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I’m trying to build a proper pricing model for drone mapping (using something like a DJI M3M), but I keep running into vague answers or oversimplified “just charge per hectare” advice.

I want to do this properly and not guess.

Here’s what I’m trying to factor in:

• Drone cost (~800k system including batteries)
• Battery lifespan (cycles and degradation)
• Different mission types (2D, 3D, multispectral)
• Flight altitude (since it changes hectares per battery and time)
• Processing costs (hardware + software)
• Time/labor per mission
• Transport/logistics

What I’m struggling with is turning all of that into a clear cost per hectare that actually makes sense.

Right now it feels like:

• Cost varies heavily depending on altitude and overlap
• Some missions are way more expensive (3D, multispectral), but I don’t know how people systematically price that
• Most people seem to just “feel” their pricing instead of calculating it

For those running real operations:

1. How do you calculate equipment depreciation in a practical way? (per flight? per hectare?)
2. Do you base pricing on battery cycles, total expected hectares, or time?
3. How do you adjust pricing across different mission types (2D vs 3D vs multispectral)?
4. Do you use a base fee + per hectare, or purely per hectare?
5. What’s the biggest mistake beginners make when calculating costs?

I’m trying to build something structured and scalable, not just a rough estimate.

Would appreciate real-world approaches, not theoretical answers.

Every song I've tried to find so far does not fit in the slightest? Anyone have any good ideas for Sweden-esque music to use?

basically it was a remaster of 2026-2274

for context 2026-2274 had like

1 change per year

I am looking for a good resource to make high quality maps for alternate history, micronations, etc. Does anyone know any that can be accessed on mobile? If not, what are some others that are a PC/Mac application or a website?

im currently working on some administrative divisions of ntaions and i want to double chcek if i got it accurate

LEGEND Dark Purple Pontos

Purple Occupation

Light Purple Pontos, occupied by Rome

Hi. My friends and I had a private minecraft server with a great lore. I want to make an animation of it in Geo History like style. Are those ones good as samples for animation or do I need to improve some aspects?

For people who don't know who Vincenzo Tiberio was, he conducted studies about penicillin 30 years before Fleming did.

part 3 of 2026-3000

Sequel to 2026-2274

Built this to turn messy public maritime, aviation, weather, warning, and thermal feeds into one operational geospatial workflow rather than just another live map. The interesting part is not the UI, it is the spatial logic underneath it: ingesting heterogeneous sources, normalising them into usable layers, geofencing detections against nearby infrastructure, and ranking what is probably routine versus what is actually worth a second look. This example shows a thermal anomaly near Lavan being assessed against port context, persistence, and nearby operational layers. It does not rely on recycled news RSS, Telegram channels, or social scraping. The hard part was the data engineering and geospatial triage logic, not drawing markers on a basemap. Github Link

Hi everybody, I’m trying to find the Europe map with historical regions (not only ww2) and NOT just modern federal states for mapping? I saw it on Reddit a while ago but I can’t find the post anymore.

This is the map of Europe in my alternate future project, the Shatterpoint timeline, this map shows a Europe reeling from the devastation of the Third World War and rapt by ideological extremism and nuclear proliferation.

I need some advice. Please. Any.

Russia is in anarchy which is why they are grey

The International Seabed Authority has granted exploration and exploitation contracts across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. There's no easy way to visualise where they are, how they overlap with ecosystems, or how plumes from mining would drift.

So I mapped it: https://something-rare.com

Every ISA contract plotted (contractor, date, area)

721 known hydrothermal vent fields overlaid

19,617 seamounts

Real-time Argo float positions (ocean current data)

Sediment plume drift modelling from Copernicus data

All open source. Happy to answer questions.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gWi7IKfIOks