Plex.Earth, a good example of penetration in the Hispanic market
Just today the Spanish version of the PlexScape page has been launched, which, apart from its original edition in Greek, also existed in English and French.
It seems to us a significant gesture, from which we saw indications from before, since Plex.Earth within its more than 10 languages already included Spanish in the version 2.0.
Well, no taste is the second most used language on Google. But this is also due to a marked trend towards this sector, which represents no less than 500 million people, although distributed throughout the world, they are concentrated in the American continent and the Iberian Peninsula. A sector that every day matures as a market, where little by little companies and professionals have been understanding the importance of using software legally and governments to adopt policies to make investment in the technology segment sustainable.
A notorious fact is also valuable, they used a human translation, which gives the content quite a bit of clarity, contrary to what Google Translate produces in its best attempt to understand our linguistic whims.
Geofumadas has been tracking Plex.Earth for two years now, almost close to its creation. I can now imagine its creator (A Civil Engineer), asking himself three questions that surely many had crossed in the middle:
Could it be possible to have Google Earth in AutoCAD, to take advantage of the satellite images and WMS services that are served there?
And could it be possible to draw on Google Earth, having the precision that AutoCAD offers, and saving the data in the dwg?
Could this work with any version of AutoCAD?
We know that the subject is of general interest to any part of the world, but our Latin American context is a segment more interested in taking advantage of Google Earth. If you live in the Netherlands, and you want a digital image, you only connect to wms services that offer it for free, if what you want is the orthophoto you only go with the Cadastral Institute and acquire it at a reasonable price or for free under an agreement Exchange of the Large Scale Map.
But if you live in Latin America ... (with very few exceptions), the orthophoto taken by the National Land Registry with public funds is not available, if you do not use a document signed by the President, it is that they no longer have it or you must pay him a bite to the employee to sell it to you low low. In other cases, they sell it, but the price is at the bottom of the list ... which you don't even get when you see the price they ask for cadastral maps in printed format.
So Google Earth, with its limitations, becomes attractive. With good criteria for field survey adjustments, it has ended up being a solution to institutional weakness and cunning to take advantage of a resource that does not exist.
At least in these reviews we have talked about them:
- That will bring Plex.Earth 2.5
- Connect AutoCAD with Google Earth
- Generate Google Earth Curves with AutoCAD
- What PlexEarth 2.0 Brings
- Interact on UTM with Google Earth
We are pleased to see changes that were suggested, reflected in the latest version, also that they saw Spanish as a possibility. Speaking with one of its creators, he made reference to me that almost a third of his current clients are Spanish-speaking.
For our part, we welcome you and we hope that this revolutionary product will be disseminated, perhaps the best connector between Google Earth and AutoCAD.