Curious about the options for using on-site photography as a data-collection method for 3D, whether into GIS or models of interesting features. I’m thinking about everything from aerial photography to using applications like Photomodeler. Not doing much myself, so I’m interested in learning.
Category Archive: Session Proposal =
Posts from participants proposing a session.
Jul 26
Project Review for Historic and Cultural Resources
My job includes reviewing transportation projects for impacts to historic and cultural resources. Here in Connecticut our data is quite scattered, and I find it quite time consuming to do any kind of “complete” analysis. We have our highways, soils, topo. maps, and archaeological site locations in GIS. We have our archaeological site information in …
Jun 18
GIS Help
I’ve used the 15′ quads for Pittsylvania County, VA, imported them into CAD and placed a symbol over each structure and organized them in layers and saved them as shapefiles. Then I’ve pulled them into QGIS and can query those. But what I want to be able to do is to work with Census data, …
Jun 18
Pattern Recognition
What I could really use is some form of pattern recognition software that uploads a 30′ and/or 15′ USGS quad sheet and recognizes the railroad symbol and then creates a shape that superimposes itself upon it that can then be uploaded into a CAD or GIS program to map the hundreds of miles of RR …
Jun 13
Actual artifacts versus Virtual Objects
As I sit here creating a replica (using a MakerBot replicator) of a Fort Ancient effigy pipe from a digital file loaned to me, I am interested in discussing how others use and view virtual objects in terms of public archaeology, research collaboration, and issues with creating and sharing not only digital files, but replicas …
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