QGIS plugin

[hornbydd]

I popped my head into the cave surveying meeting at Hidden Earth this weekend. It was well attended, although I missed the beginning the talked moved on to all things GIS. I'm a GIS trainer/analyst/developer specialising in ArcPro.

Discussion was focussed on QGIS and I remember Wookey saying they should be using GIS smarter.

Well it does not get get smarter than this, a plugin that uses AI to help trace off maps in pdf/image format.

Lost the survey data, only known map of the cave is some print/scanned pdf? Then this plugin could help you convert it into a 2D spatial dataset.

Introducing our QGIS AI Map Tracing Plugin (January 2024)

Announcing our QGIS plugin, the most technologically advanced QGIS vectorizing tool in the toolbar.

buntinglabs.com

I thought I would bring it to your attention, if you did not know about it already?

 

[Badlad]

I once spent a lot of winter evenings recreating lost survey data from drawn up printed surveys. I guess this would have saved me a lot of effort.

The surveys I had also showed a well drawn elevation and therefore allowed a 'z' co-ordinate to be made. Does this do that?

 

[aricooperdavis]

That's very neat, good find! I've been messing with something similar based on the segment anything models but it's not this polished. I'll have a play tomorrow. If it can handle WMTS layers it will be game changing for me at work!

 

[Relict]

I popped my head into the cave surveying meeting at Hidden Earth this weekend. It was well attended, although I missed the beginning the talked moved on to all things GIS. I'm a GIS trainer/analyst/developer specialising in ArcPro.

Discussion was focussed on QGIS and I remember Wookey saying they should be using GIS smarter.

Well it does not get get smarter than this, a plugin that uses AI to help trace off maps in pdf/image format.

Lost the survey data, only known map of the cave is some print/scanned pdf? Then this plugin could help you convert it into a 2D spatial dataset.

Introducing our QGIS AI Map Tracing Plugin (January 2024)

Announcing our QGIS plugin, the most technologically advanced QGIS vectorizing tool in the toolbar.

buntinglabs.com

I thought I would bring it to your attention, if you did not know about it already?

Hello, this is exactly what I /we need to recover a survey whence the data was destroyed by relatives of a deceased colleague. Any further info appreciated.

 

[aricooperdavis]

The surveys I had also showed a well drawn elevation and therefore allowed a 'z' co-ordinate to be made. Does this do that?

I wouldn't have thought so - QGIS isn't really designed for a third dimension!

 

[hornbydd]

I don't think it would extract out elevation, it's looking for lines or boundaries, not necessarily the attribution encoded into them. That said if you create your Feature Class as z-aware then you could always go back and calculate Z values into the polylines although I would expect a bit of script would be required to achieve that. As for working with WMTS don't see why not, I played with it using a tif and pdf file. But I have not tried with a web service layer as the background.

 

[2xw]

Does creating a new 2d dataset (presumably trivial to add new points to tie in stuff later) count as a derivative work?

 

[aricooperdavis]

Does creating a new 2d dataset (presumably trivial to add new points to tie in stuff later) count as a derivative work?

And what if it's done by an AI? What if that AI was trained by someone else?