Mapping

• I've sent emails to a few faculty members (one in Geography and one in Civil Engineering) asking about advice for obtaining maps of the campus.
• I've tested out Keyhole (some thin-client style software) that may be useful for obtaining latitude-longitude coordinates for various paths along campus.
• I think we need data to represent a grid corresponding to actual locations on campus. Each point on the grid will have a value to represent whether or not the robot can travel there. We also need this grid to be georeferenced (i.e. grid points have latitude and longitude associated with them)
• WE GOT DATA!! Conrad and I (Levi) met with Dr. Andronikov at the GIS center to discuss the usage of their data with our project. One of his assistants provided us with data containing georeferenced map data of the campus along with aerial photographs.