Room Scan
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iPhone users might be interested in a newly launched iPhone room survey (plan) app. There is a free version and a Pro version at $4.95. The Pro version allows for inclusion of door / window opes.
I have just downloaded and will let you know how I find it. The site link is here, http://locometric.com/ -
Come on Android...
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I tried a few of these sorts of things. Never felt compelled to give up my laser methods. This looks like it makes some progress if it is accurate. One app I have uses corners of the room. Corners are never visible it seems, when I go to a building, so it was useless.
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this doesn't look very precise. Since you have to hold it flat against the wall it seems to build the room out of intersecting planes by noting only the position of the phone . So if you have a bump in the wall and not perfectly straight walls (which will never be the case) i think you'll get unprecise intersections - and even worse the bigger the room gets and if the room is not rectangular...
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I tried it out and was disappointed with the results.
It seems that in order to achieve any kind of decent results one has to move along at a fast pace! This is not possible if there is furniture and objects in the room that have to be negotiated.
As stated (+-6"), its not that accurate on initial output but there seems to be a way of correcting this.
I'll play with it a little more
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Maybe more for appraisers and home shoppers. But what is the export?
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the old tape measure was a great invention and has stood the test of time
....until now maybe...!
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@gareth said:
the old tape measure was a great invention and has stood the test of time
....until now maybe...!
I would not be inclined to throw away the 'old tape measure' quite yet
While Room Scan is a great idea, it has a long way to go before I would use it for accurate floor area surveys.
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I posted about this before. I'm hoping the first production run is this Spring and that it works as advertised. Much as I still depend on the 'old tape measure' and digital tape measures and such, getting the basic data of a whole room(s) with a scan would be an immense time saver for me.
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