On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I need to draw routes of fiber optics cables ontop of a city map and I >> would like to do this in some open source CAD application. It would be >> great if the cad app would be something like Map3D so that it has >> geospacial coordinates, but that is not a must have. One must have is >> that I can scale the city map image so that it coresponds with real >> world. When I mesure some distance I need to know real world distance. >> >> I saw qcad but I don't see any option for importing images. I also saw >> brl-cad and it looks promising but there is no Fedor apackage for it >> so I can't test it easily. >> >> Does anybody have some similiar 2D CAD experience? Can you recommend >> some other app? >> >> Cheers, >> Valent. >> > > On my Qcad, > > Draw > Image > > Allows you to insert an image onto the drawing. > > I can then draw on top of that image. > > As others suggested, there are GIS applications for Linux as well. > > If you are doing this on a regular basis, the GIS application would be > better. Oh, thank you very much, I wasn't aware of that function in qcad. I'll also look at gis apps. Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
