Digital mapping tiles

[Wood-be]

Why don't you use a drone to take a photo. They go prity high and have a fairly wide camera lense. For a tree survey I took a photo of a clients 13 acre property and the drone was only half way up and I had to erase a lot of the neighbouring properties garden aswell.

 

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[openspaceman]

Why don't you use a drone to take a photo. They go prity high and have a fairly wide camera lense. For a tree survey I took a photo of a clients 13 acre property and the drone was only half way up and I had to erase a lot of the neighbouring properties garden aswell.

 

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For mapping you want a long focal length, with a wide angle the distance to the object just below is a lot less than the distance to the edges to there is a problem rectifying the image so that all points map to a grid. If you take the same area from 3 miles up there is not much difference in distance from the corners to the centre.

 

Still better than nothing though and mapmaker has a rubbermat routine that allows you to pull areas of the image to known points on the ground.

[tz1_1zt]

Ordenance Survey seem to have finally woken up to to mass distribution of their digital maps. Rather than having to buy from Memory Map or such like, you can take a £19.99 annual subscription for all of the UK. It all runs in a web browser, and the licence covers Desktop computer, mobile devices, smartphone etc. It allows printing of full page maps, route and waypoint plotting. Seems to be very good value.

 

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmaps/

[Wendelspanswick]

Cheers for that, I've downloaded the Android app and it looks good.

[DanSmallLGL]

For anything FC related (Felling Licence Application/Management Plan) you can request digital mapping data directly from the FC. Map Request (England)