If and when the NGS website comes back online, I want to download the datasheets for all four states that I am licensed in, as well as the shapefiles for Google Earth.
I don't want to get caught without the data I need to take care of my clients.
Is there a way to download the datasheets for a state, and have them separated into individual sheets for each point? The amount of data would be pretty large, and I was wondering if there was an automated way to do this.
Thanks in advance.
Jimmy
Why? NGS Datasheets Are Subject To Regular Adjustment
That is the new way of life. What you know as true today is not true a year from now.
Paul in PA
Yes, there is a way ...
Jimmy,
If you look closely at any datasheets you have in-hand, you will notice that occasionally there is a "1" in column one which corresponds to a page break. FORTRAN uses that as a page break in order to issue a command to your printer to eject the page and start printing a new page.
All you need is a compiled FORTRAN program to accept whatever filename you input so that it will print the entire file ... your printer will automatically eject a page as soon as it sees the "1" in column one.
Lahey Fortran offers a free FORTRAN compiler the last time I looked.
Yes, there is a way ...
Could you also use a multi-file Search/Replace?
I think UltraEdit does this.
Find
1 National Geodetic Survey, Retrieval Date
Replace
National Geodetic Survey, Retrieval Date
is a FormFeed character not literally ""
I seem to recall you could download a PC utility from NGS to manage datasheet files. I never used it and don't remember the details of what it could do.
Rather than having reams of useless points (destroyed monuments, intersection stations, etc), I suggest downloading the PC utility DSSELECT to sort through the data. The utilities by Malcolm Archer-Shee also include sorting functions. I do not know whether MA-S' utilities are available outside the NGS site.
Hopefully this furlough nonsense will be over soon.
Thanks for the replies.
I would print them to a PDF format. That way I could keep them on a flash drive, and have them in the field, on the laptop.
I will check out the utilities.
Thanks again. Have a good weekend
Print the pdf file to a Dropbox folder...
and have access on your (internet connected) laptop, smartphone or tablet.
In the old days (pre internet) we would buy the CDs and had a handy lisp routine to bring them into autocad.