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1. You can drop one of ten bookmarks by positioning the cursor over the map and pressing the keyboard keys 1 through 9 and 0 Later you can recall these locations as coordinate s location by pressing the button and choosing the location from the Clipboard the Measurement Spike or a bookmark Profile Tool Show elevation profiles between two points along a route or a hand drawn path Computes and displays elevation gain loss climb drop and slope along path Profiles can be optimized for scale and size for inclusion in publications Elevation Tools The Elevation Tools automate the interpretation of elevation data The Rank Tool searches and ranks high and low elevations FUrk 1 Levee 4 ern Eievedion Bankimg Tool Lar dg aul Bor agen a eed ier ULM ELI Ome De Bt LED SLT LE Ive Eu Dr LL Lr TON p een Sapa ibm hr Ha m amm bom Fund Pani aj bsk a TIT Labs Feud adis inn Chapter 2 All Topo Components and Dialogs The Line of Sight Tool computes and shows where you can see a building or radio tower from Line of Sig Tool 2 i Um bc Pom mi i oon Stam TEP k m ogy ng ms mrs ee bd tom eg Run TT is iai nD oes ROI NE one ONU Auto GeoLink Tool LR 1E ERE EnD Ba 3C Dd i Fa EAE TIEI ia i TEN ETEN FITE P ia ir wie Bx PA 5 linh Pe nemmrle Li i Tie qms oem abe oe gamme ome mi oma arr auf i HL DXTUQM FT TS Di ee
2. System Angle and Projection Defaults are used by the Measurement Spike and Point to Point Distance tools Angle Display Format The Angle Display Format selects the compass bearing format used for the Measurement Spike Point to Point distance tool and other bearing displays The D d format is appropriate for most uses Quadrant angles may be suitable for survey work Default North Reference The Default North Reference can be set to True North Handy for surveys or some navigation e Magnetic North Great for working with compass readings no need to manually compensate for declination e UTM Grid North Best if navigating with UTM coordinates e State Plane Grid North May be appropriate if navigating with State Plane coordinates Default Projection The Default Projection can be set to Great Circle Lat Lon UTM Grid e State Plane Grid Measurement Spike Location You can manually position the Measurement Spike by entering an exact coordinate or recalling a coordinate from the windows clipboard or an All Topo bookmark Spike Distance Units The Spike Distance Units selects the distance units used to display the distance from the Measurement Spike to the mouse cursor The Spike Distance Units are also used as the default units for most wizards and helpers Default Bombsight Area Tracing Units The Default Area Tracing Units are used by the bomb sight tool area tracing function
3. option Select an annotation and build a profile using the Options Build Profile selection Reduce Points on a Line Highlight an annotation that is part of a line connected route Select the menu option Options Reduce Points to delete points that fall in a straight line Enter the maximum allowable position error for points falling near a straight line Brice Rapes dia A le Li Points that fall within this distance of a line connecting subsequent points are automatically removed from the annotation list Annotations that have GeoLinked media will not be removed This options is useful for reducing the number of track points recorded by a GPS to the minimum number of points required to accurately define the track Write a Deed Description Select a group of annotations then choose the menu option Options Export Selected to Deed Description to generate a metes and bounds survey description Carefully read the disclaimer presented when writing a survey description The use of this feature is regulated by state survey law Measuring Distance along a Straight Line 76 All Topo can measure the straight line distance between two points using two methods Distance from the Measurement Spike to the cursor Projected distance and bearing between two points Distance can be expressed in any of the distance units understood by AII Topo7 including Feet Yards Meters Miles Survey Feet Rods Chains Li
4. A list of every user defined annotation will be displayed You can highlight one annotation or a group of annotations and perform these tasks Edit one annotation or a group of annotations es Change the order of annotations using the Move Up sj and Move Dn amp sep buttons Use the Cut Paste and Copy buttons to change annotation order Change the layer of selected annotations Collect multiple points into a route or a closed shape Reduce Points on a Line Export selected annotations to a text deed description Editing a Group of Annotations Highlight one or more annotations then press the ta button to edit the annotation or group of annotations Changing the Order of Annotations Highlight one or a group of annotations then select Cut to copy them to the Windows clipboard Highlight a destination and press Paste to insert the annotations use the Move Up and Move Dn buttons to change the annotation order Setting Annotation Layers Use the Edit Set Layer option to change the drawing layer for the selected T3 annotations If you move an annotation that is part of a route connected to other annotations by a line then the entire route is moved to the selected layer Collect multiple points into a route or a closed shape Highlight a sequential group of annotations and convert them to a closed or open shape using the menu option Line Set Line
5. Doce adi e apory at unen Pop Bani hie fe kil a Eua Pj Check both the Display current position in All Topo Maps and Automatically center map over GPS position options When your GPS receiver has position lock the viewer will automatically center the correct map on your screen and place the configurable Track annotation at your current location on the map Change the Default Annota tion Style configured for the Track on the All Topo viewer menu Options System Options System tab Default Annotation Styles Track Real Time Tracking Configuration NMEA Sentence Selection for Real Time Tracking Check at least one sentence type to use for real time tracking Typically the GPGGA selection is sufficient however if it does not work try checking all the boxes Require Checksum on NMEA Sentences Check this box to enable error detection on the serial link Position Update Interval Choose an appropriate interval to update your position in All Topo Maps since the map and all annotations must be redrawn with each update a longer interval may be appropriate for slower computers 152 Chapter 11 BigTopo Chapter 11 BigTopo BigTopo is a map seaming tool capable of accurately seaming 24K and 63K Alaska All Topo Map sourced quadrangles BigTopo7 can quickly build custom map coverage in IT3 IT5 formats for use with the All Topo Map viewer and generic graphic formats including GeoTIF encoded TIF images
6. Don t rely on computers GPS receivers are computers All Topo Maps run on computers Computers hate us and are part of a large conspiracy don t trust them Take a paper map and a magnetic compass the kind without batteries for backup Be prepared take printed maps have a plan in case something goes wrong let someone know where you are going and be safe Thanks again for purchasing and using All Topo Maps All Topo Map V7 Pro Quick Start Guide Everything you wanted to know about All Topo Maps in two pages Installation Read the first couple of pages of Chapter 5 Register at www igage com regweb Looking for Place Map and Location Place press the i button or press Alt P Map press the iius button or press Alt M Location press the i4 button or press Alt L Printing a Map Press the gd button on the toolbar and choose the scale you want to print at Press Ctrl P or use the main menu selection File Print then Select the proper printer and page size Choose Portrait Tall or Landscape Wide orientation Choose to print the entire map or just the viewed selection Select an option under 4 Printed Map Scale Choose the top Image Processing Method Use Windows Print Driver Select options as appropriate OQ Un A t N Press the Preview button M if needed use the Drag Hand cursor to compose the printed image in the map viewer 8 Press the Print button is r Place a Way
7. If you choose to use UTM coordinates it is very important to note the correct datum Assuming an incorrect datum with UTM coordinates will Appendix A Coordinates Primer generate 4 times the error generated by using the wrong datum with latitude longitude coordinates Entering Coordinates in All Topo The All Topo engine accepts a variety of coordinate entry formats e Latitude Longitude DMS s DM m or D d Universal Transverse Mercator UTM e Military Grid Reference System MGRS e State Plane Coordinates SPC e Public Land Survey PLS Relative coordinates You can manually enter coordinates in the Find Loc tool s Free Format tab the Location box of the Coordinate Editor and the Waypoint Source Editor The All Topo engine will dependably figure out what your intentions are If you enter a number proceeded by the word Zone or the letter Z All Topo assumes you are specifying a UTM coordinate and looks for two additional numbers with optional units to be interpreted as easting and northing 1 689 810 Ft E 14 940 739 Ft N Z13 Z followed by number 515 129 86 M E 4 554 132 93 M N Z13 If no Zone or Z is found and 2 4 or 6 unique numbers are found All Topo assumes you are entering a Latitude Longitude coordinate Degree minute seconds DMS s degree minute DM m and degree D d entries are supported 41 140 278 N 104 819 722 W 2 numbers D d 41 8 416 7 N 104 49 1
8. Loge emi mm T i raran Te Se oa a aa E ix The Symbol tab controls the properties of the marker dot and any iconic images that are overlaid at the annotation s base location By default a small marker dot is display at every annotation location The marker size can be set with Marker Width and Pen Width Marker colors can be set with the Colors tools Five Marker Dot styles are available No Dot o Dot Marker Width 5 Pen Width 1 T Small Cross Marker Width 5 Pen Width 1 Medium Cross Marker Width 5 Pen Width 1 a Large Cross Marker Width 5 Pen Width 1 In addition you can display sizeable Lines Triangles Circles Rings Eclipses Squares Rectangles Wind barbs Pictures and Icons at any point Over 700 stock icons are included with All Topo Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Symbol Type Plain Marker Setting a symbol to Plan Marker draws only the Marker Dot at the coordinate location Symbol Type Line Arrow A line is drawn from the annotation location The rectangle described by Width and Height defines the line length Rotation is applied to the resulting vector Type Line Width 0 25 Mi Height 0 0 Mil Rot 45 0 Symbol Type Triangle A triangle is drawn centered at the annotation location The major height of the triangle is defined by the Width Rotation is applied to the resulting triangle Type Triangle
9. View the Quick Shape controller by selecting the main menu selection Options Quick Shape Controller pem fae fle el edd rl le pena km s d Laem ae af UTD NI 4 Bua we p as a Coes ea eH the Quick Shapes controller will be shown To show quick shapes over the maps first choose the quick shape files to display adjust the color and fill attributes then enable shape displays by checking the Enable Shape Display box on the Quick Shapes controller or press the QS button ai on the main toolbar to the in position Once enabled the All Topo viewer will overlay the shapes included in the QSF file with the properties selected by the Quick Shapes controller 115 IY TF ra ls FS Pea I3 T IE 5 DY PEE RTI E T T T veseli SPELL A and the Auto GeoLink viewer will display ifie en shape file attributes of the location under the cursor Building Quick Shape Files The converter required to convert Shape Files is only available in the Professional Edition of All Topo Maps Quick Shape files are built by converting industry standard Shape Files SHP to the Quick Shape format The Quick Shape format arranges the shapes into groups of nearby shapes with high performance indexing so that the shape list can be searched and displayed very quickly To convert a standard shape file to a quick shape file you need to first install the QSFConverter This All Topo utility i
10. as a command line would be on invocation DoSaveCurrent integer set non zero to save current waypoint file DoSaveAsFilename integer set non zero to save waypoints to following file SaveAsFilename cal28 DoWindow integer set non zero to move AllTopo main window to screen pos WLeft integer WWidth integer WTop integer WHeight integer Set Map Type Scale MapType 24K integer set non zero to push the 24K button MapType 63K integer set non zero to push the 63K button MapType 100K integer set non zero to push the 100K button MapType 250K integer set non zero to push the 250K button end Chapter 10 All Topo GPS Tool Chapter 10 All Topo GPS Tool All Topo Maps includes a powerful GPS interface tool that directly exchanges waypoints route points and track points with most consumer GPS receivers The GPS Tool links the All Topo Maps viewer and your GPS receiver Waypoints and Route points and Track points may be moved from the All Topo Maps viewer to your GPS and from your GPS to All Topo Maps Real time tracking also automatically plots and centers your current position on the map viewer s window This chapter describes the operation of the GPS Tool with your GPS receiver Starting the GPS Tool You can start the GPS tool by selecting Tools GPS Tool from the All Topo Maps viewer window ES tL jaaciCona F JU cei gets d m Me oe
11. 66 99 Autojump gt D gt 229 Font gt 218 Href gt 21 Include gt 216 Line 22 M location gt 21 Meta Tags gt 21 R 2 0 gt 22 Symbol Jide 21 oO 00K Maps 4 5 Minute Map 19 24 Bit Output 9 24K Maps 4 250K Maps 40 SK Maps 41 78 Y Minute Map 19 8 Bit Output 99 m gt N 255 Accuracy 7 PLS Section Lines 43 Aircraft 11 J Alaska Maps 19 Alignment Ticks 10 Aliquot Sections 18 All Topo Pro 1 All Topo RIP 10 All Topo using Alt key using Alt C 78 Angle Defaults 109 Angle Display Format 10 Annotation 78 ON 3 i i an Add Another 9 Add Move Edit Delete 8 Description 94 Descriptions Enable 9 diting multiple 20 ditor 24 nable 23 Enable Disable 9 ule current 23 ilename 8 p C2 T D en k eoLink 86 rid Controller 94 rid Layer Controller 114 roup 76 V C 5 un oo Co mport and Export 95 ayer 32 9 ayers ap Collars 114 arker Dots 80 ove 76 E 1 A 234 Moving 8 Names Enable 9 New 8 89 New File 9 Notes Enable 9 Annotations Moving Position 9 Annotaton Arc View Importing Basemaps 130 Area Setting Circle Symbol 8 racing Units ATM_API rec 144 Attach Matching 12 Auto Attach GeoLink 12 Auto Elevation False Coloring 11 Auto GeoLink 2 Auto GeoL
12. Percent of Nominal Scale zoom the map as a percentage of nominal 99 map scale If the scale is set less than 55 or greater than 200 it will be highlighted with red text to indicate the scale may not be appropriate for printing Inches per Mile number of inches that 1 mile of map coverage will cover on the printed map Miles per Inch number of miles of map coverage shown in 1 inch of printed map Feet per Inch number of feet of map coverage shown in 1 inch of printed map Centimeters per Kilometer number of centimeters on printed map that 1 kilometer of map coverage will require Meters per Centimeter number of meters of map coverage shown in 1 centimeter of printed map After setting any of the scale settings press the tab key to exit the setting and all of the other scale settings will change to reflect the new setting The Set Printed Map Scale menu is also available directly from the Print map menu Printing Maps To print a portion of or the entire current map select the main menu option File Print The Print Map tool will be displayed Tama are Coming Perm H SIE ETE d iii i LG ar nnm a s ign JO D E PAPCTY EE Err mem muxo cx a mea e Eom CAL EET enam ame brags Pero rg beer Lre wei phi Ry nm V Lik ii an hf ri UEES Leon aan U Dai ee i n eo Pay amm I dum skye n cuam D Pi are cm be ier ges i emer el d man The Printer Information button 4 displays page s
13. 0 6336 inches 1 mile 1 000 inches 1 mile 1 267 inches 1 on map 1 578 miles 1 on map 1 on map 0 789 miles 1 on map 2 083 feet 1 mile 2 534 inches 1 on map 0 395 miles Smaller map scales show a smaller area with great detail large map scales show a large area with less detail v I m ML F Po z i he ES cu EP 1 250 000 LI Lade T i pu m Van aps Li i a LI T PLUR E m i i z Chapter 3 Map Basics 1 25 000 scale maps were briefly produced during the late 1970 s when the United States was planning on converting to the metric system When the national conversion was abandoned by President Reagan in 1977 the USGS reverted to producing 1 24 000 scale topographic maps Most 1 25 000 scale topographic maps and 1 100 000 scale maps produced during the 1970 s have elevations noted in meters instead of feet 1 25 000 scale maps in All Topo map sets are rescaled to 1 24 000 scale maps to help reduce map scale complexity Topographic Map Symbols The following symbols are commonly used on USGS topographic maps Control Data and Monuments Control points are maintained by the National Geodetic Survey for survey geode and elevation control purposes A very detailed database of these points is routinely published and the latest data is available on the web at www ngs noaa gov Many of these control sites have been maintained since the founding of the United
14. Additional licenses serial number sets can be purchased to allow a single user to install and utilize web based updates on multiple machines These Serial Number Only licenses do not include disk or manual sets must be registered to a single user and are available at a greatly reduced price Site Licensing Discounts on multiple full copies of All Topo Map Sets with media manuals and serial numbers are available Site licensing pricing is based upon these criteria Number of client seats you must purchase at least 5 licenses to qualify Number of Serial Numbers per user desktop and laptop purchasing multiple serial numbers per user will accrue the same discount as the Single User with Multiple Machines Site licensing requires a signed agreement and individual approval by Igage Mapping Corporation Network Licensing Network enabled copies of All Topo Maps are available These copies share map data sources on the network install client copies from the network and are centrally administrable There is a fixed per server V7 Network License fee server connected client serial numbers are discounted Subscription Services Web based Map Updates are provided via subscription Complementary subscriptions are provided with some products When a subscription expires it may be renewed for a nominal charge Internet Based Updates and Subscriptions All Topo Map web based program and map updates require subscrip
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16. By default All Topo will draw lines and text annotations that fall outside the neat lines of a map You may alternatively uncheck Annotate Map Collars to stop annotations just outside the neat lines The All Topo annotation engine will support an unlimited number of annota tions Your computer might grind to a stop but All Topo will be just fine We often work with 200 000 annotations in a single file All Topo allocates memory for annotations as it needs it however there is typically a operating system penalty if a lot of memory is allocated piecemeal If you know you will be working with 60 000 annotations you can set the Preallocated User Annotation Space to 65 000 annotations to speed things up By the same token if you know you will only be using a couple of hundred annotations and your machine is memory limited then setting the preallocated user space to 500 will greatly reduce the program s memory requirements The default value of 5 000 annotations is adequate for most modern comput ers running typical All Topo projects Controlling UTM State Plane and Lat Lon Grids The annotation engine supports three grid types Universal Transverse Mercator UTM e State Plane Coordinate Systems SPC NAD27 and NAD83 Geographic Lat Lon You can control the grids using the Layer Grid Control tool To view the tool select the menu option Annotations Annotation Control Layer Grid Controller or use the shortcut k
17. From the File Background menu load the new image The Load Background Files dialog is shown Press Add then browse for the image you might need to change Files of type to Ait When you find the correct file press Open to add it to the background file list 128 Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo Finally press OK and Pathfinder will load and display the selected background image aF Pape lhe e Er EOG REEDURCES INC Bpud Dua iiri i95n spa qui xt To turn off background map display simply go back to File Background and uncheck the check box next to the filename to turn it off Press the Add button to add other background maps Importing maps into ESRI Arc Products ArcExplorer ArcExplorer is a free GIS viewer supplied by ESRI Exported All Topo maps can be displayed by ArcExplorer with shapefiles and other GIS data layers From ArcExplorer s main menu select the option Theme Add Theme 129 Browse and highlight the map exported from All Topo Map then press Add Theme on the toolbar to load the map Finally check the box next to the newly added theme to display the map image ArcView ArcView is a powerful GIS tool supplied by ESRI Before loading the map make sure Tiff Image Extensions are turned on From ArcView s main menu select File Extensions then check Tiff 6 0 Image Support
18. Pe Connie Dogs once Mais che C nderit Dope ote Uem Legen and ager loo adn Carta Sir Arria Lari To force an alternate State Plane Code add the correct code and datum to the SPN North Code SPN_UTC_NAD27 Appendix B has a complete list of valid State Plane Codes The datum must be NAD27 or NAD83 To specify a point 2000 feet north and 1000 feet west using NAD83 Wyoming East State Plane grid as a the north reference Y 2000 feet X 1000 feet GN SPN_WYE_NAD83 Projection Even though All Topo base maps are UTM Projected All Topo can project relative coordinates using any of these projections Code Description LL Latitude Longitude Great Circle UTM Universal Transverse Mercator Grid SP State Plane Grid Don t confuse projection with north reference It is possible to mix projection and north reference Controlling Projection in Relative Coordinates By default All Topo will use the Lat Lon Great Circle projection a Projec tion Code may be used to specify an alternate projection DueN TN 1 mile UTM Z12 1 mile true north applied to UTM Grid Zone 12 DueN TN 1 mile SP UTC NAD27 1 mile true north applied to Utah Central NAD27 Zone To specify a UTM projection add UTM to the end of a relative coordinate You may also add a datum and or a zone to UTM Separate the datum and zone with underscore characters UTM_NAD83_Z14 use Zone 0 to specify the natural zone of the base coordinate To specify a State Pla
19. Repeat this process for the remaining two deed description calls Paci Fa a B TIU FEE Gas uS Dieci Pr 1223 d Pn 5 Tran Pies i A u a0 i oF 0 ol Call 2 N89 332147W 2 609 5 Feet Desc SW corner thence North 89 degrees 33 minutes 21 47 seconds West a distance of 2 609 5 Feet to the South West property corner Pai Fun USE TCP AT RT EE Ce rer ee 1 d Pn ot Fran Fi i in aa ie Ww 5 Finally enter the third and final call Call 3 NO 112582W 1 337 7 Feet Desc NW corner thence North 0 degrees 11 minutes 25 82 seconds West a distance of 1 337 7 Feet to the North West property corner race lil WHITE EPI p MED Tam Clete PIG ELS ot Fran Fi lI ux XLEHUTNIXENSGS 9a Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Set the line style to Close and the description to NW iam tol we IBI ipin onim pasal LaTi baL Demi Pt i L mhad Haina bate oara r a Sia H7 ETT H eT u mo Ae ELA TOME dE Td c 717 aab Se a ZEN C e Care bian ax im rm pa ete Deep i eismod iip Chaar Fu Finally press OK to display the completed property boundary i It is worth noting that you can directly enter this survey in the the Annotation Source Editor shortcut key F8 BTE WIPE ed Me inn i en i 4 rU Lem eee Beer See LE m Skt LETE Po WTW E Peek BET E Pest S4 LENT Fei NH tiles coal Syntax descriptions for
20. The ATM API rec uses these data types char byte double 64 bit floating point number integer signed 32 bit integer 144 Chapter 9 Command Line Arguments amp API type Note DatumCodes O NAD27 1 NAD83 2 WGS84 5 NAD27AK 6 NAD27CANADA 9 Intl1924 cal6 array 0 15 of char cal28 array 0 127 of char tKeyPress packed record KeyCode integer ShiftCode integer Oxl ssShift 0x8 ssLeft 0x40 ssDouble 3 WGS72 7 NAD83CANADA Ox2 ssAlt xl ssRight The ATM_API_rec is defined by the following structure 4 NAD27CONUS 8 OLDHawaii ll short string long string Single Key Description windows keycode O0x4 ssCtrl 0x20 ssMiddle Cursor Geographic Position when key was pressed UTM X double UTM Y double UTM Z integer UTM D integer LL X double LL Y double LL D integer WPName cal WPDesc cal28 WPNote cal28 end ATM API rec API Version integer jq x From All Topo Maps 99 LockSync integer packed record cursor position UTM Zone Datum Code cursor position Datum Code nearest waypoint Name waypoint Description waypoint Note Size 11176 bytes Currently 1 This number is incremented after the following values are updated by the viewer It is sufficent to read LockSync before reading any of the following values has not changed Current C
21. The declination from the UTM Grid to True North for the annotation location The default natural NAD27 UTM zone is assumed unless overridden Arguments FORMAT DATUM UTMZONE Ex GDEC 0 119 GDEC 212 4 075 GDEC NADS83 0 HHHH S 0 118259 ELEVF Elevation in Feet Returns the computed elevation in feet for the annotation The NED database must be available for the coordinate 1f All Topo is unable to compute an elevation the value 0 0 will be returned Arguments FORMAT Ex ELEVF 6089 ELEVF 0 0 Feet 96 6088 8 FEET ELEVM Elevation in Meters Returns the computed elevation in meters for the annotation The NED database must be available for the coordinate if All Topo is unable to compute an elevation the value 0 0 will be returned Arguments FORMAT Ex ELEVM 1855 9 ELEVM 0 0 Meters 96 1855 9 METERS GPSELEV GPS Elevation Displays the GPS Elevation for the annotation The GPS Elevation is entered in the Elev box of the Details tab of the Edit Coordinate box If an elevation is not available the value 0 0 will be returned The GPS elevation is displayed in meters unless overridden with another distance unit Arguments FORMAT UNITS Bx 9eGPSELEV96 1863 0 GPSELEV FEET 0 00 6112 20 GPSDATE GPS Date Time Stamp Displays the date time stamp associated with the coordinate by the GPS tool or generated when the point was added The GPS date time stamp can be modified by clicking in
22. measurement Units Abbreviations Description Meters M ME 1 0 Meter Feet FE FT IFE IFT International Foot 12 0 0 0254 Meter Survey Foot SFE SFT 1200 0 3937 0 Meters Miles MI 5280 0 International Feet Nautical Mile NM 6076 11549 Feet Yards YA YD 3 0 Feet Rods RO RD 16 5 International Feet Poles PO 16 5 International Feet Perch PE 16 5 International Feet Chains CH 66 0 International Feet Links LI LK 1 100 Chain Varas VA 33 1 3 inch If no units are specified All Topo assumes that distances are Meters 167 168 Datum For maps that show a very large area of the earth it is sufficient to model the earth as a sphere However for detailed coordinate use the earth must be treated as an oblate ellipsoid also called an oblate spheroid think of a basketball flattened at the North and South poles flattening ratio w w h Two geometric constants are used to define the ellipsoid the semi major w and semi minor h radii Typically we express these constants as the semi major axis and the flattening ratio While the flattening ratio is only about 1 part in 300 it becomes an important part of equations modeling the earth and for calculating geographic coordi nates The choice of the reference ellipsoid has been a major concern of geodesists since the early 18th century In the 18th century Isaac Newton postulated that the Earth should be slightly flattened at the poles The French Academy of Sciences in 1835 sent
23. n zj Pange OE T Rake cm amp Mul a Lim Pm Eur Pas ps ef ZI a M E 5 894 N R E LII E LS UM Geld lihi i igi Pr 8 dik Sd Pu ee LIF E Lo be E m E Die ee oii lerram ani cendum Press the 4 sie e t button to set a base coordinate at the true point of beginning brp G Dnm Lew Lesbos Cond Pe apes beind Hia biis Ims DRE a Ta T gw annua 11 ERT ELSE HUM LED E PN A Da DOSES EAT c T2 E Ru up ee HITRE w Di os Doray Dian as Lina rm ns Bas CO Diss M Dun F hamm dew Chin De X cem Change the Description to POB set the line style to Connect Coordinates w Line Begin and press OK to save the base coordinate Right click near the base annotation and select Project New Annotation From Annotation 91 The Project New Annotation menu is shown Paint Pn I7 THEEMS E De E re in m aE EIT LE HF Call 1 S1 024222E 1374 5 Feet Desc NE corner thence South 1 degrees 2 minutes 42 24 seconds East a distance of 1 374 5 Feet to the South East property corner Enter Call 1 then press the Add WP button to add the second point lide tmt jaa baa D Pt epi Loramer rare ara o et eee CPS Sama D AduHame re Tee a a a ET E als ja NL I fa Fo ae ee r Agel 7l A onm pua Th Tua Por DEC EPLM P DITE S Frame Cum ci ed m ccm X NC Pour Set the 2nd point s annotation description to SE and press OK
24. or by using the Windows Start Menu link Start Program Files All Topo Maps V7 GPS Interface Tool Configuring the GPS Tool Connect your GPS to the COM port on your computer with the GPS manufacturer s serial cable available separately Select the GPS Setup tab to configure the correct GPS device brand and communications port settings NERTII Ss mmo re Coie let en te aer DP anal l sgr mr mom E aee rim 5 8e CUM md eating Came Poe TERMES 0 Dae ie Ol ECOLE Tei iira pE DPI omarr l as Teams Lais moms m all CEH sb Dim enemy fm So mato i rmm imd ie Bat L WeDITID e m ddad TT h LUN ur Ti oe imn ee ey eee i z Miisuimtwkatea TI Lem Select the GPS Brand that matches your receiver Detailed hints and sugges tions for use with your GPS brand may be displayed After reading the hints on your GPS Brand press the OK button Choosing the Correct COM Port The COM Port must be set to the COM port that is physically connected to your GPS COMI COM2 and COMS are the most typical port selections Laptop computer COM port hints 147 e If you have a laptop with a serial port the port is most likely COM1 the internal modem is COM2 and the infrared port is COM3 COMI is most likely the correct setting If you have a laptop without a serial port you will need to purchase a USB to Serial Port adapter The adapter will have a software driver that you
25. 3 Choose an output file name and path 4 Make the BigTopo 153 5 Preview the seamed map in BigTopo 6 Opening the BigTopo from within All Topo Maps Tour 1 Defining Big Topo Coverage Start the All Topo Maps viewer and move the mouse cursor over the North West top left location of the desired BigTopo map press the 1 key to drop a bookmark Move the mouse cursor to the South East lower right corner press the 2 key to drop a second bookmark proe dash ud un ee P mpg The bookmarks don t need to be on the same map nor do they need to be marked on the seamed map scale Often it is most convenient to set the bookmarks on 1 250 000 scale maps Now start the BigTopo7 application Select the main menu option Tools BigTopo7 EJ a cum TH pam leer F JD dew Tmj ETEN 5 Pmp EI LI qualia tees meu clem Ted A The BigTopo program will start automatically load all available map information files and return to the same settings as last used Or men mrs sen veeta Da ie usto ste 45 Hell e C EROR maia FL vto Do 154 Chapter 11 BigTopo Check the North West Corner Coordinate Lock box so the North West coordinate will be the resulting map s anchor point E B LIF ILES ENa Press the northwest bookmark button the Recall Bookmark dialog is shown Press the BK1 button to recall the North West corner location we marked in the viewer Next press the So
26. Annota tions main menu When enabled they are drawn over the map surface under any user and system annotations Auto annotations are write protected and can not be modified Annotation Editor Annotations can be added to the map using the Search by Location tool the Search by Placename tool the Project New Annotation tool and by simply placing the cursor at a map location and pressing the F2 key or right mouse clicking and selecting Add New Annotation You can edit the properties of a new annotation when it is added You can edit an existing annotation s properties by right clicking near the point and selecting Edit Annotation You can edit a group of annotations using the Find Wpt pi tool Properties are set using the Annotation Editor Pee ee ee Dresd e ons ce aa i 2 Thr TECI md ja E n EZB D Add U EETAS ae 1 imd T EN a aT zal a s M Linn FI E Jy Daten o dumis nde iple args The editor has several tabs each tab controls a group of annotation properties Tab Function Simple Description and line ON OFF enable Details Name Desc Notes Font Text Styles Colors GPS tags Location Symbol symbol Type colors marker dots Line Fill Line styles colors widths shape fills GeoLinks Hyperlinks attached to annotation location DeedPlotter Optional DeedPlotter description plots Styles Save and recall named
27. Check the Recollar box to generate a map with borders titles grids and map scales When unchecked all other annotation settings are disabled South East Corner Title LC Ur Padi BB EN ni m E EDGE bh Mazs The south east title is placed on the lower right corner of the generated map BigTopoPro you can also choose the title font style size and color Pressing the Use Default Fonts button sets the corner title text to Arial 14pt black text Include Filename as NE Title tionary iE a Ju Ex pF m tm Semi Ram T EP Ei he EM m T BI 4 I L La IM ua Fe T i F 1 a ed i i ee Hay L ks tee en k i The filename without file extension or path is placed at the top right corner if this box is checked Optional BigTopoPro you can choose the title font and color with the Title Font and color picker buttons Pressing the Use Default Fonts button sets the corner title text to Arial 14pt black text Overlay UTM Grid on BigTopo Check to include a UTM grid on the generated map The UTM grid is drawn with a dashed line and the UTM grid values are placed on all four sides of the map BigTopo automatically adjusts the UTM grid spacing so that grid lines are spaced at least 1 5 inches apart 1 100 000 and 1 250 000 scale maps nominally use a 10 000 meter grid 1 24 000 and 1 63 360 Alaska maps use a 1 000 meter grid Checking the Use Fine Grids box will double the grid spacing Optional BigTopoP
28. DMS s forty one degrees eight minutes twenty five seconds 41 8 60 25 3600 41 8 25 60 60 41 8 0 417 60 41 8 417 60 41 8 417 DM m Convert DM m to D d 41 8 417 DM m forty one degrees eight point four one seven minutes 41 8 417 60 41 0 140 28 41 140 28 D d Convert D d to DM m 41 140 28 D d forty one point one four zero two eight degrees 41 0 140 28 41 0 140 28 60 60 414 8417 60 41 8 417 DM m Appendix A Coordinates Primer Convert DM m to DMS s 41 8 417 DM m forty one minutes eight point four one seven seconds 41 8 417 60 4148 60 0 417 60 40 8 60 0 417 60 3600 41 8 60 25 0 3600 41 8 25 0 DMS s Pronouncing a Latitude Longitude Coordinate 41 8 25 N 104 49 11 W is an eyeful how do we pronounce this geographic coordinate Here are spoken English pronunciations for all three geographic coordinate variations Pronouncing DMS Coordinates 41 8 25 N 104 49 11 W is pronounced Forty one degrees eight minutes twenty five seconds north one hundred four degrees forty nine minutes eleven seconds west Pronouncing DM m Coordinates 41 8 417 N 104 49 183 W is pronounced Forty one degrees eight point four one seven minutes north one hundred four degrees forty nine point one eight three minutes west Pronouncing D d Coordinates 41 140 28 N 104 8
29. Delete Annotation When the insertion point is deleted the attached trace will be removed Point to Point Cursor The Point to Point Pencil P2P cursor is a powerful route building and area delineating tool With the P2P tool you can quickly define a multi segment route or draw a line around an area If you have the optional PLS Tool then the P2P cursor combined with the PLS Magnet Css imme u 5 will make quick work of delineating property boundaries Press the O shortcut key to select the P2P tool The P2P cursor has a special right click pop up menu ae ial he uua COE Lara Lire oe RIT ETT ba rim dmm Pee ym LES Om i arum asip Hd E aem mi M Dr A H i Edit edits the coordinate annotation nearest the cursor Begin New Line starts a new line route or shape Close Current Line draws a line from the last point on the current line back to the first point on the line fills the resulting shape and displays the enclosed area near the last point Insert After adds an intermediate point after the nearest annotation and the next annotation on the line This is useful for filling in a sparsely defined route New Spur From starts a new line from the nearest annotation Automatically numbers the new route using a hierarchical naming convention Renumber Route fixes the annotation names of non sequential points on a line Erase Last deletes the last added route point Delete deletes the a
30. IE IJ ri i al ae aptent You can add additional icons by placing 8 bit 256 color palette bitmap images in the folders under AIITopo V7Symb Any 256 color 8 bit palette bitmap can be used as an icon Press the lt button to browse for a custom icons and pictures The Line Tab 84 ee ee bieti ee ee i a a MT pee el gm A ka m rs ce ee el dim DDB dud Fil leue Hi mr a E A dl The Line tab controls the line and shape fill patterns You can connect coordinates with 16 lines styles each line style features programmable colors and widths When annotations are line connected the first annotation s line attribute 1s set to Line Begin subsequent annotations are set to Line On To draw a closed shape with hatched fill set the final point to Line Close and a line will be added back to the beginning of the line Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer DES ave a ne gia T Y Annotations connected by Unclosed PR are also called Routes When building a route lines are drawn from annotation to annotation in order You can change the point ordering using the Move Up and Move Down buttons in the Search by Wpt tool Custom Line Styles All Topo s line styles can be customized by changing color width and style These are some of the standard line styles 85 The GeoLinks Tab eee ee iud Deira ee bembi ps a l iyini tm per
31. Make sure you can see the bottom status line on the screen Often the All Topo viewer window will be occluded behind the Taskbar adjust the All Topo window position if needed wm Um zm m cc mm mmc om mm RI NIE Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Press the F5 key to clear any accumulated distance Move the bombsight cursor to the starting location then press and hold the left mouse button while dragging the cursor along the trail or feature to measure As the cursor moves the status window will display the accumulated traced distance and area Measurements and traces made with the Bombsight tool are temporary and will be lost when the map is redrawn Drag Hand Cursor The drag hand tool is the most useful cursor for viewing maps To select the Drag Hand cursor press the hand cursor button on the toolbar or press the shortcut key H The cursor point is the intersection of the two crosshairs on the Drag Hand Insertion a tb i h Point To use the Drag Hand cursor press and hold the left mouse button then move the map to a new location Double clicking the drag hand cursor will center the location under the insertion point on the viewing screen Press the Control key to change the Drag Hand to a Bombsight cursor Press the Shift key to change the Drag Hand to the Zoom cursor Zoom Tool Cursor The zoom tool cursor allows you to drag over an area on the map and blow that area up to fill you
32. This block lists the correct State Plane Zone for the map as Wyoming East Zone Like UTM coordinates State Plane Zones can overlap creating multiple coordinates for a single location Some maps include neat line State Plane ticks for two State Plane Zones Entering a State Plane Coordinate A valid state plane coordinate has at least three parts State Plane Zone Code see the list of valid zones in Appendix B A Y coordinate value A X coordinate value State Plane coordinates may optionally include a datum NAD27 is assumed and distance units feet survey feet or meters are assumed based upon datum and zone as detailed by the tables in Appendix B The All Topo engine assumes that State Plane eastings are listed first 595 562 0 Ft E 172 734 5 Ft N WYE You can override the default east west order by including cardinal hints with state Plane coordinates 172 734 5 Ft N 595 562 0 Ft E WYE Appendix A Coordinates Primer or N 172 734 5 Ft E 595 562 0 Ft WYE SPC Units It is customary to use Feet or Survey Feet with NAD27 State Plane Coordi nates and Meters with NAD83 State Plane Coordinates However there are many exceptions to this rule All Topo accepts all of the standard distance tokens with State Plane coordinates Feet Yards Miles SFeet Rods Chains Links Varas NMiles Meters If you use Feet units be absolutely sure you understand the difference between Feet and Survey Feet SFeet and use the correct units If y
33. Underpass Overpass Bridge Drawbridge Tunnel Standard Gauge Track w Station Standard Gauge Multiple Track Abandoned Under Construction Narrow Gauge Single Track Narrow Gauge Multiple Track Chapter 3 Map Basics Railroad in Street Juxtaposition 3 Roundhouse and Turntable Transmission Lines and Pipelines Power Transmission Lines Pole Tower Telephone Line Aboveground Oil or Gas Pipeline Underground Oil or Gas Pipeline 47 12t wa0709 Chapter 4 Computer Conventions and Basic Terms Chapter 4 Computer Conventions and Basic Terms This chapter discusses general mapping and Windows terms and tricks It includes the following topics All Topo Prerequisites Map Terms Glossary e General Windows Tricks All Topo Prerequisites You will need a basic understanding of Windows operation to use All Topo Maps If you have never used a computer don t despair consider taking a short class on computers through a local educational resource Look for a basic Windows class at your local high school community college or continuing education center Map Terms Glossary This short list of terms and tricks may help you figure out concepts presented in this manual This is not a dictionary some of these words have very different meanings in real life and many of these definitions are All Topo Maps specific Browse for file or file path This button is often found to the right of filenames and file paths
34. You can override the primary coordinate display settings and specify a state plane grid and datum For example to force a Utah Central Zone NAD27 state plane grid projection D SPN UTC NAD27 Acceptable state plane zone codes are listed in Appendix B only NAD27 and NADS3 datum are appropriate for use with state plane grids Projection Overrides By default All Topo computes projections using great circles You can change the default behavior by adding a projection override to a D gt meta tag Lat Lon Projection Lat lon projections may also be called Great Circle or geographic projections To select Lat Lon projections add a LL argument to the D gt meta tag DLL 230 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP As with true north reference there may be some advantage to forcing a particular datum for Great Circle projections Append the datum underscore separated to specify a particular datum for the projection grid lt D LL_NAD83 gt UTM Grid Projection To select a UTM grid for point projection use the UTM argument As with grid north reference the primary coordinate display settings are used for UTM grid defaults Append datum and UTM Zone to force the appropriate selection For example to select the natural UTM Zone with WGS84 datum D UTM 0 WGS84 gt State Plane Grid Projection To select a State Plane grid for point projection use the SP argument As with State Plane Grid north refer
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36. or a Generic Graphics File If you choose to export to a graphics file you can also Enter the file name and path for the output file Press the button to set the output file name to match the current map name Enable the generation of an extra file that describes the exported maps by checking Write description of map image to file name txt This file will contain the corner coordinates scale factors and insertion points for use with CAD programs Check the Write a Worldfile box to write a world file that contains the geographic coordinate of the North West corner of the exported image and the image scale factor The extension of the world file is derived from the first letter of the image file extension the third letter of the image file extension followed by W Many GIS and CAD programs will automatically use the world file to georeference the exported map image into world space If the output file type is TIF then checking the Add GeoTIF information box will add extended geographic and scale factor information to the exported map Some GIS and CAD programs will use these GeoTIF extension to georeference the exported map into world space The Exported Map Datum is used to control the datum of the coordinates exposed by the world file and GeoTIF extensions You should choose the datum that matches the datum of your project Maps exported from AllTopo are always UTM projections NAD27 or NAD83 choosing al
37. ori Lit rn ga Hi Targ tnn orm imihia s Em AD m Lote us E gt pomi ed FP bl reed Daimi arapi mars ni Firme Hare Baieris Crariiainium i To B LLILM did hota 5 Save Waypoints as a Connected Route of Waypoints 122 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer 6 Open the saved track log from your GPS in All Topo Maps using the Annotations Open Annotation File menu option irte pe fee Dumb LS ld kem unm T T Cam ae ime o Pul 7 Start the Auto GeoLink wizard from the main menu option Tools Auto GeoLink DLR IKA ELIN FILE mE ETETE Pie BAI T 29027 Ps BYTE DON F Hl TEX eG EXER PM HL TEE QU EEN H Sesion ee DEC De E H EEMI Se ee Er IE TET RETE EN mhi C2 TEN ARUESRITEURMC i in IEM BST ee f il et id x Fuss Lido Fase laicus Lr Dip Camia i ri B Tum T iem rm Tear mm Dua ppm eg Ce puoi e peer n 11 5174 n inm TC GE dm Dun B L Use the button to the right of the Source Image entry to browse for the folder containing the pictures and track log file Every picture will be listed by the date time order extracted from the picture Click on the picture that you took of the GPS date time screen Read the date time from the GPS display in the picture you can zoom into the picture by pressing and holding the Shift key then drag the mouse over the image to zoom in Click on the image s file name to fit the entire image on the display again Selec
38. ries icm is depressed all new annotations added with the Point to Point Pencil cursor are automatically snapped to the nearest 1 4 4 section corner that contains the cursor Since the 4 sections are rarely coincident along township boundaries it is important to place the cursor within the section that contains the described property Primary and Secondary Coordinate Display As any of the cursors move over the map the location of the cursor is displayed in the Primary Coordinate Display box Be iemeo jee Gee fe Dee pele ee eh va A a alae kee ee rem NI ASME wmm JE xi Ee Ea m m m n a PR aM Cursor Coordinate You can copy the coordinate from the Primary Coordinate Display box to the windows clipboard by pressing Ctrl X If the Secondary Cursor Coordinate is not shown on the toolbar you can enable it by checking the main menu option View Display Secondary Coordinate checkbox pmo le ee Se ape ln Data iri PER bee fumma us xm e Seda LUI gni mi a mter Dim hoan Cemaaes He mars egent Lar im Pla LEER ek R cor meo Lor M en Lim espe qo emm kg aem I manam Rar hre Peer uae You can copy the coordinate from the Secondary Coordinate Display box to the windows clipboard by pressing Ctrl Z The coordinate style and format of the coordinates can be modified by double clicking on top of the coordinate box or from the main menu option Opt
39. s to verify that the correct map has been built The Activity Log Tab The activity log records system start up notes and messages that are encoun tered while building BigTopo maps 165 tm uw tm NO Ke 5 X oo Appendix A Coordinates Primer Appendix A Coordinates Primer The All Topo viewer allows you to enter coordinate locations in many styles and formats The following coordinate systems are automatically recognized by the All Topo viewer Latitude Longitude Geographic coordinates LL Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates UTM Military Grid Reference System MGRS State Plane Coordinates SPC Public Land Survey PLS coordinates Optional PLS Tool required Relative coordinates based on bearings and distance Coordinates may be entered in variety of common datum NAD27 NAD83 WGS84 WGS72 NAD27CO NAD27AK NAD27CA OldHawaiian International 1924 Relative points may be offset using three projections Lat Lon Geographic Great Circle UTM State Plane Offsets may be entered using one of four North Reference styles True North Magnetic North UTM Grid North State Plane Grid North Distances can be entered using common linear units This section describes fully qualified and relative coordinate entry with the available coordinate styles datum projections and north references Distance Units All Topo Maps accepts the following units for any horizontal distance
40. 000 meter or 10 000 meter UTM grid overlay This makes interpolation using paper maps very easy and straight forward e It takes only 19 characters to describe a location with 1 meter accuracy XXXXXXX E XXXXXXX N ZXX And UTM coordinates have many disadvantages You must record the UTM Zone number with the easting and westing 178 Appendix A Coordinates Primer A single point on the ground may be described by two or more UTM Zones with very different coordinates Since both coordinates are valid it is possible for GPS receivers to report very different locations even if they are only a couple of feet from each other e UTM coordinates are very very intolerant of incorrect datum use This is covered more fully in the Datum description of this manual UTM coordinates are inappropriate for users who are traveling quickly in a plane for instance or a long distance in a boat on the ocean or car on the interstate It is nearly impossible to calculate distance when traveling across UTM Zone boundaries and the chance of making a Zone mistake while using a GPS is quite high UTM coordinates are an excellent choice for GPS Map users who are traveling on foot within a single UTM Zone MGRS Coordinates The U S Military Grid Reference System MGRS is a reference scheme used by the military to simplify and standardize coordinate and zone use By substituting single letters for several numerals and alternating the use of le
41. 000 meter squares are fairly complex depend upon the underlying ellipsoid and are not described here 15097 54231 indicates the position within the 100 000 meter square The easting 15097 is always presented first the northing 54231 second 179 180 MGRS coordinates are routinely expressed with varying precision 13T ER 15097 54231 1 meter precision 13T ER 15105423 10 meter precision 13T ER 150 542 100 meter precision 13T ER 15 54 1 000 meter precision 13T ER T5 10 000 meter precision 13T ER 100 000 meter precision When using All Topo maps with MGRS coordinates be certain that the displayed and converted coordinates are correct for the area you are working in Since changing the MGRS datum effectively changes the underlying ellipsoid the same location on the ground may be expressed with different MGRS coordinates on two maps The user must be responsible for choosing the correct datum and verifying coordinate conversion State Plane Coordinates Like UTM coordinates State Plane coordinates project Earth s surface to flat space with distance offsets from a local base point Since State Plane Zones are relatively small they generally introduce less distortion than UTM coordinates However since State Plane Zones are small there are many possible State Plane Zones see Appendix B State Plane Zone Codes Most U S G S topographic maps show the appropriate State Plane Zone for use with the map in the lower left corner
42. 14 941 381 0 FtN 213 Feet 1 690 055 2 SFt E 14 941 351 1 SFt NZ13 Survey Feet 3 4 29 9 difference the difference between the International Feet and Survey Feet coordinates is 30 1 feet This is three times the accuracy of a consumer GPS receiver As a general rule if you are using UTM coordinates with any units other than meters you are making a mistake UTM Datum The AII Topo engine assumes that all UTM coordinates are NAD27 unless a valid datum is found with the coordinate Both NADCON interpolations and Molodensky approximations are supported Each of the following coordinates describes exactly the same location Wyoming State Capitol 515 129 9 M E 4 554 132 9 M N 213 515 085 5 M E 4 554 342 9 M N Z13 NAD83 515 080 8 M E 4 554 342 0 M N Z13 WGS84 Lid 515 080 8 M E 4 554 336 8 M N Z13 WGS72 515 129 9 M E 4 554 132 9 MN Z13 NAD27ConUS 515 120 5 M E 4 554 151 3 MN Z13 NAD27AK 515 131 3 M E 4 554 126 3 M N Z13 NAD27Canada 515 080 8 M E 4 554 342 0 MN Z13 NAD amp 3Canada Only the first five coordinates make use of appropriate datum for a point in Wyoming The Alaskan and Canadian datum are inappropriate for points in Wyoming Pronouncing a UTM Coordinate 515 129 9 M E 4 554 132 9 M N Z13 is pronounced Five hundred fifteen thousand one hundred twenty nine point nine meters east four million five hundred fifty four thousand one hundred thirty two point nine meters north zone 13 nad eighty three Enteri
43. 3 W West lt P NE 5 gt 45 28 1 1 N 114 56 21 0 W NorthEast lt P SE 5 gt 45 27 39 3 N 114 56 21 8 W SouthEast 220 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP lt P SW 5 gt 45 27 39 3 N 114 56 55 1 W SouthWest lt P NW 5 gt 45 28 2 6 N 114 56 54 1 W NorthWest Will generate these annotations on the Salmon River in Idaho j E Marth TD Ta xh bmw m MNMonhWest et NorthEast i ii cem sis ien ES av zm I Rien e East West Fer und 1 7 E s Mw i WESS E eo d SouthWest Lg SouthEast i a E emm ee mm i Connecting Coordinates with Lines Line gt You can connect successive map coordinates with lines to indicate paths or boundaries The lines can be solid colored and any width All Topo performs circumference and area calculations on line connected coordinates The results of circumference and area are available for display in descriptions and notes using special tokens The Line command accepts these arguments in any order ON OFF ON OFF BEGIN AFTER CLOSE Width any integer like 2 3 4 Line Color Background Color Line Style Shape Fill Color Default User Selection L default will set all text attributes to the user s defaults defined by the menu option Options System Options System tab User settings Line Enable Connected line segments should begin with a Line BEGIN the argument Begin and After are equivalent directive BEGIN instructs
44. 50 99 N 113 5 8 94 W west F w gt 41 38 54 34 N 113 4 54 23W northeast F ne 41 38 47 42 N 113 4 54 33 W southeast F se 41 38 47 35 N 113 5 5 20W southwest F sw 41 38 54 39 N 113 5 5 10 W northwest F nw will generate this annotation Text Rotation F Rz You can rotate the text associated with an annotation about its base position by adding a rotation argument to a Font gt tag 41 38 54 39 N 113 5 5 10 W text on 45 deg angle lt F W R 45 gt will generate Text Position Position NW 10 gt Note Text position may also be set in the lt F gt tag Text offset position must be set in this P tag Use the Position Meta tag to change the position of text annotations about the map coordinate they are referencing You may specify both a compass position and a distance in screen or printer pixels to move away from the coordinate The Meta tag P NW 10 sets the annotation on the North West side of the coordinate removed 10 points The text position around the coordinate location may be specified as Center North NorthEast East SouthEast South SouthWest West NorthWest or abbreviated C N NE E SE S SW W NW For example lt P C gt 4527 50 5 N 114 56 38 6 W Center lt P N 5 gt 45 28 6 6 N 114 56 37 8 W North lt P E 5 gt 45 27 50 5 N 114 56 15 4 W East lt P S 5 gt 45 27 34 3 N 114 56 39 0 W South lt P W 5 gt 45 27 50 9 N 114 57 1
45. 7 Disclaimers 5 Dispersion radio 29 Display All Annotations 9 J Un C T m E o D O2 D I T ache Size 110 Data 5 Data Files 110 Grid Smoothing 110 Profiles 28 Rank 10 Tools 105 Elipsoid 3 IT6 mpty Map Cache 110 scapes 20 SRI Importing Basemaps 129 Trex GPS Connector 14 xchange Deed Plotter 13 xchanging with Version 6 89 Export N oO M m Index Annotations 95 Pattern 9 Exported Map Datum 98 ap Specifications 165 xporting Annotations 9 3 108 hift F3 108 Waypoint 29 75 Fine Grids 93 TT Zi 237 rench Academy of Sciences 168 Fine 93 114 TM Lat Lon State Plane 95 lt H alf Sections 184 Hang Up and Drive 7 ayford John 168 ide All Annotations 94 ide Annotations 32 igh and Low Tower Height 10 igh Points 10 High Quality Display 9 QN installation 53 57 ntensity Shading 118 nternational Foot 202 reenbrier Graphics Inc 13 RIDN UTM Grid North 188 Grids 9 94 238 Index Jog Circle 140 JPG Jump o Spike 77 Jump to Bookmark 9 Juxtaposition 4 L Cache 11 2 Cache 11 and Grant 43 anding Strip 46 andmark 46 andscape 10 arge Cross 8 arge Format 5 arge Format Plotters 5 ast Project 2 at Lon 7 at
46. All Topo Maps select the menu item Annotations Save As shortcut key Ctrl A and change the Save As Type to V6 Waypoint Files hwp wp All coordinates will be reduced to NAD27 Lat Lon coordinates and some metatags will be stripped Placing a Single Coordinate Annotation on the Map If you know the coordinate of the desired annotation use the Find Location tool click the i4 button or press the shortcut key Alt L If you don t know a coordinate find the location on the map then move any of the cursors over the location and press F2 You may alternatively right click then select Add New Annotation or use the menu option Edit Add Current Location to Annotation List The Edit New Annotation dialog box will be shown LA Pi Se ae rim rimi ee a Less Deed Pe eb Lokal Figs biis Domi DER DLrTEXSTR TT SF LT OPNEUA T HR EE a age eT H TULIP m LENITER ZI 4 uiv HER EID RA DazXgADADM DUM RET lirin Doray Lorian um UM i bm C Damen n nima nde ps ar You can enter a description for the waypoint or use one of the Default Map Note Types to set the annotation s description to its coordinate location Since you are adding a single coordinate or a waypoint make sure that Connect Coordinates w Line is set to Off For a simple project the Simple tab will be the only annotation attributes you will need to change Defining a Closed Shape To define a closed
47. Compass bearing N55 5E 1 25 miles Survey Angle All Topo accepts True UTM Grid State Plane Grid and Magnetic North references and Great Circle Lat Lon UTM Grid and State Plane Grid projections All Topo assumes True North Reference and Great Circle Lat Lon projections unless explicitly overridden Automating Relative Coordinates The Project New Annotation tool automates the entry of relative coordinates It can be found by right mouse clicking near the base coordinate and selecting Project New Annotation From Poet Fa ESE dE Ie r mem ib i GEL AELIC Compass Azimuth Bearings If you know a distance and a compass bearing azimuth you might enter Appendix A Coordinates Primer L 0 5 mile R 45 0 MagN to describe a point l mile distant at a Magnetic North compass bearing of 45 degrees North East All Topo interprets compass bearings as decimal degree clockwise rotation from Magnetic North Compass bearings or azimuths may vary from 0 0 to 360 0 degrees For convenience All Topo will also accept negative azimuths 45 315 degrees and will rationalize too large and too small azimuths 380 20 degrees 380 20 or 340 degrees Cartesian Offsets If you know the X and Y offsets from the base you can directly specify a relative coordinate X 0 5 miles Y 0 25 Miles specifies a point 2 mile East and 4 mile North of the base point All Topo will also accept mixed Cartesian coordin
48. Components and Dialogs License Manager WEM T3 bl Adds and removes All Topo serial numbers for map sets and optional tools and subscriptions SHP2QSF Utility SIRE EA eThlm magenta al anaes HL TEN A EFIS aes bo Dub venus Cure wr T1 1 EU Lh ab Dane eia iube bog DEAE bless Lada Mau This utility converts industry standard shape files to the All Topo Quick Shape indexed file GPS Tool celina Lact ret ep LUE E Tractor Sir hareei Lreshoregters Freies Waren aii Fs e T ddpeseltaem eee Ni dsl Eb med Paseo Coriaria h Bav Li Fe aLi Kay TLAEZL Thad Iul PHL sat cie thief GLH Gai ELMMMIIE 20 TU ISH MIE dH ZLI PIBLIXC TR Te XZE ee Se TU Te 26 pa reds ILL Heg 5 TUR Tie ee RTE ILIOEICIETZ TUER TLZHF Be HETES 2L Te TE TEL GET HIELD EL TH TLERLIS TUIN GET li Se Ee Tarsai Sb lisia L Sele hee u eS F A b Goole VEIEUBBEU TEE PMES ZLI EL IZHELE TE EEI OB dL J A RiR 2L1 THEIZIS EFPIRET FEIER RIZ CHIET ZLEEL JT Dauaan i Bs PTS 5L RULES CANIT WERSTIS LT Gee DAB4H AL jibidi ILi Hh HEE mede CRISRB ET ee el ii I MELIUS 211 OMIIN NYNMTEI TENE ODEIET ET eee Ms tet Piet m MET BUT 70 P 3 Trea See Cede Te LIE tee Fe a m AE Import and export annotations from the All Topo Maps viewer to most consumer GPS receivers using a cable connected to your serial port 33 34 BigTopo7 Map Seaming Tool ar T Ir r re Pa gaFkmr diw
49. Dak E id Cee Cis m ejr uri wr mam mw Fu ge pd ciere rt Has Mig cd Laj pesi fO E eee Pai Build new custom coverage maps for use in All Topo Maps or other programs Chapter 3 Map Basics Chapter 3 Map Basics This chapter discusses basic map terms use and some computer basics It includes these topics The Parts of a Topographic Map Map Scale Topographic Map Symbols The Parts of a Topographic Map in o Q p a 1 e mm 2 Pope 2 i P ane T La T r a os prn pri e sl a a Bid na irt Cheyenne North Wyoming 712 Minute Quadrangle 1 Map image 2 Map collar or whitespace 3 Neatline separates the map from collar 4 Map notes 5 Declination vector 6 Scalebar contour interval elevation datum 7 Overview map 8 Mapname Title freshness date 9 Mapname Title County 35 36 All Topo Maps are scanned digital copies of the U S G S and Forest Service Single Edition quadrangles Igage does not add or remove features from the maps while preparing sets The All Topo Map program attempts to preserve the look and feel of paper maps and the map should appear in the program just as they do on the printed page In order to use the All Topo viewer it is important to understand the parts of a topographic map Typical 7 2 minute quadrangles cover 7 2 minutes of latitude and 7 2 minutes of longitude Each printed quadrangle includes a map 1 surrounded by a white map colla
50. Lon Coordinate in Degrees 207 at Lon Coordinate in DM 207 ache Size 110 l 8 W Mapping Tool 5 239 arker Dots Annotation 80 arsh 45 ax Elev Profile 104 cClung Paul 137 Code 58 eander Corner 43 Measurement Spike 9 23 75 77 Remove From Map 9 easurement Spike Location 109 easurment Spike Distance Units 109 Moving Windows 52 N A ONI 169 AD27 State Plane Codes 19 NAD27CO 169 NADCON 214 165 NADCON State Plane Codes 19 Mesurement Spike etes and Bounds Survey 191 etes and Bounds Surveys 91 8 ffshore Oil 4 il Pipeline 47 Oil Well 46 Old Maps 7 Open Annotation File 9 87 Biglopo 15 Moving Text Annotations 9 BigTopo Map 9 oving Maps to Fixed Drive 111 240 Index Primary Coordinate 8 Copy to Clipboard 9 Package Project 88 Page Orientation 101 Parity 148 9 102 ap Scale 9 Preview 99 cale BigTopo 162 election 101 Printed Map Scale 101 Printer nformation 10 Properties 101 Printing 20 Printing Maps 8 Process in Computer 10 Processor 56 Professional Licensed Surveyor 5 Plotter 50 Plotters Printing 10 LS P Profile Elevation 103 Profile Route 10 Profile Tool 28 Program Interface 14 ae e Program Version 55 ES 64169 Project ew Annotation 90 Project New Annotation 21 Project Packaging 20
51. Ring lt Symbol Ring X 0 1 mile gt 222 224 Ellipse Symbol Ellip X 0 1 mi Y20 075 mi 1 I i JA L o ame Square Symbol Square X 0 1 mi B 1 a j r ami Rectangle Centered lt Symbol RC X 0 1 mi Y 0 075 mi gt m B 1 r ami Rectangle Bottom Left lt Symbol RBL X 0 1 mi Y 0 075 mi gt m 3 i m mien Rectangle Bottom Centered Symbol RBC X 0 1 mi Y 0 075 mi R 45 gt i JA i Rectangle Bottom Right Symbol RBR X 0 1 mi Y20 075 mi E T PE 1 1 E s amis Cross Symbol Cross X 0 2 mi Y 0 1 mi r 22 5 gt 4 s s B F WT 5 Wind lt Symbol Wind X 45Knots R 60 red gt LEYS z ak Image lt Symbol Pic W 2 api_dh_red gt Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP Picture Symbol Img W 2 api_dh_red gt Image and Picture symbol types overlay bitmap images onto the map surface centered at the coordinate If no scaling arguments are provided the image will be drawn as designed This will result in drastically different image renderings on the screen and printer typically images will be printed 1 10 as large as they are shown on the screen Use the X arguments to set the image width in map units Images will appear the same on the screen and when printed Symbol Pic api dh red X 0 1 mi Symbol Pic api dh red X 0 2 mi The difference between picture and image types i
52. States and the coordinate database makes interesting reading NGS defines and manages the National Spatial Reference System NSRS NSRS is a consistent coordinate system that defines latitude longitude height scale gravity orientation throughout the United States and how these values change with time Horizontal Control ini Third order or better permanent mark With Third order or better elevation ras Checked spot elevation eee Triangulated from orthophotos LL UM Arial triangulation Coincident with section corner Unmonumented Vertical Control aM a4 Third Order or Better with tablet in Third Order or better recoverable mark zz Benchmark found at section corner Spot Elevation Boundary Monument 1a d With tablet P4 Without tablet 41 i M1 With number and elevation U S Mineral or location monument Contours Topographic The interval of contour lines varies from map to map The contour interval is almost always listed below the horizontal scale bar at the bottom center of each map Some maps have two contour intervals One portion of the map typically beginning at the foot of a steep mountain range has greater interval spacing reflecting steeper terrain Intermediate Index Supplementary Depression re Cut Fill Bathymetric Water Depth Bathymetric depths are based on a variety of measurements and reference elevations Check the collar of the map for detailed information on th
53. Use zero for a hairline OffsetPair A pair of incremental offsets from the previous location Offset pairs may be expressed in Meters or millionths of a degree If offsets are expressed in milli degrees then the keyword LL should appear in the meta tag eiu By default offset pairs are expressed in meters however the UTM keyword may appear in the tag lt UTM 4 For example this HWP entry Red 3 25 12 12 25 12 24 12 25 7 25 0 24 0 25 0 24 19 25 24 18 25 13 25 6 24 0 25 6 24 19 13 24 12 25 6 25 0 24 0 25 12 24 0 25 0 24 0 25 6 25 12 24 12 55 13 25 0 25 0 24 6 25 0 24 0 25 0 25 19 24 24 19 25 0 18 25 0 31 0 24 0 25 0 24 0 25 7 25 6 24 12 25 12 24 13 25 12 25 12 24 6 12 48 802451 116 913341 MILES ACRES Generates this annotation Saving and Restoring Styles lt gt amp lt gt Often you would like to change the display attributes for a single map coordinate then return to using the same styles that were in use before the change It might be difficult to track down all of the styles that are currently 22 used so a simple way to save and restore style is included Use the lt gt Meta command to save all styles Then make the desired style changes drawing annotations with the temporary style finally use lt gt to restore the styles to the starting values For example this series of points 40 46 11 8N 111 49 21 1 W Start lt gt
54. a survey tool the displayed accuracy is an illusion and you will get into serious trouble if you impersonate a surveyor All Topo Maps is a mapping tool not a surveying tool Most of the functions performed by a licensed surveyor are strictly regulated by State law If you perform these regulated functions then you will be liable for the damage that you cause If you are buying selling or exchanging property building or removing improvements or doing anything that involves money water or the just the possibility of lawsuit you need to consult with a Professional Licensed Surveyor in the state where the property is located If you don t understand this consider returning All Topo Maps to the place of purchase within 60 days and requesting a refund Very Important Words about All Topo Maps Safety and Common Sense All Topo Maps is a great resource for professionals and consumers alike We know that our customers are doing incredible things with All Topo Maps and we are proud to be a small part their success There are a few folks out there who are pushing the envelope a little too far you know who you are and we want you to stop and think about your safety and the safety of the folks around you for just a moment Please don t use All Topo Maps for real time navigation What is wrong with this picture You are driving down a dirt road at 60 mph on your way to someplace new All Topo Maps is loaded on your
55. anchored at the bottom right South East corner Type Rect SW Width 0 5 Mi Height 0 25 Mi Rot 25 degrees Symbol Type Cross A cross is drawn centered at the annotation location the height and width are set by the symbol Height and Width rotation is honored Type Cross Width 0 5 Mi Height 0 25 Mi Rot 25 degrees Symbol Type Wind Barb A Wind Barb is drawn based at the annotation location wind speed set by the symbol width use Knots for units rotation honored To set a wind speed of 45 knots enter 45 Knots in the symbol Width setting Type WindBarb Width 45 Knots Rot 25 degrees Symbol Type Icon and Bitmap The specified icon is drawn at the annotation location The symbol width controls the size of the icon If the symbol width is 0 0 then the icon is drawn at its nominal size in pixels Typically this looks great on a screen but generates a very small symbol on a printer Icons are drawn with transparent backgrounds the transparent color is set by the bottom left image pixel Icons have transparent background c i Type Icon Cone Width 0 25 Mi Pictures are drawn without transparency 83 Type Picture Cone Width 0 25 Mi To add a standard icon just find it on the right hand icon grid and double click it to add it at the symbol location Leds uad md sn ass Cd P ap mi se mal ais pa omm d egi ee nag oad il 4 ok B 2 ION UNE MO RONENNNUN
56. at the top of the wizard Each annotations location is defined by the latitude in field 4 and the longitude in field 5 The coordinate datum is not included in the file but we know the points were recorded by a GPS and are WGS84 Molodensky encoded We can form a fully qualified coordinate by referring to the column names and adding the WGS84 datum code Coordinate 96496 N 5 W WGS84 It is important to include the N and W to indicate that the longitude is West or to include a in front of the longitude Coordinate 96496 5H WGS84 All Topo will process each line of the input file substituting the value in the Ath field for 4 the value in the 5th field for 5 and finally adding the WPS84 datum code to the coordinate The token 96096 is converted to the line number within the input file the token WFN is converted to the input file name To use the 3rd field value for both the Name and Description set both values to the third column tag Name 3 Description PI Note From FN line 0 Press the Convert button to test the decoder configuration and show the conversion in the Converted Waypoints window at the bottom Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer When the conversion is configured correctly press the 3 Append Waypoints to Annotations button to add the converted waypoints to the currently open annotation file in All Topo Maps Once the conversion is correct you can save the configuration by pres
57. can use lower upper or mixed case and the result is displayed accordingly a p Uses the 12 hour clock for the preceding h or hh specifier and displays a for any hour before noon and p for any hour after noon The a p specifier can use lower upper or mixed case and the result is displayed accordingly ampm Uses the 12 hour nate by the GPS tool or generated when the point was added The GPS date time stamp can be modified by clicking in the date time box to the right of the Note on the Details tab of the Edit Coordinate box Ex GPSTIME hh mm dd yyyy mmm 14 11 15 2003 Apr Tokens All Topo Maps will accept the following tokens in Annotation Descriptions and Annotation Notes Each example assumes a base annotation of Coordinate 41 140 259 N 104 820 246 W NAD83 Name WYSTCP Description Wyoming State Capitol Note Cheyenne Wyoming Default Format NAD27 DM mmm C Coordinate in Default Style Displays the annotation s coordinate in the current default style The default style is the same as the Primary Coordinate Style which can be changed under Options Coordinate amp System Options Arguments DATUM Ex YC 41 8 417 N 104 49 183 W C WGS84 41 8 416 N 104 49 215 W WGS84 DATUM Datum of Base Coordinate Displays the base datum of the annotation Arguments none Ex DATUM NAD83 YUTM Full UTM Coordinate Displays the Universal Transverse Mercator UTM coordinate for the annotat
58. coordinate systems The following list summarizes the common datum Equatorial Polar Name Date Radius M Radius M Flattening Clarke 1880 6378249 1 6356514 9 1 293 46 Clarke 1886 6378206 4 6356583 8 1 294 98 NAD27 International 1924 6378388 6356911 9 1 297 WGS72 1972 6378135 6356750 5 1 298 26 GRS80 1980 6378137 6356752 3 1 298 257 NAD83 1983 6378137 0 6356752 3 1 298 257 222 101 Appendix A Coordinates Primer The U S G S is systematically converting many maps to NAD83 datum As a result the coordinates of most points in the United States change slightly from old NAD27 maps to new NADS 3 maps A location s coordinate can change over 1 000 feet in some areas between NAD27 and NAD83 Converting Between Datum The conversion from NAD27 to NAD83 is not a simple function In fact the conversion cannot accurately be expressed as a function There are two common methods for converting between NAD27 and NAD83 WGS84 datum for coordinates in the United States and its territories NADCON interpolations Molodensky approximations NADCON interpolations use a grid of points defining the difference between NAD27 and NAD83 coordinates The grid points are held in a matched series of LAS and LOS files generated by the National Geodetic Survey NGS based upon very accurate terrestrial gravity and GPS measurements Approximately 2 megabytes of data are required to hold complete interpola tion data for the United States Molode
59. engine to the default values 118 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Check the High Resolution Output 24 bit box for the best shading results 24 bit shaded maps will take slightly longer to shade however the resulting file size will be three times larger than the unshaded map If you are shading a huge BigTopo map 24 bit shading may generate an image too large to print or view 8 bit shading is appropriate for these large images If you are viewing a BigTopo map you can make the hill shade and false elevation coloring permanent by checking the make changes permanent box Once permanent changes are made it is not possible to retrieve the original BigTopo map colors the BigTopo must be rebuilt from scratch Configuring the False Elevation Colors If High Resolution Output is enabled then you can choose to add false elevation coloring by checking the Add Elevation Color box False Elevation coloring is applied concurrently with hillshading Press the colored Set Elev Color button to configure the false elevation coloring setup 1 eral ir d ia E Inm Piet riw Fe EN ee meum D NU rS Fi 06271 g 1 31 i ET iz Fani Henin Ti ima Liim is od dim um Cl um M amp ort t e x a d ER dis Hi w foes io mm oo Elevation shading is controlled by color nodes applied to specific elevations or percentages of the actual elevation range of the current map If the Auto
60. finally press OK to close the extension manager e Open an existing view or create a new one e Press the Add Theme button Browse for the All Topo basemap to import you may need to set the Data Source Type to Image Data Source then press OK ArcView will add the image as a theme check the table of contents box corre sponding to the basemap to display the basemap If other vector themes are added you may need to manually set the projection by selecting the main menu option View Properties then press the Projection button then set the Projection Properties to Standard Category UTM 1927 Type Zone XX match Zone to the correct UTM Zone Importing basemaps into OziExplorer OziExplorer is interactive scanned map trip planning software available from Des amp Lorraine Newman www oziexplorer com OziExplorer will directly import basemaps generated with the All Topo viewer or BigTopo To import and register a map select the OziExplorer main menu option File i Import Map Single DRG Map 130 Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo Ozi will prompt to find the source image browse for the TIF file exported from All Topo i is Press Open to import the file Ozi will ask for a name and path for the Ozi map file that defines the imported image Eina r i onmi tenn pore The default file and path is usually adequat
61. format is lossy in that not all of the information contained in an image is saved in the file and the JPEG format is intended for use with photographs Maps are not photographs and very undesirable compression artifacts are introduced by this format We recommend that maps NOT be stored in the lossy JPG format typically the JPG file type is not suitable for compressing maps The PNG format typically offers higher compression with no image quality loss and allows subsequent editing and manipulation Depending on the value of quality more or less image information is retained A quality factor of 100 retains the most image data Best Quality A quality factor of 75 will generally produce reasonable images As a guideline we recommend starting with quality factors between 75 and 100 Quality factors less than 25 are not recommended If quality is 25 or greater the image is saved as a baseline DCT sequential Huffman encoded file type SOFO If quality is less than 25 the image is 164 Chapter 11 BigTopo saved as an extended DCT sequential file type SOF1 All JPEG readers should be able to read baseline DCT files quality gt 25 but many are not capable of loading extended DCT files Therefore for maximum compatibility quality factors of 25 or greater are strongly recommended Since some image information is lost each time an image is saved as a JPEG file this is NOT the format to use if you plan on editing the image and re
62. full 20 or 21 character serial number Pat TRE SL BE FLA erie fede Eira frg mg pp Ba x rba itx mg brag MR dios arca k ima mii Bare rehome a md Wu lid tgi hdi eee beu P8 CI P CARD RRICTE d TEE eel Pe nin oe Dc ie urdlai oam pep mh ee peed ur Tee el eed hr nbi ha pee e ET ee ee a ee ee Tee ee ee ee US HG Ha es cus ESEH mo rug Esil usd pep aEERAETEZIZOHS ZLIMI E UE A BOX ee ee ERE eee IROTTESETR LE rra Fee pig oo rina zd pg Ep asuma orgi24 ede i Pepe ae ee ww pua Tim ques uo rec ies mr Teng pmi gery l T ie X rrr M g UL amar dar mee be Ps iai mtn tem ra Tansee dnd in ims gang Bann Me Wem mm j Some products require factory authorization If a FCode is requested you will need to call the factory and provide the Product Serial Number and MCode to receive the FCode for your specific system Installing Pre Version 7 Map Sets Version 6 All Topo Map sets can be used as data sources for the V7 viewer if you have purchased and entered a V7 Viewer Update serial number First insure your V7 Viewer Update serial number has been entered then choose the menu selection Options Add Pre V7 Serial Number L Vari um ee hor p UPET ee is mca 7 Re m mrin ippub Pram crown cms ee Suioun PIS foni farai RIT Check the PLS box if your V6 Certificate of Serial Number indicates the serial number you are entering is a PLS tool The OK button will lig
63. gt 217 Any waypoint coordinate can include multiple hyperlinks to web sites picture files audio visual clips or other multimedia sources All Topo allows link evaluation using two methods The Auto GeoLink viewer will automatically display information associated with the coordinate nearest the mouse cursor If the coordinate s hyperlink includes any picture references links with file types PCX BMP TIF TIFF GIF PNG JPG JPEG the pictures will be shown in the GeoLink viewer s preview pane Right clicking near the coordinate will present the opportunity to evaluate the link or multiple links All Topo uses the Windows API Application Program Interface to perform the link evaluation so any registered file extension will be treated the same as if evaluated by double clicking within the Windows Explorer Measurement Spike Location M location lt M 40 44 11 9 N 111 47 40 2 W gt Use the Spike tag to place the Measurement Spike at the passed location The location must exist in the loaded map set Any measurement format supported by the waypoint editor for coordinate entry may be used For example M 40 44 11 9 N 111 47 40 2 W gt will set the Measurement Spike to the Utah State Capitol building The spike location meta tag is only evaluated when a waypoint file is initially read from the disk Setting Restoring the Default Symbol Style lt SetDef GetDef gt lt ClrDef gt Use t
64. in Lat Lon DM m style Primary Coordinate Display Settings are used for defaults Arguments DATUM Ex DM 41 8 417 N 104 49 183 W DM NAD8396 41 8 416 N 104 49 215 W NAD83 DM WGS84 41 8 415 N 104 49 218 W WGS84 D Lat Lon Coordinate in Degrees Displays the annotations coordinate in Lat Lon D d style Primary Coordinate Display Settings are used for defaults Arguments DATUM Ex D 41 14028 N 104 81972 W D NAD839 6 41 14026 N 104 82025 W NAD83 PLSxXxx Public Land Survey Coordinates PLS tokens are available to show each of the PLS display styles Arguments none Ex PLSQQ SEY NW Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 PLSQQQ PM06 T14N R66W S31BDD PLSNW 2 329 E 2 050 S from NW Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 PLSNE 3 005 W 2 033 S from NE Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 PLSSE 3 024 W 3 253 N from SE Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 PLSSW 2 312 E 3 233 N from SW Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 PLSBEST 2 329 E 2 050 S from NW Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 The PLSBEST evaluates the estimated error of the coordinate based upon each corner s base accuracy and displays the distance from the most precise corner 207 208 MDEC Magnetic Declination Displays the calculated magnetic declination to True North for the annotation location The declination is computed for the location from the world magnetic data file based upon the first calendar day of the current year Arguments FORMAT Ex MDEC 10 166 9eMDEC 10 2 GDEC Grid Declination
65. internet connection you can get the latest list of updated maps from the web by selecting the menu option Updates Check Web for New Maps If you purchase a Map Update disk from the Igage factory you must register the update disk with the All Topo program to use the updated maps press the Map Revision button the select the Updates Register Map Update CD menu option and follow the instructions to register the update maps Finding a Place Map or Location You can search for the correct map using several methods e Search by Placename e Search by Map Name e Search by Location geographic coordinate e Search by Overview Map Bookmarks Clipboard and Spike e Search by Annotation Each search method is described below Search by Placename The All Topo placename database includes almost every annotated location on all of the maps NGS control sites postal ZIP codes and telephone area codes Press the binocular Place button i e shortcut key Alt P to find a place using the Placename database The Find Placename tool has a Simple Search tab that looks for matching place names that begin with the search value and an Advanced Search tab that looks for place names containing the search value 71 i ee Ph ee MeL LH TEHTI a Lt a TENTE S Tablas Da abs Dn He ATTE ELESEN TN Be The Search by Place or Feature Name dialog is shown select the Simple Search tab and enter the first few letters from
66. laptop connected to your GPS there are cables everywhere guiding you to your destination The windows are rolled down all the way the stereo is blasting you are drinking a cup of coffee eating a bagel smoking a cigar and then your cell phone rings Hey Hang up and drive And don t use All Topo Maps for real time navigation because there is always a map or two that is messed up We don t want you to drive off the road we want to sell you more maps Don t Fly by All Topo Just because there is an airstrip marked on the map does not mean there is really an airstrip on the ground This goes for almost everything on the map and everything that isn t All Topo Maps are NOT suitable for use when flying an airplane or helicopter Important things like runway locations elevations towers cables and the like have not been field checked Please don t use All Topo as a navigational aid while flying Some of these maps are 50 years old Yes it is true one was last updated in 1907 Some of these maps are really old and some of the new ones are really out in left field What ever you are planning please take a moment to consider what might happen if the map is just plain wrong Develop a plan that keeps everyone safe What happens if your GPS does not work or the GPS satellites are turned off fail while you are on your trip Gee it is going to happen sooner or later for sure with your luck it will probably happen to you
67. line Scale Design toggle Horizontal scroll bar Window size handle Vertical scroll bar Map annotation Mouse cursor drag hand shown Printed Scale Controller Search by Place name Search by Map name Secondary Coordinate display OU RO IN Hx 23 Map Printing Wizard er per HAL fed PO EL B fu a ET inci ECCLES L Punici F gen Uerum T Porras Larder acm T Pmi Taari ae Pen i Bip amd ki gg d Fami Dan OPEP mem nad n Hed pega TESTE oe DO Puma amens gi na e ea ilm a fe rete LAIT di RE I iram r Ferrer mers oio NI LU peru 0 5 ije me pe U Cub cA ee pe ys Cory UO gt a a ar Di sgererd acd rem SF r ee ee bif ee ee rd eani iis A mem The Print Map wizard selects and configures output printers Choose the map view to print select a printed map scale customize annota tions and tile large maps onto several printed sheets Print jobs can be optimized for speed quality and available memory Export Map to File or iUad ls sal em eem umi E l cm Larcher Dapkcamo mo a fama Hc LEM aA i d dade T gee Os Dageuw ni zr wg H i Pe Pe ee Sa corsi ly er Tenue 7 km Ged menak F naga r e TL ur M EMI T Lupe D Fils d cuca beg Licence beer maa mee m brie T T aae a DEDE Ur a ra Sod no PLP miiia CY lt un l LE agea braa Tues Ere Vane lin hami Elpida eel Tipe De d IER g d IBL Liked a0 m 818 poole BEgpmirbmq Li pras zu eg Export the en
68. lt P N 5 gt lt F Courier New 20 Yel Blu Bold gt 40 46 26 1 N 111 49 6 9 W Stop for Lunch lt gt 40 46 40 4 N 111 48 41 7 W End will be displayed as lt 1 gt Annotation Layers The All Topo viewer supports placing annotations on up to 9 separate layers which can be independently enabled and disabled By default annotations are placed on the special All or zero layer and are always enabled Place a layer meta tag lt 4 gt to move subsequent annotations to an alternate drawing layer lt comment gt Comment logged Meta Tags It is possible to include meta tag text comments within an annotation file Comments inserted within an annotation file using this lt gt tags are not processed but do result in an entry in the system logger These logged comments may be useful for debugging an annotation file lt R 2 0 gt Default Rotation Relative coordinates are entered using True North UTM Grid North State Plane Grid North or Lat Lon bearings The lt R gt meta tag allows you to rotate all subsequent relative annotation calls by a fixed rotation This option is typically used to rotate a survey to match section boundaries or align a survey to markings on the map For example the annotations lt Line Begin gt 38 7388 N 109 4440 W DueSouth 1 mile SE DueWest 1 mile SW lt Line Close gt DueNorth 1 mile NW 228 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP generate this po
69. map The bottom right corner includes the full map name and state list a USGS reference number of some sort and a freshness date indicating the timeliness of the map The names of 7 2 minute quadrangle names are not unique across the United States or even within a single state For example there are two Clarkston maps in Idaho One is on the boarder of Utah Clarkston ID UT the other on the boarder of Washington Clarkston ID WA It is very important to specify Chapter 3 Map Basics the full name including the state list when referencing quadrangles Many map names are overused there are Clarksville maps in Missouri Arkansas Texas Florida Iowa Tennessee Maryland Ohio and two in Illinois Don t assume that you can circumvent the duplicate map name problem by referring to a map using the number printed under the map name or the bar code number included on some of the new maps The USGS stock numbering system has changed numerous times and the printed stock numbers rarely can be cross referenced to a valid map All Topo Maps always fully qualifies map names with state lists to help reduce the chance of map name mix ups Overview Map Most quadrangles have an overview map showing the relative position of the map within the outline of the state The Cheyenne North map is shown by a black rectangle in the southeast corner of Wyoming Adjacent Maps Most quadrangles list the names of the eight adjacent maps
70. name description and notes Auto GeoLink Viewer Cache Path and Size When the auto GeoLink viewer is shown linked images are sub sampled down to the resolution needed for display on the tool These sub sampled thumbnails are stored in the GeoLink Cache Path and managed so the cache size remains less than the GeoLink Cache Size The Cache Size is set in megabytes A 112 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer value of 2 or greater is suggested BigTopo Search Path By default BigTopo maps are built in the C AlITopo BigTopo folder The viewer expects to find BigTopo maps in this location and the BigTopo seaming tool defaults to building maps in this path You can change the default path to any valid folder location to optimize data locations or disk space The viewer s Change Map Scale function shortcut key F9 and some search tools presents a list of maps all scales and BigTopos at the cursor location METTI CUMEI au La ee ee ae bmk mm hh m Laan Lomi Fiy ain i oa mum 2 mun Roepe Fou UT pum Teen t DR TEE Pe eee TE j LL Zara XR i The Change Map Scale function searches all of the BigTopo maps in the BigTopo Search Path and any subfolders of the default BigTopo path for map content at the requested location If you organize your BigTopo maps in the default folder and its subfolders the Change Map Scale tool will automati cally list available BigTopo maps Advanced Options tab Leipa dies Le
71. placement of All Topo s temporary and data files on alternate disk volumes Base Location of Auxiliary Elevation Data Files If you store map images on your fixed drive this folder location holds all of the idz elevation data By default the elevation data stays on the distribution CD if you choose to copy the maps from the distribution CD to your fixed drive the elevation files will be arraigned in this folder See Options System Options Elevation tab to modify the location L1 and L2 Map Cache L1 and L2 Caches are used to hold decompressed and raw map images copied from the CDRom The L1 and L2 caches hold 20 megabytes each by default If you use the distribution CD s for map sources setting the L1 cache to a much larger size will significantly reduce source CD swapping Setting the L2 cache to a large value will allow the viewer to keep additional decompressed maps available for viewing See the main menu option Options System Options Map Data Map Cache Size to modify these locations Map Updates Folder MapUpdates used to hold copies of new maps downloaded from the web Each updated map downloaded from the AllTopo map server will require 0 5 to 5 Megabytes of disk space See the main menu option Options System Options Updates Base Location of Updated Map Components GeoLink Cache The GeoLink Picture Cache holds decoded thumbnails for GeoLinks The Picture Cache is set to 2 megabytes by
72. report an Error Opening Communication Port and refuse to select the COM port until the PDA s tool closes the communication port Check the documentation that came with your PDA for information on disabling the sync tool Disabling Microsoft PocketPC ActiveSync If you have a Pocket PC the synchronizing tool is called ActiveSync ActiveSync may have the COM port which you have connected to your GPS held open and prevents the GPS Tool from connecting to your receiver To disable ActiveSync and re enable your communication port right click on the ActiveSync icon in your Start Menu tray select Open Microsoft Active Sync select File Connection Settings finally uncheck the box Allow serial cable or infrared connection to this COM port After using the GPS Tool you will need to enable the communication port in ActiveSync if your PocketPC connects to the same port Moving Points from a GPS to the All Topo Viewer Select the Coordinate List tab of the GPS Tool ih Ta oe ee i paima La pe Jer FREE Tree angi teed Geiss an My olma g ee e a ee T Fibl numed iei 5 lrmarhmrbaru duro Get coordinates from GPS press the 1 Load Coordinates From GPS Receiver button A seme IE TEN 1 ET IP ru LES Choose the correct source from Waypoint List Route List or Track List Press OK wait for the transfer to complete In the coordinate list box highlight coordinates to save to Al
73. shape around a property boundary select the Point to Point Route tool x then right click at the starting point for the closed shape and choose Begin New Line Left click around the shape s border until only one segment is left to close out the shape right click and select Close Current 89 Line All Topo will close the shape fill the shape and add the enclosed area at the last coordinate To change the fill pattern right click near the next to last point and select Edit WP select the Line tab and choose a new fill pattern and fill color Press OK and All Topo will redraw the image with your new fill selection Moving Annotations 90 You can move an annotation using the mouse to point at the new location or by entering the exact new coordinate Moving Annotations with the Mouse Select the Bombsight or Hand cursor Right click near the annotation you want to move and select the pop up menu option Move Annotation Finally move the cursor to the new spot and left click once All Topo will confirm the move and then move the coordinate and any associated symbols lines and text If you have the optional PLS Tool you can turn on the PLS Magnet and each point will snap to the nearest section 4 1 4 corner Moving Annotations to an Exact Coordinate Right click near the annotation you want to move and select the pop up menu option Edit Annotation or press the shortcut key Shift F2 Enter the new c
74. the date time box to the right of the Note on the Details tab of the Edit Coordinate box Appendix D Escapes and Tokens If no date time stamp is available 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 is returned Arguments Date Time Format Hours Offset Ex GPSDATE 4 15 2003 11 36 31 AM GPSDATE 6 HH mm 05 36 GPSICON GPS Icon Number Displays the GPS Icon number This value typically is extracted from the GPS when Waypoints Routepoints or Trackpoints are downloaded If no icon information is available Icon is displayed Arguments none Ex GPSICON 7 DIST Traced or Line Drawn Distance Displays the traced distance path length drawn with the Pencil Tool or the Line On distance accumulated distance from the start of the current line in the current default distance units Arguments none See also UNITS to display arbitrary distance units Ex DIST 3 1 Mi UNITS Traced or Line Drawn Distance Like the DIST token the traced distance or Line On distance is displayed Replace UNITS with one of these Unit arguments MILES FEET IFEET YARDS METERS RODS CHAINS LINKS SFEET VARAS NMILES Arguments FORMAT Ex MILES 0 000 5 685 Mi RODS 0 00 1819 18 Rd CHAINS 454 8 Ch AREA Traced or Line Enclosed Area Displays the area enclosed by tracing with the Pencil Tool or the shape formed by line connecting annotations The area is shown with the default area units The trace does not have to be closed to the startin
75. the shortcut key Alt G Law eed Lael Displaying Name Descriptions and Notes Annotation Name Description and Notes can be enabled by checking the appropriate checkbox on the controller or by pressing the shortcut keys N D and T which toggle the text descriptions on and off The Hide All Annotations checkbox is connected to the toolbar button Display Hide All Annotations Unchecking the checkbox or un depressing the button will hide all User System and Auto annotations grids and quick shape Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer overlays When annotations are hidden the button looks like this s when annotations are shown the button looks like this If no annotations are shown on the map verify that this button is depressed Annotation Layers By default all annotations are on all layers You can move an annotation to an alternate layer by right clicking near the annotation and selecting Set Layer then choosing another layer You can also move a group of annotations by selecting them in the Search Annotation List tool i then selecting the menu option Edit Set Layer and choosing another layer UTM Lat Lon and State Plane Grids All Topo will display UTM Lat Lon and State Plane grids in the same style as the Primary Coordinate Display settings The Layer and Grid Controller allows the color of each grid and the underlying coordinate to be configured To change the color of a grid pr
76. to a command line To pass command line arguments from the Windows Command Prompt just add the arguments at the end of the program invocation Eih a ee ee eee eee HI CET ETENS A OLS ee H7 To pass arguments via a Windows shortcut add the arguments at the end of the target file specification 11943 m ed l a ee N j Argument Descriptions Load State Set If you have purchased multiple All Topo state sets you can specify the state set to load on the command line and bypass the state selection menu Add the two letter state set abbreviation on the command line CAAllTopo Bin7 All Topo UT to load the Utah map set Initial View Location Add a quote delimited coordinate to change the initial view location C AllTopo Bin7 All Topo N 45 12 32 W 107 23 41 to display the specified location in the center of the screen If you have more than one state set it may be necessary to include the correct state code before the coordinate to force the viewer to load the state set that contains the 143 coordinate C AllTopo Bin7 All Topo UT N 45 12 32 W 107 23 41 Annotation files can contain AutoJump location tags lt A location gt which are evaluated after the annotation files are loaded The AutoJump tags contained within HWP files will override any initial view map selection that you make on the command line Specify Initial Map Add a quote delimited map name to force the viewer to display a specific initial ma
77. to indicate alternate datum Datum Code Recognized Abbreviations NAD27 NAD27 NADCON Conversions NAD83 NAD83 WGS84 WGS84 Molodensky Conversions NAD27CONUS NAD27CO NAD27CANADA NAD27CA NAD27ALASKA NAD27AK WGS72 WGS72 Old Hawaiian OLDHA International 1924 Datum INTL24 INTL1924 Datum Supported by All Topo Maps 169 170 Datum Recommendations If you are using a GPS on a boat on a large body of water or for navigation in an airplane you should use latitude longitude WGS84 datum Most blue water charts and aeronautical charts are drawn in WGS84 datum with Lat Lon grids Most every quadrangle is NAD27 datum with 1 000 meter UTM grids If you are working on the ground consider switching your GPS to UTM NAD27CONUS or NAD27CANADA NAD27ALASK as appropriate so coordinates on your GPS will match those printed on the paper maps Molodensky Approximations Datum Conversion Errors The difference between coordinates converted with NADCON interpolations and Molodensky approximations is best shown with an example Consider the Wyoming State Capitol dome in Cheyenne Its NAD27 coordinate is 41 8 25 000 N 104 49 11 000 W WY Capitol Dome Converting this coordinate using NADCON approximations yields an exact NADS3 result 41 8 24 933 N 104 49 12 886 W Err 0Ft However using the less accurate Molodensky approximation yields 41 8 24 904 N 104 49 13 086 W Errz15 6Ft The difference between the NADCON and M
78. will figures out the format Public Land Survey coordinates optional PLS Tool required Select the appropriate style tab for your coordinate If you can t figure out which style to use choose the Free Form tab After entering a location the status box will show you which map and disk the selected location is on Ermi mm Dele laim Lirp Borib ETC Sek uaa d ERES an de Eh EU E Li H ET BF F eee m a 4B aaj E ibi doe m ubi fe feos dob s h 1 gg Bem 73 You can preview the location by pressing the Show Coordinate button dere This will center location on the screen over the correct map and place a temporary not permanent system annotation at the location The annotation deposited by the Show Coordinate button is not permanent nor is it included in the current annotation set You can clear temporary System annotation marks using the menu selection Annotations Clear System Annotations or by pressing the shortcut key Alt C Press the Add Annotation at Coordinate button sue to add a new User annotation at the entered coordinate Finding a Location Using the State Overview Map 74 You can choose a location to display using the State Overview map Select the menu option View State Overview or press the shortcut key Alt J to show the overview map As the cursor is moved over the map the name of the map under the cursor is displayed as the window s caption and the disk containing the m
79. with TFW worldfiles for use with other GIS and CAD applications A professional version of BigTopo BigTopo Pro is available that seams 1 100 000 and 1 250 000 exports alternate map datum has provisions for controlling collar annotations and scales This chapter includes a short BigTopo7 tour that highlights basic map building and detailed information about all of BigTopo7 s configuration options Starting BigTopo from the All Topo Viewer The BigTopo7 tool can be started from the All Topo viewer main menu Tools BigTopo7 or from the Windows Start Menu Start Programs All Topo Maps V7 BigTopo7 E tL Sart Corer F I i ta 4 mj COREL Var a ast m Wm Uum VLSHER LX TO am une LT Th Ph aru DAC E Ir 7 PG Dean ed mnn As BigTopo starts it reads all of the map information for every installed AII Topo map set After initializing the BigTopo7 main screen is shown Lati do S d Lis E cm ae r e E DOO Eds da mem V Up HHRP a ejm CELE tet Liegen Late eta E E amp ar Ts OA TDTOANEE a b ari Loree ie m elc eli ca mite lla ond Jarama ee Edm B c Elm indes d ougpl didi ail n Tr de mdi ida un 1 00 Meat e a TT Er int tM numb doe La ee leder ied Trai i Deiari ru sic nn Tour Building A BigTopo Map Building a BigTopo map is easy to do This tour will take you through these easy steps 1 Define the BigTopo coverage 2 Controlling BigTopo annotation options
80. you override the UTM Zone Arguments none Ex YLUTM 13 MGRS Military Grid Reference System Coordinate Displays the MGRS coordinate string The MGRS style is set by the Primary Coordinate Display MGRS style Arguments DATUM MGRS_PRECISION MGRS_PRECISION codes are 1 1 KMeter 2 100 Meter 3 10 Meter 4 1 Meter Ex YMGRS 13T ER 15130 54133 MGRS 3 NAD83 13T EF 1509 5434 NAD83 SP State Plane Coordinate Displays the State Plane Coordinate for the annotation The Primary Coordinate Display style is used unless arguments override settings It is important to select the correct State Plane Code As shown below All Topo will dutifully attempt to evaluate insanely inappropriate State Plane codes for Appendix D Escapes and Tokens a coordinate Arguments DATUM UNITS State Plane Code see appendix B Ex SP 1 192 375 8 Ft E 182 542 4 Ft N WYEC SP NAD83 METERS WYE 229 082 5 M E 71 154 5 M N WYE NAD83 SP AK4 CHAINS 197 170 5 Ch E 15 725 1 Ch S AK4 Which is worse an Alaska zone for a Wyoming coordinate or chain units This is a example of very inappropriate units and zone DMS Lat Lon Coordinate in DMS Displays the annotations coordinate in Lat Lon DMS s style Primary Coordinate Display Settings are used for defaults Arguments DATUM Bx DMS 41 8 25 00 N 104 49 11 00 W DMS NAD83 41 8 24 93 N 104 49 12 89 W NAD83 DM Lat Lon Coordinate in DM Displays the annotations coordinate
81. 1103 1201 1202 1301 1302 1401 1402 1501 1502 1601 1602 1701 1702 1709 1801 1802 1900 2001 2002 2111 2112 2113 2201 2202 2203 2301 2302 2401 Survey Feet Feet Feet Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Feet Feet Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet MOC MOW MT NE NVE NVC NVW NH NJ NME NMC NMW NYE NYC NY W NYLI NC NDN NDS OHN OHS OKN OKS ORN ORS PAN PAS RI SC SDN SDS TN TXN TXNC TXC TXSC TXS UTN UTC UTS VT VAN VAS WAN WAS WVN WVS WIN WIC WIS WYE WYEC WYWC WYW PRVI AS GU Missouri Central Missouri West Montana Nebraska Nevada East Nevada Central Nevada West New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico East New Mexico Central New Mexico West New York East New York Central New York West New York Long Island North Carolina North Dakota North North Dak
82. 112 inches 1 mile BigTopo needs to know the scale that you intend to use the generated map at so that it can scale text annotations appropriately for your intended use If you re not sure what scale or PPI you intend to use press the Use Default PPI Scale button and BigTopo will typically do the right thing When you change the PPI or other scale values the other scale values will automatically change to reflect your new settings Some scales will round slightly after you choose them as PPI is forced to an integer value The Output File tab um Se mmu Tapi Tim bud baa umm Sly ux D an b ona nc id ppc mena zr dd l ee es Pe e4xm TETBg uda Peum sh lai Lgm Egia eee ee Datus The Output File tab defines the type location and name of the output file Two styles of BigTopos can be generated e dot in top box the native All Topo Maps format it3 and it5 e dot in bottom box generic graphic pictures bmp eps gif pcx png tga tif and jpg BigTopo Metadata Files Each time a BigTopo image is created a plain text file txt containing information about the resulting map is also created in the same output path 162 Chapter 11 BigTopo The metadata file contains important information about how the BigTopo was created the map image extents and scaling and insertion information for use with CAD programs BigTopo Pro metadata files also contain machine readable configuration information You can use t
83. 19 72 W is pronounced Forty one point one four zero two eight degrees north one hundred four point eight one nine seven two degrees west Entering Geographic Lat Lon Coordinates in All Topo The All Topo view will automatically recognize and accept almost any reasonable coordinate representation for a geographic location Coordinates containing two four or six numbers are assumed to be Latitude Longitude coordinates Northing Easting Ordering The All Topo engine assumes that Latitude is listed first 41 8 417 104 49 183 Latitude first no cardinal hints You can override the default east west order by including cardinal hints in geographic coordinates 104 49 183 W 41 8 417 N Cardinal direction after the number or W 104 49 183 N 41 8 417 Cardinal direction before the number Do not express coordinates in longitude first format without cardinal directions 104 49 183 41 8 417 NOT ACCEPTABLE the All Topo engine can not guess the proper coordinate order 173 Datum Any latitude longitude coordinate can be modified with a datum override By default all coordinates are assumed to be NAD27 datum coordinates You can add one of the datum keywords to specify a datum other than NAD27 41 8 415 N 104 49 218 W WGS84 Poor Coordinate Choices All Topo can not understand the ill formed and nonsensical coordinates that some GPS devices display to save space This coordinate is both nonsens
84. 2 The coordinate could be explicitly typed into the description however when the annotation is moved or copied the coordinate would have to be manually updated By inserting the 7 UTM token in the description we instruct the All Topo viewer to compute and display the UTM coordinate when the annotation is drawn on the screen Token Example Multiple Coordinate Styles for an Annotation You can use tokens to annotate a single location with multiple coordinate styles and datum In this extreme example Cle Sea a lisk mmm olm Cis d Lamas Duel Ded Lom amp m EC KC IB E ANE V O De Lam OF ge fei T h PS ioe eee ar el MN iMS 4 E m ce eee ee ele ias I amp xl i a EN ne ns Fj E M Dem 0O o ll ddp the description is set to DMS NAD27 DM NAD27 D NAD27 UTM DMS NAD83 DM NAD83 D NAD83 UTM NAD83 which results in this annotation 25 ac vaca M te acct P Medie DE i e u als P x Pn MA ens J ee ETE Tokens are also important when exporting All Topo annotations to a text file The Export Wizard generates text export files using the tokens you provide XUTM Z13 Feet t YUTM Z13 Feet it Escape Sequences You can use escape sequences to represent special characters that you cannot easily type There are several letter encoded sequences 201 202 t Tab or Control I r Return without linefeed or Control M n New Line pair M J or you can hex encode any oth
85. 2 Choe Sipe foe Prey patie TM MONS ee ieee Le Lai Lun ee ae HAE Te Te a et Oe eee oa ee HC ae ee a Pwd ee a PSN E H TEAT H D a pt Iw m Cm Bmmtu Er amp a BH B ee ee Lai 1 Lor Duda 7 lels ETA SR ELIGE hiiio dT a TTE Ss E prune Cog dtt ER EN E pdHilnrinaarw LATIBLER IRL DTREU SS EGIIKDTITZH IM PTI GSETERT Iu D dPIERT RII ITO BJUESIITOUS T4 a ee RS 4 axgqitm Eli rm EDD Ss PCy epee eae N TEN C ambo eed jer Pang nins qned eee SA e OF Freep rinin eee Choose styles for coordinates that All Topo displays and writes Pick the coordinate type Lat Lon UTM MGRS State Plane and PLS Configure the style precision datum and East West North South order Layer Grid Controller Enable Disable Annotation Names Descriptions Notes drawing layers UTM Lat Lon and State Plane Grids Map Revision Selection om Lo Miji rn aw ei ae 1A ks T i Lettie Le pe DT Pe Eee Se ee Latins Opie Ln Fes Oh Pe P MID tee eer BTS De et aL oa nia i Lom ebur EE irm Some map sets include multiple revisions of maps The t button shows the number of maps that are available for the currently viewed map Pressing the button shows the Map Revision Tool and allows selection of the available maps If you have installed the optional Map Update Subscription and have an active internet connection you can automatically download updated maps from the Igage map server 32 Chapter 2 All Topo
86. 34 Projection 34 38 5d 76 Property Boundary 68 137 Propery description 21 Tool 5 Point to Point 30 241 Prospect 44 Proxy Server Port 112 Public Land Survey Coordinates 181 20 Public Land Survey Find 73 Public Land Survey Grid 39 SF Convertor 116 uadrant Bearing 76 uadrant Bearings 18 uadrant Shortcuts 188 uarry uarter Quarter Sections 185 uarter Sections 184 Q uere S ms z S Quick Shape Controller 9 Quick Shape File Evaluation 211 nable 23 Quick Start Guide 8 Real Time Navigation 7 Real Time Tracking 15 real time navigation 7 Real time Position Marker Style 11 Recall Bookmar S Recollar 156 Recoverable Mark 41 Rect SW S SE 8 Rectangle Symbol 82 Redraw Map Reduce Number of Points 76 Reducing Track Log 124 ve efund 5 Register All Topo 55 Registration 56 Relative Coordinates 18 elief map 27 Renumber Route 66 Reorder Annotation 76 6 242 Reprojection 38 Resample Output Image 99 Route 6q 78 9 Add Points 67 Add S D Delete Point 68 Drawing 67 ove Point 68 rofile 103 Renumber 66 Rover Height 10 Saturation False Color 119 Save Annotation File 9 Index Search See Find Secondary Coordinate 8 Copy to Clipboard 9 243 ab 20 unnel 46 ab Character 21 AR Turntable 47 ab Ke
87. 83 3 W 4 numbers D M m 41 8 25 000 N 104 49 11 000 W 6 numbers DMS s Any coordinate that is comprised of a number followed by three letters followed by 2 4 6 8 or 10 number characters is interpreted as a MGRS coordinate 13T ER 15130 54133 10 number characters 13T ER 1513 5413 8 number characters 13T ER 151 541 6 number characters 13T ER 15 54 4 number characters 13T ER 15 54 2 number characters A coordinate that contains a valid State Plane Zone code like WYE and two numbers is assumed to be a State Plane Coordinate 595 562 0 Ft E 172 734 5 Ft NWYE A coordinate that contains SEC section and PM principal meridian or SEC and PRIN is assumed to be a Public Land Survey coordinate the PLS option is required 3 024 W 3 253 N from SE Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 All Topo removes formatting characters from coordinate entries before attempting to interpret coordinates Commas degree minute and second marks white space consecutive space and tab characters are removed and capitalization is standardized The following coordinates are treated as equals by All Topo 41 8 416 7 N 104 49 183 3 W 41 8 4167 N 104 49 1833 W Once All Topo makes an assumption about the type of a coordinate the coordinate is inspected for additional modifiers that control datum distance units and zone codes 171 172 Latitude Longitude Geographic Coordinates Geographic coordinates are based from a
88. All Topo that a new line segment or closed shape is being drawn and disconnects the current coordinate with any previous line segments To define a closed shape place a L Close directive before the last point in the polygon For example Line BEGIN 60 4 8 79 N 148 9 14 05 W RA1 Line ON 60 3 16 98 N 148 9 13 91 W RA2 60 3 16 90 N 148 10 57 12 W RA3 Line CLOSE brCross 60 4 8 50 N 148 10 58 14 W RA4 SAREA 221 displays this closed shape Se Hum k B ai L4 Line Width Line width is set in 1 72 points Some line styles will only partially appear if the line width is not large enough Line and Background Color Foreground color is set by adding a color name argument Background color controls the secondary color of the line style and is set by adding an under score to a color name L 8 begin Dhwy Blue Red lt L 8 begin Dhwy Blue Green Line Style Style may be any of the following Style Argument Example Solid Solid Dash Dash Dash Dot DashDot Dash Dot Dot DashDotDot Stacked Line Stacked Primary Highway PriHwy Secondary Highway SecHwy Light Use Road LdRd Unimproved Road Uimp Trail Trail Dual Highway 1 Dhwy Dual Highway 2 Dhwy2 Construction Const Coordinate Symbols lt Symbol gt At each coordinate a marker dot is displayed You can also add additional symbols and change the style of the marker dot All Topo V7 has an extensive a
89. Consider an inflatable ball pushed in at the top and bottom Datums is not a word as datum is already plural Geo A great prefix that turns any boring thing into a hot new trend For example Link way boring vs GeoLink totally cool Geographic Coordinate A geographic coordinate uniquely describes a place on the Earth s surface Hopefully a coordinate specifies only a single location A single location may be described by many coordi nates Often abbreviated as coordinate Geographic Pertaining to the earth GeoLink A hyperlink that is associated with a geographic coordinate GIS Geographic Information Systems These complex products contain extensive tools for classifying and reporting data which is associated with geographic locations They typically cost a lot of money and are fairly difficult to use All Topo Maps is not a GIS system it is an inexpensive and easy to use map and geographic toolbox Of course Easy to use is easy to say GPS Icon a small image associated with a coordinate in a GPS receiver Tent anchor and buoy icons are common Hyperlink A reference to more information or another hopefully related subject Icon picture that floats over a background image Icons may have transparent areas Media Picture sound file or movie file Mouse the thing that pushes the Cursor around on your computer screen May also be a trackball or digitizing tablet Plotter An output dev
90. EXX XXXXX EXXX XXXXX GPS receivers directly generate geographic coordinates all other coordinates are derived from these latitude and longitude coordinates Most large and small scale maps have latitude longitude grids Latitude Longitude coordinates are relatively tolerant of incorrect datum use e Surveyors have traditionally used instruments that read angles in DMS s most surveys continue to be reported as DMS s values Most GPS receivers come from the factory set to display geographic coordinates in DM m e Many maps and charts are grided in minutes and interpolation is fairly convenient on these charts in DM m format If you are going to travel quickly or a long distance then geographic coordinates are the best coordinate style to use Latitude longitude coordi 174 Appendix A Coordinates Primer nates are the standard for aeronautical and blue water marine chart use Of course geographic coordinate styles have several disadvantages e Equal measures of latitude and longitude represent vastly different distances at most latitudes For example in Salt Lake City Utah 1 second of latitude is 31 meters while 1 second of longitude is 23 meters These values change depending upon latitude People have a difficult time relating to distance measured in geographic coordinates If you are told to move 23 1 seconds North and 13 8 seconds West you most likely have no idea how far to move Most people don t k
91. Elev box is checked then the colors nodes are applied over the actual high and low elevation range of the current map If you plan to color more than one map and want the elevation coloring to match from map to map it is important to uncheck the Auto Elev box manually set a gain and choose appropriate high and low elevations that cover all of the maps Color nodes are indicated by numbered circles in the left most color display box At each node you can set the color that will be used at the node s elevation All Topo blends colors between the notes You can edit move add and delete color nodes by right clicking within the color display box near the node point you want to change The Saturation slider changes the color transparency Low saturations will only slightly tint the base map while high saturations will completely replace the base map image The Source Colors to Shade box shows the colors in the currently displayed map Colors without X marks will be recolored while colors with X will be left as is Typically you will want to recolor at least the white and green colors The predefined Elevation Shading Files can be loaded by pressing the Load button If you define a custom color configuration you can save it by pressing the Save button 119 Attaching GeoLinks to Annotations You can attach GeoLink any media or link your computer can evaluate to an annotation Common uses include opening a web page whe
92. HWP files are described in Appendix E of this manual If you work with metes and bounds survey descriptions often we highly recommend purchasing and learning to use Deed Plotter from Greenbrier Graphics Deed Plotter automates the conversion of a text description to a series of vectors and writes an exchange file that All Topo uses to plot on the associated topo map Deed Plotter makes short work of curves and descrip tions with errors A more complete description of Deed Plotter s use with All Topo and the optional Interchange Option can be found in Chapter 8 Using Deed Plotter Deed Descriptions Triangulating New Annotations The All Topo viewer can help you triangulate a feature s location if you know the bearing to the location from two separate known locations Consider a forest fire burning some distance away You can see the smoke but you have no idea how far away the fire might be If you have a GPS and a compass you can quickly determine the fire s location From the first place you can see the fire take a GPS reading and a compass bearing Make a note of the bearing and your GPS location 40 51 13 81 N 109 5 3 90 W 97 5 magnetic north Drive to a second location far enough away that the compass bearing changes appreciably again note the bearing and GPS location 40 51 13 81 N 109 2 36 65 W 223 5 magnetic north 93 Finally display the Triangulation Tool by selecting Tools
93. I Bes tesa EZ Ey nux Soh eT 8 T FG tee Tol mess d vac Gamal nep Chapter 10 All Topo GPS Tool The GPS Tool will be displayed e Pen pee poas Lud Rt am HR Lan ur 1 0 bum enema s be a aj nix Mia ak a T e faa 3 Iram amre Coarmesigs To omy 4 o s Select 1 Load Coordinates From All Topo Maps fW s on the Coordinate List tab of the GPS Tool The GPS tool will retrieve all the current coordinates from All Topo Maps By default every coordinate will be selected Highlight only the coordinates you want to transfer to your GPS you can press and hold the Control key and then click on individual coordinates to toggle their selection Press the 3 Save Selected Coordinates To GPS Receiver button i sr The Save Coordinates To GPS dialog will be displayed Choose the appropriate point style Waypoint List or Route List and then press the OK button Wait for the transfer to complete then close the GPS Tool 151 Real Time Position Tracking You can use your GPS to continuously track your location in the All Topo Maps viewer After starting the All Topo Maps viewer start the GPS tool Select the NMEA amp Real Time Tracking tab PADDA Feen lacur s ai er iig ete aE CH I xGuuL b rl4k TTE E SEM1 EFT DATEIJ cracguem Peng num ges Ede ee amm od E im Firm uem N P omnium ege comer LIT peor pis T ape he n TS ee ee ELIT ions ore ER Pe reinen cms a el T
94. Land Survey coordinate and have purchased and installed the optional Utah PLS tool From the description we make the assumption that bearings are True North and the projection is Lat Lon To place the initial point of beginning press the Find Loc button and select the PLS tab Enter Township 2 N Range 24 E Section 26 Corner North East Press Add Annotation at Coordinate Pux nmm m te iget mamme fom m PIS mmis lt A m i i T mama lm m ata l Pimi vee ee eee ae x Pmmd mm ay ie ET ZEE amp L b iL oe Le Wood E Enter POB for the first annotation s Description Select the Line Fill tab and choose Line Begin then press OK iim n omma Lu ui Lass Does Pate Las Deisi Hia een Dama DHL 8 IP PI Am mnumiunvmmgu D ee YP NER U M i T7LI ME dS TIT E HT ore lak IET he PUE 3E DR Tac 211 Pl Inn DN Ua Mm j Damm D Remis ndn rand rim Next press F2 select the Details tab erase the default Location and enter 1 022983W 5366 1 feet change the description to South East then press OK lide rem jal Law hb cp Deed hme ludens Lom ie 8 Next press F2 select the Details tab erase the default Location and enter N 89 590965W 5260 7 feet change the description to South West then press OK 191 192 base obe j Ls LaL Dead Plata apd Laer eames UA Re 8 OP reel Lee Ler dui of T Aem e el aj henr
95. OR MOVING OR NAVIGATION OF VEHICLES AIRCRAFT OR BOATS NOR SHALL THIS PRODUCT BE USED FOR ANY TARGETING APPLICATION 2 GRANT OF LICENSE This EULA grants you the following rights Software You may install and use one copy of the software product on a SINGLE COMPUTER You may remove this software and install it on another machine only if it can only be run on a single machine Every machine capable of running All Topo Maps MUST have an associated unique Certificate of Serial Number Storage Network Use You may not store or install a copy of the computer software portion of the software product on the computer to allow other computers to use the software product over an internal network You must acquire a dedicated license for each computer on which the software product is used Back up Copy Igage Mapping Corporation has not included a back up copy of the software product with the software product you may make a single back up copy of the software product You may use the back up copy solely for archival purposes 3 CONTENT and PROGRAM Updates Certain Igage Mapping Corporation products utilize web based update of program and map content You may obtain Content Updates only for the period for which you have purchased a subscription Program updates may at the option of Igage Mapping Corporation be offered for this product and its associated tools Igage Mapping Corporation reserves the right to discontinue Program and Content
96. PM14 Humb PM15 Hunt PM16 Indian PM17 Loui PM18 Mich PM19 Princ Mont PM20 Diab PM21 Nava PM22 New M PM23 St He St He PM24 St Ste St St PM25 Salt SLB amp M SLBM PM26 San Ber PM27 Talla PM29 Uintah PM30 Ute PM31 Wash PM32 Wil PM33 Wind PM34 Umiat PM45 PM 1 Kateel PM44 PM 2 Fairb PM13 PM 3 Copper PM12 PM 4 Seward PM28 PM 5 Sec 23 T14N R23E Chickasaw 1833 are all valid Public Land Survey coordinates The listed abbreviations may be expanded from the minimum abbreviation shown to include additional characters from the full meridian name 199 eM PE 3 Mana AG wer Ll n i IN EM B Mrs AL Hu LL oe ij j j 1 i it it N ga m Ug a l T a s i E 10uej4125 Appendix D Escapes and Tokens Appendix D Escapes and Tokens All Topo Map Escapes and tokens are replacement instructions that you can use to modify descriptions and notes Tokens are always enclosed by percent signs and may have one or more arguments YKUTM 9eXUTM Feet NAD83 213 Tokens usually are easier to enter than a long string of numbers and are automatically updated if you change a coordinate location Escape sequences encode characters that would be difficult to enter as a single character What are tokens good for Tokens abstract values that may change For example an annotation descrip tion might include its UTM coordinate 427 498 8 ME 4 509 613 4 MN Z 1
97. PNG Format The image is saved as an 8 bit PNG file The PNG format with compression is an excellent choice for storing generated maps The PNG compression maximum compression using the best filter for each row is used TGA TGA Format The image is saved as an 8 bit TGA file TIF TIF Format The image is saved as an 8 bit palette color TIFF file LZW compression is not supported try the PNG format as an alternative This is the best format for exporting BigTopo maps to CAD and GIS programs as georeferencing information is included with the image file When the TIF output file format is selected an option to Add GeoTIF information is shown Checking the box will embed projection zone scale corner location and map name information within the TIF file When you select a TIF format file output a companion world file TFW is also generated This TFW file contains the UTM coordinates for the upper left corner of the image the image rotation and the image scale factors The UTM zone is not enumerated in the world file The TFW when found in the same directory as the TIF file enables other GIS applications to automatically georeference the BigTopo image The name of the TFW file filename without an extension will be the same as selected for the tif file JPG JPG Format The JPG format is a common compressed image format If you select a JPG output you can also control the compression quality The JPEG
98. Press the button for dialog assistance finding a file or setting a file path we Recall a position from the geographic Coordinate Bookmarks 5 Recall the geographic position from the Windows clipboard If the clipboard does not contain a recognizable coordinate nothing happens Token o A word or group of words surrounded by percent signs that All Topo evaluates and replaces tokens with another value when placed in an annotation Name Description or Note For example 7TIME is replaced with the current time of day The drive letter that represents your CD ROM Your computer should have a CD Rom device if you have a CDROM writer and a DVD reader writer then you have two devices that can read a CD Each CD ROM drive has a letter associated with it just as your floppy disk is the A drive and your fixed disk is the C drive Most CDRom devices are drive D however your CDRom drive letter could be any letter between D and Z To figure out which letter to use find the My Computer icon on your desktop double click on it to open the My Computer Browser Look through the icons for one that looks like a CDROM the letter next to the CD icon is the drive letter 109 117 913 2 commas after a decimal point Commas after a decimal point You are probably used to seeing numbers like 10 000 000 00 instead of 10000000 0 The comma separators help you immediately recognize the first number as 10 million bucks All Topo and this man
99. Quick Start If you read nothing else please check out pages 5 and 8 Coordinate Style Datum Questions Head Appendix A All Topo Maps V7 Pro User s Guide Igage Mapping Corporation Salt Lake City Utah Printed in the United States of America Revision 1 2003 aes 2 Ww Ly i a rT s i of k i Sni ral JA EN Very Important Words about Staying Out of Trouble All Topo Maps Will Not Replace a Licensed Surveyor Please carefully read all the disclaimers that come with the PLS Tool and the viewer see All Topo Maps License and Warranty on page 6 In particular the Elevation Data and Tools the PLS Tool the coordinate geometry math and the Property Description Writer are useless and can t be trusted for any purpose You alone are responsible for checking results and determining if the products and its results are suitable for a particular purpose All Topo Maps makes some of the things that surveyors do look pretty darn easy The PLS Tool shows footage offsets and 4 1 4 sections as fast as you move the mouse cursor You can compute areas by tracing sections and property boundaries From a list of coordinates you can generate a property description that looks good and closes to one part in a trillion You can quickly take a property description and impose it on a topographic map Shape files that indicate property ownership can be displayed But All Topo Maps is not a surveyor or
100. Shortcut Keys A shortcut key replaces a series of mouse movements and clicks Shortcut keys sometimes require pressing more than one key For example the shortcut key to display the Placename Search tool is Alt P To activate the shortcut key press and hold the Alt key then while holding the Alt key down tap the P key finally release the Alt key In addition to the Alt key there is a Ctrl key and a Shift key Some shortcuts use three key combinations Ctrl Alt Del is the most famous three key combination if you are lucky it will show the Windows Task Chapter 4 Computer Conventions and Basic Terms manager There should be two Shift keys two Control keys and two Alt keys on your keyboard either the left or right key will work There may also be a fn key that shifts the status of many of the keys on the keyboard Status Line Many windows but not all have an area at the bottom of the window where messages are displayed This area is called the Status Lite Tab Moves forward through a window s options The Windows Clipboard The Windows Clipboard is a place where you can put objects When you are editing text if you highlight the text and press Ctrl C the selected text is copied into the clipboard If you instead press Ctrl X the selected text will be cut from the source and placed in the clipboard Later you can paste the clipboard text into another location by pressing Ctrl V The clipboard will hold pictures a
101. T Connecticut 0600 Feet DE Delaware 0700 Feet FLE Florida East 0901 Feet FLW Florida West 0902 Feet FLN Florida North 0903 Feet GAE Georgia East 1001 Feet GAW Georgia West 1002 Feet HII Hawaii 1 5101 Feet HI2 Hawaii 2 5102 Feet HI3 Hawaii 3 5103 Feet HI4 Hawaii 4 5104 Feet HI5 Hawaii 5 5105 Feet IDE Idaho East 1101 Feet IDC Idaho Central 1102 Feet IDW Idaho West 1103 Feet ILE Illinois East 1201 Feet ILW Illinois West 1202 Feet INE Indiana East 1301 Feet INW Indiana West 1302 Feet IAN Iowa North 1401 Feet IAS Iowa South 1402 Feet KSN Kansas North 1501 Feet KSS Kansas South 1502 Feet KYN Kentucky North 1601 Feet 193 194 KYS LAN LAS LAOS MEE MEW MD MA MAI MIE MIC2 MIW MIN MIC MIS MNN MNC MNS MSE MSW MOE MOC MOW MTN MTC MTS NEN NES NVE NVC NVW NH NJ NME NMC NMW NYE NYC NYW NYLI NC NDN NDS OHN OHS OKN OKS ORN ORS PAN PAS RI SCN SCS SDN SDS Kentucky South Louisiana North Louisiana South Louisiana Offshore Maine East Maine West Maryland Massachusetts Mainland Massachusetts Island Michigan East Michigan Central Michigan West Michigan North Michigan Central Michigan South Minnesota North Minnesota Central Minnesota South Mississippi East Mississippi West Missouri East Missouri Central Missouri West Montana North Montana Central Montana South Nebraska North Nebraska South Nevada East Nevada Central Nevada West New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico East New Mexic
102. The GPS is not turned on GPS Interface is not correctly configured Wrong COM port number baud rate data bits Make sure the GPS configuration matches the Default settings on the settings tab The serial cable is not connected or is not making contact remove the connector from your GPS clean the contact and replace the connector e Garmin receivers should be set to GARMIN mode not NMEA The GPS Batteries are weak Some GPS receivers have problems communicating with low batteries If the test 1s successful then the GPS make model and firmware revision will be displayed to the right of the Test GPS button E bmi lerroren mi Tas U pue HEEN ee ee um EI liar im Jay After successfully verifying the serial connection press Done to return to the Coordinate List tab 148 Chapter 10 All Topo GPS Tool Garmin ETrex Style GPS Receivers If you have a Garmin ETrex style GPS with a flat slide over contact connec tor make sure the gold contacts on the GPS and the spring loaded contacts on the cable are clean and oil free Clean both the contacts and the connector pins with alcohol and a soft cloth Conflicts with Microsoft ActiveSync and Palm HotSync If you have a PDA Personal Digital Assistant and have installed the synchronizing software the synchronizing tool may be enabled and have your serial port open even if you have disconnected the PDA and connected your GPS The GPS tool will
103. Triangulation from the main menu Enter the two base coordinates and angles selecting the correct North Reference Magnetic North All Topo will compute the fire location and place a temporary marker at the intersection Press the thumbtack next to the triangulation point to add a user annotation at the intersection It is important to choose observation points that have a large difference in bearing to the target and to use a quality compass in a non magnetic environment In the example above a 2 degree error in the bearing results in a 14 mile error in the projected fire location For this reason the use of a quality sighting compass like the Brunton Sightmaster is highly recommended With some practice you can quickly take l2 degree repeatable bearings with this compass Since All Topo automatically adjusts for declination you won t need to worry about computing declination or in the worst case setting the declination backwards The Brunton Sightmaster SM360LA Annotation Display Descriptions Layers and Grids 94 The All Topo viewer can overlay UTM grids Lat Lon grids and State Plane grids over displayed maps Each annotation can have three associated text fields Name Description Notes and be assigned to one of ten layers These annotation features can be controlled with the Layer and Grid Controller which you can display by selecting Annotations Annotation Control Layer Grid or by pressing
104. Updates at anytime without notice 4 DESCRIPTION OF OTHER RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS Limitations on Reverse Engineering Decompilation and Disassembly You may not reverse engineer decompile or disassemble the software products except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwith standing this limitation Separation of Components The All Topo Maps is licensed as a single product Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one computer Single Computer The All Topo Maps software product may only be used with the computer Rental You may not rent or lease the software product Software Transfer You may permanently transfer all of your rights under this EULA only as part of a sale or transfer of the computer provided you retain no 1 12 copies you transfer all of the software product including all component parts the media and printed materials any upgrades this EULA and if applicable the Certificate of Serial Number and the recipient agrees to the terms of this EULA If the software product is an upgrade any transfer must include all prior versions of the software product Termination without prejudice to any other rights Igage Mapping Corporation may terminate this EULA if you fail to comply with the terms and conditions of this EULA In such event you must destroy all copies of the software product and all of its component parts 5 COPYRIGHT
105. WCH EUN Mi o ip xx 2 UI oic SST eT oh Z EFTE i fie Wd SSeS See ee im lores F ke 7 ata FER i GE ee peur S 9 Importing basemaps into MapInfo MapInfo is a leading business mapping solution it performs sophisticated and detailed data analysis to drive insightful decisions Maps exported from the All Topo Map viewer or BigTopo can be easily imported into MapInfo From the main MapInfo menu select File Open 134 Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo Change the Files of Type to Raster bil MapInfo will load the raster image and generate a TAB file in the same folder as the basemap for future use 135 8vla9428 136 Chapter 8 Using Deed Plotter Deed Descriptions Chapter 8 Using Deed Plotter Deed Descriptions All Topo Maps when combined with Deed Plotter a trademark of Greenbrier Graphics Inc takes text descriptions like A part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 23 Township 6 North Range 1 East Salt Lake Base and Meridian U S Survey Beginning at the East quarter corner of this Section 23 thence South 89 36 25 West 1446 81 feet along the quarter section line thence South 6 59 51 East 565 86 feet thence South 4 54 27 West 66 0 feet thence Easterly along a c
106. Width 0 25 Mi Rot 45 0 Symbol Type Circle A circle is drawn centered at the annotation location filled with the back ground color and fill style The circle diameter is set by the Width Type Circle Width 0 386 Mi Fill Horz Hatch When the symbol type is set to Circle the Set Area button Seite is shown to the right of the symbol width This area tool can be used to set the circle to cover an exact area Symbol Type Ring A ring is drawn centered at the annotation location the ring is not filled The ring diameter is set by the symbol Width Type Ring Width 0 386 Mi When the symbol type is set to Ring the Set Area button sss is shown to 81 82 the right of the symbol width This area tool can be used to set the circle to cover an exact area Symbol Type Ellipse An ellipse is drawn centered at the annotation location filled with the background color and fill style The ellipse height and width are set by the symbol Height and Width Symbol Type Square A square is drawn centered at the annotation location The square is not filled Symbol Type Rect Centered Rect SW Rect S Rect SE A rectangle is drawn with dimensions Width and Height rotated about the base point by the symbol Rotation Rect Centered is centered about the annotation location Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Type Rect S Width 0 5 Mi Height 0 25 Mi Rot 25 degrees Rect SE is
107. ail to an address when the link is evaluated use the form mailto gripes igage com If an annotation has media attached it is customary to include a symbol like a camera or an underlined link reference to indicate there is a GeoLink Automatically Attaching GeoLinks The All Topo Auto GeoLink tool automatically attaches JPEG images taken with digital cameras to GPS track points or waypoints The Auto GeoLink wizard can be started from the Tools Auto GeoLink menu selection ax I ECET nT Pe m 3 lS BALOETEI ete LEE ELO YA e Me DINA4T Pra LED I our Pes Rute rd Des RALUYTE Pe el HETE HRA EGN UB el ee E EF petm EATE H ia F Lith ke EN i MA TER TS TEP fre IDM BT ee a y i W ee Lino iram e Lii Dp Dacis i ee Bo paT iem T Juil mmm il Lm eia mw la pom asma wm pala meme e rm ay Larva la mao ra HETO 6 linc 3115 204 Ln inm ETE Eber O5 En mm e IIT kh The Auto GeoLink wizard tool requires that your GPS record a time date stamp with track points or waypoints your JPG images contain a recognizable time date stamp Recording a GPS Track While Taking Pictures To take pictures for use with the Auto GeoLink wizard Turn your GPS on and allow it to acquire satellites wait for the Estimated Position Error EPE to drop below 20 30 feet 2 Estimate the time you will spend taking pictures and choose a track point spacing that will not overflow the track buffer on you
108. al connected plotters will work however it will take over 8 days to transfer a 42 x 60 inch map at 9 600 baud When printing large maps watch the plotter as it begins to print When huge print jobs fail often the printer will print a solid black image It is best to manually cancel these failures Once a print job fails you most likely will need to reboot the computer that sent the print job in before another job may be successfully sent Huge images may not be printable without the addition of a hardware Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer raster image processor RIP to your plotter Elevation Profiles If your All Topo map set includes elevation data then you can build elevation profiles between two annotations along a route or along a freehand traced path x Ie FEX EE IL Th mma reler ELS 1H ag Ipm Epu EES clem MES CURE E dad bun naimk ed luem bdrib t Dru kx Pr ar uum ee ee mlmsdddemda zu Les M Profiles along a Drawn Path To draw a free hand path and build an elevation profile select the Pencil Tool by clicking the button on the toolbar Move the mouse to the starting point of the path press and hold the left mouse button down and trace the path you would like to profile When the trace is complete release the left mouse button To generate a profile right mouse click near the marker at the start of the trace then select the popup menu a Build Profile Route Profiles To draw a rout
109. ame and the second is used for the annotation Description 40 46 37 1 N 111 53 14 9 W UTCAP Utah State Capitol All Topo enforces a maximum length of 6 characters for the Annotation Name to facilitate data exchange with GPS receivers If three semicolons are place on a line the final text is used as the annotation Note 40 46 37 1 N 111 53 14 9 W UTCAP Utah State Capitol granite building A description or note can include more than one line by separating text lines with the pipe symbol 1 40 46 37 1 N 111 53 14 9 W UTCAP Utah State Capitoll400 N State Street hy A ae Ep i M uu IT 4 ea y Ptah Slate Can itl QM is a A00 H State Sirasi r Aa 1 155 A variety of other annotation features can be added using Tokens Escapes and lt Meta gt Tags tokens and Escapes are described in Appendix D lt Meta gt Tags are described in this section Some of the simpler lt Meta Tags gt include commands to e Change text location size font style and colors e Lines that connect waypoint locations line styles and colors e Symbols draw scaled boxes lines arrows over map images In addition you can use the waypoint file to e Set the title displayed on the All Topo Maps program e Set the Measurement Spike location e Automatically Center the viewer over a map location lt Meta Tags gt Waypoint Format Commands Meta commands much like the commands used to write HTML code for the World Wide Web may
110. annotation styles After modifying annotation properties press the Apply button to save the results press the OK button to apply and exit the annotation editor Check the Automatically Apply Changes box to apply changes as they are made The Details Tab lide leh je i Lengua Deed hm ludens rh d M oer Lam OP Sama 81 r Pie 80M ir Are F z she je ears Te mre aged 71 RGB EPI C Ad i loma bee liem 79 Each annotation has three associated text data fields Name Description and Notes These fields can be separately enabled and disabled from the Layer and Grid Control menu shortcut Alt G or with the shortcut keys N Name D Description and T Notes The Details tab includes property editors for annotation location text color size Style font rotation and position and GPS Icon date elevation Checking the Auto Name box automatically generates annotation names from the annotation description Checking the Auto Inc or Auto Dec box will automatically number subsequent annotations Descriptions and Notes both can contain Tokens which abstract properties of the annotation For example the 7DMS token is replaced with the coordinate location in degree minute decimal seconds format A complete list of tokens and information on the Token Helper can be found in Appendix D The Symbol Tab 80 ee i Laj baa b i
111. ap is displayed at the bottom of the window on the status line Position the mouse cursor over the location you are interested in and then double click to load and center the appropriate map Alternatively you can right click at the location and choose the map scale you want to view pFE P E eain 2 If the current map set has more than one available overview map you can use the buttons at the bottom of the overview map window to choose alternate maps Bookmarks Set Jump Press the number keys 1 through 9 and 0 to set a bookmark at the current cursor position A system annotation will be set at the cursor with the current system style and the description BKn Once Coordinate Bookmarks are set you can recall them anywhere you see the 44 button To jump and center a bookmark press Ctrl K to show the Recall Bookmark tool Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer po E S LI H S End hm zd ni DU mE ee Wi LER SE tes fe If the clipboard and Measurement Spike contain valid coordinates then they too can be a jump destination Search By Annotation Find Wpt The Search Annotation List tool lists all the user annotations in a grid To show the Search Annotation List tool click the yee button or press the shortcut key Alt W E TE rth hi ei aU ium ETI TH EMG CARI a dl THT m EC EIN HUS ee wok Padi fH ft Se rr n RT ae Enn E ie Pe EHT r S L EHLE Par ETESUTEOH UMCGUEK DRET L
112. ar and then click Run Type d Setup where d is the letter representing your CD ROM drive and then click OK If you don t know the drive letter of your CD Rom press the Browse button choose Look In My Computer and finally look for the CD icon Double click on the Setup icon found on the CDRom disk Pre V7 Installations When installing pre V7 installations follow the on screen instructions Allow the installer to use the same base installation folder for each product Version 7 Installations When the setup program is launched a splash screen will be displayed while the installation tool prepares to run After a moment the installation program will begin follow the onscreen instructions When the Serial Number Manager is displayed insure that all the serial numbers for the All Topo products you have purchased are listed Missing serial numbers will prevent products from being installed and they will not be available for use z TEC mm m UEPREgUUI Waatzrrezcc pee Loe Paproarie I TT ee Le BEL p HTE eee Lee End 7E mme Rs i EZ TEE ELI BE ee ggg 15s Fap ot Coe mah TR odh cm Mea umor TS as q DE To enter new or missing serial numbers press the Add Change button the License Manager will be shown TRETA LN Browse for missing products To add a Version 7 serial number V7 highlight the product description then press the Add or Change Serial Number button 57 and enter the
113. art All Topo Maps If the desktop icon is obscured or lost you can start the viewer from the Windows Taskbar Click the Start button on the Windows Taskbar then click on AII Programs then All Topo Maps V7 then All Topo Maps V7 If more than one state set is installed choose the state you want to work with Un check the Open Last Project option to start without loading the previ ously displayed map and annotation file Main All Topo Viewer Menu uir e aeo ed precem oss anm ee oe ow GG ae CE PORE GT D TUO 3 p RID Tee Mouse Cursor Styles The All Topo Viewer has five cursor styles that are useful for different map viewing and annotating tasks t Bombsight Cursor useful for accurately positioning the cursor When moved with the left mouse button depressed the bombsight cursor accumulates traced distance and area amp Drag hand Cursor useful for dragging the map around the screen 4 Zoom tool Cursor Click drag release to zoom into an area on the map The right click shortcut menu is not available when using the Zoom cursor Pencil tool Cursor Draws freehand lines on the map 63 Point To Point Cursor Snaps line connected coordinates on the map The Point to Point tool is useful for building routes and drawing property lines and trails on the map Each cursor can be selected by pressing the appropriate cursor button on the toolbar or by pressing a shortcut key CURSOR Shor
114. ate server address for the Host entry If your network configuration requires the use of a proxy you will have to enter the proxy address in the Proxy entry and the Proxy Port in the Proxy Port entry Your network administrator will provide the address and port If you don t have a proxy server then leave the proxy entry blank and set the proxy port to the number 0 System Tab i Lawigaatn ies ee ee ee EE Orl Lrimd Sere Ges Lem E pamitan d m bord Farsi 7 emend E RI bem rm neuem Coe Lene hae bee Cc Pr all mm SETHE Tab magn 4I Mt Daid Bel pe Hari l on H eu Tapez ace P diis m Fm eem un ln The system tab contains configuration options for the default User System and Track annotations the size and location of the GeoLink picture cache and default location where you want BigTopo maps to be built and stored Default Styles The default User style is used for new user annotations The default System style is used for the Measurement Spike double click ticks found locations and bookmarks The default Track style is used to display the real time tracking location when enabled by the GPS Tool The waypoint name description and note for the User and Track styles will be used for annotations based upon them Adding tokens like PDMS to the Track style will result in the track position being displayed at the current location Annotations based upon the System style ignore any configured
115. ates with rotations X 0 5 miles Y 0 25 Miles R 0 5 defines a point 2 mile East and mile North of the base point rotated 1 2 degree clockwise Relative coordinates are Great Circle Lat Lon projected with respect to True North by default If you are working with UTM coordinates you most likely will want to override the North Reference and projection X 0 5 miles Y 0 25 Miles GN UTM Quadrant Bearings Quadrant bearings are easier to enter than azimuth or Cartesian offsets Enter a followed by the quadrant bearing followed by a distance as a Location or in an HWP file N45 2314789E 2640 feet specifies a point 2 mile True North East of the base point in the Lat Lon projection Since quadrant bearings are almost always expressed in feet All Topo will assume footage distance calls unless overrided with acceptable units Quadrant bearings are entered with the degrees before the decimal point two minute characters and two or more second characters To enter N 12 degrees 34 minutes 5 678 seconds West N12 3405678W You must zero pad the minutes and seconds if they are less than 10 To enter the bearing South 2 degrees 3 minutes 4 5 seconds West use South 02 degrees 03 minutes 04 5 seconds West use gt S2 03045W All Topo also accepts cardinal directions like Due North Or DueN So DueN 1 mile fully describes a point mile True North of the base coordinate 187 188 Quadrant Bearing Dista
116. automatically closed lines and some metatags Available area units are Square Meters Acres Square Miles Hectares Square Feet You can also disable area calculations Elevation Tab TEIL TEI IIIS Lounges Timem g os Da lr ril To eus Lel cmd Ui a ec Aa ed eed ee reman o n ar ape T n E sm pe im i ere mm nm ar e muaem g c m s co RE B e p md biii CO ensi NEC EDO lae oti Bes Lo re peg Cin mem im s Pia Leg we 7 Hum 5 Dm made FT da b med i e e cm Sed oe comma n dn je Din T ITI All Topo uses a set of compressed files idz extension to estimate the elevation at a location By default the 1dz elevation files are kept on the 109 distribution CDROM disks with the map files that they cover If you copy the map data files from the distribution CD s the elevation files are automatically organized under the folder specified by the Base Location of Auxiliary Elevation Data Files Base Location of Auxiliary Elevation Data Files If you choose to copy map files from the distribution CDs to your fixed drive elevation data files are copied to this folder Elevation data for the entire US requires about 9 gigabytes of disk space Smooth Grid Checking the Smooth Grid box directs All Topo to interpolate intermediate elevations between the grid points Un checking the Smooth Grid box results in the elevation grid point nearest the location of interest to be used Elevation Cache Size All Topo cache
117. ban d Unda tir Bbk ai man agi Every coordinate can have one or more associated hyperlinks If the hyperlink is an image All Topo will automatically display the image in the GeoLink Attribute Viewer window when the mouse cursor hovers near the annotation The GeoLinks tab includes buttons to search for file based links and buttons to test links Once a hyperlink is associated with an annotation righ mouse clicking near the annotation will display a popup menu with an option to Open the link If more than one link exists then a selection menu is presented for the user to choose a link The Auto GeoLink tool can automate the association of digital pictures with a GPS track log See the section Attaching GeoLinks to Annotations at the end of this chapter Additional lt Meta gt Tags Annotation properties that do not have dedicated editing controls may be listed in the Additional lt Meta gt Tags editor The DeedPlotter Tab The DeedPlotter tab is described in chapter 8 of this manual The Styles Tab Hd iul eae d I E Lismde JA Seed Liu d beL e Fa Tie li mm arg oan i aie bm Aro Dum Lore lam si Rem a En n Li u amm ammi uum Annotation styles define all of the properties of an annotation except for the Name Description Note elevation and timestamp Once you configure an annotation you can save its style to recall and apply to another annotation The left si
118. basemaps for use with other programs like CAD GIS other mapping and image tools All Topo can export entire maps pieces of maps and arbitrary coverages comprised of seamed sets of maps using BigTopo This chapter discusses exporting maps to a variety of other applications In every case you first must export a map image from either the viewer or BigTopo to a TIF image file Map Viewer Exporting a piece of an existing map or an entire map BigTopo Exporting coverage that extends over two or more maps Importing asemaps into Trimble Pathfinder Office Importing basemaps into ESRI ArcGIS Products Importing baseemaps into OziExplorer Importing basemaps into AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD Map Importing basemaps into Mapinfo Exporting a piece of an existing map or an entire map Open the topographic map any scale from which you want to export 2 Adjust the aspect of the map viewing Window to match the coverage you want to export Zoom in or out until what you see on the viewer is the map you want to export AMETE bawi i re AM ee Met c Ned ee He i gd iof 24 Biss reser tr Es deme Mer iem Fon F n red A de ula a a NS et Ei Soe ai 2 T MA LL E wem r z ua P If the All Topo map viewer covers your entire screen press the restore button in the window corner to return to partial screen mode so you can resize the window a he ree 3 Select the main menu option Edit Export Map to Clipboa
119. be included in waypoint files Meta tags are always enclosed within gt brackets and consist of a Meta command and optional 214 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP arguments Most of the tags and the arguments may be abbreviated with one or just a few characters This speeds up annotation entry often it is easier to type coordi nates and comments into the source editor than it is to enter them with a mouse Arguments to Meta tags are case insensitive For example The tag Hyperlink http www All Topo com gt command may be abbreviated as h http www All Topo com gt The fully specified Meta tag to select blue 12pt Arial text on a white background placed at the top left corner of a coordinate is Font Arial 12 Bold Blue White Northwest but it may be abbreviated lt F Arial 12 Bold Blu Whi NW gt When you make changes to the waypoint file using the waypoint editor the map annotations are not automatically updated You must press the Reannotate button on the toolbar or right click and select Reannotate to load any changes onto the map surface gies pees o jo Eee m Waypoint files are read sequentially from their beginning to end As each coordinate pair is encountered it is displayed with the fonts lines and symbols currently defined by lt Meta gt tags You can extend a tag to the next line by placing the V character at the end of the line to be continued For exa
120. calculations You can double click within the Measurement Spike Display Box to quickly reach the configuration screen To use the Measurement Spike select the Bombsight cursor and move the cursor to the base point to measure from To pound the stake right mouse click and select Set Measurement Spike or pressing the shortcut key F6 A dot and lt Spike will appear at the Spike location Now move the cursor away from the spike the Measurement Spike Distance Bearing display will continuously show the both the Cartesian offset and vector distance and bearing from the Measurement Spike to the Cursor Press Ctrl K to jump to the Measurement Spike or Bookmarks Press Ctrl F6 to remove the Measurement Spike from the map Using the Point to Point Distance Tool The Point to Point Distance Tool will show a line between the two points while displaying the Great Circle Distance True Azimuth Magnetic Azimuth UTM Grid Distance and Bearing and the State Plane Grid Distance and Bearing between the points Before using the Point to Point Distance tool set the Measurement Spike distance units as they are honored by the Point to Point Distance tool The Point To Point Distance Tool uses the UTM and State Plane Zone Code from the Primary Coordinate Display You can double click on the Primary Coordinate Display to reach the configuration screen To display the distance between two points select the Bombsight or Drag Hand curs
121. ccuracy A 0 000 28 degree 1 second shift in both latitude and longitude results in a 127 8 Foot change in location at the Capitol dome When configured to display D d values the receiver shows XX XXXXX N XXX XXXXXW 0 000 01 degree accuracy A 0 000 01 degree shift in both latitude and longitude results in a 4 6 Foot change in location 28 times better accuracy 175 176 Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates UTM UTM Zonas for tia United States UTM Zones for the Continental United States The UTM coordinate system divides the surface of the earth into 60 strips covering 6 degrees of longitude and extending nearly from the North to South Pole This relatively narrow strip called a UTM Zone is flattened and a base point is chosen at the center of the zone The base point is assigned a False Easting value of 500 000 meters so all UTM easting values are positive In addition each zone overlaps its neighbor ing east and west zones by one degree Every coordinate has a Natural UTM Zone that is the UTM Zone that holds the coordinate Points that lie within 1 degree of a UTM Zone boundary may optionally be expressed in the adjacent UTM Zone The airport in Wendover Nevada provides a good example Wendover Utah lies just west of the 114 longitude boundary between UTM Zone 12 to the east and UTM Zone 11 to the west Wendover naturally lies in UTM Zone 11 however it is acceptable to use a Zone 12 coordinate T
122. ce a screen refresh Hiding POB to TPOB Vector Often a deed description will contain an initial call from the Point of Beginning POB to a True Point of Beginning TPOB It is usually desirable to hide the initial vector to the property s corner Place a forward slash as the first character of the line to hide in Deed Plotter s Deed Description Editor and the call will be ignored for plotting in Deed Plotter The initial offset will be included in All Topo however a line will not be drawn Surveys that Cross Maps If a survey falls on two or more quadrangles use BigTopo to make a new topographic map centric to your survey See the BigTopo description found in this manual Deed Plotter Program Version The lowest Deed Plotter program version that will work with All Topo Maps is V 4 08 141 I5 vkg29 Chapter 9 Command Line Arguments amp API Chapter 9 Command Line Arguments amp API Normally you just click on the All Topo viewer s desktop or Start Menu icon and the All Topo viewer starts and loads the last viewed map and annotation set You can optionally start All Topo from the command line or a special icon that adds arguments to change the initial view point map name loaded state set and annotation file If the All Topo viewer is already running the running copy will process any command line arguments It is possible to remote control the All Topo viewer by passing arguments
123. changes to the map display Both the Jump and Reannotate functions are available from the right mouse click popup menu Annotation Source Files Waypoint source files are line oriented Each line may contain 213 Comments Lines have a semicolon as the first non white space characters on the line are ignored and treated as comments If All Topo Maps rewrites a source file all comments found before an annotation will be grouped together in one block Optionally comments may be included in a meta command lt This is a comment too Coordinate Specifications lines that are not blank and don t start with a are parsed for coordinates Continuation Lines coordinate specification lines may be continued to the next line by placing a V as the last non quoted character on a line Meta Tag Lines words enclosed by brackets gt are treated as formatting commands Meta Tags apply to coordinates that follow the tag or are on the same input line as the tag The simplest format for an annotation marking a coordinate is location waypoint description The location can be any coordinate that the All Topo system can understand Lat Lon UTM MGRS State Plane and optionally PLS For example 40 46 37 1 N 111 53 14 9 W Utah State Capitol will display the text Utah State Capitol at the front steps of Utah s capitol If two semicolons are placed on a line the text following the first is used as the annotation N
124. d Arguments Date Time Format Hours Offset Ex DATETIME 4 15 2003 2 21 52 PM 9eDATETIME10 DD MM YYY HH MM SS AMPM 15 04 2003 02 22 32 PM TIME YDATE Displays the current system time and day Arguments none Appendix D Escapes and Tokens Ex TIME 11 31 43 AM DATE 7 25 2002 Map Printed DateTime Map Printed 7 25 2002 11 32 25 AM NAME Coordinate Name DESC Coordinate Description NOTE Coordinate Note Displays the annotation Name Description or Note Note Strings are only evaluated once for tokens If you include DESC within a coordinate description will not result in infinite recursion For example this annotation description Desc DESC IS RECURSIVE will display DESC IS RECURSIVE IS RECURSIVE Arguments none These tokens have limited use in Annotation Descriptions and Notes they are most valuable when exporting annotations to a file COORSTR User Coordinate String Displays the coordinate string from the annotation file The user coordinate string is displayed in the coordinate window of the Annotation Editor and is the actual coordinate string saved in an annotation file Arguments none Ex YCOORSTR 41 8 25 N 104 49 11 W Y LINK Hyperlink Displays the text representation of the hyperlink associated with an annota tion Arguments none Ex SLINK C Pic W100 jpg C Pic W101 jpg QASF Quick Shape File Evaluation Displays the ident
125. d corner accuracy With respect to the accuracy of section lines in all cases you should assume the sections shown on topographic maps may have substantial errors They typically are NOT representative of any survey nor do they have any legal basis in the survey record Since township range section lines are rarely projected to adjacent quad rangles when plotted they often do not align when quadrangles are seemed Section numbers are indicated by red integers within the section Section or parcel numbers denoted with PB indeicate Protracted Blocks and are not surveyed Township or range line Township location doubtful Section line Section location doubtful Found Section Closing corner Witness corner meander corner Other Land Surveys Township or range lines Section Line Land Grant mining claim monument Fence line Surface Features Levee Sand mud area dunes or shifting sand Intricate surface area r Gravel beach or glacial moraine 43 44 Mines and Caves Vegetation Tailings pond Quarry or open pit mine Gravel sand clay or borrow pit Mine tunnel or cave entrance Prospect mine shaft Mine dump Tailings Woods Scrub Orchard Vineyard Mangrove Glaciers and Permanent Snowfields Coastal Features Bathymetric Features Contours and limits Form lines Foreshore flat Rock or coral reef Rock bare or awash Group of rocks bare or wash Exposed Wreck Depth curve
126. d Displays the date using the format given by the LongDateFormat global variable m Displays the month as a number without a leading zero 1 12 If the m specifier immediately follows an h or hh specifier the minute rather than the month is displayed mm Displays the month as a number with a leading zero 01 12 If the mm specifier immediately follows an h or hh specifier the minute rather than the month is displayed mmm Displays the month as an abbreviation Jan Dec using the strings given by the ShortMonthNames global variable mmmm Displays the month as a full name January December using the strings given by the LongMonthNames global variable yy Displays the year as a two digit number 00 99 yyyy Displays the year as a four digit number 0000 9999 h Displays the hour without a leading zero 0 23 hh Displays the hour with a leading zero 00 23 n Displays the minute without a leading zero 0 59 nn Displays the minute with a leading zero 00 59 s Displays the second without a leading zero 0 59 ss Displays the second with a leading zero 00 59 t Displays the time using the format given by the ShortTimeFormat global Appendix D Escapes and Tokens variable tt Displays the time using the format given by the LongTimeFormat global variable am pm Uses the 12 hour clock for the preceding h or hh specifier and displays am for any hour before noon and pm for any hour after noon The am pm specifier
127. de of the Style tab allows you to save the current annotation style to a named style The right side of the tab lists the named styles double click on a named style to apply the style to the current annotation Annotation Files Annotation files are used to store your map annotations You can have an unlimited number of annotation files on your computer Because only your annotations are stored in the file annotation files are very small 86 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer This section discusses saving opening backing up restoring and packaging annotation files Choosing an Annotation File Name By default annotations files are stored in the C All Topo User folder and have a hwp file extension For advanced users detailed information about the format of annotation files can be found in Appendix E of this manual When you start All Topo for the first time any annotations that you add are stored in a file named Default hwp in the C All Topo User folder While a single annotation file can hold an unlimited number of annotations it is best to organize annotations by project job trip or application All Topo makes managing annotation files easy using the main menu option Annotations imi GFE fe fe LI a T ap dome epee Anu JF ranch are i 5 it Te Se FE Ze 5 Lir ee b ru v il e 2 Firm bg om is Pii iil Ld Eri lerra Paru i ll i5 i T r aram ra Pm T
128. default If your project contains hundreds of GeoLinks you will achieve significant performance benefits by setting this cache to a much larger size See the main menu option Options System Options System GeoLink Picture Cache General Serial Number Information All Topo Maps sets are licensed for installation on a single computer Every computer that has All Topo Maps installed and ready to run must have a unique serial number When you use our web based update services updating the software or maps our server records the serial number and machine identification of your system When you call us requesting assistance we also record your serial number and machine identification Both web based updates and phone support register your unique serial number to your physical computer 59 We know that you will purchase new computers or need to reload our software after a crash so we automatically allow you to install our software on new or rebuilt machines However each new installation will invalidate all previous installations only the latest installation is eligible for updates and support While invalidated installations will continue to run they are not eligible for additional web based updates or support Attempts to update invalidated installations will disable the invalid installation Extra Serial Numbers Multiple Machines Site Licensing Network Licensing Subscription Services Single User with Multiple Machines
129. e Annotations Edit Annotation Source main menu option or press F8 to display the Annotation Source Editor The Source Editor is a standard text file editor with a few All Topo specific twists The V7 editor will support files with up to 10 million characters and includes numerous features to make editing source files easier The bottom status line shows the current text cursor position in Column Row format Insert Overwrite mode and the size of the annotation file in bytes The File menu has options to control and print the current annotation file The Edit menu supports Undo and Redo edit functions Cut Copy Paste Select AII Delete selected and helpers that insert a file at the cursor or insert a file by reference I The Search menu contains the Find Find Next Search and Replace and a shortcut to jump to a specific line number The Options menu contains settings for Line Numbers WordStar Commands and an option to arrange the map viewer window and the Annotation Source Editor on the screen The Convert function will convert all of the selected annotations to alternate coordinate styles The Convert function can not evaluate relative coordinates however relative coordinates can be converted by the Convert button in the Edit Annotation dialog Jump will center the coordinate found on the line containing the text cursor Reannotate saves and reads the annotation file applying any
130. e Press Save to import and register the image from All Topo Importing basemaps into AutoCAD LT AutoCAD is a computer aided drafting program by AutoDesk Raster images can be imported into AutoCAD R14 and higher as base layers and engineering documents can be overlaid on the base maps A complementary product AutoCAD Map can automatically georeference basemaps into world space To import an image into AutoCAD LT 2000 first open the accompanying TXT file generated when All Topo or BigTopo exported with the Windows Notepad editor Find the lines labeled CAD base insertion and scale include map collars entire image CAD Insertion Point SW Corner 632 113 03 M E 4 281 285 14 MN Z12 UTM Meters CAD Horz Scale 6 469 380 0 Meters 21 225 000 0 Feet If you choose to insert the basemap at its UTM location the listed insertion point can be used The CAD Horz Scale is required so that engineering units can be used on the imported map Open an existing drawing or create a new drawing Select the main menu item Insert OLE Object ie Bi pe pee Tyres Denm Deme Dem Dag m F UE b rrer L E n c d zh Gf es h US NNI EPESA T 131 The Insert Object dialog is shown oer a msrp ETET T RES dace Bilal A n Pee p gemmarum oic em cnm rm n ba iman umm nx om ee n cruor mare Select the Create From File option check the Link checkbox browse for the bas
131. e reference elevation mean high or low tide and accuracy of bathymetric contours and depth values Intermediate Index Primary Index Primary Index Supplementary Boundaries Boundaries between tracts of property are never enumerated on topographic maps unless one or both sides of the boundary is administered by the Federal government National State or Territorial County or equivalent Civil Township or equivalent Incorporated City or equivalent Park Reservation or Monument Small Park U S Public Land Survey System While the township range section line style is indicative of the accuracy of the drawn line the corner tick style is a much better indicator of plotted corner and line accuracy Chapter 3 Map Basics C tom d Ey If dashed lines merely cross a then the location and existence of a survey monument is doubtful and the dashed lines are most certainly plotted in the wrong place A solid corner tick b indicates that the survey monument was recoverable when the map was researched and is believed to be plotted in the correct location The dashed section lines in example b above indicate unreliable section lines Solid lines with no separated tick c indicate that there is some certainty that the lines are plotted correctly however the section marker was not recover able or a marker was never set Solid lines with a solid separated corner tick d indicate the best line an
132. e All Topo Maps Viewer Entering Metes and Bounds Survey Descriptions All Topo Maps is not a substitute for a professional certified licensed surveyor It is a violation of state law to survey property for any purpose without a valid state surveyor s license You should always consult a licensed surveyor when interpreting or generating deed descriptions Often parcels of land are described with metes and bounds survey descrip tions These descriptions typically include a starting point like the corner of a section or quarter section and a series of bearings and distances From a true point of beginning at the North East Corner of Section 2 Township 14 North Range 1 West Salt Lake Base Meridian thence South 1 degrees 2 minutes 42 24 seconds East a distance of 1 374 5 Feet to the South East property corner thence North 89 degrees 33 minutes 21 47 seconds West a distance of 2 609 5 Feet to the South West property corner thence North 0 degrees 11 minutes 25 82 seconds West a distance of 1 337 7 Feet to the North West property corner thence to the true point of beginning Containing 81 1 Acres more or less First find the Point of Beginning on the map Since we know the true point of beginning as a township range coordinate it is easiest to use the PLS tab of the Search by Location tool Press the g then select the PLS tab and enter the base coordinate s location D nap BuEIDEMe Z4 ge t ma ee fem ILS Tome H
133. e R2 HT RW ew mm eh m L j Automatically associate digital camera images with GPS track route and waypoints Quickly builds geographic based media databases JPG Date Utility pam sihis ef mie bat ts md I I Eu inui bel runi deas en oec Dal Va sch Bl TI bags ES prier a ia i perce T5 bip Ur mi Pv firi ME xm dac d el eri iml MET Bog pr This utility builds a small helper file containing the date time stamp of JPEG encoded image files It is useful if you intend to use a picture editor that removes the timestamp from images and you will be Auto GeoLinking in the future 29 GeoLink Media Viewer Automatically displays GeoLinked image media Annotation Name Descrip tion Notes and Quick Shape Identity results associated with the annotation nearest the mouse cursor Triangulation Tool Coe i ee le UH 3H Iw RAE Bagg Tal UH Faar H e rr oer eal tite Lad a feo T UPET LG Xo Knowing the bearing to a target location from two other positions compute the target location Point to Point Distance amp Bearing Tool Lp Lom Paene ac Made eed wt Range Lacie mi Mum aa er TT TANT ease eene Puls WEREIHLISISHTWHID uc DU NMCuE INEEMTHUHTTS Fein ai D a TED ee A Dem IER T RES Wed dace PTT DRM RUE Uu Display the point to point distance and bearing in Lat Lon Great Circle UTM Orid and State Plane Grid projections Simultaneously shows bearing in True North Ma
134. e and build an elevation profile click to select the Point to Point Pencil Tool Move the cursor to the start of the route right mouse click and select Begin New Line Left mouse click at each subsequent route point 103 wots col MENS When the route is complete click to select the drag hand cursor and right mouse click near any of the points on the route then select Build Profile All Topo will generate an elevation profile along the traced path E aT IE e nar ut 3 ie mu mu MEPE DENS U 5G gage Dude Hedi Using Profiles Each displayed profile includes profile statistics These statistics can also be included on exported maps by checking the Include Elevation Statistics box under Properties Axis Title Options e Elev Gain Loss The change in elevation from the beginning to end of the profile Climb The total elevation gained in the profile Drop The total elevation lost in the profile e Max Elev The highest elevation found in the profile Min Elev The minimum elevation found in the profile e Map Dist The distance traveled if computed without elevation gain and loss compensation Ground Dist The distance traveled adjusted for elevation gain and loss Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer As the mouse cursor moves over the profile the elevation of the path at the cursor location is shown with the slope at the cursor Right mouse click on the elevation profil
135. e output file BigTopo exporting coverage over two or more maps Use BigTopo to export a map that extends beyond the collars of a single map image Follow the BigTopo instructions found in Chapter 11 BigTopo7 except in section 3 Choosing Output Files and Paths On the Output File tab choose to Export the BigTopo as a generic graphic picture ip rrea aF higi a ag a eg po m Ad epe Gd e 5 Dae Rel H pese Dee Dems Tapes Vim Pe bere Band h i Bi mgt Dee ieee 126 Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo e Press the Browse button to the right of the filename to choose an appropriate path and filename Insure that the filename extension is TIF Check the Add GeoTif Information checkbox When the BigTopo is built it will be built as a GeoTIF image with a TFW worldfile Importing basemaps into Pathfinder Office From the Pathfinder menu select Options Coordinate System Choose e System to Universal Transverse Mercator Zone the proper UTM Zone e Datum to NAD 1927 CONUS e Coordinate Units to Meters If you don t know the correct UTM Zone inspect the TXT worldfile that was written with the exported map CAD INSERTION POINT AND SCALE INFORMATION CAD Insertion Point SW Image Corner 623 581 3 M E 4 276 517 6 MN Z12 Meters UTM Projection CAD Horz Scale 13 757 910 000 Meters 45 137 500 000 Feet 127
136. e point after right mouse clicking and selecting Insert After XX subsequent left clicks will add route points after the inserted point Drawing a Route with the P2P Cursor Move the point to point cursor over the first point in the route Move the P2P cursor to the next p polit amd left click A second eem will be added with a line back to the first point 67 68 Continue adding points until the route is defined After adding the last point right click and select End Current Line to complete the route HER m is JE Em Nee 1 Qu n H T nU oe ee rw A x DE ram iue PPLA REL VM apii qe Ema oum i FLA EEL f m s Ei mW sibl L TIN Worm roma 5 J Le S ei I inion Ly i n 1 NN li m T Xi n B isini r emee E When you End Current Line All Topo will add a distance tag to the last route point s description If descriptions are enabled see the Layer Grid Controller Alt G the route s distance will be displayed on the map poo XR m z Erasing a Route Point If you add a point in the wrong place just right click and select Erase Last to remove the last drawn point Moving a Route Point To move a point to a new location press hold the shift key while right clicking the mouse near the errant point release the shift key Select Move Annotation then move the cursor to the new location and left click once Adding a Spurs to a Route T
137. e square red grids These grids are grouped into 6 mile by 6 mile townships comprised of 36 sections labeled 1 through 36 Section 3 is circled in the figure above While the section numbers are enumerated in red within the map collar close to the center of each section Township and Range are shown in red just outside the neat line On provisional edition maps township and range are handwritten just inside the neat lines 39 40 Collar Notes The collar notes in the bottom left corner contain some of the most important information on a map The dates of compilation and field checks are indicated The horizontal datum typically NAD27 or NAD83 is listed as is the State Plane Zone indexed at the edge of the map Notes about tints and boundaries are crucial for deciphering tinted parcels and additions Map Scale Topographic maps can be produced at any scale In the United States topographic maps are commonly produced at 1 250 000 1 100 000 1 63 360 1 25 000 and 1 24 000 scale A map s scale refers to the ratio of distance on the map to distance on the ground A 1 250 000 scale map represents 250 000 inches 3 945 miles on the ground as one inch on the map 1 Inchz S107 8 Feet 1 on map 20 833 feet 1 Mile Inches 1 mile 0 2534 inches 1 Inch Miles 1 on map 3 945 miles 1 on map 8 333 feet 1 on map 1 63 360 5580 feet 1 on map 4 167 feet 1 000 miles 1 mile
138. e to jump to a location along the profile a You can zoom into the profile by dragging the Zoom slider to the right Ru tr m Press the gj button to return the profile to the full view mode The path profile Properties menu item will access these configuration settings e Smooth Profile Check to enable elevation smoothing uncheck to use raw elevation data Show Earth Curvature Check to display two profile curves The lower trace shows the flat earth profile that represents the effective elevation The upper trace shows a profile adjusted for earth curvature which is useful for approximating line of sight and radio propagation Line Color Click to set the main profile trace color e Curvature Line Color Click to set the upper Earth curvature trace color Title Font Click to set the font style for the graph Title Grid Font Click to set the Grid and Axis label font WPFont Click to set the font style for the waypoint names listed at the top of the graph Axis Title Options Click to change the way Minimum and Maximum elevation are determined for the profile and to enable a summary of the elevation statistics on exported and printed profiles If you plan to print a series of elevation profiles it is best to manually fix the minimum and maximum elevations for the series so the elevations axis for each profile in the series will be comparable The File Export to Clipboard Printer or File me
139. ee in nine years from 11 0 in 1994 to 10 1 in 2003 In addition there is a 0 1 change from the southeast to northwest corner of the quadrangle Declination is shown in both degrees and mills there are 6 400 mills in 360 Don t scale angles from the printed declination vectors they are rarely drawn to scale the 11 degree declination in the diagram above is drawn as 14 Grids and Ticks Around the immediate edge of the map just outside the neat line you will find several cryptic coordinates UTM at 4 i j pj n y J p a Pi 1 State Plane Northing a 3 MLMRIL Wee ELE e UuTM i TM Section E UTM uTM E EHE Ln TIT i Most recent maps have blue UTM ticks or black UTM grid overlays The UTM grid values are shown just outside the neat line UTM grid labels are abbreviated showing only 1 000 meter values UTM Grid labels are often omitted if another coordinate or margin annotation falls at the same location Collar notes indicate NAD27 or NAD83 datum Old Hawaiian datum on some Hawaii maps and International Ellipsoid 1929 on some US protectorate maps state Plane reference ticks are typically shown in both the southwest and northeast map corners In the figure above the State Plane northing is 170 000 feet the easting 1s 590 000 feet The State Plane Zone Wyoming East NAD27 is shown in the collar notes Most of the United States is covered by Public Land Survey Grids These grids are shown by 1 mil
140. emap then finally press the OK button The basemap will be shown So pe pe ee doo ee ee Ber E gu De 224 thee m gt BOOBS SLR SP ooe D Typically the basemap will look absolutely horrible when viewed in AutoCAD AutoCAD uses a sub sampling algorithm optimized for speed not quality The full resolution image is registered by AutoCAD and will be used when the project is printed To scale the image to real world coordinates right click on the image and select Properties De OE Check the Lock Aspect Ratio box then set the Size Width to the CAD Horz Scale indicated in the TXT file that is built with the basemap Be sure to use the scale that matches your drawing units feet or meters Press OK You will need to Zoom Extents to see the entire basemap 152 Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo Importing basemaps into AutoCAD Map From the AutoCAD Map main menu select Map Image Insert Browse for the TIF image file saved from the viewer or BigTopo Check Modify Correlation to inspect the insertion point and scale check Show Preview to verify you have selected the correct image Check the Image Correlation if you added GeoTIF information to the image then the Correlation Source should be the Image File 133 You will need to Zoom Extents to view the inserted image jet Picken Jagr ri di a SEL te JC
141. ence you most likely will want to supply valid state plane zone code and datum arguments D SP UTC NAD83 231 ae 1 3rfe0700 Index Symbols ACRES o AREA 496 PC 205 YCCOORSTR 21 PCR 212 D 20 TDATE 210 DATETIME 210 DATUM 205 TDESC 211 DIST 209 PDM 20 PDMS 20 TELEVE 20 TELEVM 208 TFILE 210 YFILEDATE 210 TFILENAME 210 YoOFILEPATH 210 YOGDEC 208 T oOGPSDATE 20 YoOGPSELEV 208 YoOGPSICON 209 MOHECTARES 210 PINC 210 TLINK 211 TMDEC 208 TOMGRS _ 206 YNAME 211 TNOTE 21 TPLSBEST 20 TPLSNE 20 TOPLSNW 20 TOPLSQQ 20 TOPLSQQQ 20 TPLSSE 207 TOPLSSW _ 207 TOQSF 21 PSP 20 TSSQMILES 210 TAB 211 TOTIME 210 e d jew Ne P Ne C2 N O e O oo I V V WN MN NO NO eo s bo M XO M2 NS DA oo PER YV Ninv Oj le M QN 2 z C D X E o lokens o 20 TUNCFILE 210 TUNITS N O Index UTM 205 XUTM 206 YUTM 20 LZUTIM 20 BMP 9 BMP Format BigTopo 16 DXF 139 EPS Format Biglopo 16 GIF Format BigTopo 16 HWP wp Fill 15 JPG 99 PG Format BigTopo 164 PCX Format BigTopo 16 On lI ET OO N D lI PNG Format BigTopo 164 TGA Format BigTopo 164 TIF 99 TIF Format BigTopo 164 hide survey call 141 t V N N oo V N N comment 22 ClrDef gt 21 GetDef gt 218 SetDef gt 21 oo
142. er 8 bit character 01 Control A A9 OxA9 or is ie In addition you can use the pipe symbol I to represent a New Line pair M J in annotation descriptions and notes Token Arguments Many tokens accept additional arguments that control formatting and coordinate display For example we can override the default UTM zone when we display a coordinate YUTM 427 498 8 ME 4 509 613 4 MN Z 12 9eUTM 213 79 335 8 MW 4 531 945 5 MN Z 13 Datum Arguments The following Datum arguments are accepted by some tokens Datum Recognized Abbreviation NAD27 NAD27 NAD83 NAD83 WGS84 WGS84 NAD27CONUS NAD27CO NAD27CANADA NAD27CA NAD27ALASKA NAD27AK WGS72 WGS72 Old Hawaiian OLDHA International 1924 INTL24 INTL1924 Distance Unit Arguments The following distance unit arguments are accepted by some tokens Units Argument Description Meters M ME 1 0 Meter Feet FE FT IFE FT International Foot 12 0 0 0254 1 Meter survey Foot SFE SFT 1200 0 3937 0 Meters Miles MI 5280 0 International Feet Nautical Mile NM 6076 11549 Feet Yards YA YD 3 0 Feet Rods RO RD 16 5 International Feet Poles PO 16 5 International Feet Perch PE 16 5 International Feet Chains CH 66 0 International Feet Links LI LK 1 100 Chain Varas VA 33 1 3 inch UTM Zone Arguments An integer preceded by the letter Z or the word Zone is a valid UTM Zone argument Reasonable zones fall in the range Z 60 through Z 1 Southern Hemisphere Z1 throug
143. er Coordinates to from a GPS Checkout Chapter 10 Get Program Updates from the Web Select the main menu option Updates Web Update Viewer and Tools 10 All Topo Maps V7 User s Guide The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may only be used in accordance with the terms of the agreement Copyright Notice Copyright 2003 Igage Mapping Corporation All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of Igage Mapping Corporation Document Warranty NO WARRANTY This technical documentation is delivered to you AS IS and Igage Mapping Corporation makes no warranty as to its accuracy Any use of this documentation or the information contained herein is at the risk of the user Documentation may include technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors Igage Mapping Corporation reserves the right to make changes without notice Trademarks Microsoft Windows Windows ME Windows XP Windows NT Windows 98 ActiveSync are all registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond Washington 98052 Palm HotSync are registered trademarks of Palm Computing Inc 1565 Charleston Road Mountain View California 94043 Garmin eTrex are registered trademarks of Garmin Corporation Third Floor No 1 Lane 45 Pao Hsing Road Hsin Tien Taipei Taiwan Brunton Multinavigator and MNS are a registered trademarks of T
144. ess the color tool button gg to the right of the grid enable checkbox Press the Tool button j to change the coordinate style It is very important that the UTM Zone and Units and the State Plane Zone and Units be configured properly to match any grid printed on the base maps Checking the Fine Grids checkbox doubles the displayed grid frequency Exchanging Annotations Annotation Import and Export The AII Topo viewer includes powerful coordinate exchange wizards to automate the process of importing and exporting annotations from external delimited text files Importing Annotations from Delimited Text Files The AII Topo Import Agent helps automate the process of reading a delimited text file into the current annotation set Delimited text files might have almost any format but they always contain one record per line with fields separated by a unique delimiters like a comma or tab character The Import Agent can build a recipe pattern that instructs All Topo how to interpret each input line or record For example we might want to import this text file Waypoint D W10 4 Waypoint D W11 4 888906604 109 177704979 3 10 2003 10 21 889233280 109 181043385 3 10 2003 10 21 Waypoint D W12 40 890279848 109 184316797 3 10 2003 10 21 Waypoint D W21 40 893001647 109 163256178 3 10 2003 10 21 Waypoint D W22 40 890121678 109 163517855 3 10 2003 10 21 This file is comma delimited and contains 7 fields per record We are interested
145. et NADCON DEFAULT CODE UNITS Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet 195 196 AK10 AZE AZC AZW ARN ARS CAI CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5 CA6 CON COC COS CT DE FLE FLW FLN GAE GAW HII HI2 HI3 HI4 HIS IDE IDC IDW ILE ILW INE INW IAN IAS KSN KSS KYN KYS LAN LAS LAOS MEE MEW MD MAM MAI MIN MIC MIS MNN MNC MNS MSE MSW MOE Alaska 10 Arizona East Arizona Central Arizona West Arkansas North Arkansas South California 1 California 2 California 3 California 4 California 5 California 6 Colorado North Colorado Central Colorado South Connecticut Delaware Florida East Florida West Florida North Georgia East Georgia West Hawaii 1 Hawaii 2 Hawaii 3 Hawaii 4 Hawaii 5 Idaho East Idaho Central Idaho West Illinois East Illinois West Indiana East Indiana West Iowa North Iowa South Kansas North Kansas South Kentucky North Kentucky South Louisiana North Louisiana South Louisiana Offshore Maine East Maine West Maryland Massachusetts Mainland Massachusetts Island Michigan North Michigan Central Michigan South Minnesota North Minnesota Central Minnesota South Mississippi East Mississippi West Missouri East 5010 0201 0202 0203 0301 0302 0401 0402 0403 0404 0405 0406 0501 0502 0503 0600 0700 0901 0902 0903 1001 1002 5101 5102 5103 5104 5105 1101 1102
146. expeditions to Peru and Lapland to measure meridians at widely separated latitudes Following this confirmation of Newton s hypothesis there were 26 determinations of the Earth s dimensions between 1799 and 1951 The Bessel ellipsoid of 1841 was used in the United States from 1844 until 1886 when the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid was adopted and used for almost every map covering North America until the present time In 1909 John Hayford derived a reference ellipsoid from U S Coast and Geodetic Survey measurements specific to the United States This ellipsoid was adopted by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics IUGG in 1924 and is called the International Ellipsoid It is currently used in many parts of the world most maps of the Hawaiian Islands use the International ellipsoid Because the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid was already so prevalent in North America it prevailed over the International Ellipsoid With the introduction of satellite data it has been possible to more accurately determine the ellipsoid The U S military produced the World Geodetic System of 1966 and 1972 WGS66 and WGS72 In 1980 the IUGG adopted the Geodetic Reference System 1980 GRS80 from which the National Geodetic Survey has based the North American Datum 1983 NAD83 replacement for the North American 1927 Datum NAD27 U S Military agencies also developed the World Geodetic System 1984 WGS84 based upon GRS80 that is the native basis for the GPS measured
147. ey Alt G LLL M Fl Eg bum amm LETT vua do NE ol Lir Em aui EH D beshuk Each grid is controlled by the Primary Coordinate Display s current setting Check the Fine Grids box to double the grid spacing interval Click the Color button gg to set the grid color Click the Tool buttons to change the grid configuration Important auxiliary settings include UTM Grid Datum Zone Units Lat Lon Grid Datum State Plane Grid Datum State Plane Zone Code Units The base maps typically are NAD27 projected however some maps are NAD83 projected and include black NAD83 grids over the base map image Remember that NAD27 grids will not align with NAD83 grids All Topo presents a uniform grid controlled by the Primary Coordinate display it does not automatically switch to alternate datum to match base maps 114 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Viewing Quick Shape Files Quick Shape files are a collection of polygons with attribute data Quick shapes may define areas of land ownership with size and ownership attributes or the shapes might be a hunting unit The All Topo viewer will display Quick Shapes over the maps and show the identity and attributes of the shape s under the cursor in the View GeoLink Attributes The Quick Shapes controller allows you to choose the shape fields that are included in attribute lists and choose the colors and patterns that are used to display shapes over the maps
148. f the point you want to view Also used to quickly enter a location show the location and set an annotation at a known location Quick Shape Controller Hmmm o ra BEES jan E et tis INN Poema d ee T pied Quick Shape mon M using BLM land ownership shape file The Quick Shape Controller chooses the displayed fields colors and fill styles for Quick Shape annotation overlays Overlays might include hunting units land ownership or vegetation types Map Color Changer Quickly change the colors used on maps or entirely eliminate a color from maps 26 Chapter 2 All Topo Components and Dialogs Hill Shader Hill Shader plain map and elevation highlighted map Converts flat maps to beautiful 3 D shaded elevation highlighted relief maps False Elevation Color Tool Elevation coloring is useful for highlighting elevation strata giving maps elevation color hinting and visualizing flooding scenarios Change Map Scale ee ee ROI Ss toad Pap Leim al Ca tne LLLLZ Vd BAR Cem hs turi TOI TUNE eee IEE uTH When an action requires the display of an alternate map this dialog allows you to choose the map scale or a BigTopo map with coverage for the location 21 28 Recall Bookmark C Tipim P118 90 Ui ERN A GG iie LTEM Me ee z TET LET IM TIT FTEETUMDIUUET m d i ee M um mw mew 41 wONTT HO IM ALT w CIT TIL KD ET dic EC Hd EC En BEAMEN W ma Ht ee M IM TM TIE CTE TEETH IHT CET at
149. for future use press the Save Color Map button and choose a meaningful file name To recall a previously saved color maps press the Load Color Map button and pick the appropriate color map Hill Shading and False Elevation Coloring The All Topo hill shading engine will quickly generate hill shaded maps based upon the original map colors and elevation data If your All Topo map set does not include elevation data contact the factory to get an elevation data update disk E Unshaded Hillshaded To start the hill shade tool select the main menu option Tools Hill Shader or press the shortcut key Alt I The hill shader allows you to place the Sun Location and the Sun Eleva tion Setting the Sun Elevation to Low will generate longer shadows In the United States it is customary to shade maps with the sun in the North West It is doubtful that the sun ever illuminates Alaskan mountains from the North West so a South West or South East sun position may be more appropriate for northern locals The Intensity slider controls the total amount of lighting and darkening allowed for the resulting image Typically a setting of 1596 to 3096 provides good results The Gain setting compensates for flat maps Maps that have little elevation relief benefit from higher gain Gain settings of 5 to 20 usually provide good results If you are unsure of reasonable settings press the Defaults button to set the hill shade
150. g are supported Straight line traced distances and areas may be measured What s New in All Topo Maps Version 7 Better printing and plotting support All Topo will automatically tile a large map image into multiple pages for output to smaller printers Map and annotation scaling is intuitive and previews properly under all condi tions Color reduction and RIP options are exposed to assist printing huge map images on memory limited computers Enhanced elevation profiling All Topo can build intelligent elevation profiles along traced paths routes or between two points Profiles can be adjusted for earth curvature or presented flat world for hiking visualiza tion Map Color Changer All Topo can selectively lighten colors to increase annotation visibility and enhance other colors to embolden features A common use is to remove the vegetation layer and darken water features All Topo s hill shader and false elevation coloring engine enhances topographic maps with 3 D perspective and novel coloring schemes that highlight elevation based map interpretation Web based automatic map update subscription allows you to update maps as new revisions become available The Annotation Source Editor accepts source files of any size honors user coordinate styles and the Convert coordinate style button is back New highly indexed Quick Shapes allow instantaneous access to industry standard shape files The Auto GeoLink tool automatically ass
151. g point All Topo will automatically extend a line from the annotation to the starting point Arguments none Ex YAREA 576 38 Acres AREAUNITS Traced or Line Enclosed Area Like the 7AREA token the enclosed area is displayed AREAUNITS may be one of the following ACRES SQMILES SQMETERS HECTARES Arguments FORMAT Ex ACRES 576 Acres 209 210 ACRES 0 000 576 382 Acres SQMILES 0 0 0 9 Miles S HECTARES 233 Hectares INC Call Depth for Included HWP Files Returns the stack depth for the annotation in included HWP files If the annotation is in the master HWP file then 1 1s returned Arguments none Ex INC 0 if in master file INC 2 2nd File YUNCFILE Y FILE 9eFILENAME 6 Y FILEPATH Displays the filename of the annotation file that contains the current annota tion Arguments none Ex YUNCFILE Zippy C AllITopo USER NewWPTs hwp FILE C AlITopo USER NewWPTs hwp FILENAME NewWPTs hwp FILEPATH C AllITopo USER FILEDATE Date Time Stamp of Annotation File Displays the date time stamp of the annotation file that holds the annotation in the default format specified in the international section of the control panel Arguments Date Time Format Hours Offset Ex FILEDATE 4 15 2003 2 14 42 PM FILEDATE 10 YY MM DD HH MM SS 03 04 16 00 14 42 YDATETIME Displays the current date and time If no Date Time format is included the Windows system default is use
152. g software and maps via the web Terry attempts to update his program and finds that his serial number has been hijacked Terry calls Igage Mapping Corporation reports the theft and fills out a short incident form A new clean serial number is issued to Terry Later when the thief attempts to upgrade the product with the first serial number Igage Mapping Corporation electronically voids the original serial number and map set Since the user name computer name and IP address are logged and traceable to the thief s computer it is a simple matter for Igage Mapping Corporation to identify the thief and report the incident 61 62 License Manager You can check the status of all your All Topo Products using the License Manager From the License Manager you can enter new serial numbers remove serial numbers and enter serial number from old All Topo map sets To view the License Manager select the main menu option Help License Manager lie hee ai d A E ex GEEXUEREN ot SOE BOOS AO VON areas a Ey a ae ET Ee ee bp LEE KARL TAN TENE A Gma mum Boum WE TIR CILE Besides adding and removing serial numbers the following functions are available from the Options menu Scan for Updates Checks for new pre version 7 products and serial numbers that may have been installed since All Topo began running A scan is performed automatically when All Topo starts Add Pre V7 SN Key Erme qm der De ee fov p pa
153. g time to complete Press the Begin Computations button to begin the analysis As output points are evaluated red purple and green dots are applied at each output grid location Red dots indicate no line of sight to either the low or high tower height from the rover height Purple dots indicate line of sight to the high tower height only Green dots indicate line of sight to both the high and low tower height You can test the line of sight from the base location viability to any arbitrary location by pressing the Test Coordinate button with the test coordinate loaded in the Clipboard or a bookmark oystem Configuration Options The Configuration Options dialog control All Topo Program coordinate units defaults Elevation model details and use Map data sources Web based map and program updates System options Deed description export options These options control the default behavior of many aspects of All Topo Maps To view and change the options select the main menu choice Options System Options or use the shortcut key Alt Y Jir pe k ue CE 107 Defaults Tab IE TES LITE ee ee ee Drum arii Pais Ceca Lair Clu Bare che Lach aa Lohn p Clie m rus ums Mur aguda FR Dead Feamier Um asina ars kg rz dpa ep imei pur ince np iT PII e bs Desaraa Lira dese Lira RC Tn rece Eo tie Cid Boge bon oe So E ms A Ris The Defaults tab controls the co
154. ge translator can not translate images greater than 32 300 pixels on a side If you are using the Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows Me operating system then there is an additional file size limit of 250 000 000 bytes Files can be stored as BMP EPS GIF PCX PNG JPG PGA and TIF files The image resolution is exactly the same for all formats except JPG which has lossy compression If the TIF format is selected then a TFW world file may also be generated for use with CAD programs and world information can also be embedded in the TIF file using the GeoTIF standard Details on each of the graphics formats follow If you don t know which format you want to export to consider BMP Generates big files that work with almost any application PNG The best choice for use on web pages and email exchange TIF Big files but GIS application may be able to use the TFW Windows Bitmap BMP Format The Windows bitmap BMP format is the simplest and most widely supported output format BMP files are stored uncompressed as 8 bit palette files 163 Encapsulated Postscript EPS Format The image is saved as an 8 bit Version 3 palette color Encapsulated Postscript file This format is not widely supported and should be used with caution Graphics Interchange File GIF Format The image is saved as an 8 bit GIF file with palette information PCX PCX Format The image is saved as an 8 bit PCX Portable Network Graphics
155. gnetic North UTM Grid North and State Plane Grid North Annotation Projection Tool incus rr HANT ee LN E re rm Ira Fior lali mp ELM Bim E x From a base location project a new annotation at a fixed distance and bearing 30 Chapter 2 All Topo Components and Dialogs Map File Not Found The map FT 1 ed ba ad on ks ourer cle ki The mep cee ba toed on Veter dat z amp Jer ta Oe m batur Eagle oe ta amore ete ge CD reb Suam pear O8 EE OL OXON INO m3 When you request a map that the viewer can not find it will request the correct All Topo Maps data disk that holds the needed map file Set Map Scale Gib Rr hmi ONCE umm md IUE sh lick Ea ts Tink RTE ee amd elm All Topo can print maps at scales other than their nominal scale This dialog allows you to set the scale you intend to use the current map at which you intend to use and print the maps oystem Configuration Options Tenes ld sedne ch Da e al _Peevtaocaae eie eae aac Penge igen geet geno Podge hy ine nis Ts dar UA Tasa Peni Peon immi Lanier is ee C pum Lc pua berum lune Lacs 8s 5 129 03 1 1E AD ia REC I ed p nta Fes T a CA Lees vi quium Vue mart UBI UIN 1 e Jipa rind mjin lra Tam om iim E ame C mie Customize All Topo Map s coordinate display styles map source locations web update and default annotation styles 31 Coordinate Style Picker
156. h Z60 Northern Hemisphere or Z0 to force the natural UTM Zone for a coordinate 9eUTM 214 Appendix D Escapes and Tokens Format Arguments The format of many values can be overridden using a format string For example Miles t will display the mileage with three decimals of precision 9 135 Miles The format string is always enclosed within quote marks the following specifiers may be used within the format string Description 0 Digit place holder If the value being formatted has a digit in the position where the 0 appears in the format string then that digit is copied to the output string Otherwise a 0 is stored in that position in the output string Digit placeholder If the value being formatted has a digit in the position where the appears in the format string then that digit is copied to the output string Otherwise nothing is stored in that position in the output string Decimal point The first character in the format string determines the location of the decimal separator in the formatted value any additional characters are ignored The actual character used as a decimal separator in the output string is determined by Number Format of the International section in the Windows Control Panel Thousand separator If the format string contains one or more characters the output will have thousand separators inserted between each group of three digits to the left of the deci
157. he lt SetDef gt command to save the current Line Symbol and Text styles as the default values The lt GetDef gt command will revert back to the saved style The lt ClrDef gt Meta tag will restore the default symbol style to the factory defaults For example these waypoint entries lt F 18 Bold Black White lItalic gt lt SetDef gt 430638 9M E 4528659 7M N Z 12 Coming Down lt F 24 Norm _Black White Times gt 430492 6M E 4528547 5M N Z 12 2 430346 3M E 4528425 6M N Z 12 3 lt GetDef gt 430175 6M E 4528289 0M N Z 12 Done result in this map display Annotation Text Font lt Font gt lt F arial 16 Blue gt The Text Font command accepts these arguments in any order Text Color Background Color 218 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP Font Name windows font name Font Styles Bold Italic Underline or Normal Text Position location around the coordinate Text Rotation Default User Selection lt F default gt will set all text attributes to the user s defaults defined by the menu option Options System Options System tab User settings Text and Background Color Text Color and Background Color may be any of the following predefined colors Aqua Black Blue Dkgreen Fuchia Gray Green Limegreen Ltgray Maroon Navy Olive Purple Red Silver Teal White Yellow Or you may alternatively specify a color with an RGB callout lt F Color 78B04F gt Specify the background col
158. he Brunton Company 620 East Monroe Riverton Wyoming 82501 Deed Plotter is a registered trademark of Greenbrier Graphics 438 Lockbridge Road Meadow Bridge West Virginia 25976 AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map are registered trademarks of AutoDesk Inc 2320 Marinship Way Sausalito California 94965 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk New York 10504 Mapinfo is a registered trademark of Mapinfo Corporation One Global View Troy New York 12180 NMEA is a registered trademark of National Marine Electronic Association Inc P O Box 3435 New Bern North Carolina 28564 Trimble Pathfinder Office is a registered trademark of Trimble Navigation Ltd 645 North Mary Avenue Sunnyvale California 94085 ArcView ArcInfo ArcGIS are registered trademarks of Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc 380 New York Street Redlands California 92373 Other product names mentioned in this manual may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies who are acknowledged Acknowledgements This product contains portions of imaging code owned by Pegasus Software LLC Inc and Pegasus Imaging Corporation Tampa FL www pegasusimaging com If this product is distributed with the library file AUTopo Bin7 ATMDeCmp DLL 203 776 bytes in length then the product contains code Licensed under U S A Patent No 4 558 302 and foreign counterparts by Unisys Corpo
159. he currently selected application has focus The Menu Bar of the Current Application is highlighted to let you know it is selected When you use shortcut keys the application that you want to receive the keystrokes must be selected Desktop the entire area shown on your computer screen or screens if you have more than one display device Dialog A dialog is a window form that you interact with Typically you will enter data and check boxes then after you get everything to your liking press OK Done Yes No or Cancel to close the Dialog Dialogs can be either modal or non modal Modal dialogs stay on top preventing you from accessing anything behind them until they are closed Non modal dialogs coexist with other windows in the 51 52 application Double Click quickly click the primary mouse button twice see click Esc Pressing the Escape key upper left corner of your keyboard typically is the same as pressing a form s Cancel F1 Press the F1 key to display help hopefully the help will be directed at what you are currently doing F10 Activate the menu bar of the current application Form A form is a window dialog that you interact with See Dialog Menu Bar Many windows have a menu bar under the title bar You can click on the menu options to see pull down menus with additional selections pE eec 7 uw E ee ee EN Menu Selections Throughout this manual you will find instructions
160. he cursor was when you pressed F2 Select the Details tab and erase everything in the Location box then type in the relative coordinate N44 5103E 3421 7 SFeet TN SP UTS NAD27 In addition to seeing the location plotted on the map we are interested in the UTM Coordinate so we can enter it in our GPS so change the annotation description to 9eUTM NAD27 lide mem jagal Lad d Lema Demi Pte ee adr je dain m Tuan ai Fi a ILLUS I a mmm i n BE porpra f EE 42245 T43 KU E z ingem Bue m i All Topo will draw the second point in the correct location and place the text 190 Appendix A Coordinates Primer 578 574 7 M E 4 224 143 6 M Z12 adjacent to the projected point Example 2 Metes and Bounds Survey Description Plot the following survey description From the North East corner of Section 26 Township 2 North Range 24 E the Salt Lake Principal Meridian of 1855 the point of beginning thence South 1 degree 2 minutes 29 83 seconds West a distance of 5 366 1 Feet to the South East corner thence North 89 degrees 59 minutes 9 65 seconds West a distance of 5 260 7 Feet thence North 44 minutes 9 88 seconds East a distance of 5 346 5 Feet thence North 89 degrees 47 minutes 37 59 seconds East a distance of 5 288 4 Feet to the point of beginning Containing 650 1 acres more or less We don t know a Lat Lon UTM or State Plane coordinate for the point of beginning but we do have the Public
161. he following rank configuration settings should be configured before pressing the Begin Rank button e Viewed area Adjust your map view so you can see the area you want All Topo to rank If you want to search an area larger than a quadrangle switch to a larger scale 1 100 000 or 1 250 000 scale for areas that span more than a single 1 250 000 scale map build a BigTopo that has the exact coverage you want to search Large areas take a long time to search High or Low Points All Topo will search for the highest or lowest points choose the points you want to identify e Number of Ranked Points Choose the number of high low points you want to find If you are searching a large area choose a small number of points Ignore Adjacent Points After the first point is found All Topo will ignore adjacent high low points within this distance from all previously found points Label Points With Once the high low points are found you can add them as numbered annotations in the User Annotation space annotation names will be generated using this prefix Press the Begin Rank button to start searching You can abort the search by pressing the Abort button Once points have been found you can add them and show them as User Annotations by pressing the Add results to waypoint list button Each point will be added with the exclusion ring shown Line of Sight Tool The line of sight tool evaluates the viewed map for line
162. he main menu option File Open Configuration File to open a BigTopo generated TXT file to recall the configuration of a previously generated BigTopo World files are also generated for exported BigTopo s By convention the extension of a world file 1s built from the first character the third character and a W TIF gt TFW BMP gt BPW JPG gt JGW World files contain the North West coordinate and scale factors for the generated image All Topo Map it Format If you want to view the generated BigTopo using the All Topo Map viewer choose the top All Topo Maps selection Output BigTopo to All Topo Maps By default All Topo Maps will look for BigTopos in the BigTopo directory of the AllTopo path typically C AIITopo BigTopo the file extension for version 7 products should be it5 If you are going to share the BigTopo map with a version 6 All Topo User set the file type to 1t3 These V6 compatible files also require a helper file with the mi extension If you move an it3 file to a new location be sure to also move the mi file Generic Graphics Formats Choose the generic graphic picture format to generate BigTopo images for use with other programs One note of caution BigTopos are built as Windows bitmaps The BigTopo engine can build an image of unlimited size subject to your computer s available virtual memory Generic formats other than BMP require an additional translation step The ima
163. he map is adjacent to the currently viewed map you can use Find Map tool Show the Find Map dialog by clicking the is button or pressing the shortcut key Alt M Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer TEE e UNTITSONEUUS THIET iei EEE E E HE ETE E Map eee a eee DON UE The Find Map dialog is shown you can enter the first few characters of the map in the search box then double click on the correct map name to display the entire map You can single click on the eight adjacent maps shown in the grid to center them in the grid Once the correct map is shown as the center map press the Show Center Map button to display the map Finding a Map by a Geographic Coordinate If you have the coordinate GPS reading for a coordinate All Topo will find the appropriate map and center the location on the screen Show the Find Location dialog by clicking the button or by pressing the shortcut key Alt L DMS nme 24 Ss pe enr Tinia eS ORC UT Lm mcum i mE JEL Lak CIL ks EIC Dk m I EIC 4E oe EQ ELIT RA ET OBATON ee EH ik del E iL Lh E LAB BS wbo5a dB mo igL 8mb s BAD a Ge M E ELG TMB A3E E HT TI EEE LIT UE gL LITUI EE da fi Pe GESdER b Pa d HTETI i prof Bac id Ej fhi mea ZEE Ti You can find a location by DMS Degrees Minutes decimal Seconds DM Degrees decimal Minutes D Decimal Degrees UTM Universal Transverse Mercator SPC State Plane Coordinates Free Form All Topo
164. hese two coordi nates describes exactly the same location 751 497 2 M E 4 511 833 8M N Z 11 244 717 3 M E 4 511 963 3 M N Z 12 Many users extend this concept of UTM Zone overlap a little too far For example it is convenient to treat all of Montana as if it falls within a single UTM zone instead of three zones The mathematical flattening of zone strips results in substantial stretching and distortion on the east and west edges of the resulting large zone By default All Topo displays natural UTM zones however you can force AII Topo to show coordinates forced to any zone It is unwise to force a coordinate more than one zone away from its natural zone Entering UTM Coordinates in All Topo UTM coordinates have an easting distance a northing distance distance units and the UTM Zone number 515129 86 E 4554132 93 N Z13 A UTM coordinate is incomplete if it does not explicitly include the UTM Zone number It is not acceptable to mix distance units for easting and northing expressing northing in meters and easting in feet AII Topo assumes that UTM coordinates are expressed in Meters unless distance units are included 1 690 058 6 Ft E 14 941 381 0 Ft N Z13 Sometimes the northing will be listed first 14 941 381 0 Ft N 1 690 058 6 Ft E Z13 Appendix A Coordinates Primer Sometimes the Z is replaced with the word Zone 515129 86 E 4554132 93 N Zone 13 Often the Zone includes a N or S to indicate North or South of the equato
165. hical representations of the earth In the United States the United States Geographical Survey traditionally has produced topographic maps covering the entire country Originally produced to assist in the division of federal lands and for national defense the 7 V minute maps and their predecessors the 15 minute maps are the basis for most modern maps produced in this country A series of approximately 60 000 quadrangles cover the entire country Recently the United States Forest Service has assumed responsibility for producing 1 24 000 scale maps for lands that are administered by the Forest Service These maps are called Forest Service Single Edition FSSE maps FSSE maps are available as Forest Service released maps without a vegetation layer and as USGS released FSSE maps with a vegetation layer All Topo Maps are a collection of 7 2 minute 1 24 000 1 63 360 Alaska 1 50 000 Canada 1 100 000 scale and 1 250 000 topographical maps with easy to use viewing software AllTopo for your Win95 98 Me NT Win2000 XP based computer Collections include every map for a state or are arraigned by geographical area The viewing software allows quick access to every map by location or place feature name 19 20 Maps can be viewed individually or new maps can be built to provide large or small custom coverage with BigTopo Extensive annotations may be attached to maps Annotation and map image export to files clipboard and printin
166. hington South West Virginia North West Virginia South Wisconsin North Wisconsin Central Wisconsin South Wyoming I E Wyoming II EC Wyoming III WC Wyoming IV W American Somoa Guam PuertoRico Virgin Island St Croix several states U S Survey Foot California Colorado Connecticut Idaho Indiana Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi New Mexico New York North Carolina Oklahoma Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Washington and Wisconsin International Survey Foot Arizona Michigan Montana North Dakota Oregon South Carolina and Utah All Topo maps will display and convert State Plane coordinates using any valid distance unit feet survey feet meters yards varas however the user is cautioned to consult a licensed professional surveyor for advice when using units other than the default units shown AllTopo CODE ALE ALW AKI AK2 AK3 AKA AK5 AK6 AK7 AK8 AK9 DESCRIPTION Alabama East Alabama West Alaska 1 Alaska 2 Alaska 3 Alaska 4 Alaska 5 Alaska 6 Alaska 7 Alaska 8 Alaska 9 4100 4201 4202 4203 4204 4205 4301 4302 4303 4400 4501 4502 4601 4602 4701 4702 4801 4802 4803 4901 4902 4903 4904 5300 5400 5201 5202 0101 0102 5001 5002 5003 5004 5005 5006 5007 5008 5009 Appendix B State Plane Codes Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Fe
167. hird coordinate Relative paths may be specified in the lt I gt directive to evaluate paths with respect to the path of the including file If no path is listed All Topo will look in the same folder as the calling file Title Title gt The Title command will place the specified text as the caption of All Topo Maps The title must be enclosed by quotes For example T Joes Mountain Trail places Joes Mountain Trail as the form name F iwa histani liaii fing basi ill Se Be emet jii p fee Jee peer oS ee eS a le eee Autojump lt Autojump gt When All Topo first opens an annotation file it will center the location specified in the last lt Auto gt tag encountered in the file If no lt Auto gt tag is found then the viewer will restore the last viewed location and map The location must be enclosed by quotes Any fully qualified coordinate style supported by All Topo may be used AutoJump is only evaluated when a waypoint file is initially read from the disk not on a re annotation For example lt A 40 46 38 62 N 111 53 15 13 W gt will center the Utah State Capitol building on the screen Don t use a coordinate with embedded or marks like A 40 46 38 62 N 111 53 15 13 W as All Topo is not smart enough to figure out you want 40 46 38 62 N 111 53 15 13 W not 40 46 38 62 Hyper Links in Meta Files Href gt lt H http www igage com
168. ht when the full 16 character V6 serial number is entered correctly press the OK button When all serial numbers have been correctly entered press the License Manager s Close button then press the Serial Number Manager s OK button and complete the installation Updating your All Topo Version 7 Product If you have an internet connection you can update your All Topo product the viewer GPS Tool and BigTopo using the automatic web update tool To use the tool exit the GPS Tool BigTopo and any other All Topo tools Start the All Topo viewer from the Start Menu choose Tools Web Update Viewer and Tools then follow the onscreen instructions Advanced Installation Settings Large Format Printer Plotters If you will be printing maps to large format printers read the section Printing Huge Maps on Plotters in the Printing section of this manual for additional Chapter 5 Support Installation Serial Numbers configuration instructions Optimizing Disk Usage The All Topo Maps viewer and BigTopo tool utilize a number of folders to hold map images and temporary files By default most of the folders for these temporary files are located under the main All Topo folder typically C VAII Topo Several of the folders can be configured to hold huge amounts of data If you plan on copying the map data source files to your fixed drive you may want to first choose alternate folder locations to optimize the
169. i ne hake age haa Mms im EL it mAr DID M Frame amm sid BE pec aea dh up a 1 Damen Finally press F2 select the Details tab erase the default Location and enter N 0 44 0988E 5346 5 feet select the Line Fill tab and choose Line Close then press OK All Topo Maps will draw the property boundary automatically close the description to the point of beginning and display the enclosed area me B peh FI esi J i jm lt i 8 LH EC EE T TE EE li mH E TH fal La H r PE i TR pe E Elo bhii Swami Fi lie Gm 4j Eo PEHEE C T Prii FI B Eidi E EE Imam PE Lize CO Appendix B State Plane Codes Appendix B State Plane Codes NAD27 State Plane Codes AllTopo NADCON DEFAULT CODE DESCRIPTION CODE UNITS ALE Alabama East 0101 Feet ALW Alabama West 0102 Feet AKI Alaska 1 5001 Feet AK2 Alaska 2 5002 Feet AK3 Alaska 3 5003 Feet AK4 Alaska 4 5004 Feet AK5 Alaska 5 5005 Feet AK6 Alaska 6 5006 Feet AK7 Alaska 7 5007 Feet AK8 Alaska 8 5008 Feet AK9 Alaska 9 5009 Feet AK10 Alaska 10 5010 Feet AZE Arizona East 0201 Feet AZC Arizona Central 0202 Feet AZW Arizona West 0203 Feet ARN Arkansas North 0301 Feet ARS Arkansas South 0302 Feet CAI California 1 0401 Feet CA2 California 2 0402 Feet CA3 California 3 0403 Feet CA4 California 4 0404 Feet CA5 California 5 0405 Feet CA6 California 6 0406 Feet CA7 California 7 0407 Feet CON Colorado North 0501 Feet COC Colorado Central 0502 Feet COS Colorado South 0503 Feet C
170. ical and the longitude should most likely be negative 412615 9 1040453 4 NOT ACCEPTABLE Coordinates with misplaced decimal point space separators 41 26159 104 04534 D d is interpreted as it is read NOT as intended 41 26 15 9 N 104 4 53 4 W DM m Speeding Up All Topo HWP Files The AII Topo coordinate engine can spend a great deal of time attempting to decipher coordinates you enter in HWP files The All Topo coordinate interpreter first checks each coordinate description for a pair of signed floating point numbers If exactly two numbers in NAD27 latitude first style are found with no other components 41 14028 104 81972 a significant reduction in the computation time required to read an annotation file will be realized The use of this simple coordinate style if convenient for the user is highly recommended for annotation files with more than 10 000 coordinate annotations General Geographic Lat Lon Coordinate Notes Geographic coordinate styles have some unique advantages Two numbers latitude and longitude can uniquely represent any location on the earth D d values are convenient when storing values in a computer provide good precision and are easy to manipulate A given lat lon coordinate maps to only one spot on the earth and a spot on the earth has only one lat lon coordinate A true function e We can represent any point on earth with a 2 meter accuracy using only 20 significant characters
171. ice that prints on large format paper larger than 13 x19 Printer An output device that prints on paper 13 x19 and smaller Projection Printed maps are flat the earth is a sphere When we make a flat map we project the curved surface of the earth to a flat space All Topo Maps use equal area projections Universal Transverse Mercator every pixel on a UTM projected map covers the same area on the surface of the earth Other common projections are Lat Lon pixels cover equal latitude and longitudes of coverage and State Plane Projections Chapter 4 Computer Conventions and Basic Terms General Windows Tricks These commands and tricks are available at all times when using All Topo Maps They are features of Windows not the All Topo viewer since no one ever reads the manual that comes with Windows the list bears repeating Home Key In All Topo the Home key sets the map zoom to 100 If you are using a desktop computer with a standard keyboard you will find the Home key in the group of six keys to the right of the Enter key If you are using a laptop the home key is probably at the top of rightmost row of keys just under the Del key A window s Tabs Some windows have tabbed forms The tabs are like the label tabs on a file folder Here is an example DEM dorum meum Tapi ee dh om Noua mig ng LIMEN EUAN prm Eou Alt F4 Closes the current window if the current window is the main form of the program
172. ike at the current cursor location Remove the Measurement Spike Add another waypoint annotation at the cursor location just like the last one Show the Annotation Source Editor Change map scales centered at cursor location Control Annotation Grid and Layers Toggle annotation Names ON OFF Toggle annotation Descriptions ON OFF Toggle annotation Notes ON OFF New annotation file Open an annotation file save annotations to a new file save annotations to the current file Backup annotations Add a waypoint annotation at the current GPS position Open the GPS Tool Open BigTopo make a custom map Open a previously built BigTopo Map Print the map Export the map to the clipboard or a file Copy the primary coordinate to the Windows clipboard Copy the secondary coordinate to the Windows clipboard Toggle the PLS Magnet PLS Option Required Jump to a bookmark the clipboard or the Measurement Spike Set a bookmark at the current cursor location System options and configurations Quick Shape Controller Toggle High Quality Display ON OFF Refresh and redraw the map screen Zoom to map extents Zoom to 100 Alt 2 Zoom to 200 Alt 4 Zoom to 400 Alt 5 Zoom to 50 Keypad Arrow Keys Set the text position of the nearest waypoint annotation to the direction pointed to by the arrow 7 North West 8 North 9 North East 4 West 5 Center 6 East South West 2 South 3 South East Transf
173. in the map collars at each corner and in the center of each edge ae ROMANE i Tar rrii Some newer maps may show a grid of adjacent quadrangles instead of listing maps around the collar Contour Interval and Vertical Datum The Vertical Datum is shown under the map scale bar The National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 based upon mean sea level is almost universally used If you are using a GPS you should remember that your GPS reads elevation above the geode not NGVD29 The geode is an imaginary ellipsoid that approximates the shape of the earth LSI rd az CIXXNTIBIN Sete Pl i HITEL EEL Sos r or MENS Contour Interval is the elevation distance between each contour line shown on the map Typically index contours are shown every five intervals In this example from the Cheyenne North map the intermediate contour interval is 10 feet index contour lines are drawn every 50 feet 2T The Scale Bar and Projection The scale bar shows the horizontal scale at the center of the map the vertical contour interval and the vertical datum IAN DG F Since the paper map is projected with equal area of latitude and longitude the actual map scale is slightly larger at the top of a map and slightly smaller at the bottom of a map 4 360 8 foot 34 26 2 teat t For example on the Cheyenne North quadrangle the distance from the northwest neat line intersection 41 15 0 N 104 52 30 W to the nor
174. in the third field name description the fourth field latitude and the fifth field longitude The file is known to be WGS84 datum To import this file start the import wizard by selecting the main menu option Annotations Import Export Import Annotations The Annotation Import Wizard will be displayed Browse for the text file to import by pressing the button to the right of the file name O O O O 95 96 oE kirak ba gadi a NT IIT FW urrr PI BL 1 p ET ee VILE 2 PT IP TAT I E ri oa res Fnit ram Dikim L i LT CAE il oe Lig Ham A a ced Lisi Dacis TN TES iu wl e LL um l iac Lei Corel i EENI E EEE E TR Le RL ee LS 18 71 s DLE a ee a Lp Configure the Delimiters box with the character that separates columns in the input data It is possible to define multiple delimiters for a single file The tab character is not easily entered so the I token can be used to represent the tab character Other available tokens are N tab control X tab control nnew line M J Y return carriage M nth2 any hex encoded character Mf represents ASCII 255 a comma used for comma delimited files If the first line record of the file is a header line check the Ignore first record box to instruct All Topo to toss the first line of the file Once the file name and delimiters are specified All Topo will show the contents of the selected file in the Input Grid
175. inate display The following PLS coordinate display methods are available 14 V4 Displays the 1 4 4 section containing the cursor Best Displays the offset distance with the lowest estimated error Offset from NW SW SE or NE section corner displays the footage offset to the cursor NNN 14 1 4 4 section callout computed from footage offset Pronouncing PLS Coordinate Descriptions The following uniquely describes the 40 acre 1 4 4 parcel containing the Wyoming State Capitol SEV4 NW1 Sec 31 T 14N R 66W Sixth amp Principal Meridian 1855 183 184 The southeast quarter of the northwest quarter section thirty one township fourteen south range sixty six west Sixth Principal Meridian 1855 Entering PLS Coordinates If the PLS option has been installed All Topo Maps assumes that coordinates containing the keywords SEC and PM or PRIN are PLS coordinates At a minimum every PLS coordinate must contain a valid Principal Meridian or PM code a Township a Range and a Section designation Section 31 Township 14 North Range 66 West Sixth P M The elements may be in any order and may be abbreviated Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 Each Principal Meridian has a PM code see Appendix C some have abbreviations which can be used to abbreviate the full Principal Meridian name T5SR1E Sec 27 PM26 T5SR1E Sec 27 PM Salt Aliquot Sections a Lat word meaning some so many Generally occurring in
176. ing Map Colors It is useful to change map colors when they obscure your annotations or to highlight water features All Topo can globally change all the dark greens to light greens or white To modify map colors start the Map Color Change tool by selecting the menu option Options Modify Map Colors or by pressing the shortcut key Alt Shift C Lame laa H mi mza f a tesiei i g ami ain Han The Map Color Changer has two color grids the Image Colors and the Override Colors To change an original color double click on the Displayed Color in the Image Color grid that you would like to change A color picking dialog will be displayed pec oxi E HEINE EH Bees Bum ee oO See eee Se Sa RE Ee TEEI ee jE gem DE BEBE BEES BEEBE EEE SB If you just want to lighten the displayed color use the intensity slider to the right of the Custom Color picker When the correct replacement color has been selected press the OK button The Color Replacement Tolerance allows a single color replacement to automatically be applied to nearby colors To revert a single color to its original color double click the Original Color item in the Image Colors grid To change a replacement color double click the replacement color in the Override Color grid To revert all colors to the original selections press the Revert AII button 117 If you configure a color replacement palette that you would like to keep
177. ink Tool 29 AutoCAD LT Importing Basemaps j O2 AutoCAD Map Importing Basemaps Axis Options Profile 105 Azimuth Bearings 186 Index B artesian Offsets 186 ap Scale 27 hange Map Colors 117 hange Source Path 111 hannel 44 heck Web for New Maps 71 Checking Results 5 Cigar Smoking 7 sight Cursor 9f 23 63 64 Color 235 Computers 7 Congressional Townships 182 Conspiracy Theory 7 onstruction Road 46 ontour Interval 3 Contours 43 44 ontrol Data 41 ontrol Key 5 ontrol Key using 51 onvert Calls Deed Plotter 139 Coordinate Accuracy 175 onversion 20 Default Style 20 Description 211 Q Q Q C Q Q Q Q 5 N tyle Picker 32 tyles 108 Coordinates 167 N Bombsight Drag Hand 65 Pencil Tool 65 eA Q Q D 73 Dam 45 Data Bits 14 Data disk 3 Date Time Format 204 wu Ew N m ECU O P i Conversion Errors 170 Conversions 169 236 Datum of Base Coordinate 205 Decimal Degrees 172 D EE E eed Plotter 19 93 eed Plotter Tab 86 Delete Annotation 66 Delete Route Point 68 Delimeters 96 elimited Text File 95 Depression 4 e escriptions 94 esign scale 2 esktop 5 etails Annotation 79 ialog 51 Digital Camera Time 121 ip Compass
178. ion The default style for the display is set by the Primary Coordinate Display settings Main Menu Options Coordinate System Options Defaults tab Primary Coordinate Display Options UTM tab If the default UTM Zone is not set to Auto or 0 in the Primary Coordinate Display Options you can use Z0 to display the UTM coordinate in the default natural UTM Zone 205 206 Arguments DATUM DIST_UNITS UTMZONE Ex UTM 515 129 86 ME 4 554 132 93 MN 213 UTM WGS84 515 080 82 M E 4 554 342 01 MN Z13 WGS84 9oUTM Z1296 1 018 817 02 M E 4 572 564 83 M N Z12 9eUTM NAD83 FEET Z0 1 689 913 00 Ft E 14 942 069 95 Ft N Z13 NAD83 JoXUTM9e UTM Easting Displays the Easting portion of a Universal Transverse Mercator UTM coordinate for the annotation The default style DATUM FORMAT UTMZONE are set by the Primary Coordinate Display settings Arguments DATUM FORMAT UTMZONE DIST UNITS Ex KXUTM 515129 9 XUTM 0 000 NAD83 FEET 1689913 001 YUTM UTM Northing Displays the Northing portion of a Universal Transverse Mercator UTM coordinate for the annotation The default style DATUM FORMAT UTMZONE are set by the Primary Coordinate Display settings Arguments DATUM FORMAT UTMZONE DIST_UNITS Ex YUTM 4554132 9 YYUTM Y 0 000 NAD83 FEET Y 14 942 069 950 ZUTM UTM Zone Displays the default natural UTM Zone for the annotation This token does not accept any arguments nor can
179. ions System Options 69 The Primary Coordinate Display settings are very important for many other All Topo functions Many displayed exported and printed coordinate styles are based upon the primary style Lat Lon UTM Military Grid State Plane coordinates are always available for display Public Land Survey PLS coordinates are available if the appropriate state PLS Tool has been installed Detailed descriptions of each coordinate style can be found in Appendix A Elevation Many All Topo map sets include elevation data If your set does not have elevation data an inexpensive elevation dataset can be purchased from Igage You can display the elevation at the cursor by checking the main menu option View Display Elevation checkbox BE Pique Fa LI TIENI ME E Once elevation is visible you can select the elevation units using the drop arrow to the right of the elevation Available units are Feet Meters or Survey Feet Egi The elevation data represents elevation at evenly spaced grid points By default All Topo interpolates an elevation surface between grid points you can turn off this interpolative smoothing by un checking the Smooth Grid checkbox on the Elevation tab of the System Options page Declination and Dip 70 The All Topo viewer includes the World Magnetic Data and can approximate magnetic declination and dip for any location Computations are made using the year of the computer s
180. ions by section half section 1 4 section or 4 1 4 section drawing lines around the parcel g E Wa i f a alr l m iii neginHmips Li MET pe ee omm PL Tinearmnigy TE B eo aie Cem A Lat m Lis au ig Ua fu m i 2 Fiia Tja Team zm ap Berths N Hrumisg diam d T 1 j i f ami While not accurate enough for survey or land division the PLS Tool is great for locating maps and determining displaying approximate legal coordinates and parcels Data is collected from government sources and supplemented with hand digitized coordinates from the 1 24 000 scale USGS quadrangles Installing and Configuring the PLS Tool The AII Topo PLS tool should be installed from the appropriate PLS Tool disk Close the All Topo viewer and any helper applications BigTopo and the GPS Tool that may be running Insert the PLS Tool disk into your CD ROM drive If autorun is enabled the PLS Tool Installation will begin if the installation does not automatically begin follow the installation instructions on the CD After installing the PLS Tool set start the All Topo viewer and use the License Manager to enter your dedicated PLS Serial Number After installing the PLS Tool you may configure the viewer to display PLS coordinates in either the Primary or Secondary Coordinate Display You can configure the displays from the main menu selection Options Coordinate and System Options or by double clicking in the appropriate coord
181. ircle When the annotation is properly aligned click OK to finish the deed descrip tion insertion i r B r Tu J m 4 Ju m d En WO 34 23 TEN RIESE o y i a a Lk Po i I E e i J a a ae a x x F o T i i j p If F 1 hs I F i E F F x E F a E i Fi F r n T Pi E a ae I r 5 1 F 7 a i Tp n F JJ zs To edit an existing Deed Plotter annotation right mouse click near the deed s insertion point to re display the Edit Waypoint dialog Removing Surveys from the Map To remove a Deed Plotter survey right click near the POB marker point and 140 Chapter 8 Using Deed Plotter Deed Descriptions select Delete Waypoint You can also use the WP List tool highlight the annotation that contains the Deed Plotter link in the Search Annotation List grid and press the delete key Interchange Hints DXF Filename Link The DXF Filename is a link to the file output from Deed Plotter The DXF file must exist when the map is viewed If you place the DXF file in the same directory as the HWP annotation file you will not need to include a fully qualified pathname All Topo evaluates the DXF file continuously so if you make a change within Deed Plotter just select Map Save As DXF again to replace the original file The changes will appear when the map screen is redrawn in the All Topo Maps viewer Alt R will for
182. ition of BigTopo7 then you can only seam 1 24 000 and 1 63 360 scale maps If you are using the professional version BigTopo7 Pro then choices for 1 100 000 and 1 250 000 scale maps are also available as are selections for output datum UTM Zone projection and the color match tolerance The default Exported Map Datum is NAD27 Select NAD83 datum to display coverage information in NAD83 write a NAD83 Lat Lon TFW world file and include NAD83 corner information in the TXT file GeoTIF headers and TFW world file 1f exporting a TIF image The UTM Zone setting allows you to override the default UTM Zone behavior and force a UTM Zone for the generated map This is handy if you are working in a state like Wyoming or Colorado and want to treat the entire state as if it is a single UTM Zone Color Match sets the tolerance for matching colors between source maps Setting the tolerance to 0 will result in every original map color being preserved in the output map a setting of 4 is the default settings above 32 may result in unexpected map colorings 159 The Annotations Tab ee SLES cupi Pi Eii Egl es dere g To Fear di Dese i 58 ie Dipp doen Ure L a I IL Ts par omm Film kh apa i 513 imc rin Miera ag Vice Pai inr B oper TI Dale i9 Laeli 5 Lr b Los amm Lae r Labs pni 7 om un tap 1 icum pL ee Ler i d Lau Ir Vea Dam P hoa a mS ubi ndn DITS mds ier imi Recollar add borders to
183. ity result for the coordinate location with the currently defined Quick Shape files If there is no Quick Shape file open the result may be QSF or just a blank string Arguments none Ex 9oQSF96 WYown FED MIN None WYown STATE O 24968 WYown SURFACE Private TAB Tab Character Inserts a single Tab Control I character Typically it is easier to use the X escape sequence than the TAB token Ex 211 212 Col 1 tab Col 2 Col 1 Col 2 Coll1 tCol 2 Col 1 Col 2 CR Carriage Return Inserts a new line character pair CR LF Typically it is easier to use the n escape sequence than the CR token Ex DMS TAB DESCR CR TABYNAME DMS N DESC n tYNAME Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP The annotations that are displayed by All Topo Maps are stored in simple text files called HWP files Normally you won t need to be concerned with the format of these files you can access the properties of annotations by right clicking near an annotation and selecting Edit Annotation Groups of annotations may be altered by selecting a group within the Waypoint List tool and pressing the Edit button Some users find it easier to edit the source files while others export huge databases of coordinates using the HWP file format This chapter discusses the format of these HWP files Annotation Source Editor From the All Topo Maps viewer select th
184. ize resolution and low level driver features for the currently selected printer Press the Printer Setup button H t to reach the Print Setup menu where you can choose a printer 100 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Press the Properties button to access the print driver configuration specific to your printer Within the Windows print driver you may be able to configure these additional print driver items If possible select a 300 Pixel Per Inch PPI or DPI print resolution avoid 600 PPI or higher resolutions as excessive system memory may be required to rasterize the map image Choose the smallest possible paper size that the print job will fit on Choose Optimize for Graphics in the print driver if possible Choose Process In Computer NOT Process In Printer if possible Choose the Printed Page Orientation Portrait is taller than wide Landscape is wider than tall After closing the Windows print driver configuration and the Print Setup dialog check each of the numbered items in the Print Map dialog l 2 8 3 Select and Configure Printer Choose from installed Windows printers Printed Page Orientation Select tall or wide orientation Print Selection You can select the currently viewed map or the entire map Choose the Printed Map Scale If you have not set the nominal print scale press the Set Print Scale button gj and choose the nominal prin
185. kage the project on their machine for use with their All Topo Map set To package the current project select the menu item Annotations Backup Restore Package Package All Topo will display a list of all of the current project s elements You can optionally include project notes in the Notes Instructions field Le aja Pe ioe H A reer gl ey es m qn Had T eee gen m mir common r ig HE aroma T rni ke L7 A AIT peace ila eT aes ie ard aged d 7127 EZ ES E FH ur hot un mal 0 um Eau im Conc Press the Build Package button All Topo will prompt for a package name and 88 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer folder enter a file name then press Save to write the package file To use an existing package select the menu item Annotation Backup Restore Package Unpackage browse for the correct Package File to Unpackage enter a Path to Restore to and click OK to unpackage EL 38 bor Fir oe Foe ee Pe ee FE cot ae a tee He i Unpackaged projects are flattened into a single folder If two like named files exist in the original project they are automatically renamed with unique names in the flattened project folder Exchanging Annotation Files with Pre V7 All Topo Versions All Topo Version 7 stores information in annotation files that may not be fully compatible with previous All Topo versions If you need to exchange a data file with someone who is using an older copy of
186. kup Restore Package Backup option shortcut key Shift Ctrl S The backup option automatically generates a unique incrementing file name based upon the file name of the annotation file for the backup file in a special folder C XAII Topo Backups by default Your annotation file is saved in a compressed format to the backup folder with a hwpZ extension If you have multiple fixed disk drives on your computer or have a network connection to a server you can choose to save backup files in an alternate folder location If your machine crashes then your work will be saved on an alternate physical drive which may greatly improve your chances of recovery If you need to restore a backup choose the menu option Annotations Backup Restore Package Restore menu option Select the correct saved hwpZ file press Open choose a new name for the restored file and finally press Save All Topo will decompress and display the backup annotations Package and Unpackage It is possible to generate All Topo Map projects that reference multiple annotation files contain links to hundreds of images apply multiple Deed Plotter property descriptions and utilize thousands of custom symbols spread over hundreds of directories The Project Packager will combine every element of a project except for the base map image into a single compressed file This single file can be transferred to another All Topo user who can then un pac
187. l Topo Maps 149 jew pee Toissa Lid pret Spams bla Tren an bom Codes s bere 5 ee E rg T Feld rpe Coent Carum ras ins Mera kt bap m Li arabia ATS 1 Ei Psi pi FZLI Ti 1 Ekimi E T1 FZLI B BTT ib flies ET IP ek ILE TRAF uL FLA E HHA 1L1 THREE I1 FZLA PI Mee Ate eee ETDE UA 3 fares lated Coartesigs To CM at terete CG weet pte Press the 3 Save Selected Coordinates in All Topo Maps button The Save Waypoints dialog will be displayed Make sure the Append To Existing checkbox is checked so the new coordi nates do not overwrite any existing coordinates already in the All Topo viewer Press OK Close the GPS Tool select the menu option File Exit The new waypoints will be inserted into the current All Topo viewer s annotation list You may need to manually center the map over the new coordinates to see the downloaded locations All Topo does not enforce unique annotation names or descriptions It is possible to download two sets of identical waypoints from a GPS and save them twice to the All Topo viewer Moving Points from the All Topo Viewer to a GPS 150 You can transfer coordinates from All Topo Maps to your GPS receiver In the All Topo map viewer open the annotation file that holds the annotations you want to transfer to your GPS Start the GPS Tool by selecting the main menu selection Tools GPS Tool E ect Cure JU d made ape BH nouum Td anat
188. lay the System Information Logger by selecting the main map window menu option View System Information Logger System Meta Commands Include lt Include gt Annotation files may include the contents of other annotation files which may in turn include additional annotation files All Topo automatically prevents recursive inclusions Only the main annotation file selected by Annotations Open Annotation File and listed on the second pane of the status line can be directly edited by the user This protects included annotations from inadvertent changes Annotations from the included file will be added to the annotation list just as if they were included in the main file with one exception the main file will restore the annotation style in use when the included file was called To return from the included file with any style changes left intact place lt gt on the last line of the included file FileI HWP Font Normal 38 43 9 016 N 109 28 33 072 W File 1 Pt 1 file2 hwp gt 38 43 3 820 N 109 28 32 709 W File 1 Pt 2 216 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP File2 HWP lt font Underline gt 38 718 4 N 109 475 8 W File 2 Pt 1 results in Adding the lt gt tag to the end of File2 HWP will keep the font color change introduced in the included file File2 HWP lt font Underline gt 38 718 4 N 109 475 8 W File 2 Pt 1 lt gt results in underlining the t
189. lculate an exact location You must specify a cardinal direction after each distance All Topo will figure out which section lines to offset from from the South and East lines in this example 1 356 W 180 N from SE Sec 31 T 14N R 66W PM6 specifies the Wyoming State Capitol dome LASER a RR t Aor Specifying the Corner of an Aliquot Part All Topo accepts corner tags to reference the corner of an aliquot part For example SE NW Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 Specifies the center of the south east quarter of the north west quarter of Section 31 185 186 All Topo accepts the following corner designations CNE North East Corner CSE South East Corner CSW South West Corner CNW North West Corner CSE SE NW Sec31 TI4NR66W PM6 Entering Relative Coordinates In addition to fully qualified coordinates it is possible to enter relative coordinates that specify a new coordinate at an offset from a previous coordinate Relative coordinates always begin with the ampersand and specify a distance and bearing from the previous base location Relative coordinates may be stacked however there must be a fully qualified coordinate before the first relative coordinate To specify a relative coordinate you can enter Radial or Cartesian offsets with Rotation Ex X 0 5 miles Y 0 25 miles R 2 4 Up 4 mile right mile plus 2 4 rotation Offset Direction Bearing and North Reference Ex L 1 25 miles R234 5
190. lest amount of memory in the shortest time Several additional options control printing Check Only print annotation overlay to print only the annotations The base map is not output This option is useful for making transparent overlays 101 Check Add alignment ticks to corners to print small tick marks in the corners of the map If tiled images are aligned at these tick marks the map images will be aligned correctly Check Print System annotations to print the System annotations on the map System annotations include Click Ticks the Measurement Spike temporary Find Placename Location markers and Elevation Line of Sight results Check Break multiple pages into separate jobs ends print jobs after each individual page is printed This setting may result in print jobs starting to print sooner and may result in smaller more stable print jobs The Print Preview button adjusts the aspect ratio of the map viewing screen to match the aspect ratio of the printed page The zoom level is set to display the same map extents that will print with the current settings If you change any of the print setup values press the preview button to resize the image Printing Huge Maps on Plotters If you are plotting map images especially large BigTopos to full sized plotters and you encounter out of memory errors or blank or all black images then follow these instructions to optimize your printer driver and computer for printing h
191. lways are drawn on top of the base maps on a separate layer User Auto and System Annotations There are three classes of annotations in All Topo Maps 78 User Annotations entered and maintained by the user These annota tions are stored in annotation files with hwp extensions by default The All Topo version 7 viewer supports an unlimited number of user annotations You can change the default User annotation style with the menu selection Options System Options System Tab System Annotations are added as temporary place markers They include the Measurement Spike Coordinate Bookmarks Click ticks tick marks at double click locations when changing maps construction ticks for projections and triangulation System annotations are not stored in annotations files however some system annotations like the Measure ment Spike are restored when All Topo starts or a map is reloaded The System annotation style can be set on the Options System Options System Tab You can delete all system annotations from the screen using the Annotations Clear System Annotations selection or by pressing the short cut key Alt C Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Auto Annotations are collections of annotations that fall onto a common map Auto annotation files are typically built by the Auto HWP Splitter program and automate the process of quickly displaying millions of annotations Auto annotations are enabled on the
192. lygon Adding a lt R gt meta tag lt R 4 0 gt lt Line Begin gt 38 7388 N 109 4440 W DueSouth 1 mile SE DueWest 1 mile SW lt Line Close gt DueNorth 1 mile NW rotates the polygon 2 degrees counter clockwise about the base insertion point D Datum North Reference Projection Override By default coordinates placed in HWP files are assumed to be Datum NAD27CONUS bearings are assumed to be with respect to True North and relative coordinate projections are assumed to be geographic Latitude Longitude Great Circle The D gt meta tag will change the assumed defaults for all subsequent coordinates found in a file For example the annotation file 38 7369 N 109 4617 W NAD83 P1 38 7301 N 109 4613 W NAD83 P2 38 7294 N 109 4604 W NAD83 P3 may also be written D NAD83 gt 38 7369 N 109 4617 W P1 38 7301 N 109 4613 W P2 38 7294 N 109 4604 W P3 The D meta tag will accept simultaneous overrides for datum north reference and projections D NAD83 GN 0 NAD27 Acceptable arguments to the D gt meta tag are Coordinate Datum Overrides Insert a valid datum name to set the default coordinate datum NAD27 NAD83 WGS84 WGS72 NAD27CONUS NAD27ALSKA NAD27CANADA NAD83CANADA 229 For Example lt D NAD83 gt Bearing Overrides By default All Topo assumes all bearings are with respect to True North You can change the default bearing base by adding a beari
193. mal point The placement and number of characters in the format string does not affect the output except to indicate that thousand separators are wanted The actual character used as a the thousand separator in the output is determined by the Number Format of the International section in the Windows Control Panel E Scientific notation If any of the strings E E e or e are contained in the format string the number is formatted using scientific notation A group of up to four 0 characters can immediately follow the E E e or e to determine the minimum number of digits in the exponent The E and e formats cause a plus sign to be output for positive exponents and a minus sign to be output for negative exponents The E and e formats output a sign character only for negative exponents xx Characters enclosed in single quotes are output as is and do not affect formatting The locations of the leftmost 0 before the decimal point in the format string and the rightmost 0 after the decimal point in the format string determine the range of digits that are always present in the output string The number being formatted is always rounded to as many decimal places as there are digit placeholders 0 or to the right of the decimal point If the format string contains no decimal point the value being formatted is rounded to the nearest whole number If the number being formatted has more digits t
194. mber Manager Help License Manager to enable the options discussed in this section The All Topo Deed Plotter product requires the separate purchase of Deed Plotter Version 4 08 or higher from Greenbrier Graphics Inc or their vendors Checkout www deedplotter com or www johnsonmapping com for purchase details Accuracy and Use Limitations The boundaries plotted by All Topo Maps are approximate and subject to errors in placement and rotation The U S G S base maps have a published accuracy of not more than 10 percent of the points tested shall be in error by more than 1 30 inch measured on the publication scale for maps on publication scales of 1 20 000 or smaller 1 50 inch This means that 90 of plotted points will enjoy accuracy of 66 6 feet on a 1 24 000 scale map No claim is made for the remaining 10 of plotted points Always seek property descriptions provided by a competent surveyor Represent site maps generated with All Topo Maps as approximate Don t represent property for sale by acreage Paul McClung and Dr Thomas E Rider have addressed important consider 137 ations in Appendix V Fundamentals of Surveying Law of the Deed Plotter Users Manual Please take a few moments to read this excellent overview Igage Mapping Corporation provides the Deed Plotter DXF Interchange option without claims for it s fitness for purpose You must check all generated maps as you alone are responsible for any e
195. mp for track log points but it does timestamp waypoints you can manually record waypoints as you take each picture If you have traveled slowly between track points and there are many track points clustered around the linked points use the point reducer to delete unneeded track points from the annotation file after attaching the pictures to the track log To use the point reducer press the button then highlight one of the annotations in the attached track log then choose the Search Annotation List menu option Options Reduce Points Don t rotate pictures until after they have been GeoLinked to annotations Image processing tools typically will destroy the date timestamp included within the picture file If you want to edit or rotate images before attaching them make sure you first run the JPGDate utility which will build an associated date time stamp file date extension If your image editing tool destroys the image s date time stamp All Topo will use the external file to correlate the image If All Topo and JPDDate can t find a date time stamp in your JPG image file and you are sure there is one email two images with the exact date time stamps reported by your camera to 1Gage for evaluation Our email address is listed on the Certificate of Serial Number that came with your map set 124 Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo Chapter 7 Sourcing Basemaps with All Topo All Topo is an excellent source of
196. mple the two line pair 40 46 37 1 N 111 53 14 9 W UTCAP Utah State Capitol 400 N State Street Font Green 14 gt is treated as a single input line lt Meta gt Tag Types There are several types of waypoint file Meta tags System Meta Commands lt H gt Hyper link to web file or multimedia content A gt Center location on screen T gt Set viewer Title lt M Set Measurement Spike location lt gt Set the defaults styles to the current style Restore the factory default styles lt gt Save all settings lt gt Restore all settings lt gt Keep settings on return from include lt I gt Include another HWP file Text Font Meta Commands lt F gt Font Name 213 Font Size Text Color and Background Color Text Position around coordinate Test Position lt P gt Text Position around coordinate Text Offset from coordinate Connecting Line Meta Command lt L gt Line ON OFF BEGIN CLOSE Line Style Line Color and Background Color Line Width Symbol Meta Commands lt S gt Marker Type Marker Size Symbol Type Symbol Color Symbol fill Color Symbol Width and Height Marker size in points Symbol Direction Compass bearing symbol Line Width Pencil Trace lt l gt commands Layer lt n gt Meta Tag Errors The system logger is updated with descriptions of any errors that occur while All Topo Maps looks at and interprets waypoint coordinates and Meta tags You may disp
197. n the exported map image is formatted correctly press the Export button to build the output image file Printed Map Scale Print Preview The size of map annotations text and lines can be configured to provide desirable results on printed and exported map images When the Print Preview button is depressed B the viewer scales annotations so they are drawn on the screen at the same size they will print at This is useful for setting the position and size of text so adjacent annotations do not obscure each other At some zoom settings annotations will be scaled and drawn so small or large that it is impossible to read them For these conditions it is desirable to render annotations on the viewing screen at the size they were designed To disable final print size scaling un depress the toolbar print preview button gs or use the main menu option View Print Preview Design or Scaled to toggle the setting To set the intended print scale select the main menu option File Set Printed Map Scale or press the toolbar button gg tet EMILE Er tamm arum hi ef ada DE eun BL LED Imm a mim raton mm Ban tuam bb OTE calm imi z ih rvs d oum AR E E ALL TT bar n rk oma dE mew Ce mam e rm The Set Printed Map Scale tool allows the map scale to be set to common values with the Force Common Map Scale buttons or exact scales can be set using one of these scale settings Map Scale directly set the map scale ratio
198. n the user right clicks on an annotation automatically generating email or displaying a picture or movie All Topo will automatically display pictures and annotation information for the annotation that is nearest the mouse cursor in the Auto GeoLink viewer To enable the GeoLink Attribute viewer click on the menu option View GeoLinks Attributes or press the shortcut key Shift Ctrl G pe em ee oe zm prpsep Cee i pe e oe Pe i motum Cle td lt bear E aes lt m eere i arrer amm gee Fay IA eee Pan m ce agr IP CHEM Y Deli ia eps Ce a DTi yy en Tpm h icum Low Ad em acm mpm oo wm Ej hu oium i d dre pie pe The GeoLink Attribute Viewer can display pictures with the file types JPG JPEG PNG TIF TIFF GIF and BMP Holding the cursor near a track point automatically shows the picture defined by the GeoLink To manually connect media and links to an existing annotation right click near the annotation and select Edit Annotation the Edit Coordinate dialog will be shown Select the GeoLinks tab lo irpini tm emit on ede en Gola ai ian agi Enter the address of the target in the GeoLink box To display a picture include the full address to the picture If the media is stored on an accessible 120 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer drive you can use the Browse for file button to find the picture To enter a web address use the form http www igage com index html To send em
199. nce Entry Shortcuts If you are entering a series of quadrant bearings and distances keypad shortcuts allows you to bypass the use of N S and E W All Topo will accept the for N and for S and for E and for W The keypad forward slash may be substituted for the space character and the asterick may be substituted for the initial character This allows for quicker keyboard entry using only your right hand and the numeric keypad For example Full Bearing Distance Call Shortcut NOE 500 feet 04 500 Q N45 23145W 1272 8 SFeet 445 23145 1272 8 sfeet S13 23E 14 5 rods 13 234 14 5 rods North Reference TN MN GN amp SPN All Topo accepts bearings entered relative to True North Magnetic North UTM Grid North or State Plane Grid North You can override the default North direction True North by adding a North Code with optional arguments The permissible North Codes are Code Description TRUEN or TN True North default MAGN or MN Magnetic North GRIDN or GN UTM Grid North SPN State Plane North Magnetic North Magnetic Declination When you use a compass on the surface of the earth it measures a magnetic field that is a function of many forces e Earth s conducting fluid outer core e Earth s crust and upper mantle onosphere effects Magnetosphere effects Stray magnetic forces a nearby pocket knife the wire rims of your glass frames your watch and keys Magnetic declination is
200. nd other objects and is a convenient way to transfer objects between applications Title Bar The solid bar at the top of most windows You can grab a window by its title bar and move it around your desktop Here is the title bar from BigTopo7 V la Pun Aes 2 01 fa 7 E90 Tool Bar The collection of tools located under the Menu Bar E ii ne te Le i h d Window A dialog box or form that is shown on the computer desktop 35 54 14rkj5239 P a J for H c tence T d Chapter 5 Support Installation Serial Numbers Chapter 5 Support Installation Serial Numbers This chapter includes the following topics e Suggestions and Complaints e Support e Minimum and Recommended System Requirements Registering Your Product Installing All Topo Maps Updating your All Topo Version 7 Product Advanced Installation Settings e General Serial Number Information Suggestions and Complaints Thanks again for purchasing and using All Topo Maps Our goal is to make a great easy to use mapping product that solves the needs of professional users sell it a reasonable price and provide the best service we can Most of the nifty features of All Topo Maps are a direct result of past customer input If you have a great idea to make All Topo a better solution for your application be sure to call us Igage Mapping Corporation is not a big outfit Your suggestions and com plaints will make a difference S
201. ne projection add SP to the end of the relative coordinate You may also add a state plane zone and datum Separate the zone and datum with underscore characters SP UTC NADS3 Valid state plane codes are listed in the appendix only NAD27 and NAD 3 datum are accepted for projection 189 Using Relative Coordinates Real World Examples Example State Plane Base Coordinate We would like to find the corner of a piece of property The legal description for the property reads From the monument at the top of Bagpipe Butte 2 399 2 E 545 606 4 N Survey Feet Utah Southern Zone a distance of 3 421 7 survey feet with a bearing of N 44 degrees 51 minutes 3 seconds to the East We are given the Utah Central Zone state plane coordinates in survey feet for a base point from the description we must make the assumption that the offset should be applied in the State Plane projection with a True North reference Press the Find Loc button choose the State Plane tab and enter a fully qualified base coordinate 2 399 258 1 SFt E 545 702 38 SFt N UTS Press the Add as Waypoint and Show Location button to add a new annota tion at Bagpipe Butte b li i oma ea F u alam Pug One pi te ge Fe p ji a A CAS CERE 4 OT Dh ee Fast Presa un Sar cr Tii ay ZEE Bb B DLE GL D mi 5 pe age TLF Now press the F2 key to add a second annotation All Topo will temporarily place the new annotation at the location where t
202. nents screens dialogs utilities tools and wizards you might encounter while using your All Topo Map set Select a State Set to Open eT a ee et ie ii Shown when All Topo Maps is started and when you change map sets using the menu option File Open Map Set Available map sets are listed select the set you want to use then press OK or double click on the state to open When starting All Topo checking the Open Last Project box opens the map set at the last viewed map and annotation file When changing map sets checking the Open Last Project box only retrieves the last viewed map The All Topo Viewer vOozeznrmw mo umngouw The viewer 1s the main interface it allows quick access to and display of base maps annotations and all the All Topo wizards and tools B C DEF GHI JK L MN WIN Xp E EMI Mic moe pep FLUE LEE D E a ih nf een eu id hie did Ate TES EIS E E 1372 7L EF el CP Le ir parens qe m in 5 i Y 5 126 3 Main menu Q Search by Location Coordinate Zoom display and control R Search by Waypoint Map Scale selection S Primary Coordinate display Bombsight cursor T Magnetic Grid Declination Dip Draghand cursor U Measurement Spike distance Zoom cursor V Elevation at Cursor Freehand Pencil W Map Revision selection Point to Point Route Pencil Minimize maximize close PLS Magnet toggle Map Scale bar Annotations enable Current annotation file modified Quick Shape toggle Status
203. ng UTM Coordinates When reading UTM coordinates All Topo Maps looks for the word Zone or the letter Z followed by a number If found All Topo treats the coordinate as a UTM value and looks for an easting and a northing Our example coordinate can be entered 515129 9 E 4554132 9 N Z13 You may optionally insert commas to make the long numbers more readable 515 129 9 M E 4 554 132 9 M N Z13 If you don t specify cardinal directions N and E then All Topo will assume that the easting is listed first Remember that many UTM coordinates can be expressed in multiple UTM zones Our example coordinate can also be expressed as a Zone 14 location 11 464 9 M E 4 570 470 8 M N Z14 By default all coordinates are assumed to be NAD27 datum metric coordi nates All Topo accepts the standard Datum and distance unit overrides 515 129 9 M E 4 554 132 9 MN Z13 11 434 0 ME 4 570 683 4 M N Z14 NAD83 37 513 2 Ft E 14 995 680 5 Ft N Z14 NAD83 37 513 1 SFt E 14 995 650 5 SFt N Z14 NAD83 are equally valid descriptions of the exact same coordinate General UTM Coordinate Notes UTM coordinates have advantages e UTM coordinates are very intuitive for people on foot in the field Both Northing and Easting values have the same easy to use units typically meters and will always be positive unless you extend a Zone too far West e Xand Y map scales are exactly the same Horizontal and vertical scale match Most new maps include a 1
204. ng override to a D gt meta tag True North To indicate that all subsequent bearings are with respect to True North enter a TRUENORTH or TN argument D TN Optionally you may add an underscore followed by a datum specification to force All Topo to use a specific datum for the north reference at the point from whence the projection is made This may make some infinitely small difference for points converted using Molodensky approximations vs NADCON interpolations For example D WGS84 TN_NAD83 gt Indicates that subsequent coordinates are WGS84 Molodensky datum but relative offsets should be projected from the equivalent NAD83 position and north reference UTM Grid To indicate all subsequent bearings are with respect to UTM Grid North enter GRIDNORTH or GN All Topo will use the UTM Zone and datum selected by the Primary Coordinate Display lt D GN gt You can override the primary coordinate display and specify a UTM Zone by appending the zone number and or datum to the bearing override For example subsequent bearings with respect to NAD83 UTM Grid Zone 13 D GN 13 NAD83 gt To specify the natural UTM Zone for a coordinate select UTM Zone 0 D GN 0 NAD83 gt State Plane Grid To indicate all subsequent bearing are with respect to a State Plane Grid enter a SPN argument By default All Topo will use the State Plane zone and datum selected by the Primary Coordinate Display D SPN gt
205. nge without notice as new information becomes available Many of the coordinates are based on hand snapped coverage from 1 24 000 1 100 000 scale and even 1 250 000 scale maps A great number of known errors exist in the PLS Tool s Public Land Survey coordinate database The Public Land Survey coordinates are not intended to take the place of surveys or resurveys nor do they improve inaccurate survey data It is up to the user of the data with advice and assistance from a Professional Surveyor to determine whether or not a set of coordinates is acceptable for any given purpose and when it is necessary to resort to the legal record and a corner 181 182 on the ground location Igage Mapping Corporation makes no warranties of the suitability of this data It is inappropriate to use the optional PLS Tool and the data contained for any property sale or legal description Typically the use of the PLS Tool extensions for this purpose is a violation of State Law The user is cautioned to consult a Professional Surveyor for assistance in determining if this product is suitable for a purpose PLS Tool Each All Topo Maps PLS Tool Set contains statewide databases of Township and Section perimeters and the All Topo high speed geographic search engine Coupled with an existing All Topo map set these tools e Enable real time cursor position tracking to 4 1 4 section or footage offset within section Enable direct conversion f
206. nks Varas and Nautical Miles Bearings can be expressed as a azimuth Compass Angle clockwise rotation from North 0 North 90 East 180 South 270 West Degrees 45 3376 degrees Degrees Minutes 45 degrees 20 26 minutes Degree Minute Seconds 45 degrees 20 minutes 15 6 seconds Mills 806 0 mills 6 400 mills 2360 degrees or as a Survey Bearing e Survey Bearing Indicating an angle and bearing from North or South towards the East or West Ex North 45 degrees 20 minutes 15 6 seconds East Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer All Topo supports three Map Projections for distance measurements Great Circle UTM Universal Transverse Mercator e State Plane all standard NADCON supported NAD27 and NAD83 projections Using the Measurement Spike J i Tous Bari ipi Lima LT mb LET rame ar 4 wWolmHiT er fe ea Onn La iie d PE ndr mala Li CT so oe re L The Measurement Spike is a virtual stake that you pound in the ground Once the Spike is set the Measurement Spike Display Box will show the distance and bearing from the Spike to the Cursor Before making a measurement with the Spike choose the Measurement Spike map projection north reference and distance units Select the menu option Options Coordinate System Options then choose the Defaults tab Choose appropriate Angle Display Format Default North Reference distance units and the projection for distance
207. nnotation nearest the cursor When the P2P cursor is selected you can reach the normal pop up menu and the drag hand cursor by pressing and holding either the shift or control key then pressing the right mouse button Display Mileage Along a Route You can add Tokens along the route to display accumulated mileage from the route s beginning place the cursor near the point right click and select Edit Annotation press the button under the Desc entry on the Edit Annotation dialog to display the Token Helper mu Laced hzcamulsgtei 3 uil b ated fel E m F tire Lat Ly 66 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Click on Miles to display miles then press OK to close the token helper and OK to close the Edit Annotation dialog Tokens are available for many measurements see Appendix D for Token details Add Spurs to Routes You can insert a spur route anywhere along the route move the point to point cursor next to the existing annotation to spur from right click and select New Spur from move the cursor to the next point of the spur and left click continue dropping spur points until the spur is complete You can add spurs to spurs All Topo will automatically number and name each new route and spur with unique waypoint names Adding More Points in a Route Additional points can be added within an existing route by right clicking near the point you want to add a rout
208. not and cannot warrant the performance or results you may obtain by using the software or documentation The foregoing states the sole and exclusive remedies Igage Mapping Corporation will provide for breach of warranty Except for the foregoing limited warranty Igage Mapping Corporation makes no warranties expressed or implied as to non infringement of third party rights merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose 9 Limitation of Liability In no event will Igage Mapping Corporation be liable to you for any special damages including any lost profits lost savings or other incidental or consequen tial damages even if Igage Mapping Corporation has been advised of the possibility of such damages or for any claim by any other party 10 Limitation of Remedies Igage Mapping Corporation s entire liability and your exclusive remedy shall be a the replacement of any media not meeting gage Mapping Corporation s limited warranty which is returned to Igage Mapping Corporation or b if Igage Mapping Corporation or its distributor is unable to deliver replacement media which is free of defects in materials or workmanship you may terminate this Agreement by returning the Software and your money will be refunded Contents ery Important Words about Staying Out of Trouble Search by Place Name by Map Name 13 14 15 16 17 18 ee Autojump Autojump lt tir MERERETUR Chapte
209. now if they should walk or drive e Latitude and Longitude coordinates are often misinterpreted Our service desk receives hundreds of angry calls each year from customers who are absolutely positive All Topo Maps is showing the WRONG COORDINATE for their home driveway or street corner In most every case their GPS reads a number like 40 44 17 N 111 51 52 W which they are interpreting as 40 4417 N 111 5152 W e Paper map users make significant interpolation errors when computing latitude longitude coordinates for a spot on a map In contrast users interpolating UTM coordinates make almost no errors even without any mechanical roaming aids Geographic Coordinate Accuracy If you choose to use geographic coordinates consider using the decimal degrees D d style for highest accuracy Given the same number characters decimal degree coordinates are significantly more accurate than decimal minute or decimal second coordinates For example consider six character representations Style 6 Character Value Precision D d 00 0001 0 000 1 degrees DM m 00 00 01 0 000 17 degrees DMS s 00 00 01 0 000 28 degrees Given the same number of digits of precision the D d value is almost three times more accurate than the DMS s value This issue of numerical precision is well illustrated by an actual consumer grade GPS receiver When configured to display DMS values the receiver shows coordinates as XX XX XX N XXX XX XX W 0 000 28 degree a
210. nsky approximations use a set of spherical constants to convert between NAD27 and NAD83 datum Molodensky constants are computed to minimize errors over a small local area and as a result there are unique constants for Mexico Continental United States NAD27CONUS Canada NAD27CANADA and Alaska NAD27ALASKA NADCON interpolations are almost perfect conversions but require large data files to cover the United States NADCON style conversions are not available for worldwide conversions The Molodensky equations with a set of transformation coefficients opti mized for the local area will convert from one datum to another and very closely match NADCON style approximations Molodensky Errors are typically less than 20 meters over the area of intended coefficient use All consumer and most professional GPS devices convert from WGS84 datum to NAD27 NAD83 datum using Molodensky approximations Molodensky constants are available for worldwide conversion and do not require the use of large data files However it is very important to choose Molodensky constants that are optimized for the local area When you enter a coordinate in All Topo Maps it is assumed to be a NAD27 NADCON data coordinate To enter a NAD83 coordinate add NAD83 after the coordinate value To indicate that the coordinate should be treated as a CONUS Molodensky approximation add NAD27CONUS after the coordinate The following table summarizes All Topo recognized keywords
211. nu option allows printing exporting the elevation profiles When exporting to the printer the elevation profile will fill the printer s page If exporting to the Windows Clipboard or a file it is possible to set the exported image size Elevation Tools All Topo includes a set of basic elevation tools Elevation Rank Finds the highest or lowest points in the currently viewed map area Line Of Sight Identifies and displays locations that can and can not see a base location To reach the Elevation Tools select the main menu option Tools Elev Tools 105 E L E g h p j mut E maul aH L Egi mh oot Fim E EL Fd iz i E be Elevation Database Accuracy Note WARNING The All Topo Elevation Tools exploit the elevation grid defined National Elevation Database NED digital elevation model The model includes 0 1 meter resolution elevation grid points at 1 arc second spacing continental US or 1 2 arc second spacing Alaska While the NED model is the best elevation model available with full coverage for the United States it does contain errors and may not reflect actual field conditions Specifically the grid point spacing may not be small enough to satisfy some requirements The user is responsible for determining the suitability of these tools for a specific purpose Elevation Rank Tool The elevation rank tool searches for the highest or lowest points in the currently viewed map area T
212. o Central New Mexico West New York East New York Central New York West New York Long Island North Carolina North Dakota North North Dakota South Ohio North Ohio South Oklahoma North Oklahoma South Oregon North Oregon South Pennsylvania North Pennsylvania South Rhode Island South Carolina North South Carolina South South Dakota North South Dakota South 1602 1701 1702 1703 1801 1802 1900 2001 2002 2101 2102 2103 2111 2112 2113 2201 2202 2203 2301 2302 2401 2402 2403 2501 2502 2503 2601 2602 2101 2102 2703 2800 2900 3001 3002 3003 3101 3102 3103 3104 3200 3301 3302 3401 3402 3501 3502 3601 3602 3 01 3702 3800 3901 3902 4001 4002 Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet TN TXN TXNC TXC TXSC TXS UTN UTC UTS VT VAN VAS WAN WAS WVN WVS WIN WIC WIS WYE WYEC WYWC WYW AS GU PRVI SX NAD83 State Plane Codes Default distance units for NAD83 State Plane coordinates are legislated by Tennessee Texas North Texas North Central Texas Central Texas South Central Texas South Utah North Utah Central Utah South Vermont Virginia North Virginia South Washington North Was
213. o Map Coverage To define the coverage extents for a BigTopo map you can specify The North West and South East corners e The Center coordinate and a height and width The North West corner and a height and width The South East corner and a height and width e Specify an HWP file that contains a list of coordinates you want to encompass with a programmable margin BigTopo7 will automatically figure out which quadrangles are required to fill the area you specify Once you set the map Height and Width or choose a starting corner or center you can Lock the value by placing a check in the appropriate Lock box You can anchor a map corner by clicking on the anchor box then change the Height and Width or specify another image corner As you enter subsequent coordinates the lock and anchor control BigTopo s actions The Fill Printer gj m button allows you to set the BigTopo s size to exactly fill an image size or printer s canvas BigTopo Pro will figure the size of the annotation collars and set the Width and Height to exactly fill the page Before pressing the Printer Fill button lock the corner or center coordinate you want to hold constant when the map coverage changes to fill the selected printer s page If you have purchased and installed the Pro option the hwp Fill button amw Will be available This tool will read a hwp annotation file and set map 158 Chapter 11 BigTopo coverage to cover the extent
214. o add a spur from an existing route point right click near the route point and select New Spur from then click on the next point from the spur All Topo will automatically name spurs and manage the spurs intersection with the primary route Drawing a Property Boundary All Topo calculates acreage just like a mechanical planimeter Clockwise descriptions result in positive area while counterclockwise descriptions result in negative area Choose a starting point that will conveniently allow clock wise description Right click at the starting point and select Begin New Line Move to the second point and left click Repeat at each corner After clicking on the last corner right click and select Close Current Line All Topo will add a area tag to the last point s description which will display the enclosed area if annotation descriptions are enabled Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer The fill color and style are controlled by the last point in the area description To change the area fill style and color right click near the last point select Edit then select the Line tab The PLS Magnet The PLS Magnet is only available if the optional PLS Tool is installed for the open state set The PLS Magnet combined with the Point to Point Pencil makes quick work of property boundary delineation when property boundaries are coincidence with quarter quarter section lines When the PLS Magnet tool
215. o start a new blank annotation file select Annotations New or use the shortcut key Ctrl N All Topo will prompt you if you need to save changes made to the current annotation file and request a file name and location for the new annotation file Fire hiap freid iima de ee ram mri VU ee ee By default All Topo will suggest a unique file name beginning with WP you should override the default path and file name and choose a file name that is meaningful for the project you are working on Opening Previously Used Annotation Files Use the menu option Annotation Open Annotation File to open existing annotation file All Topo keeps a list of the 10 most recently used annotation files for you to choose from using the menu option Annotation Reopen option 87 Saving Your Work Save Annotations While working with annotation files you should save the current annotation file often You can use the menu option Annotations Save Annotations or the shortcut key Ctrl S to save your annotations to the disk file currently in use Save Annotations As You can rename the current annotation file and save your work using the Annotations Save Annotations As option Backup and Restore Your annotation files represent a great deal of effort getting everything just right You can save your work often every five minutes is reasonable to a unique compressed backup file using the Annotation Bac
216. o the left of the decimal separator than there are digit placeholders to the left of the character in the format string the extra digits are output before the first digit placeholder 203 204 Format Examples The following table shows some sample formats and the results produced when the formats are applied to different values Fmt 1234 1234 0 5 0 None or 1234 1234 0 5 0 o 1234 1234 1 0 0 00 1234 00 1234 00 0 50 0 00 HHH 1234 1234 5 0 00 1 234 00 1 234 00 0 50 0 00 0 00 0 00 1 234 00 1 234 00 0 50 0 00 0 00 Zero 1 234 00 1 234 00 0 50 Zero 0 000E 0 1 234E 3 1 234E 3 000E 1 0 000E 00 AHHE O 1 234E3 234E3 5E 1 OEO Date Time Format The following codes can be used to build a date time format string to build a specialized time string c Displays the date using the format given by the Windows control panel settings ShortDateFormat global variable followed by the time using the format given by the LongTimeFormat global variable d Displays the day as a number without a leading zero 1 31 dd Displays the day as a number with a leading zero 01 31 ddd Displays the day as an abbreviation Sun Sat using the strings given by the ShortDayNames global variable dddd Displays the day as a full name Sunday Saturday using the strings given by the LongDayNames global variable ddddd Displays the date using the format given by the ShortDateFormat global variable ddddd
217. ociates digital images with track points quickly building spatially associated image databases New Point to Point Pencil tool quickly generates automatically numbered routes with spurs and closed shapes Annotations can be assigned to layers which can be enabled individually State Overview maps show where you are in a State set and allow quick selection of new maps BigTopo maps now are contained in single files It is no longer necessary to move both the it and mi files when exchanging and moving BigTopo maps BigTopo maps now include declination the AllTopo viewer can show true north to magnetic and grid declination dip at the cursor location Map Export now allows annotation and feature scaling to the intended scale of use Both TIF images with TFW world files and GeoTIF coded images can be exported in selectable datum Up to 10 coordinate Bookmarks can be placed to speed up BigTopo generation and moving among multiple maps and projects More coordinate annotation styles more line drawing styles GPS Icon and date time stamp control additional symbols and tick marks closed shapes and named annotation styles allow quick style assignment Multiple annotation editing makes style assignments easy Compressed annotation file Backup Restore makes saving your work to alternate storage locations quick and easy Project packaging speeds up Chapter 1 About All Topo Maps project exchange and remote printing All Topo fully
218. of sight coverage from two heights above a base location The Line of Sight tool has numerous applications including visibility impact studies and radio propagation coverage Paths are evaluated along Great Circle paths and include earth curvature Before running a line of sight analysis first configure each of the Line of Sight tab settings 106 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Base Coordinate Set the base coordinate to the location you want to compute coverage to The base coordinate might be the location of a cell tower To enter the coordinate set a bookmark or use Ctrl X to mark a spot on the map then click the 44 button to load a coordinate High and Low Tower Height Coverage will be computed for two elevations above ground level Elevations are assumed to be expressed in meters unless units are also included in the height 120 feet These heights might be low and high antenna heights Rover Height At each grid location All Topo evaluates line of sight between the two tower heights and the rover height above ground level The height is assumed to be expressed in meters unless units are also included in the height 6 feet The rover height might be an assumed antenna height Grid Resolution All Topo computes line of sight between the base and grid points spread over the viewed map Run a Low Resolution study first to fine tune settings Studies for huge areas at High Resolution can take a very lon
219. olodensky conversions is about I6 Feet The use of Alaskan or Canadian Molodensky approximations is inappropriate for our Wyoming sample location and results in significant errors 41 8 388 7 N 104 49 036 0 W NAD27AK Err 695 3Ft 41 8 375 2 N 104 49 028 4 W NAD27CA Err 752 4Ft NADCON interpolations give exact results over the area where the NADCON grids are available Molodensky approximations will exactly match the conversions performed by consumer and most professional GPS receivers Wrong Datum Errors It is common for coordinates to be entered using the wrong datum This typically results in significant errors Consider our sample location if we GPS the dome location with our GPS configured to display WGS84 Geographic coordinates Lat Lon we would read 41 8 24 904 N 104 49 13 086 W WGS84 If we forget the actual datum and treat this coordinate as a NAD27 coordinate 41 8 24 904 N 104 49 13 086 W NAD27 the position error is 159 9 Feet a very significant difference The capitol dome location in UTM coordinates 1s 515 129 9 M E 4 554 132 9 MN Z13 If we configure our GPS to display coordinates in WGS84 UTM coordinates then the capitol dome coordinate will be 515 101 1 M E 4 554 282 2 MN Z 13 WGS84 If we enter this coordinate in All Topo but forget to record the datum WGS84 the point will appear to be located at 515 101 1 ME 4 554 282 2 M N Z 13 NAD27 which results in an error of 498 9 Feet
220. onal BigTopo Pro tool press the Use Default PPI Scale ussssaem sess button and Use Default Fonts _ije ss su button to use the factory defaults for the new map Tour 3 Choosing Output Files and Paths Select the Output File tab push the top radio button Output BigTopo to All Topo Maps Selecting Temm apes lad aed a imag WE ML i vu OE n o ocn Dia PS finer heed Eg aue m gcc mnra pe Press the Browse amp button to choose an output filename Select Save as Type ITS All Topo Maps it5 Tee mm tmd 7 are m Lee 156 Chapter 11 BigTopo finally press Save Tour 4 Making the Big Topo Select the Build BigTopo tab Samum bmi ict P Pag ceed Linn Bgl mn ty at eee Sag aic oput uz a ie epee n i Lo N qub Ip Wr MERE I MI Hab horn DENTS pran v enm ges ee ga Donde dine BM Fors Juni 1 peris B imr c LL Far Roma End i L IE EPI EMITTE Vies somni md ium en 4 addi mom mmm D E Information about the resulting BigTopo map is displayed press the Make Big Topo button to start building the requested BigTopo map Tour 5 Previewing a BigTopo When BigTopo7 has finished building the map press the Preview P sa button on the Build BigTopo tab to view the new map cs Tiu Fem m E D DOM em After previewing the BigTopo use the menu option File Close Preview to return to the main BigTopo screen Finally cl
221. oordinate 1n the Location field of the Details tab NITL ILLEU TP Lime m Ja Lie E LL eR red RR om Lorem TY II ra Projecting New Annotations You can easily enter a new annotation at an offset from any place or an existing annotation using the Project New Annotation tool To use the tool place the Bombsight or Drag Hand cursor near an existing annotation or at the point you want to project from then right mouse click and choose Project New Annotation then From Annotation or From Cursor The Project New Annotation tool will be shown Lira 1 Flew Barfa ini Peg LacLos ies Post Pa E FATE TT a E r Drin 65 Eli UM Peco Figs lta ET NIE RI a The base location click point or base annotation will be shown in the Project From field Choose the projection Great Circle UTM or State Plane you want the offset computed in Enter the distance distance units bearing and North reference True North Magnetic North UTM Grid North or State Plane North As each value is entered the To field will reflect the new annotation location When all the input fields are correct press the Add WP button to add a new annotation at the projected location then edit the new annotation s properties All Topo will automatically add the base point offset and bearing information to the Notes field of the new annotation You can delete the information if you don t need it Chapter 6 Using th
222. or the color that fills the box behind the text by placing an underscore before the color name lt F Blue White blue text white background lt F Color20000ff Color ffffff gt same Font Name The Font Name may be any available font it must be enclosed in quotes and must be spelled correctly If you share your waypoint files with others use fonts which are widely available the operating system will substitute fonts freely if it does not have the correct face F Tahoma gt Font Style These keywords are accepted for font styles Bold Italic Underlined Normal You can specify multiple style keywords within a command NORM or NORMAL will clear Bold Italic and Underlined For example lt F Bold gt 41 38 54 2 N 113 6 46 1 W Bold lt F Italic gt 41 38 50 3 N 113 6 45 7 W Bold Italic lt F Underlined gt 41 38 47 1 N 113 6 45 4 W Bold Italic Underlined lt F Normal gt 41 38 44 0 N 113 6 44 9 W Normal will generate Hil i Le ee ee l E Er Text Position The text position around the coordinate location may be specified in a lt Font gt tag by including a position indicator Center North NorthEast East SouthEast South SouthWest West NorthWest or abbreviated C N NE E SE S SW W NW 219 The input 41 38 51 01 N 113 5 1 04 W center lt F C 41 38 55 70 N 113 5 1 19 W north lt F n 41 38 51 05 N 113 4 51 81 W east F e 41 38 45 82 N 113 5 1 03 W south F s 41 38
223. or then right click at the first point Choose Point to Point Distance From Cursor then move the cursor to the second point right click and choose Point to Point Distance To Cursor ES lL Pena Vi IM ot La Lm mmm Fem TU FOR hd ae ladUENHIE m rds E wA mE Dini prim Di Hae 1 iis rE nam ume a i ETT i ua iTe p Fan SRE Dae ea ta ee 195 ee UN 71 Peewee 58 ibis ETE Dai ee ALl Ba Fip erir aT kiiy Fem Se PEERS bi ls AIMA A a oe Gage Cz dI Sa RADI Rye ONE rm f Cina You can use the Point to Point Distance tool to measure the distance and bearing between two annotations by selecting Point to Point Distance From To Annotation If the Show checkbox is checked All Topo will show the projection line with green and red annotations at the line s endpoints Annotating Maps All Topo has a rich selection of annotations that can be placed at georeferenced locations There are four primary annotation types Point Annotation A single point waypoint at a geographic coordinate Line Connected Annotations Ordered set of point annotations sometimes called a route or track Closed Line Connected Areas A closed ordered set of point annota tions that describe an area Point Annotations with Trace Useful for describing an arbitrary path from a point Annotations are applied on top of base maps and are contained in annotation text files Annotations are never permanently added to the base maps they a
224. ordinate styles precision distance and area units and north reference defaults Primary Coordinate Display Options The Primary Coordinate Display Options button sets the coordinate style for the first coordinate display s i i iaia ru ges dum uer pt ee edm m mErpNHEIUDETMRUTERNH U Dem ee ee Ba NTE HEPALTITITRAET ihe BEC la E bj Lau Se I a EUH te PSL rine eo ac eer Pee ee er ae ee e m rts rr he La b Lon imie Lamar TOP TP JGET Se a i s S Lalor See a eee Coe ire oe Cu mr iumirnuurgEunmir y LE STIFA Me eee eee ee a HFE OES ee ey eee PP eee eT eee amEmrignmru ss eee F Corea apa hasa TOY C spon eke bo Teg my aed rd Lain Londra Lr D a iF a umen wu 11 You can quickly change the primary coordinate style by double clicking within the primary coordinate display box or pressing the shortcut key F3 Each of the coordinate styles Lat Lon UTM MGRS SPC and PLS are discussed in Appendix A of this manual Secondary Coordinate Display Options The Secondary Coordinate Display Options sets the coordinate style for the second coordinate display You can quickly change the secondary coordinate style by double clicking within the secondary coordinate display box or by pressing the shortcut key Shift F3 Editing the Secondary Coordinate Display Options will automatically enable the secondary coordinate display 108 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer System Angle and Projection Defaults
225. ose BigTopo7 by selecting the File Exit menu option Tour 6 Opening a BigTopo in the All Topo Maps Viewer After closing BigTopo7 select the viewer s main menu selection File Open BigTopo EM an seem games m GE er ear er ae ee Bu CE E Er BREEN The Open BigTopo Map dialog will be shown highlight the BigTopo map you just made then press the Open button The new map will be loaded and displayed 157 Big Topo7 Menu Details The Main Menu lepram Eon nen ger I mi bind inis ELI E MI lids Ib URP biis ga ee m ee A Pu e p w EAEE UETA ETE i i Lc 7 Lam Londen uml TE 2 7 mol prar o TUT SR EP iamladCmu drum 5 o 5 8 E u NT EF T Tj T L i Em ce Oe en Pus en ruine Lo BigTopo Pro s Main Menu has A thumbnail map showing the size ratio in green and the annotation collars in white A Define BigTopo Coverage section for specifying the extents of the output map e Tab cards containing Settings Annotations Output File Build BigTopo and the Activity Log BigTopo7 initializes with the same configuration you last used You can recall and save the current configuration using the File Menu options Open Configuration and Save Configuration GE tear insasi rsd i E Es Lipi m The top section of the BigTopo application allows you to specify the output BigTopo s map coverage Defining BigTop
226. ota South Ohio North Ohio South Oklahoma North Oklahoma South Oregon North Oregon South Pennsylvania North Pennsylvania South Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota North South Dakota South Tennessee Texas North Texas North Central Texas Central Texas South Central Texas South Utah North Utah Central Utah South Vermont Virginia North Virginia South Washington North Washington South West Virginia North West Virginia South Wisconsin North Wisconsin Central Wisconsin South Wyoming East Wyoming East Central Wyoming West Central Wyoming West PuertoRico Virgin Island American Somoa Guam Appendix B State Plane Codes 2402 2403 2500 2600 2701 2702 2703 2800 2900 3001 3002 3003 3101 3102 3103 3104 3200 3301 3302 3401 3402 3501 3502 3601 3602 3701 3702 3800 3900 4001 4002 4100 4201 4202 4203 4204 4205 4301 4302 4303 4400 4501 4502 4601 4602 4701 4702 4801 4802 4803 4901 4902 4903 4904 5201 5300 5400 Survey Feet Survey Feet Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Feet Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Feet Peet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Feet Feet Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet S
227. ou copy the map data from your distribution CD s to a fixed 110 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer drive this cache is not used The L2 Cache holds decompressed maps If you have sufficient fixed disk drive space a setting of 200 megabytes or higher is recommended Press the Empty L1 Cache or Empty L2 Cache buttons to clear the contents from the cache folders The Both button clears both cache folders Installing Maps on Fixed Drives The viewer and BigTopo expect to find map data on the distribution CDs which you put in your CDROM drive You can also copy the source maps from the CDs to a fixed disk location Press the Change Source Path button then browse for the location where you want to install maps Typically maps are stored in folders named with the state set name abbreviation imame Aa Go cue gm gc em meclg a MGE num a fff fF PF NJ IDDSDDDDDDUEC If the destination folder does not already exist you can browse for the root location then press OK and manually append the desired path All Topo V7 can assist in the installation of map data sources to fixed drive locations To copy maps from the distribution disks first click on the grid to the right of the map set you want to copy from and enter or browse for the correct map data path Once a path is entered and selected insert the first CD ROM from the corresponding state set in a CD ROM drive select the appropriate drive in the Co
228. ou specify any units other than Meters Feet or SFeet you are undoubtedly making a mistake SPC Datum The AII Topo engine assumes that all State Plane coordinates are NAD27 unless the NAD83 datum code is found with the coordinate Each of the following coordinates describe the same location Wyoming State Capitol 595 562 0 Ft E 172 734 5 Ft NWYE 751 583 0 Ft E 233 446 4 Ft N WYE NAD83 751 581 5 SFt E 233 445 9 SFt N WYE NAD83 229 082 5 M E 71 154 5 M N WYE NAD83 Pronouncing a State Plane Coordinate 229 082 5 ME 71 154 5 MN WYE NADS 3 is pronounced Two hundred twenty nine thousand eight two point five meters east seventy one thousand one hundred fifty four point five meters north Wyoming East zone nad eighty three Public Land Survey Coordinates All Topo Map s PLS Tool Sets are available for selected states with optional PLS Tool products Without a valid installation of the appropriate PLS Tool the PLS functions and coordinates are not available PLS Tool products add huge databases of 4 Section corner locations Most of the PLS tools require an additional 50 to 150 megabytes of disk space for installation PLS Data Disclaimer The Public Land Survey coordinates shown and exported from the product are not a part of the legal land record The information is generated from coordinates which have no legal status for location or boundary description These coordinates are not final and are subject to cha
229. p moss bem ea riei era te tI a c JB D wb E Gui pum MD d CE Pe E see ee onum emn m F LE Lam L5 bi mom ma Lo sd Press the Convert Calls button Deed Plotter will convert the text description to a series of Calls Eo B 1 Ly q RI HS hal nee PDA ELTE Se LE EN git ii pe P3148 2 mE ITE DR ml iP LENA 1E While directly reading description text files is useful for checking descriptions for errors typically users would quickly enter a series of calls as shown above Finally press F2 to display an outline of the property To overlay this lot on a topographic map first save the deed description file press the esc Escape key twice then use the main menu option File Save As option to choose an appropriate filename for the description Finally press F2 to draw the map then choose the Map Save as dxf option to save the property boundary as a drawing exchange file 2 gini Clic Di Lini w Luz Totum ans Form Eum Lun Lab Sperm chap ania beue Urs and Carm Prg Tow jn emm iras er Tom far re LX ir TIT Fo d Tor rap ip cu al mm CE ce mpm mmn 139 Start the All Topo Maps viewer and navigate to the map that contains the Point of Beginning POB for the description Since we have a public land survey description East quarter corner Section 23 Township 6 North Range 1 East Salt Lake PM we can use the Search by Coordinate Location tool to specify the exact location we
230. p If you have more than one state set it may be necessary to also specify the state set that contains the map C AllTopo Bin7 All Topo UT Clay Basin Specify Initial Annotation File Add a quote delimited filename and path to force the viewer to load a specific initial annotation file C AllTopo Bin7 All Topo c All Topo User well24 hwp will load the well24 hwp annotation file Programmer s API The Programmer s API is a very advanced topic Only experienced Windows programmers need this capability and will benefit by reading the following section Factory support for the Programmer s API is not included in the purchase price of All Topo Maps All Topo Maps has a powerful programmer s API Application Program Interface Any remote process can attach to a shared memory block and retrieve All Topo runtime information or control the All Topo viewer Shared Memory Structures All Topo s ATM_API_rec contains the geographic coordinates of the current All Topo map cursor position as both UTM and Lat Lon coordinates The name and path of the map file annotation file are continuously updated as is the current map image scale and a short list of the last trapped keypresses by the user Currently only the A and S keys are trapped The 11 176 byte ATM_API_rec record is attached created by the windows API CreateFileMapping SFFFFFFFF nil PAGE READWRITE 0 Sizeof ATM API rec AllTopoMaps API IPC Block
231. p support Don t divulge your serial number to others Program updates special promotions and support are offered only once per customer as metered by your serial number Other individuals using your serial number will prevent you from obtaining the updated tools and support that you deserve Installing All Topo Maps A variety of installation scenarios are supported to provide compatibility with previous map sets New Installation Upgrade Previous Versions V6 to V7 upgrade Adding Additional V7 State Sets Adding Additional V6 State Sets Installation is the same for all scenarios run the installation disk from each product once allowing the installer to install each product into the same base location typically C XAIITopoV Chapter 5 Support Installation Serial Numbers The installation tool for each AllTopo product automatically keeps the latest program and data revisions for your installation You can install products in any order Installation All Topo Map products are installed from dedicated installation disks or the first data disk in each set It is never necessary to install data disks numbered 2 or higher To run the installation program 1 Start turn on your computer 2 After your computer has started place the installation disk into the CD ROM drive 3 Wait for the installation program to automatically start If the installation program does not start Click Start on the Start menu b
232. point Annotation on the Map Put the cursor at the spot on the map and press F2 or right mouse click select Add New Annotation Move an Existing Waypoint Annotation Move the mouse cursor near the annotation to move right click select Move Annotation move the cursor to the new location and left click Delete an Existing Waypoint Annotation Move the mouse cursor near the annotation to delete right click select Delete Annotation Shortcut Keys Arrow keys move around the map image quickly shift arrow keys move slowly PageUp keys moves the helicopter up 10 zooms out PageDown key moves the helicopter down 10 zooms in hold the shift key down to move in 1 increments Fl Context sensitive help F2 Add a new waypoint annotation at the current cursor position Shift F2 Edit the waypoint annotation nearest the cursor F3 Configure the format of the primary cursor coordinate display Shift F3 Configure the format of the secondary cursor coordinate F4 Change the Measurement Spike units F5 F6 Ctrl F6 F7 F8 F9 Alt G N D T Ctrl N Ctrl O Ctrl A Ctrl S Ctrl Shift S F11 Ctrl G Ctrl Shift B Ctrl B Ctrl P Ctrl C Ctrl X Ctrl Z Ctrl M Ctrl K 1 2 3 4 9 0 Alt Y Ctrl Q Alt Q Alt R Alt 0 Alt 1 and Home Feet Yards Meters Miles Survey Feet Rods Perch Poles Chains Links Varas Nautical Miles Zero the bombsight cursor traced distance and area Set the Measurement Sp
233. ppe e ee EE p 07 te a IT FIN Top inate T Allows pre V7 16 character serial numbers to be entered Subscription Check Checks the status of the currently selected product serial number A valid internet connection is required Backup Restore Serial Numbers to File You can backup all of your V7 All Topo Map product serial numbers to a file which can be used to restore the serial numbers as a group to the same machine or a new machine A valid internet connection is required This option is very useful if you intend to reload the operating system on your computer or you plan to move your All Topo installation to a new computer To backup all your All Topo serial numbers insure you have an internet connection then select the menu option Options Backup SN s to File The License Manager will request a filename and path to store the license file to Placing the file on a floppy disk will allow easy transfer to a new machine and protection against fixed disk failure and formatting To restore the serial numbers select the Options Restore SN s from File menu option and follow the on screen instructions Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer This chapter describes the operation of the All Topo Map Viewer Starting All Topo Maps When you install All Topo Maps a shortcut icon is placed on your desktop Nam Double click on the All Topo7 icon to st
234. py map data from CD and press the Copy button The maps will be copied to the selected disk path elevation files if present will be copied to the correct NED folder location configured on the Elevation tab Repeat the copy process for each of the map set s data disks Updates Tab Dem lea EA md Hp Meer Loc wae m Liria bap Longer anm n m u n ES INIOI M Meno em 2 0C rim rms a ca a 73 perta eT Uu H UE orecd api pam in railed RAPS cua gne cmm mimm es for enir Ham Lee genus Horus ac Lau as LEM Le di opel prece pato ear al spo 0e peusasme mr iiir Em ram L7 na b cm nm d Ohm amd d Cegae dee ee a a Tub Fes m d rm Fre Pon 1 Bebe m qued jen m Be um up pae cem oe m gm um vem o m m bp ee Fe i If you have installed a valid Map Update Subscription then it is possible to acquire updated topographic maps directly from the All Topo internet server 111 Base Location for Updated Maps As updated maps are downloaded from the internet they are stored under this base folder You can modify the Base Location for Updated Map Components if you need to optimize disk usage Internet Options for Reaching the Update Server Your computer needs to be able to communicate with the All Topo server The default web address of the map update server is maps alltopo com If you are unable to reach this server the All Topo factory may be able to provide either a fixed IP address or an altern
235. r 515129 86 E 4554132 93 N Zone 13N All Topo assumes all UTM Zones are North unless the Zone number is followed by an S or the Zone number is less than zero 515129 86 E 4554132 93 N Zone 13 UTM Units It is customary to use Meters with UTM coordinates however All Topo will accept any standard distance unit overrides Feet Yards Miles SFeet Rods Chains Links Varas NMiles Meters Feet and Survey Feet UTM coordinates are usually expressed in meters north of the equator and meters east of the false easting point to the west of the UTM Zone Unless you specify another distance unit All Topo Maps will always assume that UTM coordinates are expressed in Meters Occasionally you may find an application that uses UTM coordinates expressed in feet Be careful You need to know if the units are FEET or SURVEY FEET What is a Survey Foot There are two definitions for 1 foot The common definition of a foot is called an International Foot 12 0 inches 0 0254 meters inch 0 304 800 000 0 feet Meter The second definition has roots in early survey methods and is called a Survey Foot 1200 0 3937 0 0 304 800 609 6 sfeet Meter As you can see the difference between feet and survey feet is not very much about 1 foot in 1 64 million feet Since UTM coordinates include the distance from the Equator to the coordi nate as the Northing value the small difference is important For the Wyoming state Capitol dome 1 690 058 6 Ft E
236. r 2 The black neat line 3 separates the map collar from the map Typically the neat line is drawn orthogonal to latitude and longitude projection That means the longitude along the right and left neat lines is constant and the latitude along the top and bottom neat lines is constant e omami 4s ers bH EF E T ox HADI HAL Corner coordinates describe the Lat Lon coordinates of the spot where two neat line intersections meet Many maps include supplementary corner ticks indicating the corner location in an alternate datum The coordinates are expressed in the datum listed in the map collar Maic by fe eed eo Geo 5onem fa ed a LAE dead Be et LU rg ome ee ee eT ip CE ce ee fa Pes ro Pees bean rt es LTD Lo saa os 4 pm mE mie rme lJ EE hi Ee Sg Lee ee EU bg hub eR PI ee Lua CLIE eee Ven maa NH QUEE GU bumana ELE rub Pun sUREUEG cmt E humsquao dorum ee ee ae eg a l e picBECAV DR 3 DSFUACECHEESUEM CT OE F7 ee SCENE mra riia eo ee PSO ee ee Loir tH ee PERRO Ey ee ee In the example above the primary neat line intersections are NAD27 datum the secondary ticks right and just above the primary corner are NAD83 datum Map Names Map names are printed on the top right and bottom right corners of most maps DETARE RORTH QRUADHAPLAE a EL North East Corner Bi ipaa ONN if ae w How South East Corner x oo The top right corner includes the map name the state and county covered by the
237. r 1 About All Topo Maps Chapter 1 About All Topo Maps Pro This chapter includes the following topics Welcome to All Topo Maps What Are All Topo Maps What s New in All Topo Maps Pro Version 7 Welcome to All Topo Maps Welcome to the User s Manual for Version 7 of the All Topo Map Profes sional toolset Like All Topo s predecessors Version 7 Pro provides reasonable cost high quality topographic maps with simple to use tools to enhance your geographic projects Years of intense customer contributions have resulted in a unique tool that builds interprets annotates prints and exports beautiful maps for personal or business use All Topo Maps Optional Components This manual describes features that are not available in all installations Light text indicates that an optional feature is being described Specifically A State specific PLS Tool is required to access the Township Range Section capabilities of All Topo Maps The Deed Plotter Interchange Option is required to exchange files with Deed Plotter A V7 Professional Extensions license is required to access some professional extensions A BigTopo Pro license is required to access some features of the professional map seaming tool Map updates are available by paid subscription Contact your All Topo Map dealer or Igage Mapping Corporation for assistance in purchasing these extensions What is All Topo Maps Topographic maps are grap
238. r GPS Clear any track points from your GPS and enable track recording 3 Select the display page on your GPS that shows date and time You don t need to set the clock on your camera Take a picture of the GPS that shows the GPS date and time This picture will be used to correlate the GPS time with your camera s time Don t change the camera s clock after you take the picture of the GPS s time screen 4 Now travel with your GPS turned on recording track points Take pictures at your leisure It is not necessary to connect your GPS to your camera or computer Make sure the GPS is carried nearby the camera and that the GPS has a clear view of the sky 5 When you are done taking pictures turn off the GPS or disable track 121 point logging to insure that the GPS buffer does not wrap Automatically Attaching Pictures to the Track Download all of the pictures from your camera to a new folder on your computer see the instructions for your digital camera then use the All Topo GPS Tool to download the GPS track to the same folder Get Trackpoints from GPS 1 Start the GPS Tool configure GPS on Settings tab if needed mi Velas cm DET JE csi e um aj OST Ea S ramp are T oer te ls ntum Da or rF F ham vemm uem A ERE Bc remm ee 2 Load Coordinates from GPS Receiver anaie Lia pet Jaig Ha Ten an brand Lasers Fein Se paire Tl G GPS Baca 3 Load Coordinates from GPS Track Log
239. r screen When used with the Alt 0 shortcut key view entire map the zoom tool will allow you to quickly view any area on a map Press the Control key to change the Zoom cursor to the Drag Hand cursor Press the Shift key to change the Zoom cursor to the Bombsight cursor The right click menu is not available from the Zoom cursor Pencil Tool The pencil tool draws freehand lines on the map use the Point to Point Pencil tool 4 amp to draw accurate boundaries and routes To use the pencil tool first select the Pencil cursor by pressing its icon on the toolbar or by pressing the shortcut key P Choose the pencil s color and width attributes from the main menu option Annotations Pencil Attributes Move the pencil to the spot where you want to begin drawing press and hold the left mouse button and move the pencil over the map You can reposition the map while you are drawing Press the Shift key with the mouse still down 2 Pull the map to a new location 3 Release the Shift key and continue drawing When you release the left mouse button the viewer will ask if you want to annotate the trace with the total traced distance If the trace describes a closed area you will also have the option of including the enclosed area in the annotation To delete a trace and remove it from the screen find its insertion point where 65 you started drawing Place the cursor next to the insertion point right click and select
240. r with the map information text This text block includes the map s annotation datum and a list of maps used to create the map Show Declination Checking the Show Declination box will add a declination graphic left of the map scale Declination is computed using the World Magnetic Model for the center of the map sheet for January Ist of the current year Lat Lon in Corners Check the LL in Corners box to include the latitude and longitude outside the neat lines at the four corners of the map 161 Rotate E W Labels a ae zi mm Figure 10 2 Rotated E W Labels and Un rotated E W Labels BigTopoPro the UTM latitude and longitude labels along the left and right edges of the map take a great deal of space Check the Rotate E W Labels box to rotate these text annotations 90 degrees so they require less margin space This leaves more space inside the neat line for map coverage Nominal Final Print Scale BigTopo Maps are always generated with the full resolution available from the base maps Each base map scale 1 24 000 1 100 000 1 250 000 has a scanned resolution If you print a BigTopo at the scanned resolution it will have the same map scale as the original printed map Often a map is printed and used at a scale other than its nominal magnifica tion All Topo Maps 1 24 000 scale maps are typically scanned at 160 PPI if you print them at 200 PPI then the resulting printed map scale will be 1 30 000 scale or 2
241. ration Blue Bell Pennsylvania If the file ATMDeCmp DLL is 59 392 bytes in length then this product is free of Unisys claims as licensed under said patents Maps included in the All Topo Map set are derived from maps produced by the United States Geological Survey and the United States Forest Service All Topo Maps License and Warranty the fine print The software product accompanying this manual is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties The software product is licensed not sold Igage Mapping Corporation is willing to license the software to you as the individual the company or the legal entity that will utilize the software referenced below as USER YOU or YOUR only on the condition that you accept all of the terms of this license agreement By opening the package breaking the seal loading the software or clicking on the AGREE or YES button you agree to the terms and conditions of the agreement If you do not agree to these terms and conditions make no further use of the software and return the full product with proof of purchase to the dealer from whom it was acquired within sixty 60 day of purchase and your money will be refunded 1 Precision Measurements and Use USER AGREES NOT TO USE THIS PRODUCT FOR ANY APPLICATION REQUIRING PRECISION MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCE DIRECTION OR POSITION SPECIFICALLY THIS PRODUCT SHALL NOT BE USED F
242. rd File or GIS BV Bp Pores D pm jesct gee pues pee Ima uen zw bb rej 0 ree Fem rt cee i om ee eee ee eed s uH ED LECHCT Lr a M e t CF dii puc e m es srs sd I i Fi E hepar eee EL Wij san B ee cm dot ar Fr agi PU er m dey Fi c E oe gen eee ee Dni Fy EF or ae eee ices m 125 4 The Export Wizard will be displayed Cee F ee a Beer na ur asma og le fa C DDE psal s 4 Goa image Oi LER LE E Lud Fu mpi rE PETN Trgu T taps g ni ija oF corres Frum me o m orem mst ere lee m mw b PE CHU meina TS eee i 1 umi naga Taa LH tow Bra Lope Exprrismd Eana Diem Sh m F TL imrhmh 2 44 m D EE pisila PEs LL LPL EPTER LE eee Choose e 1 Export just the Viewed map e 2 To a Generic Image File e Press the lt button to the right of the filename and choose an appropri ate path and filename Insure that the filename extension is TIF Check the Write a description of map image to checkbox Check the Write a Worldfile checkbox Check the Add GeoTIF information to TIF image file Choose an appropriate export datum typically NAD27 or NAD83 Uncheck the Compress output file if possible checkbox e Uncheck the 3 Resample Output Image checkbox Click the Use Default PPI Scale Click the Force 8 bit Output checkbox to minimize the output filesize Finally press the Export button to write th
243. real time clock To display the Declination Dip values check the main menu option View Display Declination Once displayed use the drop arrow to select declination or dip from one of several formats s Hut feme Ape P nar Ta B ps y rj Tag Description TN MN True North to Magnetic North Declination in Degrees TN MN True North to Magnetic North Declination in Mills TN GN True North to UTM Grid North Declination in Degrees Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer TN GN True North to UTM Grid North Declination in Mills TN SP True North to State Plane North Declination in Degrees TN SP True North to State Plane North Declination in Mills DIP Compass Dip in Degrees UTM grid declination is computed using the zone selected for the Primary Coordinate Display State Plane declination is computed using the State Plane Zone and Datum selected for the Primary Coordinate Display Map Revision Selection The All Topo viewer tracks multiple revisions of each quadrangle The Map Revision button displays the number of maps that are available for the currently viewed quadrangle Press the Map Revision Selection button ps to display a list of available maps Mui evita eet Tui s HEB A ee Le THe ee Choose the map you want to view then double click on it to load and display the map Updated maps are available on regional update disks and by web subscription If you have a valid subscription and an
244. reference point at the intersection of an imaginary line drawn from the North Pole to South Pole through Green wich England and the equator Latitude measures the angle from a coordinate to the equator Latitude varies from 90 degrees the South Pole to 90 degrees the North Pole Longitude measures the angle from the line drawn through Greenwich England to the equator around the circumference of the earth By convention we describe points West of Greenwich as a negative angle from 0 to 180 degrees and points East of Greenwich as positive angles from 0 to 180 degrees All Topo supports three styles of angular measurements Style Name Code Written Decimal Degrees D d 41 140 28 N 104 819 72 W Degrees Decimal Minutes DM m 41 8 417 N 104 49 183 W Degrees Minutes Decimal Seconds DMS s 41 8 25 N 104 49 11 W Every geographic coordinate includes both latitude and longitude All Topo requires that both use the same style the expression 41 8 417 N 104 819 72 W is not acceptable Converting between DMS s DM m and D d Styles It is fairly simple to convert between the three different styles of geographic coordinates The concept is the same as telling time 1 hours 1 hour and 30 minutes 60 minutes 30 minutes 90 minutes Since a minute is 1 60th of a degree and a second is 1 60th of a minute or 1 3600th of a degree we can easily convert between coordinate styles Convert a DMS s to DM m A1 3 25
245. ro you can choose the grid font and color with the UTM Label Font and color picker buttons Pressing the Use Default Fonts button sets the text to Arial 10pt black text 160 Chapter 11 BigTopo Overlay Lat Lon Grid on BigTopo Check to include Latitude Longitude grid on the generated map The Lat Lon grid is drawn with a dashed blue white line and the Lat Lon grid values are placed around all four sides of the map BigTopo sets Lat Lon grids to 1 minute spacing for 1 24 000 and 1 63 360 scale maps and 6 minute spacing for 1 100 000 and 1 250 000 scale maps Note that the Lat Lon grid will not be orthogonal with the map borders BigTopoPro checking the Use Fine Grids box will double the grid spacing You can choose the grid font and color with the Lat Lon Label Font and color picker buttons Pressing the Use Default Fonts button sets the text to Arial 10pt blue text Include a Map Scale E T Check this box to include a map scale at the bottom of the image The image file Bin7 BTLogo BMP is added to the right of the Map Scale a default image file with the BigTopo logo provided You can replace this image file with your company logo to customize your BigTopo maps BigTopoPro choose the map scale font style and color with the Scale Font and color picker buttons Pressing the Use Default Fonts button sets the text to Arial 10pt black text The Scale Font is also used to annotate the lower left map corne
246. rom geographic coordinates to PLS coordi nates and from PLS coordinates to geographic coordinates Finding a map by Township Range Section e Automatically annotating sections half sections 1 4 sections and 4 4 sections on maps e Enable the PLS Magnet for use with the point to point route tool What Is the Public Land Survey System In 1796 the United States Congress enacted a method of dividing public domain lands into theoretical six mile square units known as Congressional Townships Townships are based from a central set of orthogonal axis the North South axis is called the Principle Meridian the East West axis is called the Base Line Townships are consecutively numbered to the North and South and Ranges are numbered from East to West Each Township is divided into a six by six grid of 1 mile squares called Sections Sections are numbered in a serpentine fashion from the North East corner of the township If perfect each Section would encompass 640 acres Sections are additionally divided in to 160 acre quarters and then into 40 acre quarter quarters Further division into quarter quarter quarter Section 10 acre parcels and beyond is also common Since the meridians and base lines are not truly parallel no townships are perfectly square Where Townships meet there can be significant errors Early surveying errors added additional imperfections In spite of all the errors the Public Land Surve
247. rray of programmable default symbols and over 700 standard graphic symbols In addition any 16 bit or 256 bit windows bitmap graphic image can be displayed as a symbol over a coordinate location with an opaque or clear background These arguments may be included in Symbol tags Default selects User defaults for symbol Marker Dot Type Symbol Type 222 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP BrushStyle Foreground and background colors X and Y un rotated symbol dimensions L symbol length in Meters Miles or Feet W Line Widths for symbol drawings R Rotation angle for symbols in compass degrees M Minimum marker size Default User Selection lt S default gt will set all text attributes to the user s defaults defined by the menu option Options System Options System tab User settings Within an annota tion file use the lt SetDef gt tag to store the current annotation settings as the default user style Dot Type For each symbol style including None a small marker dot is placed at the annotation coordinate Supported dot types are Dot Type Argument No Dot Type NoDot may also be set with M 0 Dot Dot Small Cross DotX1 Medium Cross DotX2 Large Cross DotX3 Symbol Type The arguments to set the symbol types are listed below None lt S None Line or Arrow Symbol Line Y 0 1 mi R 45 gt Triangle Symbol Tri Y 0 1 mi R 45 gt zm Circle Symbol Circle X 0 1 mile brcross gt
248. rrors Always consult the advice of a Licensed Professional Surveyor for advice on the suitability of All Topo Maps and Deed Plotter for a particular purpose Obtaining Deed Plotter Support Hopefully you will find the support associates at Image Mapping Corporation knowledgeable about the All Topo Map s viewer and linking a Deed Plotter DXF interchange survey file to a coordinate as an annotation If you have a survey question or a Deed Plotter issue check the Johnson Mapping web site Johnson Mapping also provides excellent hands on Deed Plotter seminars offering professional continuing education credits www johnsonmapping com Johnson Mapping s Frequently Asked Questions section is continuously updated and has great hints and examples on Deed Plotter s operation Placing a Deed Plotter Property Description in All Topo Maps Start Deed Plotter by double clicking on its desktop icon a B Deed Plotter will start select the File Open option to specify the file that holds the description we want to evaluate ee i a a Find the document containing the survey description highlight the file and press Open meee OEE jam oai i 5 mia s FL Chapter 8 Using Deed Plotter Deed Descriptions Deed Plotter will display the survey description press the Test button to highlight significant elements ars el ar LIIS TE e apj Dibia i T D i aj be E M ew E mia ool ee Bake Em m L
249. s decompressed copies of the most recently used elevation files in memory to speed up elevation display The decompressed elevation grids are quite large however there is a significant performance boost to having multiple files cached The default setting of 7 files should be adequate for most projects Map Data Tab i berip ies eo e e Lees pem eiriad DD pja lsa a chem ee a l a L a AAR I LN II Lace lemi l Cache 14 uu ura SLXROHE Laegi 2 Lucha Tanga rum Map oem mo ale Fe Tz Tine i om amen Pot Lo E amncRCHE He Mie Die Mc Bas nai cai a DI LIC te Pei n Dow a chat es OP a PII T Fea Cas T e em Do P zl The configuration options on the Map Data tab control where and how the AII Topo viewer and BigTopo look for source maps CD ROM Drives to Use All Topo will look for map data files on each CD ROM drive checked in the CD ROM Drives To Use box If you have multiple CD ROM drives you can use multiple All Topo data disks at the same time by checking the appropriate drive boxes in the list Map Cache Size Empty All Topo V7 keeps copies of the last maps that you have viewed in local drive caches The L1 Cache holds compressed maps copied from CD ROM drives A larger cache will greatly reduce the time required to display new maps that have been recently viewed The default L1 cache size is 20 megabytes if you have sufficient disk space a value of 500 megabytes or more will speed up map access If y
250. s defined by the file plus a definable margin The main menu also has five tabs at the middle of the screen re darmi b Fhe Roig opm ie Lg Each tab selects a page with additional configuration settings and information Settings Selects base map scale displayed units and coordinate style exported map datum for generic images UTM Zone forcing and color matching Annotations Enables a collar border around the generated map configures collar annotations Output File Selects the type file and path for the generated map Maps for use with the All Topo viewer generic images and GeoTIF images can be directly built Build BigTopo Displays the physical dimensions of the generated map builds and previews the defined BigTopo map Activity Log Shows system configuration settings and the current operation during the BigTopo build process The Settings Tab Terg dcmum Gapi Pn Bed ag wen ome mm i c gim E 34088 UEM EB 1 i dia a eM od itm En ai EE Tai Tur i Hn We bi m lemen Li in MET sum aa wie leet ri Lori mud LLL nbi amm a Lt alm lm iain fom Lor hiari Jb am Hisa inbgeiesr li Use the Settings tab to control e The map scale used for source maps e Distance Units map Height and Width units Feet Yards Meters Miles e Coordinate Style used for corner and center location Not all map sets have every available map scale 1 63 360 scale maps are found only in Alaska If you are using the standard ed
251. s distributed in a separate installation file SetupQSC exe on the installation disk Once installed the converter can be run from the Windows start menu start All Programs All Topo Maps V7 Tools SHP2QSC HANS tole Sees eee ee F SALL A ee AN AAD Danial minam HADD TI u ee A BAT HADC ZR Diari lac agam hi Di dmi ou Aye DDR P 73 17 BIO HALCIN Dee bee nomen DL Dh dagli eT DEF pae haps Coreen p 71 Lee It is best to gather all the shape files you want to convert into a single folder The converter can combine multiple shape files into a single quick shape file To start a conversion select File Convert SHP File select one or more input files then choose an appropriate output file and path By default QSF files are kept in a folder with the same name as the state set they pertain to under the QSF folder in the All Topo directory For example 116 Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer all Wyoming set quick shape files are kept in the CAII Topo QSF WY folder The converter will request the input coordinate style Zone and Datum for each input file once the Coordinate Style is selected press OK to begin the conversion Modifying Map Colors The All Topo viewer can selectively change each color in a map If your map set has elevation data included or you have installed optional elevation data products the viewer can perform beautiful 24 bit hill shading and false elevation coloring Chang
252. s the treatment of the image background lt S Image gt treats the color of the bottom left image pixel as a transparent color the map image will be visible behind this color S Pic 2 displays the image as designed with no transparency BrushStyle Use the Brush Styles to change the Square Circle and Ellipse fills from solid to clear or patterned Your print driver may not properly support the hatched fills The filled shapes will display correctly on your screen but will be color filled when printed Images exported to the clipboard will be properly hatched The following brush styles are available Solid default Symbol Circle brSolid X20 2 mi gt Clear Symbol Circle brClear X20 2 mi gt r 1 L Pa Ri 225 Cross lt Symbol Circle BRDCross X 0 2 mi gt Diagonal Cross Backward Diagonal Forward Diagonal Symbol Circle BRFDiag X 0 2 mi gt Horizontal Lines rmi Vertical Lines Symbol Circle BRVer X 0 2 mi leat a Li E i m s Li dA Bi Foreground and background colors The foreground color is used to render the symbol while the background color is used to fill the symbol The standard All Topo colors may be specified Aqua Black Blue Dkgreen Fuchia Gray Green Limegreen Ltgray Maroon Navy Olive Purple Red Silver Teal White Yellow Or custom colors may be specified using a color Oxrrggbb argument _color rrggbb where rr is the hex represen
253. saving it Using Big Topos in GIS and CAD Applications Export Specifications Maps built with BigTopo are UTM projected NAD27 or NAD83 datum NAD27 without Pro Option TFW world files are always written with Meter units The UTM Zone is listed in the accompanying TXT file CAD Metadata You can easily georeference BigTopos into CAD programs If your CAD program is map aware output the BigTopo as a Generic Graphic TIF file with the Add GeoTIF Information box checked A TFW metadata file will also be created Your map aware CAD program will automatically use the information in the TFW file to place and scale the BigTopo in your drawing If your CAD program is not map aware you may be able to use the informa tion in the TXT file to help scale and place the exported map in a drawing Typically CAD programs request the scale factor or image width in engineer ing units Both the scale factor in Units Pixel and the image width in Feet and Meters are listed in the TXT file The Build BigTopo Tab Leima l ee ee iy Laj Bg mail aaup ee s gle Oe ma pcr OL 2 1 ce ee cee d UR E k See Ji E pra ee a Tim me Daa lpg Dnbkun ieri EIE ursi Tuus 17 pi B nir cen LL Pal m6 CE ed Lai Le ee 3a iai eee DD LL er SIMILIS LOL After defining BigTopo coverage and configuring image options press the Make BigTopo button sisse to build the BigTopo Once the image is built you can press the Preview BigTopo
254. sing the Save Config button and choosing a descriptive file name Later if you input a similar file you will be able to recall the saved configuration by pressing the Load Config button Sometimes you may have a field in the input file that can be treated as a symbol name To attach a symbol to each waypoint that has the same name as a field you can include a token like lt S 1 bmp gt which would add a symbol defined by the file waypoint bmp to every annotation Exporting Annotations to Delimited Text Files To export all of the annotations currently defined in the All Topo viewer to a delimited text file start the Annotation Export Agent by selecting the main menu option Annotations Import Export Export Annotations The Export Agent will be shown i ead be lapel Bel Puno Pata CLA E ae L eh Ta i nain Hoan rm nik LS ee ee ee ee 5 l liz HA Fie IL HAEE a rT Miiisim iLi Ge eee ino RE dH i aririn u h LEE a a ILI i E I a 7 ti LCE Se ee a a ee 1H l Ekle ji E LELLE Az a li A F i ricis isP i Pri i eui s jjj The Export Wizard converts a series of tokens to output records for each of the current annotations using the Export Pattern The default export pattern ALAT t LONV t DATUM t NAME t DESC M NOTE n exports the latitude longitude datum annotation name description and note each field separated by a tab token Use the token helper to edit the
255. sounding Breakwater pier jetty or wharf Seawall Area Exposed at Mean Low Tide Sounding datum Channel Rivers Lakes and Canals Submerged Areas and Bogs Chapter 3 Map Basics Offshore Oil or Gas Well Platform Sunken Rock Intermittent Stream Intermittent River Disappearing Stream Perennial Stream Perennial River Small falls Small rapids Large falls Large rapids Masonry Dam Dam with Lock Dam carrying Road Perennial Intermittent Lake or Pond Dry Lake Narrow Wash Wide Wash Elevated Aqueduct Flume or Conduit Aqueduct Tunnel Well or Spring Spring or Seep Marsh or Swamp Submerged Marsh or Swamp Wooded Marsh or Swamp Submerged Wooded Marsh or Swamp Rice Field Land subject to inundation 45 46 Buildings and Related Features Roads and Related Features Building School Church Built up Area Racetrack Airport Landing Strip Well other than water Windmill Tanks Covered Reservoir Gauging Station Landmark object feature as labeled Campground Picnic Area Cemetery small large Road widths are not plotted to scale but are symbolically represented at the correct location A true scale trail may be so narrow on the map that it would be difficult to see A Railroad and Related Features Primary Highway Secondary Highway Light Duty Road Unimproved Road Trail Dual Highway Dual Highway with median strip Road Under Construction
256. supports all reasonable datum both Molodensky approxima tions and NADCON interpolations State Plane and the Military Grid Reference System PLS coordinates are accepted as fully qualified coordinates Sections halfs 14 Sections and 4 sections can be broken into aliquot parts and automatically drawn The PLS Magnet tool allows quick boundary drawing without entering metes and bounds descriptions The PLS Option is required for PLS coordinates All Topo will write a property description from a series of GPS locations The Triangulation Tool allows coordinate derivation from two known offset locations and bearings The Projection Tool allows coordinate derivation from a known location using Great Circle UTM Grid or State Plane Grid projection All Topo now displays and interprets compass bearings in azimuth 273 and surveyor angles N87 0000W All Topo directly accepts bearings using UTM Grid North State Plane Grid North True North and Magnetic North using the World Magnetic Model to compute magnetic declination All Topo allows simultaneous display of cursor location using two styles Elevation declination and dip can be continuously displayed The Giant Coordinate Fonts option makes All Topo s use in vehicles and planes easier 21 lluge1517 Chapter 2 All Topo Components and Dialogs Chapter 2 All Topo Components and Dialogs This chapter includes images and brief descriptions of all of the compo
257. t scale for the map All Topo uses the print scale to both size the image and scale line and vector features to the correct size Depending upon the size of the printer the desired nominal print scale and the size of the current map you will be able to select from up to three printing options Typically the first item will scale the image selection entire or viewed to just fit on the printed page The resulting print scale will be shown The center option will print the image selection entire or viewed at the desired print scale beginning at the North West corner and filling the available printed page The last option will tile the image selection entire or viewed to multiple pages at the desired print scale Press the Tile Margin button to set the top and left overlap between printed pages Choose the image processing method e The Windows Print Driver uses the print driver to rasterize the map image to the final printer resolution e The All Topo RIP uses the All Topo graphics engine to resample the map image to the final printer resolution The Color Reduce option re colors the image to an 8 bit 256 color palette image then uses the Window Print Driver to print the image The approximate print job size is displayed for each selection When printing huge maps you may need to choose the image processing method that reduces memory usage Typically the first option will produce good results using the smal
258. t the nearest matching track point in the Eligible Annotations grid the GPS track point that was recorded at nearly the same time that you took the picture of the GPS If you cleared the track points from your GPS when you started the correct track point will be near the top of the list and the minutes and seconds will very nearly match the time shown on the picture of the GPS 123 mJ RE eS EHTE H ed re nl ee um m M sm ee mu sm Em Next enter the track point spacing you programmed the GPS for typically 10 seconds Check the Add Camera with Link box to add a camera icon to each annotation point that is linked Finally press the Attach Matching button All Topo will correlate the images and track points If you took pictures more often than the track point spacing All Topo will attach multiple pictures to a single track point When All Topo finishes attaching images close the Auto GeoLink tool to return to the All Topo viewer Click the main menu option View View GeoLink Attributes option to display the Auto GeoLink viewer You may need to adjust the windows on your screen so you can see both the map and the GeoLink viewer As the cursor hovers near a GeoLinked point the linked image will be displayed Auto GeoLink Tool Issues If your GPS does not allow a time based track point spacing set the Track Point Spacing value on the Auto GeoLink Tool to 60 seconds If your GPS does not provide a date time sta
259. tation of the red component gg the green and bb the blue Symbol Circle BRVer W 4 X 0 2 mi color ffOOff defines a purple red 255 green 0 blue 255 circle Placing a _ character before the color indicates background color X Y L Symbol Dimensions Most symbol types accept optional sizes The sizes can be specified using any legal All Topo unit meters feet survey feet varas chains links nautical 226 Appendix E Annotation Source Files HWP miles and yards Width is set by X while height is set by Y lt S RBC X 0 1 mile Y 0 2 miles gt R Rotation Angle for Symbols Symbols not images or pictures may be rotated about the coordinate insertion point using the R rot argument where rot is the angle to rotate in degrees clockwise Wz Line Widths for symbol drawings Use the W argument within a Symbol meta tag to change the width of the line used to draw symbols The line width is set in points 72nd of an inch Mz Minimum Dot Size Use the M argument to set the minimum dot size in points 72nd of an inch Trace From Coordinate gt The lt l tag will draw a line from the next coordinate as described by the auxiliary tags within the brackets Auxiliary tags are separated by semico lons Three auxiliary tag types are defined Color Enter a color name see text colors or Color ff8080 RGB tag Line Width A single integer specifying line width in 1 72 of an inch units
260. tcut Key Bombsight B Drag Hand H Zoom tool Z Pencil tool P Point To Point O Roller Mice If your mouse has a wheel configured for default operation rolling the wheel away from you will zoom into the map make the map larger Rolling the wheel towards you will zoom away from the map show more map area Bombsight Cursor 64 itj The bombsight cursor is useful for snapping locations dropping accurate annotation points and tracing distances and areas Accurately Snapping a Location To very accurately snap a coordinate or place an annotation Press the B shortcut key to select the bombsight cursor 2 Double click at the spot you are interested in this will center the point on the screen 3 Press Alt 4 to zoom to 400 4 Carefully place the cursor over the spot press F2 to drop an annotation then configure the new annotation with the Annotation Editor 5 Press the Home key to return to 100 zoom Trace an Irregular Path or Area When the left mouse button is pressed and held the bombsight cursor will accumulate traced distance and area 1n the main window s status area pro eh ex a AY rr Cirad NL The bombsight tracing tool uses the same distance measurement units as the Measurement Spike You can select the distance units and the Default Area Tracing Units on the Defaults option page select the main menu option Options System Options Default tab To use the bombsight tracer
261. ternate coordinate styles only changes the coordinate style datum of the corner coordinate NOT the underlying map projection Checking Compress output file if possible will enable file compression for these file types BBMP Bitmap RLE compression if checked Chapter 6 Using the All Topo Maps Viewer PNG Portable Network Graphic Maximum compression if checked JPG JPEG Quality 75 if checked 100 if unchecked TIF TIFF BitPack compression if checked NOT RECOMMENDED 3 Set image re sampling and choose the print scale for intended final use AllTopo normally exports map images at the full resolution of the image database Check the Resample Output Image box and choose the output scale or output image height or width to change the output resolution So text and annotations can be appropriately scaled it is necessary for AllTopo to know the intended scale at which you intend to use the exported map image If you intend to print a 1 24 000 scale map at 1 48 000 half normal size then AllTopo will double the size of all annotations so they are the intended size If annotations or grids are enabled AllTopo will export the map as a 24 bit raster image so every annotation color may be accurately represented Check the Force 8 bit Output to force an 8 bit palette file to be written Since 24 bit files are three times larger than 8 bit images 8 bit images will require less disk space for storage and load more quickly Whe
262. that read like select the menu option Annotations Backup Restore Package Unpackage This is interpreted as click on the Annotations selection from the Main menu then click on the Backup Restore Package option on that menu then click on the Unpackage menu The three dots at the end of menu choices indicate another menu or dialog box will be displayed when you click on the selection Moving Windows if you don t like the place where a window is shown on your desktop you can grab it with the mouse and move it where you want it To move a window position the mouse cursor above the Title Bar push and hold the left mouse button down and then drag the window to where you want it Resizing Windows You can resize most but not all windows position the mouse cursor at the edge of the window press and hold the left mouse button and drag the window to a new size E b J i a Hi a da r Some windows have limits on how small they may be resized Many windows have three buttons in the upper right window corner These buttons can be used to force Windows to hide the dialog fill the screen with the window and close the window Alternatively you can double click on the Title Bar to toggle between partial and full screen window coverage Right click click the secondary mouse button once the right button if you are right handed Shift Tab Moves backwards through a window s options
263. the angular difference between a vector pointing towards True North and the direction a compass needle points Surprisingly magnetic declination changes by as much as 0 1 from the West to East sides of a single quadrangle In addition declination changes substantially from year to year All Topo Maps estimates magnetic declination using the World Magnetic Model contained in the file db wmm cof The World Magnetic Model estimates the first order effects for a location assuming the date is January 1 of the current year Ex a bearing of 143 3 clockwise from magnetic north a distance of 1232 feet R 143 3 MN L 1232 feet 36 4200E MN 1232 feet 36 42 1232 fe UTM Grid North Arguments If you override a bearing North reference to UTM Grid All Topo will assume you want to use UTM Grid North for the natural UTM Zone of the base coordinate You can force an alternate UTM Zone by adding the zone number Appendix A Coordinates Primer to the North Code preceded by an underscore GN_12 If All Topo is reading an annotation file and a lt D gt meta tag has forced a non natural UTM Zone you can select the default natural UTM Zone by using Zone Q GN 0 State Plane Grid North Arguments If you override a bearing North reference to State Plane Grid All Topo will use the State Plane Code and Datum from the State Plane section of the Primary Coordinate FE UITTEIEIIMTIIELT limas queda ERE 2mAi Lalai lne Jedes
264. the phrase aliquot part meaning that parts exactly add up to a whole You can use several methods to accurately aliquot PLS coordinates with All Topo 99 66 Half Sections North Half Section 31 Township 14 North Range 66 West PM6 N Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 Both specify the North Half of section 31 when used with the Draw directive the section half is automatically annotated If used as a coordinate the center of the section half is used unless a corner tag is also included CNE CNW NSW CSE specify the four corners of the half section All Topo can aliquot the North South East and West halves of a section Quarter Sections All Topo can aliquot the North East South East South West and North West quarters of a section You can abbreviate these quarter sections as NE SE SW and NW NW 14 Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 NW Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 North West Quarter Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 Draw Appendix A Coordinates Primer Like a half section these coordinates specify the center of the quarter section unless a corner tag is also included CCLC oe Po ee he ee NC ee A Quarter Quarter Sections Specify two quarter designators to further aliquot a section into quarter quarter sections SE 1 4 NW 1 4 Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 SE NW Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 South East Quarter North West Quarter Sec 31 T14N R66W PM6 Draw Footage Offsets From Section Lines If you specify a footage call within a section All Topo can ca
265. the place you are looking for The list of places will automatically update as you type displaying alphabeti cally nearby placenames When you see the place you are looking for double click on the line containing the place and All Topo will center the location on the viewing screen To find an NGS control point prepend the point s name with NGS or use the Advanced Search function To search for a Public Land Survey Township and Range use the search format T12N R55W Place name searches are done without spaces and punctuation Searching for mccal will match Mc Callister McCallister and Mc Callister Advanced Placename Search If you can not find the location using the Simple Search tab you can use the Advanced Search tab to look for locations containing any sequence of characters To build a list of every hot spring in a state select the Advanced Search tab type hots in the 1 Look for places that contain this pattern box then press 2 Submit Search bma amri Bun lsp denim cram n Lach im uaa el dn Tha Du ml eS Leu rr Boor C Ferai Ford 5 LT da eae oe ee r Jam Bm m Har ory Pee ain Her iaa Hri EE ET HT E ene All Topo will take a moment to search for all the matching placenames Double click on the correct location to center the location on the map viewing screen Finding a Map by its Map Name T2 If you know the name of the map you are looking for or you know t
266. theast neat line intersection 41 15 0 N 104 45 0 W is 34 360 8 Feet while the distance from the Southwest corner 41 7 30 N 104 52 30 W to the Southeast neat line intersection 41 7 30 N 104 45 0 W is 34 426 2 Feet a difference of 65 4 feet While All Topo Maps are digital images of the paper maps they have been carefully reprojected to flat space the Universal Transverse Mercator projection The UTM projected All Topo Maps can be successfully seamed over very large areas and exactly match as the scale factor is held constant over the map and the map set The UTM reprojection has a side effect of tilting the maps that lie at the edges of the UTM zone Good examples of tilt are the adjacent maps Tecoma NV and Lucin UT Tecoma the west map lies at the easternmost edge of Zone 12 Lucin the east map lies at the westernmost edge of Zone 13 n AS since these maps are projected to different UTM Zones they will not align even though they fall exactly next to each other When BigTopo seams these maps it reprojects both maps to the same UTM zone 38 Chapter 3 Map Basics Magnetic Declination FH Gn GE SE i eee i m lm mal z pi Declination vectors show the relationship between True North Magnetic North the direction a compass needle points and UTM Grid North Magnetic North changes substantially over time and with position On the Cheyenne North quadrangle magnetic declination has changed almost 1 full degr
267. then the program will exit Alt Tab Switches focus between the running applications If you are both editing a document and running All Topo you can quickly switch between the two applications by pressing Alt Tab Since the GPS Tool and BigTopo are separate applications Alt Tab is especially useful for switching between windows ALT underlined letter Press the Alt key to see menu options with underlined shortcut letters Pressing and holding the Alt key then tapping the underlined letter then releasing the Alt key will select the option just as if you had clicked on the option with your mouse Click Press the primary mouse button once If you are right handed the primary mouse button is the left button if your computer is configured for left handed operation the primary mouse button is the right button Ctrl F4 Close the current window CTRL is the Control Key which is labeled Ctrl on your keyboard Ctrl Shift Tab Moves backwards through a window s Tabs Ctrl Tab Moves forward through a window s Tabs not all windows have tabs Ctrl C Copy whatever is selected to the Windows clipboard Ctrl V Paste whatever is in the Windows clipboard at the current cursor location Ctrl X Cut whatever is selected to the Windows clipboard Current Application It is possible and desirable to have more than one application running on your computer at once Only one application is selected at a time computer nerds say t
268. tion verification The subscription process requires that a small amount of data be transferred from your computer to the subscription server When you use the subscription service the following information is exchanged User Name Mark The user logged into windows Computer Name PLUTO The user assigned computer name Computer IP Address 169 123 132 12 The IP address used for registration Product Serial Number 3584 0001 0320 1004 XXXX Unique number from certificate Computer ID 54 123 456 Chapter 5 Support Installation Serial Numbers Unique identifier for physical CPU When registration or re registration is necessary the All Topo Maps viewer will warn you that a data transfer is going to occur and show the data that will be transferred You can cancel the operation if you don t want to share this data with our server however it is not possible to utilize Web Based Updates and subscriptions without agreeing to transfer registration information If you are transferring a serial number to a new machine the web based update tool will ask for confirmation permission before it invalidates the previous installation If you are unable to use the Web Based Update update CD s are available from Igage Mapping Corporation to update your mapping set Contact Igage for a list of available update CD s and pricing Serial Number Use Scenarios User Mark purchases a state set installs it on his personal computer and obtains
269. tire map or the viewed map to the Window s Clipboard or a generic graphics file including GeoTIF images Images can be resampled and color reduced Annotation Editor II Pon eee ee A a ae P T x Ee am Fah Beim eet jep heme HFE Boa RE ag aaa Er 4 EH IT Dares 24 Chapter 2 All Topo Components and Dialogs The annotation editor allows access to annotation properties and styles Name Description Notes symbols connecting lines GeoLinks Deed Plotter imports State Overview Map State overview map shows current map extent quickly jumps to new locations Search by Place Name Use the Search by Place or Feature Name tool to quickly find a map location if you know the name of a map feature Search by Map Name m Peers un arem r nO E prem X JE enroll qd mE MANT E dhn ah i i wr D F Er e rT H PNT i Uu TNT nairilsi LET E X diee Lea M Curam peg amnes AOT a nons ramcn Umso DL ERIT Use the Search by Map Name tool to find a map if you know the map name or to move to a map adjacent to the currently displayed map 25 Search by Coordinate Location ee oe ite pg AE OR 8 E SE P TE ee C ELZ SEL 5 EK E 4 168 04 7 M B ZLI LII HE LIED EHLI BE La ae Tw 3j HB 38b E Pv d Zh PLE WD FE P dB d I48 BoqUw EN e Teie de hd dercumm s Londra Use the Search by Coordinate Location tool if you know the Lat Lon UTM MGRS State Plane or PLS coordinate o
270. token list by pressing the button or enter tokens manually A full list of available tokens is described in Appendix D Check the Include Header Line box to include a descriptive line showing the field tokens in the output file The Sample Output shows tab characters as a right pointing double angle bracket symbol and new line characters as pilcrow signs Once you define a useful export pattern you can save the export pattern by pressing the amp j button Previously saved patterns can be recalled using the ge button Press the Export button esi_ to choose an export file name and location then write the export file name to disk Map Export Wizard The Map Export Wizard automates the process of exporting the entire map or the viewed map to the Windows Clipboard or a graphics file To export a map launch the Map Export Wizard using the main menu selection Edit Export Map to Clipboard File or GIS or use the shortcut key Ctrl C 97 Bape Lope Wie ee oe ua acm a CP ee ellis i I S11 m T ahpa niea UE mage da loma emi am aem CL COEHEm pna is 4 Cua Dusia Tee DEM S Reged inam Pie d CHE m d IBI Lemderm AEF m ald pes EEL Abb pii prag EIF RA Em To export a map set the options in each of the three numbered sections 1 Choose to export either just the viewed map or the Entire map 2 Choose the destination for the exported map the Windows Clipboard as a Bitmap
271. tters the length of a coordinate is reduced and some error detection is achieved U S G S 1 250 000 scale maps typically show Military Grid designators the Zone codes in a map collar annotation amp hb JL BATION 10 EJNL amp STANDANE BLPCBLACE Q5 Ars SHEEN T LANEST TONO METIRI Imm M Tae D LAT cat pA BUPL PII rainy phan ie bee she BUE sdb eet es et ote H E he Sed SETAC god ba LETT i ee eee a bmp pher m m p an bubhsr raper m en rer bep uad Serge mud boom gil lee a geet i 1 lace fon BOE DTA pura BL Ie ee Fb p UR ee deter hi Wa W a ced erg E i m Pew hapi peal pera ae ir det heey 7 i mii Aes ee FU put Hr Fell cere dae ORS p EAEN Fuer m hs pi manis name LLL ut inne Mignon P epee b op Cui rin Li i ity du RA wes uri Tasa Bees vco HE at iH mima CAREI pa FAL LL Mpm ot er e The MGRS coordinate for the Wyoming State Capitol looks like 13T ER 15097 54231 Decomposing the MGRS coordinate 13 is the UTM Zone T indicates the coordinate lies within the 16th northing zone Zones start at South 80 and are 8 latitude in height except the north most zone which is 12 latitude in height the south most Grid Zone is labeled C and zones are labeled progressively from C to X the letters I and O are omitted to avoid confusion with 1 and 0 ER indicates a particular 100 000 meter square within a Grid Zone The rules for numbering 100
272. ual offer the same courtesy to your eye 109 117 913 2 is a lot easier to read than 109 1179132 All Topo Maps All Topo GPS Tool and BigTopo In this manual All Topo Maps refers to the All Topo Map system a software collection that includes the maps the viewer All Topo the GPS Tool ATMGPS and the seaming tool BigTopo Annotation Text symbol or line added to a geographic location on a map Also called a Waypoint 49 50 BigTopo is a seaming tool that extracts portions of maps or combines adjacent maps to form new maps with custom typically large geographic coverage BigTopo is included with every All Topo Map system BigTopoPro is a professional version of the seaming tool that has even more features CAD Computer Aided Drafting A software program that is used to draft engineering document Control Key The key labeled Ctrl on the bottom left and right of your keyboard Pressing the control key changes the operation of most every other key Often you will see descriptions like Ctrl S This means press and hold the Ctrl key then tap the S key then release the control key Cursor the icon that moves around on the computer screen when you push your mouse around on the table Cursors are selected in All Topo Maps with these toolbar buttons se 4x Datum Plural of data Geographic datum describes two numbers the diameter of earth at the equator and the flattening at the North and South poles
273. uge images 102 Make sure you have the latest print drivers for your plotter Go to the plotter manufacturer s web site to download the latest drivers Even if you just purchased and installed your printer there are most likely updated drivers available on the web Set your windows print driver to 300 DPI not 600 or 1 200 DPI A 42 x 60 inch map requires 680 megabytes of disk space to virtualize the image for printing at 300 DPI The same image requires 3 628 mega bytes at 600 DPI It is doubtful that a 32 Gigabyte image will success fully rasterize or print on any machine Make sure you have plenty of free disk space on your system drive Once the print image is rasterized it is stored in the Windows system folder Set your Virtual Memory setting to at least 1 200 megabytes Control Panel System Advanced Performance Advanced Virtual Memory Change We prefer to allocate 3 000 megabytes and set both the Initial and Maximum size to the same value Choose Process in Computer and Optimize for Graphics in the windows print driver configuration for your plotter if the options are available Do not check the Maximum Detail checkbox If you have the option of using an HP GL 2 or RTL print drivers use the RTL driver for printing raster images Do not attempt to print raster image maps on plotters connected by RS232 serial cable to your computer a USB or network cable is preferred over a parallel cable RS232 seri
274. upport Support for the All Topo maps viewer can be obtained by email phone or fax General questions may be answered in the FAQ Frequently Asked Questions section of the Igage website www igage com Phone numbers and email address are available on the Certificate of Serial Number and on the web site You will find instructions for joining the All Topo mailing list on the web Joining the list will insure that you receive timely notices of updates and new products Email and Phone Support If you call or write please have the following information readily available so we can assist you e If you send us email please include the words All Topo in the message subject so we can find your email in the sea of spam e All Topo product state set revision and program version see Help About All Topo Maps Your full 16 or 20 character serial number e Your machine code see Help About All Topo Maps This manual so we can refer you to figures and examples A telephone number where we can call you back If your product has not been previously registered we will register your product before we assist you Please respect our desire to provide excellent customer support for a reason ably priced product We can t e Support operating system Windows questions debug your hardware 55 problems e Teach you basic computer techniques over the phone e Support our competitor s products e Teach you how to
275. ursor Position UTM_X double UTM Y double UTM Z integer UTM D integer LL X double LL Y double LL D integer MapFilename calzs8j WPFilename cal28 CurrentScale integer and after the read is complete If LockSync then the value you read is complete Datum Code Longitude Latitude Datum Code neg West path and filename of annotation hwp File 100 100 A amp S keypresses are pumped through this buffer KeyPress RevbPreosslnPEr points to the will be place then the last integer in packed array keypress is in 0 31 of tKeyPress place the next keypress So if KeyPressInPtr 0 31 or there has not yet been a keypress From Remote Device RemoteID cal28 we are listening too DoCenterMapUTM integer to CenterUTM_X double CenterUTM_Y double CenterUTM Z integer CenterUTM D integer description of who passed to System Log set non zero center following UTM position on screen 145 146 DbocenterMaphL integer set non zero to center following LL position CenterLL X double CenterLL Y double CenterLL D integer DolmageScale integer set non zero Imagescale integer to force Zoom DoReadWPFilename integer set non zero to force load following WP File ReadAsFilename cal128 if first character is Q then the rest of the line is treated
276. urve to the left with a radius of 206 57 ft an arc distance of 110 feet a chord bearing of N 79 39 08 E and a chord length of 108 70 feet to the True point of Beginning Thence Easterly along a curve to the left with a radius of 206 57 feet an arc distance of 50 3 feet a chord bearing of N 57 20 25 E and a chord length of 50 13 feet thence Northeasterly along a curve to the left with a radius of 2683 29 feet an arc distance of 100 feet a chord bearing of N 49 23 04 E and a chord length of 99 99 feet thence South 46 54 35 East 225 64 feet to the Northerly line of Snow Basic Road thence South 43 05 25 west 92 25 feet thence Southerly along a curve to the left with a radius of 164 61 feet an arc distance of 263 10 feet a chord bearing of S 02 41 56 E and a chord length of 235 98 feet along said South line to the center of an existing road thence two courses along the center of said road as follows South 41 30 42 West 58 98 feet and South 11 46 15 West 211 33 feet thence North 86 17 37 West 152 24 feet thence North 0 17 53 East 606 33 feet to the place of beginning and automatically annotates a topographic map with the described property boundary BN ur z om a KR F og Enabling the Deed Plotter Interface Deed Plotter exchange is an optional feature of All Topo Maps A separate Deed Plotter DXF Interchange serial number must be purchased and entered into the Serial Nu
277. urvey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet Survey Feet 197 10tff0124 Appendix C Public Land Survey Principle Meridians Appendix C Public Land Survey Principle Meridians All Topo Maps requires that you specify the principle meridian for every Public Land Survey style coordinate The following meridian codes and alternate abbreviations are accepted Principle Meridian First Principal Meridian 1819 Second Principal Meridian 1805 Third Principal Meridian 1815 Forth Principal Meridian 1805 Fifth Principal Meridian 1815 Sixth Principal Meridian 1855 Black Hills 1878 Boise 1867 Chickasaw 1833 Choctaw 1821 Cimarron 1881 Gila and Salt River 1865 Humbolt 1853 Huntsville 1807 Indian 1870 Louisiana 1807 Michigan 1815 Principal Montana 1867 Mount Diablo 1851 Navajo 1869 New Mexico 1855 St Helena 1819 St Stephens 1805 Salt Lake 1855 San Bernardino 1852 Tallahassee 1824 Uintah 1875 Ute 1880 Washington 1803 Willamette 1851 Wind River 1875 Umiat 1956 Kateel River 1956 Fairbanks 1910 Copper River 1905 Seward 1911 Using PM Codes Sec 23 T14N R23E Chick Sec 23 T14N R23E Chickasaw Abbreviations First Ist PM1 Second 2nd PM2 Third 3rd PM3 Forth 4th PM4 Fifth 5th PM5 Sixth 6th PM6 Black H PM7 Boise PM8 Chick PM9 Choct PM10 Cimar PM11 Gila
278. use the south east corner of the north half mmi IBN T IPIE Nr Puil Dm Z4 ute ages ee ee fem PLU Tin Ela Fare Th D JT i m aom Fi m Daum ose ee PRI Ld Fuumd mm lae Banin ZI Pied dh J ZEN BL Li Le a LZIL d SE HE E EB Bl id Pdl F jh sT 4h E Press the Add Annotation at Coordinate button then select the Deed Plotter tab and browse for the dxf file we exported from Deed Plotter Use the Survey Units box to select Feet units for the imported file ee ee a ee Pier ins odi ee Lagrac 17 aureus eurrrela DoT group Lum emi A MI Fico dmm i B imeem Hr f mm hy ee M hie rr famen tee eee Toe Tl If you would like All Topo Maps to remove an offset to the initial point of beginning check the Remove Offset checkbox This is useful if you specify an initial point in Deed Plotter using a State Plane or UTM base coordinate and don t want to specify the deed insertion point as the grid s origin Choose a line color and width Widths are entered in 1 72 points Finally use the Rotate Survey option and the Jog Circle to move and rotate the survey onto the map Rotation is compass based Positive Rotation Clockwise Negative Rotation Counter Clockwise Surveys are placed with respect to True North and any rotation is applied with respect to a True North bearing The Jog Circle moves the POB in the direction of the cursor when you click within the c
279. use your GPS e Support your CAD Computer Aided Design or GIS programs Minimum and Recommended System Requirements To install and run All Topo Maps the minimum requirements are BM compatible computer e 90 MHz 486 processor PII 400 MHz or faster highly recommended 32 MB RAM 256 Megabytes RAM recommended e VGA Monitor Super VGA 1024 x 768 or better recommended High Color or True Color All Topo will not run under 16 color and some 256 color modes Mouse or other pointing device Microsoft Windows 98 Windows 98 SE Windows Me Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2000 or Windows XP recom mended e CD R drive e At least 120 Megabytes free disk space 1 Gigabytes recommended Registering Your Product Please take a moment to fill in the registration card and return it or use the web based registration form at http www igage com regweb We want our upgrade information to be welcomed at your address and promise to keep our customer lists your name and address private One of the most common All Topo service calls is a request for a Serial Number when a user changes or reloads a computer We can t look up your serial number if you don t register Replacement serial numbers can not be issued for Version 7 products Store your Certificate of Serial Number in a safe place you will need it if you upgrade your system s All Topo Map components Your certificate lists telephone numbers for All Topo Ma
280. uth East Corner Coordinate bookmark 43 button cur Ta P Er dE Hi ERIE mni Te S i caro o mdr then press the BK2 button to recall the south east corner location BigTopo7 will automatically compute the resulting map width and height to exactly fit the bookmarked locations Tour 2 Select Annotation Options Select the Settings tab Choose the Source Map Scale appropriate to the map you are building Typically 1 24 000 except in Alaska where 1 63 360 is more appropriate 1 100 000 and 1 250 000 scale seaming is available when the Pro option is installed Vg umm EL Ege rmm O Baked gl epus dni Ling E ipo C orum ORA Cox mnm Fui Tei bhem MPs bi eel Dieta umiri ie hw pha pos card i i Lo BRIT SLT Libii Zune I Width and Height units choose the units for coverage display Exported Datum UTM Zone and Color Match are only available if 155 BigTopo7 Pro is installed Select the Annotations tab limra Fay orm ee imi wh H 85 7 DI a Era a Wl o agi rai Ta r E nih Laa b ami laum trem E 5 Farias mmm hd Fin Bii Bg epus dni og F Orem LTE ee ee Pi BI r icis Liao Li mia T Ha eee ee LETT Peer Fani Pee cda a Dear Ts Sca m PRO DR4O ee a nnl eri h A Check the Recollar add borders to BigTopo Overlay UTM Grid and Include a Map Scale check boxes If you have purchased the opti
281. vies erroe Fu Jab a Bri benli aad larh m en Jee ee Fugen Fn Fea 7 e ide numum da camem DELE mal mem ema dem b mur Ear ol amari ma rana el P ET E ia a Tia Pria ad Regu usn Diere png sm 1 PLE OE ra T Eee Lamar or Blas moe igni mam i G mim eum omm mmm i omm 5 et ee menm RII Hoa gms C EE ORE The Advanced Options tab contains settings for the Deed Description wizard and the initial annotation allocation Deed Export Settings The deed export engine will reduce multiple waypoints if they fall within the Points On A Line Precision of a single line If you have multiple points that you know fall on a single line but want to force the inclusion of then set the first characters of the waypoint name to the Force Use of Waypoints Beginning With value This is handy if you want to include gate posts or road intersections in an exported deed description Waypoints with names beginning with TPOB are always included and are assumed to be a True Point of Beginning Write Description Using chooses the distance units the deed description is written with Typically you would always choose Feet Bearing Distance Projection sets the projection used to compute offsets Typically Lat Lon projection is appropriate however State Plane may be required for some surveys If you choose UTM or State Plane then the settings for the Primary Coordinate Display are used for Zone Code and Datum 113 Advanced Annotation Options
282. web based updates Later Mark purchases a new computer faster bigger better and installs ATM on the new computer and obtains web based updates The new computer will automatically have full access to web based updates and technical support The old computer will not have access to updated maps however the old installation will continue to run unless a web based product update is attempted Telephone email support will be provided for Mark when he is using the new machine 2 User John purchases a state set installs it on his personal computer and obtains web based updates Later John loans his set to a friend Cindy who installs it on her machine and obtains web based updates John s machine is no longer eligible for web based updates Cindy is not eligible for support as she is not the registered user John is eligible for support if he calls while using Cindy s computer 3 User Mary purchases a state set installs it on her personal computer and obtains web based updates Later Mary also installs it on her office computer and obtains web updates Upon returning home Mary can t obtain additional web based updates or support Mary may purchase a reduced price Additional Serial Number set for use with her home computer 4 User Terry purchases and installs an All Topo Map set on an office computer Someone gains access to his CD disk set and full serial number and installs All Topo Maps on their computer and gets the latest viewin
283. will need to install Check the web site of the serial port adapter manufacturer to make sure you have the LATEST software drivers for the USB to Serial port adapter Typically a USB to Serial port adapter will be COMS however any other COM port may be likely If you have a desktop computer If you have a serial mouse the mouse will most likely be connected to COMI The remaining port is COM2 COM2 will most likely be the correct setting f you don t have a serial mouse the left most COM port typically is COMI while the right most COM port typically is COM2 If you have an internal modem the second COM port is typically disabled and the internal modem is COMO Use the left port if possible COMI is most likely the correct port setting Setting Baud Stop Bits Parity Pressing the Defaults button will select the Baud Data and Parity which best match the selected GPS s typical factory defaults The Baud Rate Data Bits and Parity must match the settings in your GPS Garmin receivers MUST have the interface selection set to GARMIN GARMIN GARMIN or GARMIN HOST Check the GPS receiver s User Manual for help changing the interface mode Garmin receivers always use baud 9600 Testing the GPS Connection After successfully configuring the GPS hardware press the Test GPS Link button i in ies to verify that your GPS can communicate with your computer If the test fails a list of possible causes will be presented e
284. y 5 ablet 4 U ailings 4 ailings Pond 44 ms USGS 3 gei Daderpass 4r Targeting 11 Unimproved Road 46 elephone Line 4 Smporary File 5f Universal Transverse Mercator 30 Universal Transverse Mercator UTM erritorial Boundary FW Worldfile 153 icks 39 Update hird Order 4 IF Image 153 IF TIFF 99 ile map printing 24 ilted Map Image 3 ilted Maps 38 ime stamp 29 itle Bar 53 itle Font Profile 10 l gt OO A Un P C2 m m am l EN 2 2 2 Z 21212 d x a OO oken Hel okens 964 ool Bar 53 er 6 QN S 3 a N opographic Map 19 ownship 39 ownship Line 43 ownships 18 POB True Point of Beginning 14 race an irregular path 64 raced Area 209 raced Distance 209 raced or Line Drawn Distance 209 rack Point Spacing 124 rack Style 11 V rail 46 ransmission Lines 4 riangle Symbol 8 riangulating New Annotations 93 riangulation 4 Arial 4 ool 3 riangulation Tool 2 114 rid North 39 109 109 OQ aO ga pals a gt E C BEN S I5 CA eg layer remove 20 Vegetation 19 Version 6 Exchange 89 Version 6 Products 57 Version 7 T9 X p lt m we KK K Viewer 23 49 W Warranty 5 11 Water Depth See Bathymetric See also Annotation Delete 8 ell 4 WOSS4 T63 E ooL oo indows Print Driver 101 indows Shortcut 14 indows Taskbar 63 indows Tricks 51
285. y system still accurately defines a point on the ground or parcel by Principal Meridian Township Range Section and offset In the Western United States PLS coordinates are the most common method of identifying property and its ownership The various scales of topographic maps have traditionally shown Sections and Townships Section boundaries and numbers are shown in red On a released 7 2 minute quadrangle Township and Range are identified in the map collars on provisional maps Township and Range are typically handwritten just inside the map s neat line Most All Topo Map standard edition state sets are searchable by Township and Range To search a standard set press the Find Place button on the toolbar then enter the desired township and range in the search box TI4NR88W Appendix A Coordinates Primer Press the show location button to center the chosen Township The optional All Topo Maps PLS Tool makes working with PLS coordinates much easier Each state s PLS tool adds a huge database of section information and provides real time display of the cursor s position to 4 4 section or as a footage offset from a section corner Displayed cursor PLS coordinates can be copied directly to the Window s Clipboard for subsequent pasting to other applications The PLS Tool also adds searching by Township Range Section for quickly finding and annotating features by legal coordinate In addition All Topo can display locat

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