Land survey
Topography. Topographic maps
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Technological news in Geo-engineering - June 2019
Kadaster and KU Leuven will collaborate in the development of the NSDI in Saint Lucia Even after many efforts, within the public sector, the wider/wiser use of geospatial information in daily governance, public policies and…
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Testing the accuracy of Google elevation data - Surprise!
Google Earth provides access to your elevation data with a free Google Elevation API key. Civil Site Design takes advantage of this potential with its new Satellite to Surface functionality. This function allows you to select an area and the distance between…
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Contour lines from Google Earth - in 3 steps
This article explains how to generate contour lines from the Google Earth digital model. For this we will use a plugin for AutoCAD. Step 1. Display the area where we want to obtain the digital model of Google Earth. He passed…
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Leica Geosystems introduces new entry-level construction layout tool
HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND, APRIL 10, 2019 – Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, today announced the launch of the new tool for capture, modeling and design processes; Leica iCON iCT30 to bring more efficiency to the industry of…
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An integrated environment - The solution that Geo-Engineering requires
We have had to live a glorious moment at a point where different disciplines, processes, actors, trends and tools are converging for the end user. The requirement in the field of Geo-engineering today is to have solutions with…
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Leica Airborne CityMapper - interesting solution for city mapping
It is very likely that we will never see a true SmartCity, with its idealized vision. It is likely that there are more basic needs in our contexts than thinking about the Internet of things. Even, that what the manufacturers of…
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TopView - Application for surveying and topographic stakeout
Every day we see that our needs are changing and that for different reasons we are forced to acquire different PC Software, GPS, and Total Stations, each one with a different program, with the need for learning for each…
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Draw coordinates in AutoCAD from an Excel CSV file
I have gone to the field, and I have raised a total of 11 points of a property, as shown in the drawing. 7 of those points are the boundaries of the vacant lot, and four are the corners of the raised house.…
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BIM Advances - Annual Conference Summary
Advances in the standardization of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been the cross-cutting theme of the Annual Infrastructure Conference, held in October in Singapore. Even though my Twitter account was practically hijacked with the…
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Accurate purpose-dependent cadastre - trend, synergy, technique, or nonsense?
Back in 2009 I elaborated the systematization of the evolution of the Cadastre of a municipality, which in its natural logic suggested a progress between the reasons why it originally adopts the cadastre for tax purposes, and how that…
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Import points and generate a digital terrain model in a CAD file
Although what interests us at the end of an exercise like this is to generate cross sections along a line axis, calculate cut volumes, embankment, or the profiles themselves, we will see in this section the…
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The steps to generate a map using drones
The generation of a map using this technique can become a big problem, one of those problems is so critical with the consequences of losing valuable months of useful work when you do not have previous experience in…
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Circular 1: Congress TOPCART 2016
The Illustrious Official College of Geomatics and Topographic Engineering announces the XI International Congress of Geomatics and Earth Sciences, to be held at the Palacio del Congreso de Toledo (El Greco), from October 26 to 30,…
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Traditional topography vrs. LiDAR. Accuracy, time and costs.
Could doing a job with LiDAR be more precise than with conventional surveying? If it reduces time, by what percentage? How much does it reduce costs? Times have definitely changed. I remember when Felipe, a topographer who did my work...
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Draw a polygon in Microstation from Excel
Using this template, a traverse can be drawn in Microstation, from a list of bearings and distances in Excel, or a list of coordinates x, y, z. Case 1: List of Bearings and Distances Suppose we have…
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Being a surveyor is a lifelong experience.
Ken Allred's love of surveying knows no bounds, and his enthusiasm for a study that appears to novices like a mathematical equation is contagious. Retired MLA from St. Albert doesn't think twice...
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MDT, A complete solution for Surveying and Engineering projects
With more than 15,000 users in 50 countries and available in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese among other languages, MDT is one of the most appreciated Spanish-speaking applications by companies dedicated to geoengineering. APLITOP has…
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