Does anybody know where you can find the pre-defined blocks for autocad for airport data to upload to their GIS system? We can create them, but it's a lot of stuff, and surely everyone don't always create these from scratch. If not, they need them where you could download and use them by their format. Matter of fact, there is a bunch of rablash that needs fixing/ done away with this airport stuff. talk about redundancy..
they've got it.
TIA, JTS
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is the coordinating organization for geographically related data.
>FGDC subcommittees work on issues related to data categories coordinated under the circular. Subcommittees establish and implement standards for data content, quality, and transfer; encourage the exchange of information and the transfer of data; and organize the collection of geographic data to reduce duplication of effort. Working groups are established for issues that transcend data categories.
Some years ago FGDC adopted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CAD Standard as the FGDC utilities (topographic symbols, line types as well as CAD templates) CAD/GIS standard. Also since the Corps is involved in design and maintenance of military airfields many of the CAD symbols should directly apply. I have mentioned the Corps CAD Standard here several times. The standard is compatible with the US National CAD Standard that costs quite a bit. The Corps CAD Standard is public domain and free to download from the CADBIM Technology Center.
Once you are on the CADBIM page click the CAD button, then A/E/C/ CAD Standard button. The resulting scroll window has active links that will lead you to publications as well as AutoCAD and MicroStation versions of the standard. You may be required to submit an email address and set a password. This is to permit notification of those using the standard when changes and updates are made to the standard.
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EDIT: You may also find the publication "Geographic Information System Program Geospatial Data Standards Version 2.0 January 21, 2004"(PDF) helpful. It also references The National CAD Standard and directly references FGDC standards and publications.
After a review of the FAA document I found it makes direct reference to the U.S. Army Corps standards.
>In addition, the Center's GIS programs will review and implement, wherever feasible, the relevant State of New Jersey standards governing geospatial data. The Center’s GIS project began in 1993 as a support tool for the Environmental Engineering Group, ACX-042 and was developed upon the Environmental Systems Research Institutes Inc. (ESRI) Professional GIS software suite of Arc/Info and later ArcView. Geospatial data at the Center are maintained in an Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) using ArcSDE (ESRI) geodatabase format. The ArcSDE geodatabase format exists as an object-oriented georelational model consisting of geographic feature objects represented by one or more vector feature classes consisting of points, arcs, polygons, annotations and more complex geographic representations of features. The feature vector data schema is based upon the latest version of the Army Corps of Engineers CADD/GIS Technology Center (CGTC)– Spatial Data Standard for Facilities, Infrastructure & Environment (SDSFIE). The SDSFIE was adopted as an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard (NCITS 353) on November 15, 2001 which satisfies the standards adherence requirements under OMB Circular No. A- 16.
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Mr. Morlan,
I really appreciate it, that will help the engineer that I am working with a lot.
He/We thought we were going to have to create them all from scratch. There's not a lot of them on his project, but it will save some time as well as being sure that's what they want.
You know, there are a lot of things made from that scratch stuff, everything from biscuits to computer files. 😛
thanks again,
JT
Also watch the templates, level naming standards and color coding. The templates have many of the preferred layer/levels created with default color, line style and line weights preset. Some of these settings require custom line styles also included in the available files. For example the same cell/block is used for all types of manholes. However, waterlines, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, electrical etc. each have their own layer/level and color. Text labels for each will normally be on the next sequential (numeric or named) layer/level.