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308563 2005-01-05 04:50:00 Hi folks. See here for Tumonz's source data. (www.sal.neoburn.net) :cool: Scouse (83)
308564 2005-01-05 08:47:00 You may want to take a look at WorldWind (learn.arc.nasa.gov) from NASA.

Broadband recommended.
Antmannz (6583)
308565 2005-01-05 08:54:00 Yes, I did look there but its basic requirements were a little beyond my assetts. Minimum / Recommended Specifications

Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
Intel Pentium 3 1 ghz or AMD Athlon or higher
256 MB of RAM
3D Graphics Card
nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
ATI Radeon 7500Intel Extreme Graphics 2
DSL / Cable connection or faster
2 GB of disk space
Scouse (83)
308566 2005-01-05 09:08:00 You may want to take a look at WorldWind (learn.arc.nasa.gov) from NASA.

Broadband recommended.
While WorldWind is very cool, I doubt it would have been much help in this case :D

Mike.
Mike (15)
308567 2005-01-05 09:18:00 OCAD is deifinately simple to use we have probably 30 odd individual maps, and one covering 300 sq km, that took quite a bit of work, tracing of aerial photos and driving around the area in a car checking out the areas we needed for orienteering events.

some jpg samples are at homepages.paradise.net.nz
superoman (6703)
308568 2005-01-18 06:11:00 I've just been directed to this thread, very timely :D .
I have to redo my farm map as I've done some fairly extensive development which has altered the size of some paddocks quite dramatically. Areas shown as waste will now be included & there are some good links for me to look at.

My original map, I did in 1993. I was going to get a professional job done, but my farm consultant told me I could do it myself for a fraction of the cost.
Basically what I did, with help from my wife was; traced the legal boundary and paddock boundaries, waste, buildings, tracks etc. Then overlaid the map with a draughtsman's grid. Then counted every square within the boundaries, we know the survey area so from that we were able to calculate the size of a grid square.
Then we counted grid squares in every paddock and were therefore able to work out the size of each paddock. Labourious, but we did it!
I was kinda hoping to overlay the existing map with a grid (this time on the computer, of course. We didn't own one back in '93) but there might be an easier way, perhaps.
jcr1 (893)
308569 2005-01-18 06:18:00 i ended up doing mine in word, all i did was draw squares as paddocks,its just a very simple map, also because our farm is very flat and square, i didnt bother with the sizes, took me about 10min to make, at least its cheaper than those maps that pros make with there gps's.... Prescott (11)
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