Seth,
These are ready... Just tell me where you'd like me to drop 'em.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Teller [mailto:teller@csail.mit.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:54 AM
To: Greg Knight
Cc: David Silverman; bmg
Subject: Re: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format
i think we need dxf's only. yes, you can anonymous ftp
to one of our machines -- bmg students, can you check
with adel and followup with greg to set up a drop point.
thx,
seth
Greg Knight wrote:
> seth... i wanted to send you one sample file before i sent you the
> entire bunch... turns out these files are HUGE... 15MB drawing
> files... and 45MB dxf files... i cant compress even one of them
> enough to send them via email... do you have a server with some
> credentials where i can drop it?
>
> greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Teller [mailto:teller@csail.mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:07 AM
> To: Greg Knight
> Cc: David Silverman; bmg
> Subject: Re: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format
>
>
>
> greg,
>
> i think we can do a considerable amount with the unstructured plans.
> please send them along to me and to "bmg@graphics" (you can reply-all
> to this message) when you can. patrick is doing his MEng this term
> only on this project, so the sooner you can get us the data, the
> better. (he will make it work for most other MIT buildings, but we're
> really excited about making it work for stata to help all the confused
> inhabitants and visitors find their way around.)
>
> if you have layers containing space names and office numbers or any
> info of that type, please send it as well. even if it is just
> unstructured collections of labels, we can work with it using our
> current tools i think.
>
> yes, as the more structured plans become available, please send those
> as well, and we will incorporate them.
>
> seth.
>
> Greg Knight wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > I can convert them for Seth... BUT... They wont be in the
> structure that > Seth wants until we clean them up... Which as you
> know will be no trivial > matter... Our absolute deadline for this
> is January when the building is > scheduled to be occupied... If we
> get the latest plans the architect has > polylined, this could happen
> in the next month or two if things go well... >
> > Seth,
> >
> > Does it help if I convert the un-structured plans to DXF in the
interim?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Silverman [mailto:DSilverm@PLANT.MIT.EDU]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:10 PM
> > To: 'Seth Teller'
> > Cc: Greg Knight
> > Subject: RE: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format
> >
> >
> > Seth,
> >
> > I'll track down the appropriate CAD floor plans.
> >
> > Greg, if I give you these files can you do the appropriate conversion
for
> > Seth?
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seth Teller [mailto:teller@csail.mit.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:10 PM
> > To: David Silverman
> > Cc: Greg Knight
> > Subject: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format
> >
> >
> >
> > david,
> >
> > we'd like to put together a "you are here" and
> > route-finding app on big displays near the stata
> > entries, so that visitors can walk up to the
> > display, indicate a destination (or person, group,
> > lab etc.) in the building, and see a display of a
> > good route to that destination. (perhaps even get
> > a printout if we can put a public printer there.)
> >
> > we have all the pieces we need to do this except
> > the stata floorplans. our current algorithms
> > use the MIT DXF floorplans posted on the DOF web
> > site. any chance we can get stata floorplans in
> > the same format with similar structure ?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > seth.
> >
> > ps cc'ing greg knight as well.
> >
>
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