On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Thompson Freeman <tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/22/2008 04:07:35 AM, 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? > > It sounds like a job for a GIS application, an area I have no personal > experience with. That said - I think Linux Journal had an article on QGIS > this month, which if you Google up might help you. > > You might also consider mashing something up with GoogleEarth Thank you, I'll look it up. I thought that gis apps have no CAD features for drawing, so I didn't even think of that. 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
