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Because it’s fun and not everything has to exist for a reason other than that maybe? I built something in the same vein, and the way is because it’s neat. It serves no real purpose.

Yes, that’s exactly what it is. On the other side of it though, so what, we get to look inside stuff with a cool scan. They’ve been doing these posts for several years now, and they’re all interesting.

As an experienced developer, that’s also how I use it. What I’m finding is that it generally rabbit holes as I give it new errors that it’s previous fix has produced.

However, usually after three or four of those kind of fixes, I can walk it back to the starting point before the initial error, and I now know how to prompt it to produce correct code, because I now have a better mental model of how the thing is supposed to work.

This has been super helpful in my process of learning new things, as well as relearning things I haven’t worked with in a while.

Having recently driven through downtown Toronto at rush hour for an in person office visit, I could see how an hour would be easy to rack up, because I’ve done it. One day at the end of the workday, it took me 20 minutes to get from my parking garage, around a single city block, and to the highway on ramp. Never again.

> All French citizens are required to have health insurance, and there are three main health insurance funds. The funds are non-profit and negotiate with the state on healthcare funding.

> Does Germany have free public healthcare? Yes, all Germans and legal residents of Germany are entitled to free “medically necessary” public healthcare, which is funded by social security contributions. However, citizens must still have either state or private health insurance, covering at least hospital and outpatient medical treatment and pregnancy.

Depends on criticality. Yes, the US beats Canada for example on wait time in a lot of cases, however, as a Canadian I can walk into a ER and not have a co-pay.

I had my appendix out a few years ago, I walked into the ER at 2PM, had the surgery done by midnight, and was able to be discharged by 9AM the next day. The only cost was my parking, because I drove myself over. Meanwhile, I've also had friends in the US who were clearly quite ill, and made the conscious decision to not go to the ER because it would have cost them hundreds of dollars.

It's all a balance, but I'm happier with my single pay system, because for the most part, health decisions aren't at the whim of my bank balance being too low. I personally wouldn't be as disappointed in the US system, if the reason someone can get a surgery immediately didn't balance out with something like UnitedHealthcare's 32% rejection rate, because someone wanted a $10MM / yr salary or a $40MM yacht.

The “easy” solution is to try and remove profit as much as possible from the equation. Pretty much every other high GDP country in the world has single payer healthcare.

Guess how many people get told their anaesthesia won’t be covered for their full surgery. That shouldn’t even be a question, and yet the US system makes it one.

I spent $27k to try and run an event, which was an interesting experience. I hope y'all can learn something from this, and maybe have better odds of succeeding where I failed!

Just like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820616

> did you mean off from the title, or the surveyor's work

The data from GeoNB was way off from what the surveyor properly located.

> wondering if that event you were planning for was music related

There may be a band, but I just happened to have an old mic stand handy for that temporary test :D

And on top of the fact that a lot of boundaries outside the city have been low resolution for a long time (land grants may have been from like.. 1902 for some farmer with 400 acres, and then just parceled over time with no further survey). The fact that I shifted everyone 140' by pinning my one line shows how it can be, and I'd bet there are areas that are worse because they're less developed / further out / nobody cared to ask).

I had thought about PPK, but I like the reassurance of knowing I got a clean point on site, especially given tree cover. I also considered drone work, and I'll likely put hands on a drone or someone who has one in future, but not for LIDAR, just mapping in general.

Since my goal isn't just getting terrain, but also mapping features in detail (I'm doing site planning for an event as well), I may as well skip the drone LIDAR because I'm going to be walking the ground anyway and I can do better than it can, was my conclusion.

I had not come across the DSM term yet, thank you! I'll have to pull that thread once the snow makes this work completely impossible for the season :D

Thanks for the feedback! I'd be glad to hear anything I missed on, or ideas for improvement, since this kind of thing is very much a seat of the pants learning experience :D

I had not tried pulling the LIDAR, but yes, especially where the deadfall is 3-8 feet thick in the logged areas, I can already see spots where their generated topo doesn’t match my work.

I had a conversation based on the GeoNB borders, and we had basically come to the conclusion that neither of us were going to be nasty about things. He was still annoyed to find out the realtor told him wrong, and he wasn’t in the middle of his property like he wanted.

With the official survey, his camper pad became officially on his land, instead of maybe on mine, so we’re both happy about not dealing with that.

For me, the tangible benefit is in actually knowing where my land is. I have some things I want to do on it, and I'd rather find out before starting, rather than in the middle of building.

The authoritative thing is the boundary descriptions for your purchase (See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829732 for what that looks like)

Correct. There is a VRS service in the area, but for me A) they didn't make it easy to purchase service and B) they didn't have a station close enough for my preference. Also worth a mention, in Europe, there's the Centipede network, which appears to be an open effort to provide RTK access.

My apologies to anyone having trouble accessing my site. My little VPS is getting smoked, because it's a completely untuned install of Wordpress on a very small server :)

You'd have to have a GPS capable of taking the correction data, which a lot of units can't. I'd be interested if the iPhone could, since it has L1+L5 capacity, but I'd bet not, and iOS doesn't expose their location data very well anyway (a lot of mapping seems more flexible on Android for this reason).

There's a lot of ground clutter for starters. A lot of what I've surveyed so far has been ground under dense deadfall (due to previous logging), and my resolution is better than the LIDAR, for those spots.

Also, the accuracy, I expect that since I can get precise measurements, my maps of the streams, marshy areas, and other features are going to be a lot more comprehensive. Basically, I can get detail down to the level I want, just for the time I want to spend putting stick to ground.

I've added a TIN mesh illustration to the bottom of my post, to illustrate this point as well.

Fun fact, we actually use the NAD83 coordinate reference system (CRS) in North America. This is a plate fixed CRS, that kind of mostly can map to WGS84, but will be different in places due to continental drift and other factors.

Here's my actual parcel description:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being on the southeastern side of the XXX Road, in AREA NAME, in the Parish of PARISH, in the County of COUNTY and Province of New Brunswick bounded and more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the southeastern boundary of a Crown Reserved Road known as the XXX Road; said point of beginning being located at a distance of ONE DISTANCE NUMBER (###) metres measured southwesterly along the southeastern boundary of the XXX Road from its intersection with the southwestern boundary of the OTHER PROPERTY OWNER NAME property by document number ##### registered in the COUNTY County Registry Office in book ### at page ###; said boundary being the southwestern grant line of Lot # originally granted by the Crown to PERSON NAME.

Thence in a southwesterly direction following the southeastern boundary of the XXX Road a distance of ONE DISTANCE NUMBER (###) metres to a point at a corner at the intersection of the northeastern boundary of the PROPERTY OWNER NAME property by transfer number ###### registered in Land Titles for the District of New Brunswick on DATE.

Thence in a southeasterly direction parallel to the southwestern grant line of Lot #, the OTHER PROPERTY OWNER NAME property following the northeastern boundary of the PROPERTY OWNER NAME property a distance of THREE DISTANCE NUMBER (###) metres to a point at a corner.

Thence in a northeasterly direction on a line parallel to the southeastern boundary of the XXX Road a distance of ONE DISTANCE NUMBER (###) metres to a point at a corner.

Thence in a northwesterly direction parallel to the southwestern grant line of Lot X, the OTHER PROPERTY OWNER NAME property a distance of THREE DISTANCE NUMBER (###) metres to the point of beginning.

The so-described parcel of land contains an area of SOME (###) hectares more or less and is located in Lot # originally granted by the Crown to AN ORIGINAL OWNER.

BEING the same lands and premises (PARCEL NAME) conveyed to LTD CORP by Transfer duly registered at the Provincial Land Registration Office in the District of New Brunswick on DATE, as number #######.

Yup! And the TIN Mesh Creation in QGIS was the first way I played with to model the terrain too, though I was less happy with how it looked. It's useful for me to see where the data is too sparse, but not a great view of the land itself.

You're correct, my data is still too sparse in some areas to give a good set of contours. It's been fun to see how the contours change as I add more data to the survey. It's part of the reason I decided to buy my own gear, because then I can spend as much time collecting data as I want without more cost.

Yea, I just got notifications my little VPS fell over, I've rebooted it :D

But the energy used to generate and transport the fruit isn't necessarily renewable.

Y'all always forget Canada exists :) I worked with a US company in Houston for 11 years, and we had other people located outside the US on the dev teams as well. Cultural match is more important than strict geo imho.

I’m a devops engineer, and I get my fill of tinkering at work. I use unraid because it’s just simple enough to fire all my slightly older smaller drives, and boot it up, and it works. It’s exactly the level of complexity I want when I just want to watch a movie.

As a photographer myself, how do you think street photography happens? Sometimes the mundane stuff is unstaged, and when I was shooting it, you end up throwing a lot of stuff away anyway. In North America, you have no right to privacy in a public space. I understand why people are antsy about being photographed / recorded in public, but they direct that anger at the person doing it instead of the laws that allow it.

Besides, the person you see and who is generally being intentionally visible isn't usually the one you have to worry about.

SidifySpotifyMusic. Good enough that I pay for a license.