{"id":17254,"date":"2021-01-02T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:38:49","slug":"eating-a-pbj-by-oak-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2021\/01\/02\/eating-a-pbj-by-oak-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating a PB&#038;J by oak tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52118063935_a3d5a38a63_h.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52118063935_a3d5a38a63_h.jpg\" alt=\"Point cloud of kid eating lunch by a tree\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Lidar point cloud from a handheld sensor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><h3>Having fun with lidar<\/h3>\n<p>Lexington has a awesome fall event called, Paint by Nature, which encourages folks to create artwork around notable trees in the city. These trees aren&#8217;t necessarily the largest or showiest in their area, but are highly suitable plantings for their ecological settings.<\/p>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t make a submission, I did map the trees and used various lidar sources to visualize them. Visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/astoria\/xyz\/chinkapin-oak\/index.html\">3D visualization<\/a> powered with Potree point cloud renderer. A growing list of similar visualizations can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/outrageGIS.com\/data\/pointclouds\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Map of trees<\/h3>\n<p>Visit the trees in the Paint by Nature program on this page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boydx.github.io\/go-see-trees\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52117640793_af150fcf31_h.jpg\" alt=\"Web site of maps\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-maps","category-maps","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17256,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/17256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}