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Laser technology makes Bournemouth best mapped place on the planet
Bournemouth Daily Echo

BOURNEMOUTH has been recreated in incredible three-dimensional detail by the Ordnance Survey.
The Pier, Imax, BIC and lower gardens have been captured with the latest technology in a remarkable “first”.
The agency has used incredibly accurate lasers to create a spectacularly detailed map.
Experts say the technology could revolutionise the future of personal navigation, tourism and the planning process as well as aiding architects and the emergency and security services.
The map was created after three years of hard work, with every square metre of Bournemouth captured using a combination of land-based and aerial survey with high-accuracy lasers.
More than 700 million laser beams were sent out from Ordnance Survey vans and aircraft patrolling the town. These bounced back off hills, buildings and streets, providing precise geographical data about the terrain.
This information was then combined with the Ordnance Survey’s 2D maps of the town and overlaid with photos taken from the air to produce the realistic effect.
“Three-dimensional maps in themselves aren’t new, but what we’ve achieved in Bournemouth is a level of accuracy and detail that’s never been done before,” said Glen Hart, head of research at Ordnance Survey.
“Given the level of detail that we’ve achieved, I think Bournemouth can confidently lay claim to being the best mapped place on the planet.”
Ordnance Survey says that the results are substantially more accurate than the 3D maps available through online applications such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, and will revolutionise the way it charts the British Isles.
The 3D mapping service will not be rolled to the rest of Britain for at least five years, while Ordnance Survey perfects the new method.
The maps could also help the emergency services by allowing them to visualise the scenes of serious incidents accurately.
The agency has also been in consultation with businesses that want to view buildings in 3D and calculate heat loss from individual floors and walls in order to improve energy efficiency and drive down carbon emissions.

LASER TREATMENT: This layer of the map of central Bournemouth shows detail captured by high-accuracy lasers

Bournemouth top for 'staycations'

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Bournemouth is celebrating winning top spot for "staycationers" as the UK's most holiday-friendly town.

It came out top of 66 popular UK getaways in a survey aimed at finding the best holiday destinations at home.

Despite the wettest July on record, overseas trips by Britons fell 12% in the year to July and were 16% down in May, June and July compared with last year.

Bournemouth was picked as a hotspot because it scored well on a number of key holiday demands.

These included weather, the cost of a week's hotel stay, price and availability of restaurants, quality of beaches and the overall cost and number of nearby tourist attractions.

Other South Coast towns scored highly with Brighton and Portsmouth in second and third.

Scarborough was fourth and London came fifth.

The capital did less well because it does not have a beach.

At the other end of the spectrum, visitors to Loch Ness were less satisfied, with the area coming bottom in a large part because of bad weather.

Loch Ness was rated the worst partly because of the weather, while Wells in Somerset, the Shetland Islands, Southwold in Suffolk and Portrush in Northern Ireland were also in the bottom five.

"Everyone's idea of a great holiday is different and the UK has plenty of great places to visit but it's definitely Bournemouth for the all-round experience," said Grant Bather of Virgin Money Travel Insurance.

Boscombe Reef

The surf reef – what is it?

Bournemouth Borough Council is proud to have built Europe’s first artificial surf reef at Boscombe, Bournemouth. The reef is 220m offshore and just east of Boscombe Pier. The reef is made up of 55 giant sandbags and is the size of a football pitch.

The reef is not a wave machine. It doesn’t create waves from nothing, but acts as a ramp, pushing existing waves upwards and shaping them into better quality surfing waves.

This means more surfable days, more surfable waves and a better quality, consistent break.

The waves at Boscombe are generally small and break close to the beach and so on days with good swell, decent-sized waves will peel down the right of the reef, creating a longer-ride of around 50m for surfers. An occasional swell from the east may also generate a short left-hand breaker with a ride length of around 15m. It’s free to surf the reef, and changing facilities and warm showers are located in the Overstrand building.