Tom Goskar

Archaeologist, researcher, curator and folklorist

Category: 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…

  • 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…