Re: [JPP-Devel] Survey tool

2010-02-02 Thread Larry Becker
We did find that the Traverse tool on the ArcGIS COGO toolbox is an acceptable solution, although it was trial and error to determine how to enter DMS angles in it. Larry On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Sunburned Surveyor sunburned.surve...@gmail.com wrote: No problem. I do want to whip up a

Re: [JPP-Devel] Survey tool

2010-02-01 Thread Stefan Steiniger
what do you mean by survey measurements? angle and distance? or just point coordinate lists? For the latter, to create single points, I would use the Pirol CSV plugin. (needs some specific formatting, but... - Maybe Michaels recent text/SCV plugin can that too?) stefan Larry Becker wrote: I

Re: [JPP-Devel] Survey tool

2010-02-01 Thread Larry Becker
Like ArcGIS COGO, I guess: http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?ID=540rand=597pid=539TopicName=An_overview_of_COGO Larry On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Stefan Steiniger sst...@geo.uzh.ch wrote: what do you mean by survey measurements? angle and distance? or just point

Re: [JPP-Devel] Survey tool

2010-02-01 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Larry, I don't have a tool designed for this yet. However, I've done 80% of the work in my JTS Warped library. If you use this library you could easily import a list of bearings and distances from a text file and use it to create feature geometry. (Or take a bearing and distance entered from a

Re: [JPP-Devel] Survey tool

2010-02-01 Thread Larry Becker
Hi SS, Thanks for the info. I don't have a critical need at this time. One of my in-house users has already worked around it using Excel. He requested the feature, and I thought I would see if one already exited, but I don't intend to do any programming on the task since it only comes up

Re: [JPP-Devel] Survey tool

2010-02-01 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
No problem. I do want to whip up a plug-in that shows what the library can do. If I get around to it, I will let you know. SS On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Larry Becker becker.la...@gmail.com wrote: Hi SS,   Thanks for the info.  I don't have a critical need at this time.  One of my