Thank you to Ladd and Carlson

Ladd Nelson, post: 406521, member: 307 wrote: In my humble opinion, LandXML is not the problem... LandXML is merely a format for data and the http://www.landxml.org/Spec.aspx&apos ;">LandXML data structure(s) is (are) well documented and publicly available and have been for years. In fact, there is even a http://www.landxml.org/webapps/LandXMLValidator.aspx&apos ;">LandXML File Validator that allows anyone to check if the LandXML file they've produced (or have been given) conforms to the LandXML specification. If you're producing a LandXML file that validates properly but isn't showing the expected results in a receiving application, I'd say it is highly likely the receiving application is not parsing the data correctly. On the flip-side, if you're producing a LandXML file that doesn't validate, you'd want to contact your technology provider and make them aware of the problem(s). My å¢2...

I for one would just like to thank Ladd for monitoring this board! With just a few large monopolies producing our software and hardware it is sure nice to have one of the "small, family owned" companies around still to monitor our needs. Some of the old ones that come to mind were SMI, DEZIGN, BOSTON HARBOR, ASHECH...... hopefully Carlson will be around for years to come. On second thought, if Trimble bought Carlson then maybe Carlson could get the Trimble secrete codes to run their hardware and we would actually have a productive product. At least for a couple of years until Trimble engineers got involved (like it did with tds) my 2 cents, Jp