Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Thanks Larry, Here's what I wrote to Simon at Caliper earlier today:
Here's my project. I take aerial photos of the shoreline in Washington
state. My digital camera stores the lat and long with each file. I then
extract that information and build a database with a record for each photo
and a field for lat and long. One mapping aspect involves the fact that
where the plane is located at exposure isn't the location of the subject.
These are oblique photos. So I need to move all the photos to the shoreline.
I use the map editing function for this. The other major chore is locating
photos which didn't include geodata. I use "locate by pointing" for this.
Works well. Tedious.
File management seems to be my biggest challenge. When I try to use ODBC
with Excel I get error messages about invalid field arrays when I try to
locate by coordinate. (import,1729,0) I haven't been successful at all using
ODBC with Access.
(Simon replied that the Excel ODBC solution may have to wait till 4.5 which
they hope to release this spring. That release might not be official so
don't tell anyone else.)
My workaround has been to create a master file in Excel, save it as a .dbf,
open it in Maptitude, mapt builds a .dbd file, I edit, then save as a .dbf
file then cut and paste back to my master file. It actually works fairly
well. I do have memory problems after I work awhile. Windows isn't letting
go of memory and I need to reboot. I've got 128mb RAM. But in addition to
Mapt I'm also running my photo management software. It's a memory pig also.
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Today's little hitch was after I located two counties worth of photos I
discovered that when I made a selection set for the county that it didn't
include the photos which were in the water. So I did a "within" selection
and got the rest of them along with a couple from the neighboring counties.
I'll probably just manually remove them from the set. I'm learning.
Thanks again Larry for the support. I appreciate it.
Mike
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