Add Geotag Photo pins for location and Direction of photo to drawing

[ralstogj]

Hi

I was wanting to know if anyone has seen a tool to add geotagged photo references into civi3d for adding site report photos. I found this one but its in german. trying to find if there is and english version or some thing similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXAhKLLaG4&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL475BD43308E6F6E4

http://www.contelos.de/toolsforgis

Regards

Justin

[F.Classon]

Dear Justin, i will translate the cui for you. No Problem.

[TerryDotson]

DotSoft's MapWorks Base includes a tool that lets you select multiple photos.  It then extract the GPS Lat/Long values and even the Direction the picture was taken (if the camera had a compass).  It projects to your target system and places a built in camera block in the proper location and rotation.  The photo is hyperlinked to the insert so you can quickly view the photo.

[antoniovinci]

Well done, Terry.

Justin, you can simply link vector objects to external images, by means of _ATTACHURL command.
I realize that their automatic insertion by GPS info (embedded in the EXIF tag) would be great, but surely not for free...

[F.Classon]

... It then extract the GPS Lat/Long values and even the Direction the picture was taken (if the camera had a compass). It projects to your target system and places a built in camera block in the proper location and rotation. The photo is hyperlinked to the insert so you can quickly view the photo..... Well, taht is exactly what the contelos geotag tool i doing, plus lots more......

[David.Kelly]

Think this does what you are looking for.

Maybe a little late now 7 years has passed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll62mWg6VdU

[TerryDotson]

It appears you are limited to a UTM coordinate system and you have to jump through multiple hoops (JPG > Excel > CSV > LSP) just to get a simple filename block on your drawing.  No hyperlinks, no support for other coordinate systems, no option to rotate to photo direction, no elevation, no ability to transfer EXIF properties to attributes.

Quick Placement Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt26FRGo9Oo

Quick Image Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fpIXW45NE

These two tools are now included with dozens of other related items in the low cost GeoLocationPlus.

[pghcivil3d2]

I recently found two great tools to accomplish this. We were also were able to create Civil 3D points from the photo locations to export to InfraWorks to get an accurate location to do 3D views.

These utilities will also convert the coordinates for you.

PlexEarth has this functionality and also has some other great tools. https://plexearth.com/

PhotogeoDWG Pro(found on the Autodesk App Store): https://apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/Index?id=6271724719350499597&appLang=en&os=Win64

[joantopo]

Good thread.