Landartma Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 I just came across this measuring tool called Moasure. Any opinions or alternatives to it? I know VW has the GIS but it seems limited to larger scale or sites with limited cover. Quote Link to comment
wjmca Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 I have the same question, did you do anything about using Moasure. I am especially interested in how VW would deal with measures and how useful its information would be for making existing grades. Quote Link to comment
Claes Lundstrom Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Accuracy is, according to their web site, +- 0.5% on a 12 ft long line, so +- 18.3 mm. So, in my experience it does not seem better than the lidar apps I have used for the iPhone 12/13 Pro. Seems rather expensive relative to what it does. Quote Link to comment
Landartma Posted May 27, 2022 Author Share Posted May 27, 2022 I did not do anything about Moasure. There seem to be systems popping up daily. I did buy a Bosh laser tape measure. Gotta say its pretty awesome. Tough when measuring down a straight wall. You'll need to make a target. Mine is my note book jammed into what ever I can find. My understanding, talking to some civil engineering friends, is that I'm way behind the times when it comes to site measurements. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 I use a regular laser measure. Aiming at the target can be a pain, especially when there are things like furniture or foliage in the way. And it's not much good for outdoors measurements on a sunny day. And while it can give me very accurate straight-line measurements it won't give you relative elevation heights. Those always have to worked out after the event. I can see the attraction of the device in the OP. Presumably these types of things are going to become gradually cheaper and more commonplace. Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 I recently upgraded my Bosch laser measure to a Leica disto x4 with camera - much easier outside than chasing a small red dot! Leica also has a point-to-point accessory (dst 360) which is a bit expensive but outputs dwg files. I also have a stabila rotary laser for elevations. ...and lots of 300' tapes! Note: I put some "highway" reflector tape on my onsite drawing board and a couple of other objects in my onsite kit - it really makes it easier to use the bosch red dot laser outside! Also I did a bit of research on the moasure - downloaded the app, watch a bunch of videos- honestly it looks like a scam to me. Quote Link to comment
Landartma Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 In looking at whats out there. There are some systems introduced to me by Bryan G. during training sessions...Spectra Epoch and Emlid which I have not pulled the trigger on yet. They are pricey but my understanding is that they do everything from elevations to point to point measurements. I would guess they will plot to a cad file. Anyone with experience on these? Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 As far as I can see, the biggest problem with all these systems is how to get the raw measuring data converted into a form that is useful in your chosen drawing software, which in our case is Vectorworks. Measuring a wall in great detail, with great accuracy and very quickly is now easy: getting that to appear in Vectorworks drawn in a sensible way as a wall object (with appropriate door and window objects in it) is the tricky bit and still requires a large amount of manual intervention. Quote Link to comment
unearthed Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I asked an (inbiased) surveyor friend about Emlid and their opinion was there was far too much advertising and not enough function - the NZ agent told me if I could survey around trees if I could get LOS - surveyor said they were very dubious about that. I don't see singing praises of Emlid online & ditto for Moasure. I keep hoping for something less heavy duty than a robotic theodolite. Quote Link to comment
Landartma Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 Funny I just spoke to a surveyor today. He was using a system which cost his company around 9k and still leaves much to be desired. He said outside of total station there is a bunch of correction work to be done in the office. His feeling is that we are not to far off from a smart phone app being able to to "landscaper grade" site measurements. I don't need really really accurate I just need pretty accurate but fast. 1 Quote Link to comment
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