For those needing to know the techie stuff! |
Background Maps of entire USA & Alaska
State & County Boundaries
Major Highways
Major water bodies
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Continuious Information View
-- Lat./Long. or UTM coordinate
-- State, County you are in
-- USGS 7.5" Quad Name & ID
-- Highway feature under cursor
-- Control Point information
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Windows 95 & NT compatible
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- Turn on/off control points for any of the 50 states; just click the
state name in the table
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- Turn on/off the 1 Degree lat./Long./ grid or the 7.5' quad grid
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- More than 711,000 NGS Horizontal & Vertical control points on one
CD (The same control data content found on 10 NGS CDs
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- Control points stored in a single ESRI point layer per state in Shape
format
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- Highlight any combination of classes such as 1st & 2nd order only
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- H/V point symbols are color coded & user selectable
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- "GoTo" functions - as the user clicks on a State, County,
etc., the view instantly centers upon that location at a scale-appropriate display to
include all the user-selected features
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"GoTo" functions include:
-- County
-- State
-- 7.5" Quad Name or USGS Quad ID code
-- Lat./Long. coordinates
-- UTM X Y coordinates and UTM Zone
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- "Locate" functions include:
-- NGS PID - state, county, then PID
-- NGS PID - State, then 1st letter PID
-- NGS Station Name - state, county, then
station name
-- NGS Station Name - state, county, then
1st letter station name
- "Locate" more than 1.4 million place names
-- USGS GNIS - state, county, then place
name
-- USGS - state, then 1st letter of place
name
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- Select any visible control point by clicking the symbol on the map.
The simbol is highlighted in yellow, then added to the working "project" table.
The NGS data sheet descriptive data is displayed in the "pop-up" window
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- Load the NGS state data sheet files from the Geodetic Control Locator
CD, or use an existing and current NGS-produced CD ROM. If the state data sheet files have
not been loaded, just point summary data is displayed
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- Select control points graphically by drawing a box or circle around
an area of points
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- "Project" Point Table
-- can be viewed and edited
-- used to view/query a point data sheet
-- can be sorted by 9 different sort orders
-- can be printed to an ASCII file
-- can be printed with or without data sheet
detail
-- can be named, stored and recalled later
-- can have multiple tables for multiple
projects
-- exported to a comma delimited or fixed
width ASCII file
-- is retained when program is closed
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- Print map view using Windows-supported printer/plotters
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- Tool Bar includes:
-- pan
-- zoom in
-- zoom out
-- zoom window
-- 2x zoom in/out
-- measure distance, azimuth, bearing
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