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SHP
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Supported for export and
import. The ESRI Shape File Format is a digital vector
(non-topological) storage format for storing geometric location and
associated attribute information. The Shapefile format is created by
ArcView and can be used by ArcView, ARC/INFO, ArcGIS and other widely used
GIS software. A Shapefile stores map (geographic)
features and attribute data as a collection of files having the same
prefix and the following file extensions.
 | .shp - Contains the feature
geometries. |
| .shx - The shp file index. |
| .dbf - dBASE file that containing the
feature attributes. |
| .prj - Projection definition for the
features. |
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DXF
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Supported for export. The Drawing Interchange file format (DXF) is
an ASCII file vector format used by AutoCAD which is the Copyright(C) of Autodesk,
Inc. This format is supported by many other CAD and GIS Applications, and is
also supported by QuickMap with the following constraints:
All QuickMap Geometries are exported as lines. Click
here for sample. |
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WKT
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Supported for export and
import. Well Known Text (WKT) is an ASCII file
vector format
defined by the Open GIS Consortium (OGIS) to represent a geometry. Geometry
is a term adopted by the Open GIS Consortium to define two dimensional
data. The well-known text representation of geometry provides a standard textual
representation for spatial data. When exporting data from QuickMap in WKT,
QuickMap will also add attribute data to the file in fields delimited by the
'|' character. For example, one line of exported contour data may look as
follows:
| 1641|140|1 LINESTRING ( 2681039.10 6010000.00, 2681035.81 6009994.71, 2676834.90 6009987.99, 2676839.50 6010000.29) |
In this example, 1641 is the unique identifier for that contour, 140 is
the contour height and the remainder is the Geometry for that feature. Click
here for sample. |
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MIF/MID
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Supported for export and
import. The MapInfo Interchange Format (MIF)
is an ASCII file vector format which allows generic data to be attached to a
variety of graphical items. It works on all platforms supported by
MapInfo. Mapinfo data is in two files -- the
graphical data resides in a .MIF file and textual data is contained in a
.MID file. The textual data is delimited data, with one row per record and
either Carriage Return, Carriage Return plus Line Feed, or Line Feed
between lines. The MIF file has two areas -- the
file header area and the data section. Information on how to create
MapInfo tables is in the header; the graphical object definitions are in
the data section. |
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TAB
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Supported for export and
import. TAB format is the native file format of MapInfo. Tab
files store both feature geometry and attributes. A logical MapInfo TAB
file consists of several physical files, having the following file name
extensions:
| .tab The main file for a MapInfo table, it is
associated with the appropriate DAT, MAP, ID, and IND files |
| .dat Tabular data for a table in MapInfo's native
format. · |
| .id An index to a MapInfo graphical objects (MAP)
file. · |
| .map Contains geographic information describing map
objects. · |
| .ind An index to a MapInfo tabular (DAT) file. |
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DGN
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Supported for export and
import. Microstation Design File Format (DGN) is the
internal format used by Bentley Systems Inc.'s MicroStation, a CAD
program. It is well documented and standardized, so it may also be used as
a transfer standard. DGN files contain detailed display information. The
most common way to store attributes is to place them in an external
database file and record links in the MSLINK field-a data item carried for
each element in the DGN file. |
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GML
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Supported for export. Geography Markup language (GML)
is an
XML based encoding standard for geographic information developed by the
OpenGIS Consortium (OGC). The main purpose of GML is to provide a standard
means of representing information about geospatial features-their
geometric properties, non-geometric properties, interrelationships, etc. |
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UNL
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Supported for import. The Informix
Export File Format (UNL) Informix Binary File Created by
Informix's UNLOAD Command. |
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WAY
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Supported for import. The WAY
file is an ASCII Vector format file. If your GPS
does not support NMEA protocol, or cannot download waypoints using NMEA
then you can still download the data from your GPS unit by Importing a
waypoint file.To download waypoints from a waypoint file: · Download GPS
TrackMaker from www.gpstm.com (this software will support almost every
GPS unit interface). · Using this free software save your GPS data as a
waypoint file. · From QuickMap select File>import and you will be
presented with the following import box that will enable you to browse to
your waypoint file and then import it. |
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CRS
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Supported for import. The CRS
File is a LINZ proprietary ASCII format file. It contains an ASCII header describing the contents of the
file, followed by '|' delimited fields of attribute and spatial data.
Spatial data is represented in Modified Well Known Text format as described
above. |
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LIN
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Supported for import. The LIN
file is an ASCII vector format used to represent line data only in the form:
| <id> <x> <y> |
Where <id> is the features unique identifier if it is at the
beginning of the feature, or 0 if it is one of the points of the feature,
and x,y are the features coordinates.
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JPG |
Supported for export. The Joint Photographic
Experts Group (JPG) file is a raster format. |
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BMP |
Supported for export. The
Windows Bitmap format (BMP) file is a raster format. |
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PNG |
Supported for export. The
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file is a raster format. |
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TIF |
Supported for export. The Tag Image File
Format (TIF) file is a raster format. |
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TGA |
Supported for export. The Truevision TARGA
Format file is a raster format. |
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