Topic
drones
- Weekend Reading: Options Over Roadmaps, Ghost, and Spaced Repetition
🛣 Options, Not Roadmaps An option is something you can do but don’t have to do. All our product ideas are exactly that: options we may exercise in some future cycle—or never. Without a roadmap, without a stated plan,…
- Contours in OpenDroneMap
One of my favorite open source projects ongoing right now is OpenDroneMap. I haven't gotten to use it much recently, but followed development over the last couple years. Outside of some loose testing a while ago, I ha…
- Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity
🗺 How We Get Data Collected in the Field Ready for Use My colleagues Bill Dollins and Todd Pollard (the core of our data team), wrote this post detailing how we go from original ground-based data collection in Fulcru…
- OpenDroneMap
Since I got the Mavic last year, I haven’t had many opportunities to do mapping with it. I’ve put together a few experimental flights to play with DroneDeploy and our Fulcrum extension, but outside of that I’ve mostly…
- Weekly Links: Ambient Computers, Drones, and Focus
💻 The Disappearing Computer For his final weekly column of his long career, Walt Mossberg talks about what he calls "ambient computing", the penetration of IoT, AR, VR, and computers throughout our lives: I expect th…
- Aerial imagery with the Mavic
At work we've been building an integration between Fulcrum and DroneDeploy, a service for automating drone flight and data capture for aerial imagery. It's compatible with the Mavic, so I gave it a shot with some test…
- Weekly Links: OSM on AWS, Fulcrum Editor, & Real-time Drone Maps
Querying OpenStreetMap with Amazon Athena 🗺 Using Amazon’s Athena service, you can now interactively query OpenStreetMap data right from an interactive console. No need to use the complicated OSM API, this is pure SQ…
- Mavic Pro First Impressions
I bought a Mavic Pro a couple weeks ago and just got a chance to take my first flights this past weekend. In short, it's the most impressive technology product I've used in years. I've never owned any drone, so this i…
- New York City Flyover
Someone attached HD video cameras to an RC airplane and flew it all around the urban environments of New York City. The shots flying down the towers of the Verrazano Bridge and around the head of the Statue of Liberty…