for public entities/ gov'ts etc.
Do you have Google Earth on your computers for use with TBC, DSWorld, etc?
(that first no vote is me...)
I have it.
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Rankin_File, post: 447705, member: 101 wrote: for public entities/ gov'ts etc.
Do you have Google Earth on your computers for use with TBC, DSWorld, etc?(that first no vote is me...)
Do your IT powers not let you have it??
I have it, but don't use it.
All of my recent projects (well MOST of them), have [recent] georeferenced Othophotography, so I don't really have any use for the Google stuff. In fact, most of my projects going back into the mid-90's did too.
Loyal
I have the pro and the regular one installed with TBC. Maybe this will work for you. http://bootableusb.net/run-google-drive-usb/
No agency here.
GE was made to use.
I am gov and use Google Earth and ds world. Just had to get IT approval
Our IT wont put it on because somewhere in the bowels of another agency, there is a lawyer who is convinced that the EULA has wording that "could" come back and bite us - they're gonna show up one day and give us a bill.....
I asked our NGS advisor if they knew of any other states not using google earth - nada
a year ago- we had the TBC trainer out for a training session- they looked at us like "what the froghair are you talkin' 'bout???? we just did training for States x, y and z, and they're on it..."
[SARCASM]being the smartest guys in the room is a heavy burden, but someone's got to bear it....[/SARCASM] :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
...beam me up Scotty......
I would have to say yes. However, we have a state agency with its own Ortho Rectified Aerial Imagery. Although our state's data layers are harder to use, the aerial photographs are taken at the proper time, that is, when there are no leaves on the trees. I find that difference negates the value of Google Earth imagery. Why would you want to fly for the images when the leaves are out?
I know for a fact that the Mississippi DOT uses GE. KMZ files go out weekly. Thou, not for design work, but for planning purposes for field agents and lawyers in right of way. And in planning meetings. Just a quick easy way to look at plans in the real world.
I know a few companies that refuse to use Google Earth.
They call me and want to talk about something about a property and I ask them to look at it on GE so we can be seeing the same thing and they won't because their boss doesn't allow it.
In my best manners, I tell them, that can't help them on the phone, they will have to come to my office for free or meet me on the property and pay my expenses.
Like, that will ever happen, then they whine some and finally forget what they called about.
Power GEOPAK does an outstanding job exporting KMZ files to Google Earth Pro. When the project is in State Plane Coordinates, it brings the drawing file to life. All the line work is the in the design colors. You can click on a line and it's shows what level it's in. You can turn that level off or on. We've gone down to street level and walked along the roadway to look at bridges, driveway, buildings, and have found R/W markers, fence corner, street signs, section corners, looked up and down creek crossing, power poles, and so on. I have used Carlson 2010 before. Had to convert the drawing file to a polyline file. All the line work was white. No where as neat as GEOPAK. Doing a KMZ file for myself just to see if there are any blunders. And have caught several using GEOPAK and Google Earth Pro. Like 2 weeks ago where the section corner had the wrong State Plane Coordinates for the parcels. Just another great tool to have and use.
Yes we do have our own digital camera in the plane. It takes great photos for projects were we use it for mapping and design; however, we do a considerable amount of our work before the project is flown and the photos are available. They are taken in the very short season we have when the leave are off, snow is off and the. Solar angle is adequate to not produce shadows. A very small window in this state. Then they are too big for our computers to use.
The nris farm bureau photos that our state's cadastral layer uses aren't well rectified or optimal for vegetation, so they're of no better quality than GE. The beauty of GE is that it's been designed into the software and we've already paid for the ease of use and it's readily available with a few keystroke -
I am saving every corner I find or set with a photo and coords in Google earth, sorted by county and project......one day TBC will export codes and descriptions and I will be a happy camper.
Jon Collins, post: 448404, member: 11135 wrote: I am saving every corner I find or set with a photo and coords in Google earth, sorted by county and project......one day TBC will export codes and descriptions and I will be a happy camper.
I have every GPS control point and monument on Google Earth since 1997. It is now a very handy tool
Jon Collins, post: 448404, member: 11135 wrote: I am saving every corner I find or set with a photo and coords in Google earth, sorted by county and project......one day TBC will export codes and descriptions and I will be a happy camper.
YeAh- you just wait til you get your big ole' bill from google earth then we the un-sullied will be in the cat-bird seat...../smug off
