Price? From: Mitch Koep Sent: Friday, June 01, 2018 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Mapping - 2018
https://www.ospinsight.com/desktop-overview On 6/1/2018 4:12 PM, Mark Radabaugh wrote: QGIS is very useful and open source (as in free). Nothing specific for fiber mapping in it but it could pretty easily be used for it if I was ambitious enough to put all the info in. Mark On Jun 1, 2018, at 5:06 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote: For basic needs, the advantage of doing mapping using Google Earth Pro is that most "serious" GIS packages support import and export to/from the XML format Google Earth uses. A line on the map on Google Earth or a multi-segmented line is just a collection of vector placemarks in a XML file with lat/long coordinates, with metadata describing the thickness of the line, the color of the line, how many intermediate points are on the line, and so forth. The best organizational advice I can give is to use folders and subfolders in Google Earth Pro appropriately to sort projects, so that you don't end up with a single folder that contains 500 unnamed lines. Might look fine when viewed on a map but can become an organization nightmare. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Cassidy B. Larson <[email protected]> wrote: Last topic I see on this was from 2014. So maybe it’s time to review and ask again? What are you guys using for fiber mapping, now in 2018? In 2014 I read: Craig was doing google earth and excel sheets. Chuck Hogg was using Manifold (kinda), and some Google Maps Engine. Mike H was using ArcMap for his clients. A few other google sheets. What’s changed, what’s new, what’re you using today? Same as before? Something different? Why? -c
