Comments on: First Stage Of Bermuda Mapping Project Complete

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:47:27 +0000

Good work to Minister Bean and his team. This is money well spent, and will benefit the country. Great step

By: KM

KM — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:13:30 +0000

It makes no sense to rely on Google’s intermittent, coarse and unreliable imagery for land administration at the scale of Bermuda. All maps and images are not the same. And all maps and images are not licenced the same. And no the Govt doesn’t have to collect it every year. The last time it was collected was in 2003, making this update highly overdue. I think you are speculating a bit wildly.

By: Bermuda Geek

Bermuda Geek — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:40:09 +0000

Yes – but the $260K will buy Bermuda up-to-date detailed maps on a once-off basis. Do we have to pay another $260K every year to get them updated? Seems a lot more logical to use the maps which are available free and we know will be updated free intermittently. It does not take a lot of sense to see that the initial $260K is just the tip of the ice berg of charges the Bermuda people will pay for this.

By: KM

KM — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:51:44 +0000

They are mostly on Government land, but there might be some on private land with the permission of the owners.

By: Very curious

Very curious — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:19:53 +0000

I better go and start looking to see if I can find it .. It must be within a few feet of my door !

By: KM

KM — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:52:54 +0000

Because they were taken with a low flying aircraft rather than a satellite.

By: KM

KM — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:51:26 +0000

The targets are just temporary white markers on the ground that have been surveyed to known ground coordinates. The aerial surveyors can use those markers to accurately register the images to ground coordinates.

By: KM

KM — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:46:56 +0000

As pre-rendered map tiles, not as data objects.

By: Bermuda Geek

Bermuda Geek — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:56:54 +0000

The statement in the article that “Google Earth is only available as an image, and does not include map data…..” is simply not true. Google Maps/ Earth already provides detailed street by street mapping.

By: TB

TB — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:13:14 +0000

This is very useful data, especially if you are in the engineering field. Being able to look up the topography is very useful in our line of work. Every country has this available. It was money well spend.

By: Cha

Cha — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:07:48 +0000

Why are the 2003 images of better quality?

By: Bermuda Son

Bermuda Son — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:53:04 +0000

Greetings Bermuda,
I think this form of mapping was money well spent.
What I would like to have seen was schools being able to tour the aircraft and see it’s technology. Enabling our school children such access will, more than likely inspire them to start reasearching posible areas of study and professions.
Hopefully in the future any time such actions are taken in Bermuda, there will be consideration of ecxposing our school students to these technologies!!!
Have a Safe & Blessed Day Bermuda!!!

By: EXPress

EXPress — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:05:29 +0000

And the fines for illegal developments has just been increased……….But I agree, this will have its uses.

By: Rard

Rard — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:38:16 +0000

@FEDUP: That is just ridiculous.

By: Rard

Rard — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:27:02 +0000

@FEDUP: That is just silly.

By: Very curious

Very curious — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:14:17 +0000

Bernews , can you determine what the significance of the ‘Pre-marked Targets’ are ?

My little neighbourhood falls square under one of the numbers and there’s nothing here that I can think of that would make it a premarked target.
It’s rural and no-where near any built up areas btw. No historic forts or buildings ,etc.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 29 May 2012 00:31:33 +0000

Now they can see all the weed plantations in high resolution(note pre-marked targets)! Or are they looking for illegal developments? All jokes aside this will be useful for lots of reasons.

By: KM

KM — Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:23 +0000

I would love to know which Bermudians have a survey-grade aircraft with all of the equipment and the expertise to accurately ortho-rectify aerial photography. Please elaborate.

By: Paying Twice...

Paying Twice... — Mon, 28 May 2012 23:17:23 +0000

If this project has been completed using public funds, should the information not be free of charge to taxpaying residents of Bermuda!?

It seems quite wrong that although we have already paid for this survey to be done that we must pay again to access the data!

Besides, selling these images is unlikely to raise any significant amount of revenue for the Government, whereas releasing this data to the public would provide an invaluable resource to many residents, businesses and students.

Enough of the public’s money has been taken and wasted – now that a great project has taken place, it’s time to start giving back!

no doubt

There are many residents who would no doubt find useful applications for this higher resolution and more up to date imagery.

By: mixitup

mixitup — Mon, 28 May 2012 22:31:48 +0000

Funny you mention that, Minister Bean is a qualified pilot.

By: FEDUP

FEDUP — Mon, 28 May 2012 22:03:30 +0000

I appreciate that the this needed to be done, but you do know you have Bermudians who can do every job that was used in this project…..the photography, the flying, the digital mapping. Now before anyone comes behind me and says did these people make themselves known, the question should be did the powers that be come and advertise that they would need someones services to do this or did they just make it happen?

Albeit glad this is a step toward a modern Bermuda