| ▲ | New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs) |
| 41 points by willmeyers a day ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | prattmic 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I wonder how accurate the locations are in this LiDAR dataset and/or the Queens Giant Wikipedia article. The Alley Pond Park candidate looks suspiciously close to the the Queens Giant, so I wonder if it's actually picking the same tree? |
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| ▲ | markstock an hour ago | parent [-] | | The (typically government) agencies that pay for these scans create specifications for the data to meet. This is not hard to find. IIRC the accuracy is generally less than 0.1m (though the precision is usually 0.01 meters or feet). |
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| ▲ | paulkrush a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Lidar is an awesome way to find tall trees! |
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| ▲ | rvba 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| such lists just provide a list of targets for some assholes who will cut the trees |
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| ▲ | saghm 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | You genuinely think that we should never measure trees because it might increase the risk of people cutting them down? | | |
| ▲ | serf a few seconds ago | parent [-] | | >You genuinely think that we should never measure trees because it might increase the risk of people cutting them down? no, parent said that the list isn't a great idea, not the act of measurement. |
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| ▲ | phdelightful an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | We should still have some public monuments even with the risk of them being vandalized. |
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