#mobile mapping

[nv5geospatial]

Mobile Mapping Explained

Mobile mapping is a technique used to survey infrastructure through the use of vehicles rather than boots-on-the-ground efforts. 

These vehicles, including automobiles, drones, and boats, are equipped with various sensors, including LiDAR technology, cameras, and GPS receivers. The sensors rapidly collect detailed 3D data of the environment as the vehicle moves. 

The result is an accurate 3D model of the surroundings, which can be used for a wide variety of applications in transportation, urban planning, and infrastructure management.

It’s not only more accurate than on-the-ground surveys but it is safer and less disruptive.

How Mobile Mapping Works

The core technology behind mobile mapping is LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), which uses laser pulses to measure distances between the sensor and surrounding objects. 

The data collected creates a "point cloud," representing the scanned environment in 3D. 

Alongside LiDAR, high-resolution cameras capture imagery, which can be integrated with the LiDAR data to enhance its visualization. 

The vehicle also uses GPS and sensors called inertial measurement units to ensure data accuracy even while moving or encountering bumps in the road. 

The mobile mapping process typically follows these steps:

Data Collection: A vehicle equipped with LiDAR sensors, cameras, and GPS systems captures detailed data on roads, buildings, and other infrastructure as it moves along the planned route.

Data Processing: Specialized software processes the raw data, aligning and filtering it to create accurate and usable geospatial information. Algorithms integrate the different datasets, ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Analysis and Visualization: The data is analyzed using tools that can extract meaningful insights, such as identifying structural issues in roads or bridges. It is then visualized through interactive 3D models or maps for easier interpretation and decision-making​.

Applications in Transportation Projects

Mobile mapping is highly suited for various transportation infrastructure projects due to its accuracy and efficiency:

Roadway and Rail Network Mapping: This technique maps road surfaces, rail lines, and surrounding infrastructure, such as bridges and signage. The data generated supports road design, maintenance, and expansion projects.

Bridge and Tunnel Inspection: Mobile mapping is ideal for detecting structural issues, such as cracks and deformations, without disrupting traffic​, because it can capture data under bridges and tunnels.

Right-of-Way (ROW) Surveys: Detailed mapping of road corridors allows transportation agencies to manage their right-of-way assets efficiently, making it easier to plan for expansions or repairs​.

Accuracy of Mobile Mapping

Mobile mapping achieves impressive accuracy down to just centimeters.  

The accuracy depends on the quality of the sensors used, the speed of the data acquisition, and the environmental conditions. 

Compared to airborne LiDAR, mobile mapping typically provides higher-resolution data since the sensors are closer to the ground​.

Mobile Mapping vs. Traditional Surveying Methods

Mobile mapping offers several advantages over traditional surveying:

Speed: It collects data much faster than manual methods, which require surveyors to walk the project area, often over multiple days. With mobile mapping, large areas can be scanned in a fraction of the time, sometimes within hours.

Safety: By eliminating the need for surveyors to physically access dangerous or high-traffic areas, mobile mapping enhances safety for workers.

Data Detail: Mobile mapping captures significantly more data than manual surveys, providing a complete 3D model of the environment, rather than just individual points of interest​

Mobile mapping first started gaining popularity in the 1980s, and it is still growing — now projected to be a sector of the market worth $105 billion by 2029.

Using Mobile Mapping Data

Once collected, the data from mobile mapping can be used in numerous ways:

3D Modeling: Engineers use the detailed 3D models for designing transportation infrastructure, including roads, railways, and bridges.

Asset Management: Transportation departments use the data to manage and monitor infrastructure assets, from traffic signs to utilities.

Maintenance Planning: The collected data supports proactive maintenance by identifying issues such as pavement cracks, surface deformations, or vegetation encroachments, enabling timely repairs​.

In conclusion, mobile mapping is a highly effective and efficient tool for collecting geospatial data, particularly for transportation projects. 

Its ability to capture detailed, high-accuracy data quickly and safely makes it a superior choice over traditional surveying methods, especially in complex environments like roadways and rail networks. 

As technology continues to evolve, mobile mapping will become increasingly important in infrastructure development and maintenance.

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi Adventurer's Bible - Dungeon cross section

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[aturnoftheearth]

sam winchester WISHES he had my copiloting passenger skills

[mcytblrsource]

⏤ Welcome to mcytblrsource! A source blog dedicated on keeping track of current and past events, zines/art books, and more! regarding mcytblr and mcyt.

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[tales-of-snaktooth]

So, who are y'all exactly?

The main gals (and Ehsel)! A bit more information about them and a few other grumpuses that'll show up can be found on the blog's Characters page!

[xinyuehui]

[ENG] Love and Deepspace PC tutorial

When I wrote the original tutorial, I didn't notice the emulator was available in English too! It can be downloaded on their official website.

https://www.mumuplayer.com/en/games/simulation/love-and-deepspace-on-pc.html

Mumu is an officially licensed emulator for Love and Deepspace. What the emulator does essentially is to host the game on a computer. Other games can also run on this emulator, such as MLQC, Nikki series, Arknights, Genshin etc...

Availability: Windows, Mac

Recommended configuration: CPU 4-core + RAM 4G+ System i5+ Graphics Card GTX750Ti+

Game size: 20-30 GB

The instructions on the website appears to be quite clear, I am assuming it's more or less the same as the Chinese one. I suggest looking up if your computer supports VT first before downloading the emulator.

It should be fairly straight forward once VT is enabled in BIOS. If the instructions on the mumu website is unclear, find a tutorial on google/youtube for your PC type, try looking up "how to enable virtualization in bios".

Any questions feel free to drop me an ask with images ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ •́ ˵ ) ✧

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[jackie4dinner]

I go rabid for fanart/ fics that give Remus mobility aids. Grahhhh yes give him crutches!!!!! He would be so against using them but I don’t care!!! Sirius would make him, especially on particularly hard days.

[erinmccomics]

More very sketchy, very unreferenced Call of Duty, featuring: the drama of me playing sniper, and Soap whining about it.

I am always impressed by the snipers that manage to get me before I even find them, or change up tactics to get the advantage if I'm wiping them out.

(..... And I am frequently wiping them out)

[filmap]

Escape to Witch Mountain John Hough. 1975

UFO Penon Peak Trail, Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93923, USA See in map

See in imdb

[zponds]

What-If: American Railroads — Maps

I deeply apologize for not coming back to this alternate railroad history topic in over a year, I’ve had a lot of other things to do and i merely scratched the surface of this railroad history topic. and therefore, I’ve thought long and hard about this whole thing.

Aside from that apology, i thought to myself since I have Procreate, why not make maps of the 20 American railroads in my alternate history about said American railroads? And that’s what I did. Each map below shows the 20 railroads after they absorbed the smaller railroads as well as some of them expanding their networks in the 1980s wherever possible.

New York Central — this map shows the New York Central after the road to the future absorbed Boston & Maine, New Haven , Delaware & Hudson, Rutland Railroad, Bangor & Aroostook, Central Vermont And Maine Central railroads.

2. Pennsylvania Railroad — This map shows the size of the Pennsylvania Railroad after it absorbed Lehigh New England, Reading Lines/Railroad, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, Lehigh Valley, Lehigh and Hudson River, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Grand Trunk Western and Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines railroads.

3. Chesapeake & Ohio — This map shows the Chesapeake & Ohio after it acquired the Erie Railroad, Lackawanna Railroad and New York, Ontario & Western Railway, plus the northern section of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad throughout the 50s and 60s, as well as expanding its network in the 80s.

4. Baltimore & Ohio — This map shows how big the Baltimore & Ohio got after America’s first railroad absorbed Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, Western Maryland, Wabash, Ann Arbor, Virginian railroads.

5. Union Pacific — Here, this is how big Union Pacific got after absorbing the Western Pacific and Rio Grande railroads, as well as adding more mainlines in the eighties.

6. Southern Pacific — This map shows the Southern Pacific after adding more mainlines to its network in the eighties.

7. Northern Pacific — For this map, it shows how big the Northern Pacific Railway got after absorbing the Chicago Great Western and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range railroads, as well as adding more mainlines to its network in the eighties.

8. Milwaukee Road — This map shows how big the Milwaukee Road got after the “Route of the Hiawatha” expanded its network by widening its existing mainlines and adding more mainlines (wherever possible) and expanding to northeastern Minnesota throughout the eighties.

9. Burlington Route — This map shows the Burlington Route after it absorbed the Kansas City Southern in the early 1960s and later expanded its network in the eighties.

10. Chicago & NorthWestern — This map shows the size of Union Pacific’s ancient partner; the Chicago & NorthWestern, after it absorbed the Wisconsin Central and the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads in the 60s plus expanding its network in the 80s.

11. Illinois Central — This network map shows how big the Illinois Central got after acquiring the Cotton Bell Route in the 60s plus expanding its network in the 80s.

12. Gulf Mobile & Ohio — This map shows the size of the arch rival of the Illinois Central; the Gulf Mobile & Ohio, after it acquired the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Missorui-Kansas-Texas railroads

13. Norfolk & Western — Here, the map of the Norfolk & Western shows how big the N&W got after absorbing Nickel Plate Road and the (original) Norfolk Southern in throughout the 50s and 60s.

14. Southern Railway — This map of the Southern Railway shows how big the Southern got after absorbing Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad and the central section of the Louisville & Nashville railroad in the 50s and 60s, as well as expanding its network in the 80s.

15. Seaboard Air Line — here, the Seaboard Air Line is shown how big it got after acquiring the Central of Georgia and West Point Route railroads plus the southern section of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

16. Atlantic Coast Line — This map shows how big Atlantic Coast Line after it absorbed Clinchfield Railroad, Oneida and Western and Florida East Coast railroads throughout the late 50s to late 60s.

17. Santa Fe — This map shows the Santa Fe Railway after it absorbed half of the Frisco railroad in the early sixties and later expanded its network in the eighties.

18. Missouri Pacific — This map shows the size of the Missouri Pacific after it absorbed the other half of the Frisco railroad and the Texas & Pacific Railroad in the early to late sixties.

19. Great Northern — This map shows the size that Great northern Railway underwent after absorbing the Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway and adding more mainlines.

20. Rock Island — This map right here shows how big the Chicago Rock island and Pacific Railroad, or the Rock Island Railroad for short, has gotten after absorbing the Colorado and Southern Railroad and adding more mainlines and connecting to other mainlines order Rock Island ownership.

And with that, these maps show how big the railroads above have gotten. And since I’ve just returned to this topic, I’ll dig deeper into my thoughts and ideas about how things would go in this alternate timeline, which includes more posts talking about the history and posts talking about the locomotives and liveries on said locomotives, so stay tuned for all that.

[stone-cold-groove]

Cover panels of a vintage Mobilgas road map of California, Nevada and Arizona.

[elbiotipo]

Civilization 1: a deep strategy game with a map spanning the entire Earth, almost unheard of at the time

Civ 2: huge maps with as many cities as the engine limitations could handle, fan-made scenarios could make both realistic depictions of the entire Earth and specific battlefields down to the hamlet

Civ 3: maps are less large but you can still simulate world-wide realistic scenarios with dozens of nations

Civ 4: maps get smaller, scripts and mods allow you to simulate historical scenarios but the scope gets even smaller, ironically allowing you to play with less

Civ 5: maps get even smaller, focused on hex combat regardless of scale, the Earth maps makes for strange things like archers shooting across the English Channel, graphics increasingly cartoonish

Civ 6: now cities have districts that make them spread across whole continents, maps get so small that even Civ 1 seems large, arcade gameplay, graphics are caricatures at this point

Civ 7: presumably it will be cartoons of unique units of samurai and legionaries fighting in 10x10 hex maps

Civ 8: two houses shooting at each other

[wallpapersmonster]

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Imagine looking at your screen and feeling inspired to explore the world, all while enjoying the classic vibes this wallpaper brings. It’s not just a background, it’s a conversation starter! Plus, it’s versatile enough to fit any style, whether you’re into modern minimalism or cozy retro decor.

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[oort0fthisworld]

CONGRATS WATER FLIGHT THE SPECIAL PRIZE WAS DAD ACKNOWLEDGING YOU

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[jakeperalta]

kelsea ticket buying attempt #1 failed 🥲👍

[fennthetalkingdog]

I'm just figuring out how important music is in my life! This is coming from a long while trying to cut down on my music use, mostly because I was listening to it so much that it felt more like I couldn't do anything without popping in some earbuds, and partially because of other personal reasons. Some of my routines changed, forcing me to not listen to music while doing certain things, and it ended up becoming that besides working on homework or drawing, I didn't listen to music at all. But I've given myself a break today since I have nothing to do and since, for reasons, I'm feeling just a lil crappy today—and boy, I'm starting to realize again just why I love music!!

I love the diverse music taste I've developed over the years! My family is not only big about music but big about listening to it loud, so the majority of my music taste for most of my life has just been Christian hiphop (Lecrae, KB, Andy Mineo, Trip Lee, and ironically Tonex, whose album where he was struggling hard with his gayness has been my favorite concert movie since I was 5) and gospel music (Kirk Franklin, Tye Tribbett, etc.). And music was one of the few connections between me and my race (I grew up feeling pretty estranged from my blackness as a kid, but the popular songs they played at the YMCA in the 2010s were some of the few things I could use to feel more connected) and between me and my classmates/friends at the Y (I still have fond memories of playing FNAF songs in mat forts and reciting lyrics at pool parties). But I got tired of knowing I could never bond with anyone besides family friends music taste-wise when I was in high school, and so I started listening to secular music on my own time. And that's how I first found Ghost and Pals, a vocaloid artist and one of the first secular music folks I listened to as a kid (can you smell the religious trauma yet? Lol), and that's how I bonded with one of my best friends in early college (ironically, also my first time being publically queer). Now I listen to Kpop, anime songs, songs from warriors MAPs, songs from musicals (Hamilton and In the Heights <3), latin songs, metal songs, and even some secular songs young me would've been too scared to listen to.

And music has always been one of my biggest sources of stimming! I can't dance to save my life, but music will sure get me to flick my fingers and hit my fist against my shoulder furiously. Music was one of the first clues that I like stimming with vibration too (since I love laying against the car door and turning up the music loud enough to feel the world shake around me). And music was one of the first things that made me look into ADHD or autism (specifically, listening to Ghost and Pals songs for a month straight and getting my friend at early college [who also has ADHD] to start looking at me funny when I was discovered doing chores and listening to one of three songs for the fifth time). Music is so cool it'll get me to wax poetically. It was one of the things that kept me together during my roughest times and soothed me during my best. I listen to it while I write, while I cry, while I hang out with my friends and family and while I chill by myself. It's how I relax after a long day, and it's how I feel safe. I feel kinda emotional finally having music hit that spot in me without feeling like I need it to do stuff.