Dr. Gary Nobles

Spatial Analyst (and Archaeologist), Forestry Commission. Still working on 3D GeoSpatial Methodology (Mesh/Voxels), Views are my own.

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@JKleijne Yes many are using Image Segmentation and other AI approaches, I gave a talk on it (and other methods) last week, I rarely like using things straight out of the box. I assume 'SAM' is a pretrained model?

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Long Barrows or Houses for the Dead in the Dutch Wetlands - here I present a summary and defend the research which found the first cases located on abandoned Neolithic Settlements😀

I hope this settles the debate! (embargoed for 3 years)

https://t.co/8yQxyujMnB

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@Simon4NDorset @10DowningStreet Correction: The UK is rejoining Horizon Europe

As someone who was born and raised in N.Dorset your party through BREXIT meant I was no longer eligible for the Horizon programme.

It is another step back towards normality and returning to the EU, but thats too late for my career

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@alex_brandsen I'm going to have to look into this!

As much as I dislike excel I have been in organisations where it is the 'go to' for data management. I've also automated excel spreadsheets from python for sending data for archiving.

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@sallypointer Unfortunately not, I made it on Annelou van Gijn's experimental Island with Diederick, the canoe moved on. I'm curious to see if it has survived after 8 years. The people at the time were deep sea fishing for haddock and herding birds so skin-lined canoes would have been vital.

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@DrPhiltill Of course not, conscious is an emergent property of our biology. 1st order emergence for having conscious, 2nd order emergence for realising we are conscious beings.

What reasoning lies behind this question?

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@PirayendePiraye I've not read this book, however, my view is that Post-representational cartography should compliment representational cartography. Therefore, perhaps 'applying Post-representational cartography' could be a follow up built on firm cartographic foundations?

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@SueGreaney I wouldn't even venture there... I was hoping 'Pro' would stop all the crashing issues... I should have known better! I now only use ArcGIS to assemble figures, for analysis I use Python.

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@jwhpverhagen @unigis @GI_Salzburg Using ChatGPT is not cheating! Better to teach students how to use it effectively? I use it daily as part of a more effective workflow. It makes silly mistakes all the time, so it is critical to do a good code review. ChatGPT can make for effective teaching/learning #perspective

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@DrPhiltill @ForAllMoonkind @PaulMarks12 I did propose such a project using archaeological recording methods, but it must be done by archaeologists as they know what they are doing.

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@Tess_Machling @pre_historian @EnglishHeritage ah thank you for the clarification!

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@DrPhiltill @DrPhiltill I think you miss the real issue, its not about marveling at the engineering, but your comment that "2000 years if you told someone you will build a road in the sky they would scoff at the idea". You can make your point without belittling past cultures surely?

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@TimetrailsB @pittsmike I'm informed that RAAP are writing up the report, I'd take any media reports with a pinch of salt given the dubious headlines and visualisations, at least until the evidence has time to be aired.

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@DrPhiltill Except 2000 years ago we did have 'roads in the sky', look at the aqueducts! It is unwise to assume what past peoples would think ;)

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@lutraconsulting @kungphil @BritishEcolSoc @WoodlandTrust @EnvAgencyGeomat @Sketchfab @pointcloudpipe @ThePSF @CloudCompareGPL Always great to see these libraries being used independent of the platform. While it is great that QGIS incorporates these technologies we still need those who go beyond the boundaries of those platforms like @kungphil 😀

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@Sarah_May1 We don't really use LiDAR though, we look at it in whatever form it has been presented, but when was the last time you saw an archaeologist actually doing something with the pointcloud? There are a few of us out there with the skills, but only a few of us.

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@darrellRohl The problem with religion is that it is a belief system. When you believe in something hard enough without question then you become willfully blind to reality. 'What is god' appears to be 'the unknown' to each individual. The unknow doesn't scare me, therefore I'm an atheist.