Farm and Field Boundry Maps

hammer73

Is this a service that any of you would like or think would be usefull, have the farm boundary and fields mapped and accurately measured? It’s a service that I have thought of offering, can provide maps on their own or superimposed on Google Earth.

Map on its own


On Google Earth



Ideas and comments greatfully recieved

snowman707

I already have them supplied by my reps planner.

maidhc

I think it would be useful so you could load onto a GPS. I use viewranger on my phone when spreading fertilizer in bare fields or mowing. The assited GPS is pretty accurate for pinpointing where you are going.

dar31

id love to get it done on our place, think it is a great tool to have.
its a bit to costly to get done at the moment though.
if your were converting to dairy or changing the lay out of paddocks it would justify the cost. there is a crowd called grasstec doing this service and more, check out their website and have a look at how far they have taken it.
would say there should be a market for it, a bit more competition is needed

hammer73

dar31 wrote: »

there is a crowd called grasstec doing this service and more,

Do you know what they are charging? is it a flat fee or so much an acre?

Injuryprone

presumably you are licenced to use the aerial photos for such a purpose?

RuggieBear

is the software ESRI? looks like an ArcGIS map to me...

5live

Good idea but reps time would have been best. Price will determine success. I was at grassland association walks and grasstec seem to have market sown up. Not sure what they charge but it depends on how much you want them to do ie area ,water planning, roadway planning. And has anybody used gps for spreading? It would be ideal for fert post silage

maidhc

5live wrote: »

Good idea but reps time would have been best. Price will determine success. I was at grassland association walks and grasstec seem to have market sown up. Not sure what they charge but it depends on how much you want them to do ie area ,water planning, roadway planning. And has anybody used gps for spreading? It would be ideal for fert post silage

I use it on viewranger (I only have OS maps for hillwalking!). I disable maps, switch on the trail. Doing the headlands marks the field boundary and viewranger has a heading arrow so you know if you are going in a straight line. It is pretty cost effective, as I have my phone (Nokia N97 mini) on me anyway.

hammer73

Injuryprone wrote: »

presumably you are licenced to use the aerial photos for such a purpose?

why would i need to be licensed? i am superimposing the map onto google earth.

Injuryprone

hammer73 wrote: »

why would i need to be licensed? i am superimposing the map onto google earth.

Extract from Google Earth's Term of Service

"5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose."

hammer73

Injuryprone wrote: »

Extract from Google Earth's Term of Service

"5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose."

Thanks for the heads up, i guess most people would not want it superimposed on Google Earth anyway but ill get in touch with them to see what it would cost if i did want to use it.

Username John

Injuryprone wrote: »

Extract from Google Earth's Term of Service

"5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose."

I may be wrong, its been a while since I last looked at Google Earth. But isnt only half, or maybe less of the country at a reasonable resolution in Google Earth? The remainder is at a very low resolution, so when you zoom in fully, its just a very fuzzy blur...

Injuryprone

Username John wrote: »

I may be wrong, its been a while since I last looked at Google Earth. But isnt only half, or maybe less of the country at a reasonable resolution in Google Earth? The remainder is at a very low resolution, so when you zoom in fully, its just a very fuzzy blur...

Don't know about google earth (never used it), but that's definately the case with Google maps. Mapped out my place at home on Autocad last year (rural cork). Google map of our place was rubbish resolution. But got a good clear one from another source that worked out fine. Don't know if they're available in other counties though.

vincenzolorenzo

This is a great website: http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,591271,743300,0

Has good quality high res images of the entire country (from 3 separate years in fact) as well as historic maps. The 25" historic map (from ~1900 I think) has field areas marked on it, and in many cases field boundaries won't have changed. There's a tool there as well where you can fade in a modern satellite image over the historic map and see do boundaries match up. Great website

7

I would second the OSI website. A great resource. But why won't they let google use these sat images?

http://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=placeSearch - If you look up your local area you can find out who owned what in 1850. Nicely done on google maps.

www.surveying.org - Handy tool which uses google maps to measure field areas. Unfortunately the sat images for ireland are so blury its barely usable.

www.farmmap.ie - A low cost alternative GPS Farm Mapping Service.