{"id":2200,"date":"2016-10-17T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:39:30","slug":"add-gps-coordinates-to-site-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/2016\/10\/add-gps-coordinates-to-site-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Add GPS coordinates to site plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, PDF files and JPEG images could be uploaded onto OTISS to create site plans. But these file formats do not contain any geo-reference\/GPS\/location information, therefore they could not be used with GPS nor could the site\u2019s trees\/furniture be used with the \u2018real\u2019 world maps such as Ordnance Survey, Google, OpenStreetMap, aerial maps, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the image contains clearly marked points with known geographic coordinates (e.g. Ordnance Survey grid reference points), then you can overcome these drawbacks by \u2018geo-referencing\u2019 the image. <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use GPS when surveying with suitable PDFs.<\/li>\n<li>Swap to the online and aerial maps to confirm location.<\/li>\n<li>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/help\/loading-maps-plans\/\">geo-referencing your PDF files<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get the best out of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/android\/using-gps\/\">GPS and the OTISS survey apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, PDF files and JPEG images could be uploaded onto OTISS to create site plans. But these file formats do not contain any geo-reference\/GPS\/location information, therefore they could not be used with GPS nor could the site\u2019s trees\/furniture be used with the \u2018real\u2019 world maps such as Ordnance Survey, Google, OpenStreetMap, aerial maps, etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-release","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoYpC-zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otiss.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}