Contour maps

Ted Creighton · Jul 26, 2016

Quick question - does the Phantom 3 App. have the capacity to record (and thus) printout, a Contour Map of the area flight has taken?

Meta4 · Jul 26, 2016

Ted Creighton said:
Quick question - does the Phantom 3 App. have the capacity to record (and thus) printout, a Contour Map of the area flight has taken?

The app will record the path of the Phantom for a flight.
It records the position every 1/10th of a second in 3 dimensions and you can pull that into Google earth and see heights etc.
But the Phantom doesn't do contours.

sonof40 · Jul 27, 2016

The Phantom records (3D) but doesn't process? So GE does the processing?

kenargo · Jul 27, 2016

Ted Creighton said:
Quick question - does the Phantom 3 App. have the capacity to record (and thus) printout, a Contour Map of the area flight has taken?

If you have DJI Ultimate Flight; it records a KML file for each flight and the KML file can be loaded into Google Earth to get an altitude profile of your flight.

Is that what you are looking for?

DJI Ultimate Flight - v3 - Android Apps on Google Play

Ted Creighton · Jul 27, 2016

Perfect, my good friend. Thanks much....

TC

Meta4 · Jul 28, 2016

Ted Creighton said:
Perfect, my good friend. Thanks much....

Or just go to https://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/Upload/
Follow the instructions to upload your flight record.
And you'll get a full display of flight data and a link to download a KML file too.

Imabiggles · Jul 28, 2016

Ted Creighton said:
Quick question - does the Phantom 3 App. have the capacity to record (and thus) printout, a Contour Map of the area flight has taken?

yes and no. you can make detailed contour maps by taking photos of the area at different gimbal angles and altitudes and then crank them into software. Less detailed ones can be made by simple fly overs and fly back.

It takes forever for the software I use to match, model and output a 3d map, but cool as heck. Just seach "3d maps with aeral photos" in google, a couple of commercial packages and lots of free stuff. I use the free stuff.