Lidar is commonly used to make high-resolution maps, with applications in surveying, geodesy, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swathe mapping (ALSM), and laser altimetry.

LIDAR has terrestrial, airborne, and mobile applications. LIDAR may operate in a fixed direction (e.g., vertical) or it may scan multiple directions, in which case it is known as LIDAR scanning or 3D laser scanning, a special combination of 3-D scanning and laser scanning. Lidar ( / ˈ l aɪ d ɑːr/, also LIDAR, LiDAR or LADAR, an acronym of 'light detection and ranging' or 'laser imaging, detection, and ranging' ) is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. Vegetation heights are depicted in shades of green, where dark greens are closest to the ground and light greens are the highest. For ground-level features, colours range from deep brown to tan. So yeah boys, I’m exhausted and barely alive, but I gotta share my summary of my article with you - quantity wise, RP city maps were the most dominant in this article, but quality-wise, Pripyat/Metro took the cake and landed in first/second places.This visualisation shows an airplane collecting a 50 km swathe of LIDAR data over the Brazilian rainforest. Overall cool map design(A farmhouse lifted in the air by gravitational anomalies).But hey, the map has everything you need for an HP RP - classes to practice your spells in, a dining hall, a church(?) or something, and plenty of stuff that you nerds will find attractive Harry Potter fanatics will want to crucify me for placing this map at the 10th spot, people who hate Harry Potter will crucify me as well for even including this map on this article. The maps are pretty diverse when it comes to content, some of them appear to be normal-looking cities, some of them are wastelands, sometimes they’re even underground. They’ll be fit for different sorts of RP’ing, such as CityRP or Post-apocalyptic RP maps and plenty more! Hi once again guys, welcome to my article - I’ll be telling you a lot about awesome RP maps that I have played on MULTIPLE times over the years of playing Garry’s mod.

Gmod big city maps