civic-hacking
civic-hacking


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warren "Indeed there's something about the images themselves. I hate to ask, but could you try to convert them to jpg and re-upload them? I'm very sorry bu..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "I can't tell if there's something it's choking on in your images (maybe 'cause they were screenshots from VLC?) or it's having trouble downloading ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Hmm, i'm not sure what's going on with that mapknitter export. Looking into it... thanks! " | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "Great report. The mini bottle and 3D printed Picavet will go in the Public Lab record books. And what a fantastic place to fly. Is that public land..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "We generally prefer the manual "yo-yo" reels because of their durability. Those little winders you're using definitely break at high loads. I hav..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to come off as "the drone guy" (and every DIY tech forum seems to have one these days...) I think my intended p..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "@erget awesome! can you join the plots-dev list and we can coordinate on there? A while group of Google Summer of Code students are joining our Dev..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Nice thinking Chris. @code4maine I don't mean to discourage you from acquiring a quad, I just really like kites, and think of coastal areas (even ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "cfastie- That seems like the best approach yet. I'm going to forward your suggestion to the teacher in charge of field collections though we might ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "If you have Garmin GPS units, there might be a better way for students to georeference photos. If the Garmin units save track logs, with a waypoint..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
erget "@code4maine - I haven't submitted a research note, unfortunately. What you describe, however, is pretty similar to what I'm planning. I have to say..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "You're right that if you put together a kit there are some quads around $500 that are fairly capable, but there is some significant setup involved ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "$300 would admittedly be a challenge, but a $500 quad with decent lift and up to an hour of flight time is not only possible, I've seen it done a n..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "@code4maine a $300-400 quad will hardly fly long enough to map much (10 minutes), and is likely to get blown going to get blown away in the wind. ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "@erget-- are you using entirely matched stereo pairs, or are you moving to do a SFM-style unmatched parallax extraction? We have a big team worki..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "@code4maine-- certainly, doing bluetooth coupling with a home-built Gps unit and the rest sounds like a bit of a pain in the field. I'd just take..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "That sounds like a very interesting project! Have you submitted a research note for it? I for one would definitely be interested in exploring DIY ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
erget "If you're wanting to use a multicoper for mapping, I'm working on automating many parts of that workflow for my dissertation. By the end of the sum..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "That sure would be amazing if all we had to do was take a picture with the iPads the students are using to get coordinates! But my guess is we wou..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "One of the other features we're adding to mapknitter is that it will recognize the geo coordinates stored in images' EXIF data, and the ability to ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "Wow! That sounds great! I'll try to add some more information to the wiki to give people a better idea of the general project parameters and what..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Hi, I see in the Wiki that you are planning to use Rhuus or a similar system to mark the sites. depending on the timeline of these activities, you..." | Read more » over 10 years ago