I am very green to the drone side of things but I am currently surveying with a GPS Rover and it is mainly taking contours/spot heights i was hoping to achieve some time savings on site with the drone.
I have work on that would warrant surveying with the drone and it would just improve my current surveys if i was to be set up with the drone.
I am mainly worried that if i go through with purchasing a drone it may be no use to me without spending another couple of thousand on software and so on.
If you're still interested in mapping I think you might be interested in trying our product. It's cloud based and currently completely free to use, no processing limits or annual license. Our focus is making the process as simple and easy as possible. Simply fly an area and then upload your video. We also allow you to build and grow your map over time, so you can collect a small area and then add to it later vs creating smaller maps that are only view-able as standalone models.
Hivemapper - Collect video, upload to Hivemapper, and see your map.
We're very interested in getting feedback in this time so we'd love to hear from people new to the industry as well as the pros who are already on pix4, dd, or any of the other 3D reconstruction apps.