More free bencmmarking software

[+dino_hunters]

Look for DSWIN at

 

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PC_PROD/pc_prod.shtml

 

It uses NGS datasheets natively to allow you to search for benchmarks. It's ok, but I'd rather have something like watcher or gpxView that was optimised for benchmarking

[+Black Dog Trackers]

I downloaded DSWIN and I like it. It reads the .dat file from NGS directly.

 

Some of the features are a bit difficult to find.

 

One of them is a plot of a group within a selected number of miles from a coordinates pair. Click on Search and then Point Radius, put in a location and mileage and you get a subset. From this subset, you can show (and print) a plot.

 

You can also select fields to print from a big list of options from this subset or from the entire county. This one's really obscure - you choose file, save as, enter a filename, hit OK, and THEN you get an output format menu, from which you select DSSELECT format. The fields I like are: PID, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, POS_SRC, DESIGNATION, MONUMENTATION SETTING, LAST REC_DATE. Optionally, you can select the RECOVERY TEXT as a field (a whole county was over 700 pages in a word processer so I didn't print it ).

 

The resulting file has delimiters and can be later imported into a spreadsheet.

[eahousley]

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Originally posted by Black Dog Trackers:

It reads the .dat file from NGS directly.

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You mentioned a .dat file and the program description refers to a CD-ROM. I'm not sure I understand how to make use of this program.

 

-- Its from aliens. I seen um. --

[+dino_hunters]

the .dat files can be found here

 

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_archive.prl

 

just select the state and county you want. It will give you all benchmarks in a county. These .DAT files are the same ones that bmgpx uses. The NGS also used to sell these files on CD-ROM for an entire state. It no longer does. just start DSWIN, under the file menu, select DISK and then browse to and open the .DAT file that you downloaded at the above website.