My coworker, Murph, and I have been working on a bit of a joint project lately that will illustrate some very good links with Civil tasks and Geospatial tasks. This has done two things for me – it’s giving me a bit more information regarding GIS (which truly is a horse of a different color…) as well as making me realize that there’s a long way to go before Map 3D and Civil 3D are TRULY compatible. Part of our project revolves around collecting data in the field and the things that we can do with that data. For example, many GIS grade GPS receivers have the capability to not only collect the point number, northing, easting, elevation, and description of a point, but also custom fields that can be defined by the user. Our example for today has a water department using a data collector to locate fire hydrants. The two custom fields that we have in our data collector is hydrant flow rate and inspection date. But how do I get those custom fields into a point label? Well, Murph to the rescue, because he hit this one pretty hard yesterday, and figured it out! Click more to find out how he did it!
Note 1: The following was sent to me by Murph allowing me to put it up here on civil3d.com. So even though he has his very own VERY nice blog about Map3D, tonight he’s a guest contributor to civil3d.com
Note 2: This couldn’t have come at a better time. I received a new Carlson Explorer 600+ data collector today loaded with Carlson SurvCE – it’s got the extra roads module, GPS module, and robotics module on it….stay tuned for a comprehensive review of it. You know the coolest thing about it, other than WiFi and Bluetooth? It’s orange and blue, just like my beloved Auburn Tigers…
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