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Worth checking Skydrive out though and keeping it in the toolblox.
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I use the free Microsoft Skydrive. (Microsoft SkyDrive - Online document storage and file sharing) You can open and edit all the office priducts and you get Gigs of file space too. It's cloud based and available with just an internet connection. Or search for the microsoft excel viewer, you can't edit but it renders the files properly, I've found with Open Office some entries don't show properly from excel.
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Have to speak up for AutoCAD here Paul. AutoCAD will do thousands of trees in minutes too. Just takes automation. That is what I've done with it. Just like the shadow program I'm giving away. You know a 5000 tree site TCP (my biggest is 4000) could be done for a one off fee of around £100 (that's a couple of hours at CAD rates). Could be very cost affective for some people compaired to buying new technology.
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For 5837 surveys, a couple of cost affective and efficient protocols, without GIS mapping systems, would be 1) Take a paper print (OS tile or topo) to site, mark tree positions clearly on print, send scanned image of map to a company specialising in doing CAD for arborists, send spreadsheet of tree parameters to same company with the digital OS tile or topo, get back a nice branded high quality TCP in pdf and CAD format. 2) Take a tablet/laptop with OS tile or topo loaded to site, drop tree markers directly onto digital map using simple CAD software, send file and spreadsheet to third party as above and again get back a nice TCP. This way very little capital outlay for technology, no training expenses or steep learning curves, past cost on to customer as a Cost-of-Sales. These methods work on sites with up to hundreds of trees.
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Thanks Paul. Anything you want to know about CAD - give me a shout. I automate AutoCAD and do alot of TCPs/TPPs for people.
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Glad you like it Tony. Hope you find it useful. the tweaks you made will be necessary to personalise the output. I'm not a software developer, I just try to make AutoCAD work a bit for me. There is quite a bit of processing to convert northings and eastings to lat and long, then calculate quite a few sun position parameters. It is useful I think because it will handle as many trees as you like (don't know what the limit is), a time saver.
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There are some nice applications around Paul. They usually cost quite a bit. Programming AutoCAD can take a while to learn, but AutoCAD becomes very powerful if you know how to do it, or you can use programs other people have written for it.
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I think the bmp is too big to load. Rob.
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Have uploaded a screenshot of two trees. It will do many more of course.
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Will email a zip file and instruction Paul.
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Will post files to all later today.
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Sorry Paul, no, only full AutoCAD which has the Lisp interperator.
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Will email it to you Tony.
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Sorry HCR, no. Its built with the AutoCAD autolisp language.
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I use AutoCAD to produce tree constraints plans for BS5837 surveys. I have written a program that will automatically generate tree shadows on any day. It also generates the more general shadow type described in BS 5837:2005. Works for any number of trees, just needs northing, easting and tree height in a data.txt file. Just load and run in AutoCAD. Giving it away free. Anyone interested?
