Farm IT Help - Google Maps

Farm Maps

Farm maps provide a graphic view of your farm, you may then use the graphic view to select fields and add field records, show field data or even create grazing records by dragging and dropping cows and sheep.

For many years we have been providing mapping capability within the FarmIT 3000 Software based on our own custom system based on a background imgae of your farm or area. With the growth of GPS technology and online mapping this has been rather overtaken. We therefore decided to embedded a GOOGLE maps interface into FarmIT 3000, FarmIT Online and 'FarmIT Mobile for Android' in 2020. with the result that you can now use google maps and GPS data to produce maps of your farm within the FarmIT 3000 software and link the map to your field records.

With the use of GPS receivers, built into phones and navigation aids it is now easy for us all to record an area or parcel of land, or mark specific points with a GPS coordinates. Using Google maps we can then plot those points on a map and link the information to field records for planting, harvesting, fertiliser application etc. It is even posible to mark individual features for example trees, cairns, boreholes, or fences, hedges or tracks.

Google Maps

Google maps are driven by Latitude and Latitude data, normally produced by GPS, however you can also edit a google map and draw field boundries, Lines and place markers. So your can plot fields, field parts, lakes, bogs, draw fence lines, water pipes and add makers for gates, cairns, trees and alike. You can even use your android GPS phone with FarmIT Mobile to mark the coordinates whilst actually in the field for real!. So GOOGLE maps has many advantages over our traditional software. However there is one advantage that is thank's to the RPA in England and that is the RPA Land Parcels website,  where if you have a SBI number you can download your fields and GPS data. Importing this data means you can create all your fields and plot them on google maps within minutes!

The Google map interface provides all the features of Google maps, but because it is being run within the FarmIT 3000 software we have the ability to interactively link the map to your actual farm records for the fields, field parts and other objects. For example if you clickon a field you will open the field record!.

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