethered balloon and kite mapping
(http://publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping). The bulk of the prose on
the site seems to be
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