Issues of privacy and the recklessness of the motorcyclist aside, the video is clearly misleading as the sound was off until the very end. You see the guy look over his shoulder which means that most likely the sirens were on and he'd gotten off the ramp with the hope of evading them. Whether they'd flipped them on because he passed them at 82 or because someone had reported him and they decided to tail him and finally identified him once on the ramp, we can't know. But it does seem exceedingly likely that they'd had their sirens on and possibly even used their bull horn to instruct him to pull over. So no, we're not getting the whole picture.
That aside, the charge is ridiculous. He's in a public space and time and again, the law has upheld that what goes on on the streets has no expectation of privacy. There have even been cases where the police's right to use infrared cameras or otherwise videotape you within your home, as long as it's plainly visible from the street, have been upheld. (Same goes for indecency laws in some locations - if you're visible from a public area, regardless of whether you're in your own home, you may be charged with public exposure/indecency.)
Of course, it's probably part of the DA's plan to teach him a lesson and get a conviction/plea deal as much as it is an overzealous double-standard. If they've decided to press charges, they're going to charge him with anything they can in hopes that at least one thing sticks. (And that, my friends, is part of the reason our criminal codes are so thick - police officers and DAs are reticent to ever take outdated or little-used laws off the books as they can occasionally be used to add to the stack of crimes. And while sometimes this is how we actually convict big-time criminals, as often as not it's simply a way of making sure that the corner dope dealer spends 10 years in prison...)
you'll still need to design plans, get permits and get the whole thing inspected and approved. And while most jurisdictions will allow you to make said improvements to your own dwelling, they're going to go over everything with a fine tooth comb if you're not licensed in that trade. My parents built their own home, but even still, got help from all the above to do the plans, oversee inspections and help with the trickier parts of each of those aspects. Good luck, though. A worthy endeavor.
Here's hoping they've also fixed some of the inconsistencies in the ribbon as well - it's incredibly frustrating that you can adjust some formatting in one application but not in another - you'd think they share the same codebase. Are they just trying to protect us from having too much control over our documents?!
If the maps are in decent shape, you typically use a large-format scanner. These are extremely expensive, though, so you'll preferably want to find a local university or friend at a company with one. Most larger copy shops will have one (for making architectural plans/construction documents) but will likely charge you a pretty penny to use it. And as others have pointed out, uni or a local historical society may have been through this so be relatively set up to guide you along (or even do some of it for you!).
If they're really brittle or on non-standard material, digital photography will likely be your only option. And if you want a nice orthographically correct version it will take a lot of patience as you'll get a fair bit of distortion on those large maps. So, as described by other folks in this thread, you'll need a setup so that you can take a number of tiles and stitch them together. To truly take a line from the 'pros' (as in the way they actually shoot aerial photography) you'd want to very carefully mark out a grid pattern on the map itself so you have something to correct against. One other thing: find the smallest real aperture you can get - if you've ever seen pictures from pinhole cameras you'll notice that everything is in focus. (And if you're debating using a point and shoot vs a nice DSLR, make sure to convert to equivalent focal length when comparing - in most cases you'll find that as long as the optics are decent on the P&S, the effective aperture will be better unless you have a really fancy lens/camera setup.)
That all said, if they are old, and you're more concerned with georeferencing them than having a high-quality reproduction, you likely needn't spend too much time getting a photo of the final version. As there will almost indefinitely be some distortion from the true coordinates, you'll likely need to do some 'rubbersheeting' to get the maps to match up with their real-world locations. That process will likely introduce way more distortion than that from from your digital camera. If you have access to mapping software such as ArcGIS, it will do it easily for you. Otherwise there are lots of free products out there that will allow you to distort the image appropriately.
Good luck!
The hackers stole 130 million card numbers from Heartland, a bank-card payment processor, starting in December 2007, by using malicious computer software, according to the 14-page indictment. An undetermined number of card numbers were stolen from 7-Eleven and 4.2 million from Hannaford, a regional supermarket chain, according to the indictment.
We previously discussed the Heartland breach here.
And, it would probably have the side benefit of getting the government to get its act together to fix social security in the US because this would potentially hit private retirement accounts and plans somewhat hard.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
