2D CAD with background image map (qcad? brl-cad?)

[Robin Laing]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to draw routes of fiber optics cables ontop of a city map and I
> would like to do this in some open source CAD application. It would be
> great if the cad app would be something like Map3D so that it has
> geospacial coordinates, but that is not a must have. One must have is
> that I can scale the city map image so that it coresponds with real
> world. When I mesure some distance I need to know real world distance.
> 
> I saw qcad but I don't see any option for importing images. I also saw
> brl-cad and it looks promising but there is no Fedor apackage for it
> so I can't test it easily.
> 
> Does anybody have some similiar 2D CAD experience? Can you recommend
> some other app?
> 
> Cheers,
> Valent.
> 

On my Qcad,

Draw > Image

Allows you to insert an image onto the drawing.

I can then draw on top of that image.

As others suggested, there are GIS applications for Linux as well.

If you are doing this on a regular basis, the GIS application would be 
better.


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Robin Laing