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Free Map points for beta testers

I'm happy to test the app, but used up most of my free points with one mission of 158 Jpegs on a 35 acre site (The map did not successfully stitch all of the area together, probably due to lack of detail in some areas of the defined grid).

I'm more than happy to keep testing the app. It's a useful tool, although I suspect there will be steep learning curve for successful map creation; i.e., I'm a novice at this and just starting to figure out what this is all about. But in return for putting the app through its paces, it would be nice to create a free account for us beta testers that would give us a reasonable number of free points to use in creating some further maps (public, of course, and for use in publishing on the MME site). I realize that you are a for-profit enterprise, but if this were limited to a certain time period and amount of points, it would obviously be helpful.

Ralph Bendjebar

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Ralph,
We can't make accounts for people since they have to make their own usernames and passwords but we have already offered processing points to beta test users in our initial email:

TEST DATA
Since the goal of this app is to create great mapping data, we would like to see how it is doing. Please sign up for a Maps Made Easy account if you haven’t done so already and post your flight imagery. Send an email to mapping@dronesmadeeasy.com and we will give you some points to work with. If you see any strange behavior, we would really appreciate getting access to the .DAT file from the aircraft’s onboard flight recorder. For more details: Flight Log Viewer - https://www.mapsmadeeasy.com/log_viewer

The processing error you experienced is something that happens pretty frequently that we are still trying to get a grasp on. The 3D model is that would likely have had a range of 10 meters or so is compressed into 2 m. The overlap was fine since the app managed it. More overlap might have helped. Maybe. We are fairly certain it is something that is happening due to the wide field of view of the DJI lenses or scanning nature of the sensor, but we are still working to figure out what is causing it for sure and coming up with a way to address it.

Tudor
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