CROPSITE GIS Data Format Inquiry

[Coleman Catherine]

>
>Greetings from Idaho !!!
>
>One of our field offices is trying to get some field boundary and soils
>information to a land owner.  They have it on their GRASS GIS system.
>The land owner has software called "CROPSITE" whcih can import data in
>"AGLINK", "SURFER", "MAPSITE", or "ASCII" format.  I'm not familiar with
>the first three formats, and I don't know what sort of ASCII format file
>the fourth is.
>
>Please share any information you may have on exporting data to this software.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>David Hoover
>Manager, CGIS Section
>USDA-NRCS (SCS)
>Idaho State Office
>
>a16dhoover at attmail.com
>208-334-1525
>

David,

I used SURFER years ago to show topology of some small areas.  Back then the
file format was a based on a simple x,y,z coordinate system where x=latitude,
y=longitude and z=altitude or some value such as height or amount.  These
coordinates were referenced on a general x,y,z=0,0,0 grid.  When I was using
this system, I imported it into SURFER from an ASCII text file in columns of x.
y, and z.

It was all very simple if you had everything as point coordinates.

I have never done this, but you could use v.out.ascii, r.out.ascii or
s.out.ascii.  You can
view the manual reference for these commands using g.manual {grass command}.


Hope this helps somewhat.

Catherine
Catherine H. Coleman
Natural Resources Branch - USMA
Ph# 914-938-5939  Fax: 914-938-5453
email: yc5763 at westpoint-emh2.army.mil