Re: 2D CAD with background image map (qcad? brl-cad?)

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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.


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