I’m putting in place a database to record architectural features/objects in a large fire damaged historic building. We are recording location via a single 3D grid (x,y,z) covering the whole building. At the moment people have to identify the grid location by finding the point on drawings/ortho photographs. I have been wondering whether there is a way way of giving people a device which would give a read out of the x,y,z position that they could transfer to the database. The building has a temporary roof, has very thick brickwork internal and exteranl walls (1m+) and is divided up into a number of different areas. The users are conservators and architects rather than digital professionals so it would need to be something very simple.
Am I dreaming or is there a solution? I am not an electrical engineer so this would either need to be something that is available off the shelf or we could commission someone to make.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.