Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

Tag: Penzance

  • Point Cloud Penzance – the town in 3D

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    Using 3D data (LiDAR) collected by the Environment Agency through the Government Open Data initiative I have created an interactive 3D model of the town centre of Penzance, Cornwall. It’s a very detailed model, with a measurement point every 50cm or so across the entire town. There are 12.9 million vertices (points) in this model. You…

  • My Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) Installation – Part 1

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    When I first moved to Penzance in January 2012, BT Openreach’s fibre rollout was already well underway in Cornwall. The Penzance exchange was due to be enabled that May, and in my mind I thought that a few months would be well worth the wait. Well, it turned out to be more than a few…

  • A Medieval Discovery at Gulval Church, Cornwall

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    [Update] This work has now been published with Prof. Michelle Brown in British Archaeology. Just to the left of the south porch of Gulval Church, near Penzance in Cornwall, lies a large block of granite. I first came across it on a visit to the churchyard in 2012. However, it really piqued my interest a…

  • Open Shed – a new hackspace in Penzance

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    [Update May 2014] Sadly Open Shed closed in May 2014 due to the inability to grow membership enough to meet costs.   For the last six weeks I have been doing something a little bit different. From a friend, I heard that a small group of people were setting up a hackspace to provide a place…