Commercial Drone Mapping With WebODM

Great vid, as always. WebODM is such a useful tool, especially for learning. I paid the $50 just to make it easier to get up and running and haven’t looked back since. They have a pretty good knowledgebase and active community, too.

not sure but i think a webODM file is gonna be my MVP for "orthos for visual reference " its been making some nice maps.

Thank you Rich for all the great videos. Always much appreciated! I think WebOdm is absolutely good to work with, it's not the best looking models but precise and reliable. And it's the easiest way to bring the model to clients with low budget once the server is working. I have two questions for Webodm: Is there a possibility to adjust the menu on the left? So hide some of the menu points for example? And if I add some annotation titles in the model is there a way to kind of lock these before sending the URL to a client? I mean that the viewer just can't delete this points by clicking the X.

Thanks!

For those using the Linus operating system on their computer, WebODM is free. It's even worth having a separate drive to learn Linux due to its inherent stability as an OS which is why so many servers use it. On my home box I can run it for months without rebooting because it is that stable. Linux Mint is really close to Windows so the learning curve is not very steep. I have a dual boot Linux/Win10 system that works great. I have a Windows drive simply because there are some apps and programs that don't yet run on Linux and they may never. A third storage drive allows for easy access to both drives because while Linux can read the Windows structure, Windows can't read the Linux structure or access its file. Sorry for the long diatribe but I've been using Linux Mint for a decade or so and really believe in it. It doesn't hound you to update it constantly and have all kinds of blocks like Windows. Kinda like how Autel doesn't have geofencing while DJI does. Keep up the good work Rich!

Hey rich, Thanks for all your info and great videos!! I just want to ask, how do you deliver to your clients? Do they have to have WEB ODM to view the deliverables (2d/3d maps)?

Hi Rich. what is your "go to" for 3d modelling? do you do any stockpile measurments?

Hey Rich, Thank you for making a great and informative video. I myself regularly use webodm. How do you share the maps and 3d models you get from webodm to clients? Thanks, -Adrian

What application you use to plan and take the photos with your Mavic? I am currently using Drone Deploy but changing my drone to Mini 4 Pro. It is not supported so just wondering what App I could use for the route planning and taking the photos automatically.

So typically how big are the files you're uploading to sketchfab? Folders containing the obj, materials and textures.

How do you build the "before / after" image ? Thanks.

IMO terra makes the nicest LOOKING maps/model theyre so large its hard to share them,Im the only one who knows how nice theyre actually supposed to look lol...webODM is nice for getting files i can actually share.......the latest updates in terra have started to process downsized models in obj and ply which is helpful but the files split up like a puzzle i goottta fix in cloud compare .. pia. thanks for video

during one of your classes, you stated that you were going to do a class on WebOdm, I was wondering if that was still in your plans?

After getting my map rendered, it appears smaller thasn the actual location on the base maps. Is there a way to scale my rendering up?

How can you offer the possibility to the clients to make measurements with the appropriate tools in webodm ?

I do maybe 2 or 3 ortho maps a year so subscriptions and paid software doesn't make sense. I'm struggling to find a free way to share the results with clients though. All the online geotiff viewers are terrible quality. How would you share with clients on a free scale?

Great video!!! What software do you use to pre program your map path? I tried drone link - not convinced it’s that great. In your video it looks like your camera angles vary from photo to photo - probably really helps with the 3D side of things. In drone link - it only takes 90degree photos… so are you using a special setting?

its agreat backup for local processing

Are some customers just as happy using pre programmed flights such as Litchi, Drone harmony etc etc and using that as a timeline every so often, which would probably be easier , or do they specifically want orthos, I guess this would alter your costs quite a bit to the customer!?