What is the best mapping method for your farm?
Deciding on the best method for mapping your farm can be tricky. This page
will help you to decide which will be the best mapping system for your farm.
The main things to consider are the cost of the different methods
versus the accuracy of those methods and what you end up with as a
final product.
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PROFESSIONAL
GPS MAPPING |
AERIAL
PHOTO MAPPING |
DO IT YOURSELF
GPS MAPPING |
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Ideal For:
- Dairy farms, cropping and other farms where great accuracy is needed.
- Dairy conversions and expansions, marking out new paddocks to be re-fenced.
- Finding centre points and marking out buried guidance for centre-pivot irrigators.
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Ideal For:
- Large farms, stations, farms that would take a long time to GPS
map.
- Any farm where 0.05ha accuracy is not vital
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Ideal For:
- Farms where aerial photography is not recent enough to get all
fence lines from.
- Where photography is not high enough resolution to pick fences
from.
- When you are looking to develop your farm, and put in new fences.
- Mapping your farm on a tight budget
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Advantages:
- We map the farm for you. You do not have to spend time gathering points or drawing up your map.
- Most accurate form of mapping (areas generally within 0.05ha)
- With our high accuracy RTK GPS, we can record and mark points with 2cm accuracy.
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Advantages:
- Quickest and easiest way to map your farm
- You receive a colour photograph of your farm
- Ortho-corrected photographs mean your map is still very accurate
- Much less expensive than a professional GPS farm map
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Advantages:
- You can map your farm in your own time.
- More accurate than drawing your map from an aerial photograph
- You receive a hand held GPS that you can also use for fishing,
hunting, etc
- Map can be added to at any time by recording more GPS points.
- Many different GPS models available
- Cheapest farm mapping option
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| Common Features:
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Common Features: |
Common features:
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Package includes:
- Site visit to gather GPS points
- A1 laminated wall map
- 50 page pad of tear-off handout maps
- WMC Map editing, measuring, and printing software
- Available Extras:
- Wall maps
- Map pads
- Laser Etched whiteboards
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Package includes:
- Colour Aerial Photograph
- WMC Map drawing, editing, measuring and printing software.
- Simple to follow instruciton booklet
- Available Extras:
- Wall maps
- Map pads
- Laser Etched whiteboards
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Package includes:
- Garmin handheld GPS
- GPS to PC USB download cable
- WMC Map Farm mapping software
- Simple to follow instruciton booklet
- Available Extras:
- Wall maps
- Map pads
- Laser Etched whiteboards
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| Price:
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Price: |
Price:
- WMC Map with GPS60:
$649 incl GST
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here to read about mapping accuracy differences between these techniques.
- Easily create and modify paddocks by tracing over your aerial photograph
or GPS points.
- Paddock areas update automatically.
- Quickly and easily measure distances, altitudes and areas.
- Upload and download points too and from a handheld GPS.
- Create layers of information, such as drainage, water lines, trees,
etc.
- Print your map (with or without the photograph in the background).
- Send us your farm map via email for support, whiteboard etching or large
format and pad printing
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