We have recently gone through some flood map changes in my area, which has put a bunch of places we survey in, into flood zones that weren't before. So in a little bit of a slow down, I'm putting my crew to work running level runs in these areas and setting benchmarks so that we can do any elevation work in these areas pretty efficiently. The problem I'm having is the informational folder I have for each of these subdivisions has grown immensely since we started the work from copies of field notes being stored in them. I thought "Maybe I should just scan them and get rid of the hard copies", but even then, the info. might still be a bit hard to find. Do any of you do some sort of benchmark database? I've got an excel file started on something like this, but didn't know if it would be worth doing and continuously updating. Anybody got any ideas?
We use Google Earth as a down and dirty GIS where I am at now. If you have coords on your benchmarks, you can import a csv with Lat/Long to auto populate the placemarks. Then you can edit the placemark to link it to the scanned field notes. Google Earth also lets you set up a network folder, so you can keep all of the data on your server and it will update on whatever computer has the folder linked. I don't use it for benchmarks, but I use it for our entry permits and license agreements.
azweig, post: 329646, member: 7041 wrote: We use Google Earth as a down and dirty GIS where I am at now. If you have coords on your benchmarks, you can import a csv with Lat/Long to auto populate the placemarks. Then you can edit the placemark to link it to the scanned field notes. Google Earth also lets you set up a network folder, so you can keep all of the data on your server and it will update on whatever computer has the folder linked. I don't use it for benchmarks, but I use it for our entry permits and license agreements.
Man, I'm going to have to look into this that's pretty cool. I never knew you could do that with Google Earth.
hlbennettpls, post: 329690, member: 10049 wrote: Man, I'm going to have to look into this that's pretty cool. I never knew you could do that with Google Earth.
Some of those features were only in Google Earth Pro before, but now that Google Earth Pro is free, give it a shot.