Hello everyone,
Hopefully I am creating this topic in the correct place. I am totally new to GPS and GIS, but (hopefully) a quick learner!
Our family run business is a natural burial ground, the ground is currently mapped out by means of a map, created in CAD, from a scanned image, when in CAD, a grid was added to the areas, and then this was measured out on the land. (I can picture people reading this and shaking heads!)
This has worked, and still works, but we want to get more accurate data, and be able to 'go to a certain point' by using GPS, and when at the point be able to have information about the point on our GPS unit.
I have a Trimble Geo7X, capeable of 10cm accuracy which is absolutely fine for our needs, currently I need to post process the data to achieve this but when I have the 'mapping' done, we are going to look at RTK, Trimble VRS now or similar to achieve the same accuracy going back to points.
I can operate the Geo, collect good data and process it, but that's where I stop.
I would like to know the easiest way to take the data collected and turn it into a usable 'map' where I can add points to on the computer at home, and then import this back into the Geo, go back out to the field and be able to go to that point, and also be able to colllect data and update the same map? I hope that makes sense?? To me, it sounds like it should be quite simple, but actually doing it hasn't been!
I have looked/tried QGIS, but got a little lost! If this is the way to go, I will revisit and try again.
All suggestions and advice welcome, and thank you for reading my topic.
Regards Tom.