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Placing points by coordinates

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Topic: Placing points by coordinates
Posted By: pauloone1
Subject: Placing points by coordinates
Date Posted: 29.Aug.2011 at 16:04
how do I place a point in an autocad drawing according to a coordinate ( latitude  and longitude) so that I can later get the coordinates of any other point in the drawing.

Let me put is in another way. 
I have a large area that i need to survey ruffly, a hand held GPS is enough.
I have a draft of a very large building to implant on this area.
I have 4 point of latitude and longitude (each corner of the building).
I want to be able to pick up on autocad extra coordinates( diferent part of the building) and check them on site via GPS.

PS: I don't want to spend money on a surveyor at this point.

Thanks 


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 29.Aug.2011 at 18:59
You'll be lucky if those points are within 5 feet of their actual position.  Should look into renting a piece of accurate equipment like the Carlson Surveyor+ RTK GPS System.  It can be accurate down to a couple of inches or less.

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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 29.Aug.2011 at 19:02
Another option would be to convert the latitude and longitude to decimal then enter those values as Northing = Y and Easting = X.

See this re: conversion.

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html


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