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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:02:03 CST
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- From: Phil Chaney <phil@SPOCK.UARK.EDU>
- Subject: RE: gps and street mapping
- In-Reply-To: <199211180826.AA13703@spock.uark.edu>; from "Loki" at Nov 17,
- 92 4:13 pm
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- In regard to your need for a contour map with tolerance of .2meters:
-
- > The options open are:
- >
- > (i) Hire a total station, and trot around the streets of York, dodging
- > hoards of tourists and Christmas shoppers (electric fence and/or
- > weapons may be required to keep tourists from knocking station!)
- > (ii) Purchase SPOT image of the city, and generate DTM from there through
- > GRASS
- > (iii) Hire GPS (multiple units?) and create DTM using them and multiple fixed
- > base stations.
- >
-
- Option 1: Unless you already have experience in using this equipment for
- making a contour map (and I am not talking about just turning
- angles and measuring distances), then I would forget about this
- option for mapping an urban area. $$$ Hire a professional $$$
-
- Option 2: Not accurate enough for your purpose (as mentioned by another
- caller)!
-
- Option 3: You will need survey quality gps receivers (3 minimum) to get
- started for establishing control points. The bottom line on gps
- in an urban area is that multipath errors (signals bouncing off
- of building walls) eliminates gps as a reasonable means of
- collecting data for a contour map. $$$$$$$$$$$$$
-
- * The way the professionals do it is to use gps to establish
- a network of horizontal and vertical control points, and then
- use traditional survey methods (total stations) to do the grunt
- work. The best option is to forget about the total stations, and
- use the gps control points to ortho-rectify aerial photography.
- Photogrammetry techniques can then be used to derive a contour map
- from the aerial photos. $$ We are talking big bucks here. $$$
-
- If .2 meter precision is this critical, then I strongly suggest that you
- reconsider the Ordinance Survey data! If this work has already been done,
- then it may be worth your while to work out a deal with them because what
- you are proposing could get very time consuming and expensive! Anything less
- will probably not satisfy your needs, unless you can re-evaluate your needs.
-
- Good Luck,
-
- Phil
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