Orthomap Software?

Orden · Jan 22, 2016

I'm really interested in purchasing a drone and understand what I want and the process for it. But I have a question and thought this would be a good place to ask.

I would like to purchase or just research and get an idea on prices for the best software that makes Orthomaps. Can anyone please give me a list of the top 5 or top 10??

Thanks ahead of time!

Meta4 · Jan 22, 2016

Agisoft Photoscan is probably the most commonly used program.
There are also services that provide aps for capturing and they process the images to produce the orthophoto etc for you
Look for DroneDeploy, Maps Made Easy and Pix4D.

Orden · Jan 22, 2016

Thanks I'll look into it! DroneDeploy, I hear, is fairly buggy still though isn't it?? I heard lots of great things about it but a couple small things, such as offline map tile caching?

Meta4 · Jan 22, 2016

I used it a little a couple of months ago to try it out and didn't notice any problems

Dale Rodgers · Jan 22, 2016

I've played with Opendronemap on Linux is you're into tinkering (and free).

It just does the 3d stitching into a mesh (opened with meshlab).

No routre planning, no fancy viewers. But free.

Routes could be done in litchi

Orden · Jan 22, 2016

Meta4 said:
I used it a little a couple of months ago to try it out and didn't notice any problems

Are you using android or apple?? I also heard/read that the battery isnt showing up properly on the dronedeploy app. So I was told to watch it manually to bring it to homebase before the battery runs out.

NimpoCub · Jan 22, 2016

Can I download/load a somewhat local map or will I haft'a load a whole N America one?

Meta4 · Jan 22, 2016

Orden said:
Are you using android or apple??
I also heard/read that the battery isnt showing up properly on the dronedeploy app.
So I was told to watch it manually to bring it to homebase before the battery runs out.

I'm using Apple and didn't see any problem with battery display.
Here's a screenshot I made of DroneDeploy doing a 35 acre survey