Feature RequestsKML Importing to overlay on google earth
I currently have discovered this function in another program and discovered how beneficial it really is to use when mapping and planning out jobsites especially when it comes to utilities and earthwork. Basically you take all of the takeoff data and put it into a KML file with coordinate data provided from the user or a georeferenced CAD file if you eventually integrate CAD file importing. Once you have a KML file that is properly positioned through GIS you can import into google earth and get something like the example below.
Interesting that you bring this up, I've been doing a lot of coding with AI and came up with my own software for importing plans to google earth:
I'm currently working on a way to bring the whole takeoff to GE as well.
That's awesome! I like the option to do it through CAD so you create your own layers and isolate them in the views. If there's a way that you could have it trace the lines of the pdf or something like that so they can be isolated that would be pretty sweet.
We're running into a situation where we do a lot of 2-D takeoff in ZZ and use Agtek for our earthwork modeling however there is currently no way to get ZZ information into Agtek there are a number of File types that Agtek accepts as an import. One thought is to geospatial reference the pages in ZZ and the takeoff points would be an XY offset from those reference points this might require Some fancy coding (Fables got your back) but I think it's possible and it would save a ton of work. This would theoretically would allow an export to Google Earth as well (KMZ/KML)
Above are the import file types to Agtek
Oh okay sweet! I’m definitely gonna have to do some research on that. We currently use Trimble Business Center for our earthwork takeoffs and I’ve used their kml feature a good bit but I unfortunately have had some issues when engineers don’t put any gps coordinates into the file and I have to try and manually do it which only works with a point map usually.