Jump to content


Photo

Site Plans With Elevations

elevation lidar

  • Please log in to reply
3 replies to this topic

#1 Steven Wohlgemuth

Steven Wohlgemuth

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 83 posts
  • LocationNew Brunswick Canada

Posted 14 September 2022 - 02:13 PM

Does anyone know if Lidar elevation data is of any use in Softplan?

I have a customer that is very techy and he got me this Lidar data as a KML file for Google Earth.

Using Google earth import in Softplan in our area seems to be far from accurate..

This is a screen shot from the file my client provided. The elevation lines are 1 foot increments.

The Lidar data he used comes from our governments website.

Data Catalogue - GeoNB (snb.ca)

Attached Files



#2 Mark Petri

Mark Petri

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1,497 posts
  • LocationEvergreen, CO

Posted 14 September 2022 - 06:45 PM

I have not had much luck importing Lidar topography from our civil engineer. If you figure something out that works well, please do post it.


Mark Petri

Petri Building and Design

 


#3 Sam Morgan

Sam Morgan

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 842 posts

Posted 14 September 2022 - 07:08 PM

Import the topo directly from google earth....really easy to do if you can locate a property corner relatively closely in earth


  • David Zawadzki likes this

#4 Mark Petri

Mark Petri

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1,497 posts
  • LocationEvergreen, CO

Posted 15 September 2022 - 08:49 AM

I have found the Google Earth import is not very good either. But, maybe it is just the reality of the areas we are working in. Even Lidar misses some of the detail that becomes important with foundation steps and heights. But, we work with some great excavators and foundation crews that deal with those conditions well.


  • Steven Wohlgemuth likes this

Mark Petri

Petri Building and Design

 






Also tagged with one or more of these keywords: elevation, lidar

0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users