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land surveying calculation, network adjustment, digital terrain models, regression calculation
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Total station data formats #182

Closed rubberm0nkey closed 2 weeks ago

rubberm0nkey commented 1 year ago

Hi,

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I'm wondering how commonly used formats these are... for example geodimeter doesn't exist anymore, foif uses fieldgenius on newest instruments, etc

What are the most commonly used data formats today? Trimble? Leica? Geomax? Sokkia? Nikon? Topcon? Stonex? Ruide? Foif? South?

Or the postprocessing is not a thing anymore, everything is calculated on the field? Some instruments has a built in android tablet, which competes with a computer.

zvezdochiot commented 1 year ago

Hi @rubberm0nkey .

This is a duplicate #64 .

rubberm0nkey commented 1 year ago

Hi @rubberm0nkey .

This is a duplicate #64 .

I don't thik it's duplicate. I think most of the supported formats are obsolete. The question the question was what are the formats used today. I don't even think that somebody is using a Geodimeter 500 or 600 for everyday work.

zsiki commented 1 year ago

Why should we delete older formats? Trimble 55xx series total stations use Geodimeter format.

rubberm0nkey commented 1 year ago

I did not say that it should be deleted, but rather that the new ones should be supported. I have a 10+ yrs old leica, so i don't know what is the new trend. I have an app (no one else is using it) which uses leica idex format as import. It's been written in AutoCAD VBA, and the quality of the source code is (to put it mildly) not impeccable :D

zsiki commented 1 year ago

I usually write driver/loader for total station formats what I meet or I am asked to support. Nowadays I mostly use SDR33, M5 and GSI. If I need only coordinates I use also CSV. Are you satisfied with idex loader of GeoEasy? I couldn't test it much.

faludiz commented 1 year ago

Hi All,

The total station data formats are hell. The main problem is that, there is no standards like dxf or shp. Every manufacturer has one or more own format which changes regularry with new isntruments. For example leica gsi is a nightmare: sometimes the station data mingled with measurements, somtimes completely missing. Perhaps the SDR33 or RW5 format is a quasistandard, although they also have dialects. Interesting fact: there was a hungarian software called GeoProfi whose .mjk format was implemented as an export format by some instrument distributors for their intruments. This format was easily read by post-processing programs developed in Hungary, and is even read by GeoEasy, GeoZseni, GeoCalc. So in Hungary, GeoProfi .mjk is a quasi-standard format.

zsiki commented 1 year ago

DXF and SHP are neither internation nor national standard, They are industry standard ruled by a the owner (Autodesk and ESRI). To tell you the truth DXF is also a nightmare. But it is far from the topic of this discussion.