Monday, September 23, 2024

'Trail walking' at Capilano River's Fish Hatchery is an experiment in 3D imagery

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Google Earth Stawamus Chief

From inside a cave?

Monday, September 9, 2024

I betcha BC Premier Glen Clark has been laughing, silently, at Kevin Falcon's choice of 'BCUP' because ....

the acronym has failed twice, now.

https://llbc.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_GB/main/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:317429/one

More info

https://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/PubDocs/bcdocs/317429/index.htm

http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/PubDocs/bcdocs/317429/unityrep.pdf

February 12th, 1998

Dear British Columbians,

On behalf of the members of B.C.'s Unity Panel, we are pleased to submit our "Report on the Calgary Declaration" in response to the Terms of Reference assigned to us by Premier Glen Clark.

B.C.'s Unity Panel, consisting of private citizens and elected officials, embarked on the most extensive consultation process on national unity in our province's history.

The Panel sought the opinions of British Columbians and heard concerns on other issues deemed important to national unity.

British Columbians told us that they are passionate about the future of our country and appreciate the opportunity to express their views and opinions on national unity. Regarding the Calgary Declaration, the responses we collected through our consultations show strong support for the document and its seven principles.

Monday, August 26, 2024

I'd be surprised if North Shore Rescue, and/or Real Estate Agents, aren't using Google Earth's Viewshed, ....

.... which highlights everything in your line of sight from where you are standing.

Imagine being on Cleveland Dam's west side taking in the sights of the lake, mountains too, but missing out on the benefits of being able to see the contours of the forest, dramatically.

Viewshed provides that depth, and more.

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Tree branches included? Yes. How? Satellites!? Creepy

The How To use viewshed

And for those way up there, waving their lights, looking for help, need to be in the green to be seen

Not many places to go to be seen on the west


Grouse, to the Left (East) is closer than Cypress, Right (West)

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Use Google Viewshed to see a placemark surroundings

Explore 360-degree views of an area for building locations, real estate evaluations, advertisement placement, and other business planning with Viewshed. Viewshed is not designed for scientific precision and isn’t intended to be used as a definitive data source.

Viewshed highlights everything in your line of sight from a placemark location:

    Higher elevations often display greater visible areas.
    If your results don’t look correct, your altitude might be too low or your placemark might be inside a building. Try increasing your altitude, then click Show Viewshed again.
    To include 3D models or layers that you connect to or upload, connect to the Google Maps Engine terrain layer.

See 360-degrees around a placemark

Select a placemark. Then, right-click the placemark.
Click Get Info and then Altitude and adjust the altitude so that it's at least approximately two meters above the surface, then click OK.
From either the "Edit" menu or the placemark’s right-click menu, select Show Viewshed.

Visible areas are highlighted green and non-visible areas are gray.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Cleveland Dam Ghost walker lines

Lines source https://blogborgcollective.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-picasso-using-only-7-colours-no.html

Saturday, August 10, 2024

What is the going rate for crane swinging and underpinning easements?

Lori Culbert Vancouver Sun

It was about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday when the fire started east of Dunbar Street, a blaze so intense that it quickly spread to nine other homes and blew embers and pieces of debris several blocks away.
(Tenant) Thuo rents the house with eight other people originally from Kenya. Everyone was yelling each other’s names, frantically making sure they all escaped.

There is this to help the tenants, and the owner of the building:

Crane swing & underpinning easements

https://stirlingllp.com/crane-swing-underpinning-easements/

https://stirlingllp.com/home/

As the densification of Metro Vancouver increases, more and more commercial and residential real property owners are receiving requests to grant crane swing and underpinning easements over their property in favour of a neighbouring property.

These agreements are requests to: (1) swing a construction crane boom through the air space above your property while the neighbouring property is developed; and (2) to install shoring works (such as steel tie rods) below any structure on your property to provide ground stability while the property being developed is excavated. The underpinning works are intended to prevent your lands from caving into the excavated property. Most often, the underpinning works will be left in place in the ground below the structure on your property after the development is completed.

Below are a few things to consider when you are approached for a crane swing and underpinning agreement over your property.
1. Compensation.

The first question we are usually asked is, “What is the going rate for a crane swing and underpinning easement?”. When it comes to matters of money, 98% of us seem to belong to the creed of greed.

7. Termination Rights.

The form of crane swing and underpinning easement a developer prepares typically does not have any termination rights. We recommend that the easement have termination rights in the event the developer breaches the easement and fails to correct the breach within a certain reasonable period of time. For example, if the developer damages your building during the course of its activities and takes no steps to repair the damage, you should be able to terminate the easement and refuse to allow the developer to make any further use of the easement rights until the damage to your property is corrected.

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One of our starting positions will be that the neighbour or developer pays all of your legal and other consulting costs to review and finalize the agreement, so there should be no costs or financial risks to you whether or not an agreement is reached.

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And the tenants recourse now?