Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
4.5? I thought I saw a message saying 5.0 would be out this summer?
John
> I would wait until Mapt. 4.5 comes out in a month or so
> and then upgrade. 4.5 is going to solve a lot of problems.
> You can have 2nd copy; first is mine.
>
> Later
>
>
> Carl L. Chance
> GIS Manager
> City of Lake Charles
>
>
> At 03:18 PM 1/16/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
> >
> >Dear Mike,
> >
> >I was caught by the description of your work. I did some oblique photos of
> >shorelines long time ago in Ireland and I am about to embark in a similar
> work
> >this year in Argentina.
> >
> >I would very much appreciate if you could provide more detail on the type of
> >hardware you are using (photo camera, GPS, etc) and the software you are using
> >for keeping photos and positional information linked during the flight.
> >
> >Also, while going through the description of your work I have noticed that you
> >are using the standard maptitude interface. You could do some of those tasks
> >faster with a little programming with GIDSK. The map editing needed to locate
> >the photo on the coast is a simple macro and can work well for you
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Armando Scalise
> >GeoMatic
> >Argentina
> >
> >
> >Mike Baum wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >> <end quote>
> >>
> >> 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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