Folks I have an old plt file sent to me many years ago by someone who has subsequently lost the .dat file. Originally I thought 'great, all I need is the .plt...
Howard, Thanks for your question ... Unfortunately, the coordinates are not in a separate section of the PLT file. They are added to the coordinates in the...
another way to do this: - read in the PLT file in Visual Topo (French surveying program that supports PLT files (but not DAT files!) Google for it, it is a...
Howard, It is relatively uncomplicated to geo-reference a shapefile in ArcGIS. You just need to go to the georeferencing toolbar and then establish control...
Hi, http://vtopo.free.fr/vtopo502.exe Once installed, you can go into Preferences, Langue and change the language in English. I just saw that the author...
Paul Thanks, this did exactly what I needed, and allowed me to get the file back into .DAT format The hardest part was understanding the French installer! ...
Paul, Thanks for your email. I spent quite a bit of time looking at your problem and I have some ideas, but I'm not completely sure what is going on. It is ...
HI Larry, I will do some checking for you one of these days. but just some quick remarks: - maybe it would be better to switch over to the registry instead of...
Hi Larry, I’ve did some tests regarding the INI-files. I’ve tried to reproduce the issue I had a couple of months ago when I lost my Compass settings. So I...
Larry or anyone I find than my screen preview does not scale equally for width and height. This is in terms of pixel count, and in terms of the screen...
Hi Dwight, I'm not sure what you mean by "screen preview". Do you mean "Print Preview"? Or just the normal Viewer screen? Or something else? Larry _____ From:...
Hi Larry I mean the normal Viewer screen. Dwight ... From: compass-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:compass-users@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Larry Fish Sent:...
Hi Dwight, Compass uses the Windows Graphics software to draw all cave plots. I specifically tell Windows to draw the images using a mapping mode that scales...
Larry Your instructions follow about what I did last night to confirm this problem. I created an east-west shot and a north-south shot of equal lengths, so...
Hi Dwight, I looked at the screen captures that you sent me and measured the lengths of the bars in the image. To make sure there was no distortion or scaling ...
Larry I downloaded an updated display driver from ATI for the card I use at home. The driver includes some limited scaling controls. As it happened, with the ...
I wish to load a Digital Terrain Model to our maps of Lewis and Clark Caverns in Montana. The link from COMPASS to the USGS site does not appear to work, so...
Rich, I sent most of this information in a private email, but I thought some of the other cavers might benefit from these answers. Thanks for your letter. I...
Hi Larry, Thanks very much for your usual very prompt and thorough help. I successfully located and loaded a DEM from GeoCommunity. Unfortunately, the area of...
Rich, The problem is probably caused by anomalies in the files right at the edge between the two maps. For example, if the edge of one map has 250 points and ...
hi Larry. OK, here ya go, and thanks for your continued good help Jefferson Island is on the west, Sappington on the east Rich ________________________________...
Hi Rich, Sorry this had taken so long, but I have finally fixed the problem with your DEM files. (I had a bit of a disk crash in the middle of things and I had...
hi Larry, Thanks! It's no problem that you didn't do this instantly: your service is still quite remarkable. Did you meant to send an attachment of the zipped...
Rich, ... Basically, I fixed the Merge-Tool in the DEM Reader so it will merge the two DEM files you sent. That will allow you to create a new DEM that...