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[Jaakko_Laihola]

Hi Mike

I know that P4Dmatic has geoid support but what I’ve read from the community forums it doesn’t work quite that well:

Wrong Orthometric Heights

I have to take your word for this since I have no control over the camera coordinate system as in Mapper. Matic is much more of a “Black Box Solution” than Mapper, and I am not sure that I like that as a Land Surveyor. Since this is the behavior for other DJI drones in the past, this could definitely be the problem. I did check the elevation of one of the cameras in Matic vs. the same in Mapper and there was a 4.62-foot difference. I then computed the EGM96 and the Geoid 18 values and subtrac…

If I buy P4Dmatic and a cloud subscription that’s a whopping 4700€/year and on the other hand I could just buy Metashape perpetual license (3900$) that has proper geoid support, free s&u package, cloud storage (100Gb/10$/month) and much more features that P4Dmatic. Well what do you think I would choose?