16th April 2009, 05:03 PM
ROFL... best description of CAD I've ever heard, and excellent idea on the GIS!
Unit of One's suggestion is interesting but you're better off getting something like PhoToPlan for CAD to rectify the photo which can rather handily be exported to scale as a Tiff. Used it to record the skeles at a cemetery site and so we cut out the planning of skeles in the field stage ('twas an interesting methodology!) Definite downside was, if the photo wasn't truly vertical you still get a distorted image even if it is rectified. A couple of the skeles looked like coneheads but for the majority it worked really, really well... took far less time, so the budget-meister was very pleased!
It's a cool piece of software (not cheap..!) and can be used for maps, plans and photos of buildings to remove all kinds of distortion (lens, perspective, parallax etc etc). I bought it a year or so ago and it has saved me SO many headaches. (http://www.theolt.com/products/pp/product.html)
Unit of One's suggestion is interesting but you're better off getting something like PhoToPlan for CAD to rectify the photo which can rather handily be exported to scale as a Tiff. Used it to record the skeles at a cemetery site and so we cut out the planning of skeles in the field stage ('twas an interesting methodology!) Definite downside was, if the photo wasn't truly vertical you still get a distorted image even if it is rectified. A couple of the skeles looked like coneheads but for the majority it worked really, really well... took far less time, so the budget-meister was very pleased!
It's a cool piece of software (not cheap..!) and can be used for maps, plans and photos of buildings to remove all kinds of distortion (lens, perspective, parallax etc etc). I bought it a year or so ago and it has saved me SO many headaches. (http://www.theolt.com/products/pp/product.html)