Dave on Nostr: Land Information NZ hosted a couple of webinars this week and showed us the new ...
Land Information NZ hosted a couple of webinars this week and showed us the new functionality in their basemap service at
https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz. Thanks to much of the country now having LIDAR data (and a bit of fudging in the gaps with 20 metre contours) they've now got a smart new 3D terrain map.
The problem is, sometimes the LIDAR has been processed to show the underlying ground level, not the above-ground structures...
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