Today, the value of spatial information is becoming increasingly important. With the latest 6.3 version, you may obtain co-ordinate data from various sources that was previously unrelated to surveying and civil engineering. Geographical co-ordinates of latitude and longitude are important areas of information, and this may now be imported with ease into Civil Designer.
The ‘Import Geo Coords’ command that is found under the Survey mode file menu, allows the importing of geographical coordinates into a project with the automatic conversion to YX coordinates. This function has the same look and feel as the command ‘Import Ascii Coords’, and is just as easy to use.
Just like ‘Import Ascii Coords’, the ‘Import Geo Coords’ command is versatile in that the file can be delimited by commas, tabs, etc., and you may even specify which columns contain which data. The format of the geographical coordinates may be in the ddd.mmss format, (at any number of decimal seconds) or decimal degrees format.
Users need to remember that this is not a datum conversion and should therefore not be used as a method to go from for example the WGS84 to the Clarke 1880 datum. Southern hemisphere users also need to note that our latitudes are negative.
The ‘Import Geo Coords’ command does not entirely do away with the existing ‘Geo Topo’ command. This command is far stricter on the file format, and requires an intermediate step of exporting and importing, while the ‘Import Geo Coords’ command does away with this step.
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