Thursday, January 17, 2008

Georeferencing and Georectifying AutoCAD documents

Preamble: AutoCAD 2008 and previous versions (all the way back to the '80s) do not have the capability to use a geographical coordinate system. So, how do you get these points into ArcGIS (which uses coordinates)? In addition, once you have them in there, how do you georectify them (if necessary).

The answer is simple: