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> It's very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren't allowed on! Not as hard as it used to be: https://houseprices.io/lidar/SU1025069970 https://house

by hanoz 6y ago

> It's very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren't allowed on! Not as hard as it used to be: https://houseprices.io/lidar/SU1025069970 https://houseprices.io/lidar/SU1025069970

adambcn 6y ago
Is that Avebury?
- Mikushi 6y ago
  Correct, you can see Silbury hill as well as a few of the barrows in the area.
- mikhailfranco 6y ago
  Yes, here is Stonehenge: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU11914213 https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU11914213 Glastonbury Tor 3D: https://houseprices.io/lidar/ST5125038630/3d https://houseprices.io/lidar/ST5125038630/3d Maiden Castle: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SY669884 https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SY669884
  - mikhailfranco 6y ago
    And Wittenham Clumps: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU567924 https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU567924 in the news for discovery of Iron Age settlement: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/14/astonishing-dig-reveals-domestic-life-in-the-iron-age https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/14/astonishing-...
  - mikhailfranco 6y ago
    I have now added these images to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor#Terraces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor#Terraces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury#Location_and_environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury#Location_and_environme... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps#Location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps#Location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset#First_hill_fort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset#First_hi... I think the inclusion for Glastonbury Tor is particularly useful, because the LIDAR perfectly shows the terraces that were already discussed in that section of the article. In the past, I have scanned many hand-drawn (engraving) pictures in Victorian tomes of County Histories in my local library, to get topographies of hillfort sites for Wikipedia (mainly in the SW of England). I will now start to add these LIDAR images. Better to scan the ground itself than to scan a print of an engraving of a hand-drawn picture by some tweed-jacketed Victorian archaeology dude. If hanoz has any issues with the copyright attributions and CC BY 4.0 license on wikicommons, I would be glad to correct any mistakes, or add more praise for the glorious hanoz :)
detritus 6y ago
I know this is a totally non HN-worthy response, but - That is a fucking amazing resource, thank you! I've already found two places of interest to check out next time I go North to my old stomping grounds in the countryside. Sometimes the future isn't such a terrible place.
- hanoz 6y ago
  I'm very pleased you like it! (tis a side project of mine). Did you try the 3D button? That's quite fun.
  - detritus 6y ago
    Oh! Well done! Yes, I did try it, as too the three other people I've since shared it with. I like the point map version too - I've a grab of a 'minecarft-looking version' of my home village - wonderful!
  - detritus 6y ago
    A friend is asking: "When will it be finished?" By which he means, "When will it be populated with more data?" I presume he's asking as his particular place of interest won't let him view 3d or pointmap views. Thanks! x - ed - reading this back, this sounds rude - sorry, just caught up in the excitement.
    - hanoz 6y ago
      The Environment Agency are currently running a programme aiming for full coverage (of England) completing this year. Once that is ready I'll have to regenerate all my map tiles and hopefully have all the remaining gaps filled in then. Natural Resources Wales is aiming for similar by Winter 2022 apparently.
  - wizzwizz4 6y ago
    I can see the lines left by ploughs in fields! Where did you get the data? (Or is there a write-up I've missed the link to?)
eridan2 6y ago
There is any similar site for France or other European countries?
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  I don't know about this data specifically, but the best thing you can do is lobby for better open data laws. The UK, to be fair, passed laws like this maybe 20 years ago, and as a result there's an amazing amount of free data available for England and Wales (Scotland is normally different). There's an EU directive supposed to solve this, but it's a slow, slow process.
Loughla 6y ago
Holy shit that's amazing. Is there a thing like this for the US?
ComputerGuru 6y ago
Can someone explain the association between the (scammy) domain name and the really cool tool? What’s the story behind it? What am I looking at? That’s not their data, is it?
- pram 6y ago
  There is literally an explanation on the website: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar
- hanoz 6y ago
  The parent site is also mine. Believe it or not some people have occasionally said that's cool too, despite the scammy domain name! (It's not that bad is it!?) The lidar map is kind of a side project within a side project. It's the first and so far only experiment within the 'Lab' section of the parent site (https://houseprices.io/lab https://houseprices.io/lab) where I had intended to try all manner of stuff with mapping and open data etc. It didn't exactly grow to be another Google Labs in the end. It did last longer though.
  - ComputerGuru 6y ago
    Thanks. Really cool site, great work!
  - mrec 6y ago
    The parent site is definitely cool. I'm currently in the position of looking for somewhere cheap to move to and not really having much in the way of geographical constraints, and other UK sites like Rightmove are decidedly unhelpful there - they really want you to commit to an area first. Being able to just pootle around at random zooming hither and yon is nice.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  One of the best collection of images of the Chernobyl disaster is hidden away on some marketing companies website. I've lost the link but it just comes up with a list of files as opposed to a bunch of web stuff. I assume it's some IT guys thing.

by hanoz 6y ago

> It's very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren't allowed on! Not as hard as it used to be: https://houseprices.io/lidar/SU1025069970 https://houseprices.io/lidar/SU1025069970

adambcn 6y ago

Is that Avebury?

Mikushi 6y ago
Correct, you can see Silbury hill as well as a few of the barrows in the area.
mikhailfranco 6y ago
Yes, here is Stonehenge: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU11914213 https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU11914213 Glastonbury Tor 3D: https://houseprices.io/lidar/ST5125038630/3d https://houseprices.io/lidar/ST5125038630/3d Maiden Castle: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SY669884 https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SY669884
- mikhailfranco 6y ago
  And Wittenham Clumps: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU567924 https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU567924 in the news for discovery of Iron Age settlement: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/14/astonishing-dig-reveals-domestic-life-in-the-iron-age https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/14/astonishing-...
- mikhailfranco 6y ago
  I have now added these images to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor#Terraces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor#Terraces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury#Location_and_environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury#Location_and_environme... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps#Location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps#Location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset#First_hill_fort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset#First_hi... I think the inclusion for Glastonbury Tor is particularly useful, because the LIDAR perfectly shows the terraces that were already discussed in that section of the article. In the past, I have scanned many hand-drawn (engraving) pictures in Victorian tomes of County Histories in my local library, to get topographies of hillfort sites for Wikipedia (mainly in the SW of England). I will now start to add these LIDAR images. Better to scan the ground itself than to scan a print of an engraving of a hand-drawn picture by some tweed-jacketed Victorian archaeology dude. If hanoz has any issues with the copyright attributions and CC BY 4.0 license on wikicommons, I would be glad to correct any mistakes, or add more praise for the glorious hanoz :)

detritus 6y ago

I know this is a totally non HN-worthy response, but - That is a fucking amazing resource, thank you! I've already found two places of interest to check out next time I go North to my old stomping grounds in the countryside. Sometimes the future isn't such a terrible place.

hanoz 6y ago
I'm very pleased you like it! (tis a side project of mine). Did you try the 3D button? That's quite fun.
- detritus 6y ago
  Oh! Well done! Yes, I did try it, as too the three other people I've since shared it with. I like the point map version too - I've a grab of a 'minecarft-looking version' of my home village - wonderful!
- detritus 6y ago
  A friend is asking: "When will it be finished?" By which he means, "When will it be populated with more data?" I presume he's asking as his particular place of interest won't let him view 3d or pointmap views. Thanks! x - ed - reading this back, this sounds rude - sorry, just caught up in the excitement.
  - hanoz 6y ago
    The Environment Agency are currently running a programme aiming for full coverage (of England) completing this year. Once that is ready I'll have to regenerate all my map tiles and hopefully have all the remaining gaps filled in then. Natural Resources Wales is aiming for similar by Winter 2022 apparently.
- wizzwizz4 6y ago
  I can see the lines left by ploughs in fields! Where did you get the data? (Or is there a write-up I've missed the link to?)

eridan2 6y ago

There is any similar site for France or other European countries?

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
I don't know about this data specifically, but the best thing you can do is lobby for better open data laws. The UK, to be fair, passed laws like this maybe 20 years ago, and as a result there's an amazing amount of free data available for England and Wales (Scotland is normally different). There's an EU directive supposed to solve this, but it's a slow, slow process.

Loughla 6y ago

Holy shit that's amazing. Is there a thing like this for the US?

ComputerGuru 6y ago

Can someone explain the association between the (scammy) domain name and the really cool tool? What’s the story behind it? What am I looking at? That’s not their data, is it?

pram 6y ago
There is literally an explanation on the website: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar
hanoz 6y ago
The parent site is also mine. Believe it or not some people have occasionally said that's cool too, despite the scammy domain name! (It's not that bad is it!?) The lidar map is kind of a side project within a side project. It's the first and so far only experiment within the 'Lab' section of the parent site (https://houseprices.io/lab https://houseprices.io/lab) where I had intended to try all manner of stuff with mapping and open data etc. It didn't exactly grow to be another Google Labs in the end. It did last longer though.
- ComputerGuru 6y ago
  Thanks. Really cool site, great work!
- mrec 6y ago
  The parent site is definitely cool. I'm currently in the position of looking for somewhere cheap to move to and not really having much in the way of geographical constraints, and other UK sites like Rightmove are decidedly unhelpful there - they really want you to commit to an area first. Being able to just pootle around at random zooming hither and yon is nice.
mhh__ 6y ago
One of the best collection of images of the Chernobyl disaster is hidden away on some marketing companies website. I've lost the link but it just comes up with a list of files as opposed to a bunch of web stuff. I assume it's some IT guys thing.