{"id":51,"date":"2009-11-04T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T20:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/?p=51"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:59:08","slug":"a-gps-navigator-for-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/2009\/11\/04\/a-gps-navigator-for-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"A GPS navigator for surveys and projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">GPS navigator? Apart from guiding us through <strong>cities<\/strong> that we do not know, or taking us to our <strong>destination<\/strong> avoiding traffic jams, <strong>GPS<\/strong> can do much more, especially if integrated with widely used platforms such as for example <strong>Google Earth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An example of this kind comes from CartoGoo, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/\"><strong>GPS navigator<\/strong><\/a> designed for a professional usage. <strong>CartoGoo<\/strong> specifically caters to fields like <strong>architecture<\/strong>, cartography, <strong>topography<\/strong>, civil engineering, and in general all those applications where <strong>surveys<\/strong> on location play an important role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CartoGoo<\/strong>, as the name may suggest, contains an integrated Google Earth <strong>interface<\/strong>, and allows you to <strong>visualize<\/strong> the place where you currently are, in the typical formats that you can see when <strong>surfing<\/strong> the site.<\/p>\n<h3>How is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gps.gov\/applications\/survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPS navigator<\/a> used for surveys and projects?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once you have your position on the <strong>LCD<\/strong> display, you can <strong>draw<\/strong> maps directly on the screen thanks to the <strong>stylus<\/strong>, import results of your surveys or <strong>export<\/strong> your drawings to a computer via the <strong>USB<\/strong> cable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basically, it will be like having a drawing <strong>table<\/strong> in your pocket, with a stylus to draw directly <strong>on-screen<\/strong>, and then display the result in real time on a <strong>satellite<\/strong> map of your location, even in three dimensions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, through a real time <strong>3D rendering<\/strong> of the project, CartoGoo allows you to give an immediate <strong>evaluation<\/strong> of its results. Certainly, for civil <strong>engineers<\/strong>, cartographers, forestry <strong>specialists<\/strong> and administrators alike, this can be a breakthrough and a very <strong>useful<\/strong> tool for an instant evaluation of their work.<br \/>\nAnd all this comes in a very <strong>small size<\/strong>, without having to carry complicated maps and plans along, making life <strong>easier<\/strong> for those who work in this highly specialized field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPS navigator? Apart from guiding us through cities that we do not know, or taking us to our destination avoiding traffic jams, GPS can do much more, especially if integrated with widely used platforms such as for example Google Earth. An example of this kind comes from CartoGoo, a GPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","two-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}