{"id":6931,"date":"2017-05-16T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2017-05-16T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:44:53","slug":"drone-2-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/drone-2-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone -2- Mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to create a high-precision 3D map of your own specific bit of the earth, for beautification in Vue or Terragen? There&#8217;s no need to hijack a passing NASA satellite &mdash; just launch your GPS-enabled drone, snap some HD photos and use <a href=\"http:\/\/gpsworld.com\/precisionhawk-launches-free-precisionmapper-software-for-drone-mapping\/\">PrecisionHawk<\/a>&#8216;s free software for drone mapping&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Using GPS information embedded within the drone images, the software automatically stitches together a complete map, viewable in both 2D and 3D. Free users of PrecisionMapper can create up to 60 surveys a year without resolution or export limits.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The precise types of 3D models that can be exported is left a little hazy by the publicity, but I presume they&#8217;re fairly standard types.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/mapper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/mapper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6932\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possibly it&#8217;s easier just to sculpt the terrain with reference to a good large-scale map with contour-lines, of course. Or wrestle with some public geo-data sets.  But if you happen to own a HD\/GPS drone then it could be a nice project to use it to make an accurate and crisply Vue-beautified &#8220;bird&#8217;s eye view&#8221; version of your valley, local nature reserve, cycle-way, etc.  Possibly even for VR fly-throughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to create a high-precision 3D map of your own specific bit of the earth, for beautification in Vue or Terragen? There&#8217;s no need to hijack a passing NASA satellite &mdash; just launch your GPS-enabled drone, snap some HD photos and use PrecisionHawk&#8216;s free software for drone mapping&#8230; &#8220;Using GPS information embedded within the drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies","category-spotted-in-the-news","category-vue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}