Quite often I get the task from supervisors that if i stake out whatever(house/road etc) so that they can "see" how its going to look and where it would help them a bunch. There is also other ppl from time to time up the food chain that also request this, common thing is they all want to "see" things...
?ÿso i thought well, now that the tech is here, why not use it, I know trimble has a solution for this, but I dont think I can justify the cost involved in that hardware/software solution, and one does not really need +-10mmm precision just for ppl so "see" things...
?ÿ
so i looked at Adobe Aero, seems alright but it cant nail a object onto specific WGS coordinates just now,
?ÿ
anyone that tried software that can present a AR ??that can nail objects onto real world coordinates?
?ÿ
Cheers!
k.
What is an "AR"?
I don't personally do anything "augmented realty" wise with drawings. But even about 20 or so years ago, an engineering/surveying company I had worked at was doing drapes of highway plans on flight paths in google earth. So there should be someone who knows a good way to do what you are trying to accomplish.
Maybe they want to get out of the office. Do you get paid?
If whatever you have is in real world coordinates, easy enough to generate a .kmz file they can open in GE to 'see' where the lines fall on the ground. Carlson Survey and TBC can spit them out easy peazy.
so i thought well, now that the tech is here, why not use it, I know trimble has a solution for this, but I dont think I can justify the cost involved in that hardware/software solution, and one does not really need +-10mmm precision just for ppl so "see" things...
...
anyone that tried software that can present a AR ´that can nail objects onto real world coordinates?
I think you answered your own question before you asked it.
If cost is the problem, money is the solution. Either money to buy an existing solution, or money to develop another one.
Unless you are a hobbyist who does this sort of thing for fun, in which case time is the solution, and time is money, and we're right back where we started.
I guess it's possible there is a totally free solution that requires no time to learn and integrates with whatever you're already using, but that is unlikely.
In my experience nothing works better than stakes in the ground. I've once staked over 25 miles of roads for wind turbines through farm fields and woods. The plans were approved by planning and sent to all land owners. However once I staked the roads, nearly every farmer immediately went behind me, mad as a hornet pulling every stake. Saying you ain't building this road down the middle of my field. Move it along the wood line, they said. So I had to redesign all the roads meeting specs for the crane and truck traffic, so roads were along the tree line. Because it would take too long the Engineers to design and make new plans. Great job!
However one field held stakes for about two months. Until I noticed mist were broken, laying flat or some gone. This farmer didn't mind where the road location was. He was mad because it was taking too long. So he let his cows back in the pasture and they destroyed the stakes.
I feel your pain. We had multiple survey crews pass through the county a few years back and now we have roughly 160 industrial wind turbines littering the skyline. One crew blew through and did one thing. Then a crew from a different company showed up to do something else. A third crew was present to really catch heck from land owners and adjoiners. BTW, none of them ever stopped in to research county surveys and old section corner data at the courthouse.
One adjacent land owner saw stakes marking out where the access road was to go. He assumed the stakes on the south end were where the tower was to go. He used a range finder to determine the distance from those stakes to his house. His number was something like 60 feet less than the minimum setback set forth in the construction agreement for locating each and all of the towers. No one could convince him that there was a separate area designated around the base of the tower and the true location of the tower was enough farther to the south to meet the minimum requirement. He was NOT going to be satisfied until he saw a stake enough farther south and marked "Center of Tower". Said stake was set and he checked it with his rangefinder. He felt vindicated.
Some people can not "see" what they can see right in front of them. You could have them stand on a corner, move their left arm to point at a corner post and move their right arm to point at a flag pole and tell them, "The line is going to pass right through that flag pole to right here where you are standing and the next line is going to go from here where you are standing to that corner post you are pointing at." They still will not understand.
You could tie a string from the flag pole to the bar where they are standing and from the corner post to where they are standing and they STILL would not "see" what was going to happen.
If cost is the problem, money is the solution. Either money to buy an existing solution, or money to develop another one.
Unless you are a hobbyist who does this sort of thing for fun, in which case time is the solution, and time is money, and we're right back where we started.
I guess it's possible there is a totally free solution that requires no time to learn and integrates with whatever you're already using, but that is unlikely
That's a quote for your book!
N
I don't get paid for saying this but I've met this company and I've seen some of their presentations it's been a few years but it's gotten more complex when I was in GIS we were looking at this as one of our solutions for asset management for people to see in the field it works fairly well.
ymmv
You can just make 3D polygons in Google Earth...it's free.
