A brilliant individual has developed software that lets you make Minecraft towns from open data. “‘To create the model I had to painstakingly measure everything from maps and aerial photography and do my best to guess the height of the…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: LIDAR
Software to Build Minecraft Towns From Open Data
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Innovation, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Christopher Gutteridge, LIDAR, minecraft, open data, OpenStreetMap, ResearchBuzz Firehose
5 days, 3 projects – An amazing week in local Open Data
It’s been an incredible week for open data projects in Bath and North East Somerset. Three amazing pieces of work shipped and we are so excited that we’ve just had to tell everyone about it. In no particular order, this…
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Defra’s opening up its data
This image was taken using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology, by shooting a laser beam down to the ground from an aircraft. LIDAR is useful for all sorts of applications, and the Environment Agency (an arms-length body under the…
Norway Minecraft Project Paves the Way to Open Data in the Cloud
What started out as a fun project in support of kids at an annual Hackathon event quickly turned into a real-world test bed for an upcoming cloud-based open data portal rollout – and changed the way they work. As an…
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Environment Agency makes LiDAR data open
The Environment Agency is placing two sets of LiDAR data – an aerial map created by laser scans – into the open data realm as part of a move to encourage more third parties into flood risk modelling. It plans…
Free mapping data will elevate flood risk knowledge
For the past 17 years we have been capturing LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) data in England. LIDAR uses a laser to scan and map the landscape from above and is widely considered to be the best method for collecting…