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My question is in the title, I am simply looking for a way to mass import lat-long points from Google Earth Pro instead of having to manually add each one using the 'Mark Position' > 'Lat-Long' option in Geolocation.
I am importing underground utility markings, and well, there's a lot of points to add manually. There has to be a simpler and quicker method. Is there?
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Hi Mason,
If you have Map 3D or Civil 3D you can use Command MAPIMPORT to import all those points.
If you have Vanilla AutoCAD, look to 3rd party apps.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB
Windows 10 Pro 64 / Civil 3D 2024
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Understood. That's what I was hoping to avoid. Looks like it'll be manually adding each point for me.
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I understand that, I'm just not a fan of downloading another software just so I can use a single feature every now and then.
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Happy Cadding.
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Alright, so out of not wanting to be called shortsighted, I downloaded Map 3D and tried importing my points from a .kmz file. The points in Map 3D were set way off from where their lat/long points are on google earth pro, as well as not being scaled properly. Do you have any advice towards how to fix that?
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Hi Mason,
Alrighty then! Let's see what you've got. Please post your KMZ. (You might need to zip)
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB
Windows 10 Pro 64 / Civil 3D 2024
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I sadly can't upload the files directly due to company policy, but I can show the settings I've got and walk through it all.
Below I've snipped the AutoCAD Map 3D settings for MAPIMPORT as well as the Google Earth Pro existing settings.
For the AutoCAD settings, I noticed that the input coordinate system uploads as something different than my current drawing coordinate system. I went through and changed all of these to match the current drawing coordinate system. That import showed the points being within a few hundred feet of where they should be in AutoCAD, but they were still off, and still scaled way off. I went back to Google Earth Pro and got the Lat/Long of 2 points, and I manually added those positions into AutoCAD and scaled. I ended up needing to rotate my points, and that got them very close together but not quite perfect still. There's something off between the actual Lat/Long numbers and what happens to them when importing.
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You draft in inches or mm, civil/map folks use feet or meters or… but never mm nor inches!
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My drafting is in inches/feet. Below is what my drawing units are set to.
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Hi Mason,
Map 3D doesn't like Architectural Units. Use Meters or Feet. And as a general rule, Unitless works best for Insertion Scale in UNITS.
Since you couldn't post your KMZ, I'll post one. Start with an Imperial (US Survey Foot) Template and use MAPCSASSIGN to assign NV83-EF coordinate system. Use MAPIMPORT, and then _GEOMAP. Compare placement to Google Earth Pro.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB
Windows 10 Pro 64 / Civil 3D 2024