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Point Database Formats
- ODBC databases including:
- Oracle
- MySQL
- MS SQL Server
- MS Access
- Postgres
- dBase
- Excel XLS
- ASCII text (including custom text file formats, UKOOA for example)
- SEGP184, SEGP190
- Write to AutoCAD DWG/DXF
- MS Access
- Shell Processing Support
GIS Data Type Support
- Write to MapInfo MIF
- Write to ESRI Shapefile
- Write to MapInfo TAB
- Write to Microstation DGN
Supported Input Vector File Formats
- AutoCAD support for R12, R13, R14, AutoCAD 2000/2002, AutoCAD 2004/2006 and AutoCAD 2007/2008 (*.dwg, *.dxf)
- Blue Marble Layers (*.bml)
- Digital Line Graph (*.dlg)
- ESRI ArcInfo Export (*.e00)
- ESRI ArcInfo Generate (*.gen)
- ESRI Shapefile (*.shp)
- GML Simple Features - Version 3.1.1. See Note 1 below. (*.gml)
- Keyhole Markup Language (*.kml)
- LIDAR Data Exchange - Version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. See Note 2 below. (*.las)
- MapInfo Import (*.mif)
- MapInfo Table (*.tab)
- Microstation Design (*.dgn)
- S-57 (*.000)
- Spatial Data Transfer Standard (*catd.ddf)
- TIGER/Line (*.rt1)
- Velocity File (*.txt)
Note 1: Reading and direct transformation of GML data conforming to the Simple Features Profile conformance level Zero, and Simple Feature Collections in version 3.1.1 (support for 2.1.2 coming soon). The writer always writes to the Simple Features Profile. There is no firm limit to the size of file that can be read into the Viewer in Blue Marble Desktop, but if the GML file has coordinate lists exceeding one million characters, the odds of display issues will increase.
Note 2: Reading, writing, and direct transformation of LAS version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 data is supported. It is not recommended that LAS datasets larger than 5MB be loaded into the Blue Marble Desktop Viewer.
Supported Output Vector File Formats
- AutoCAD write support for R12, R13, R14, AutoCAD 2000/2002, AutoCAD 2004/2006 and AutoCAD 2007 (*.dwg, *.dxf)
- ESRI ArcInfo Export (*.e00)
- ESRI ArcInfo Generate (*.gen)
- ESRI Shapefile (*.shp)
- GML Simple Features - Version 3.1.1. See Note 1 below. (*.gml)
- Keyhole Markup Language (*.kml)
- LIDAR Data Exchange - Version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. See Note 2 below. (*.las)
- MapInfo Import (*.mif)
- MapInfo Table (*.tab)
- Microstation Design (*.dgn)
- Velocity File (*.txt)
Note 1: Reading and direct transformation of GML data conforming to the Simple Features Profile conformance level Zero, and Simple Feature Collections in version 3.1.1 (support for 2.1.2 coming soon). The writer always writes to the Simple Features Profile. There is no firm limit to the size of file that can be read into the Viewer in Blue Marble Desktop, but if the GML file has coordinate lists exceeding one million characters, the odds of display issues will increase.
Note 2: Reading, writing, and direct transformation of LAS version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 data is supported. It is not recommended that LAS datasets larger than 5MB be loaded into the Blue Marble Desktop Viewer.
Coordinate Conversion Parameters
We include a comprehensive coordinate conversion parameter database that contains most common coordinate systems in use throughout the world. You can completely customize this file by adding or removing parameters. Currently, the coordinate conversion database contains:
- Over 3500 pre-defined coordinate systems
- Over 1200 datum shifts
- Over 400 horizontal datums
- Over 80 various unit definitions
- 14 prime meridians
- A dozen vertical datums
Common coordinate systems included:
- Bell Wire Center V & H (V & H)
- Earth Geopotential Model of 1996 global geoid model support
- Gauss-Kruger Modified, 3TM, and 6TM
- Japanese Grid 2000 coordinate system
- Maine Coordinate System 2000
- Military GridReference System (MGRS)
- New Zealand Map Grid
- US State Plane 1927 (both original and exact solutions)
- US State Plane 1983
- UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) North and South zones
- World Geographic Reference System coordinate string support
- XYZ Cartesian Earth-Centered Earth Fixed (ECEF)
- Grids for Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Borneo, Columbia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Minnesota, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Quebec, Romania, Veracruz, and many more.
Map Projections
- Aitoff
- Alaska State Plane 27
- Albers Equal-Area Conic
- Azimuthal Equal Area
- Azimuthal Equal Area (Polar Aspect)
- Azimuthal Equidistant
- Azimuthal Equidistant (Polar Aspect)
- Behrmann
- Belgium 72
- Bipolar Oblique Conic Conformal
- Bonne
- Cassini
- Craster Parabolic
- Danish System 34
- Danish System 34 (1999)
- Double Stereographic
- Eckert I
- Eckert II
- Eckert III
- Eckert IV
- Eckert V
- Eckert VI
- EOV (Egyseges Orszagos Vetulet)
- Equal-Area Cylindrical
- Equidistant Conic
- Equidistant Cylindrical
- European Stereographic
- Fuller (Dymaxion)
- Gall Stereographic
- Gnomic
- Goode Homolosine
- Guam State Plane 27
- Hammer Aitoff
- HSO/RSO (Deprecated)
- IMW Polyconic
- Krovak
- Laborde
- Lambert Conformal Conic (1 parallel)
- Lambert Conformal Conic (2 parallel)
- Lambert Conformal Conic Extended
- Lambert State Plane 27
- Loximuthal
- McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic
- Mercator
- Military Grid Reference System (Deprecated)
- Miller Cylindrical
- Mollweide
- New Zealand Map Grid
- Oblique Mercator Azimuth
- Oblique Mercator Two Point
- Orthographic
- Perspective Conic
- Polar Stereographic
- Polar Stereographic (Variant C)
- Polyconic
- Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator
- Quartic Authalic
- Robinson
- Sinusiodal
- Space Oblique Mercator
- Stereographic
- Stereographic 70
- Swiss Oblique Mercator
- Tilted Perspective
- Times
- Transverse Mercator (Gauss-Kruger)
- Transverse Mercator Extended
- Transverse Mercator Snyder
- Transverse Mercator South Oriented
- Transverse Mercator State Plane 27
- Two-Point Fit
- Universal Transverse Mercator
- V and H
- Van der Grinten
- Van der Grinten IV
- Vertical Perspective
- Winkel I
- Winkel II
- Winkel Tripel
Vertical Datums
- Canadian Vertical Datum CVGD28
- Local Geodetic Datum Ellipsoid Height
- National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29)
- North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88)
- GEOID03 model available for vertical datum transformations
Vertical Datum Transformation Methods
- Local Ellipsoid Height to/from Local Ellipsoid Height Bursa/Wolfe or Molodensky methods
- NAD83 to/from NAVD88 Geoid 96 model implementation
- NGVD29 to/from NAVD88 The NGS VERTCON method is used to compute the difference in orthometric height between the NAVD29 and NAVD88 vertical datums for a specific latitude and longitude (the appropriate orthometric height will be displayed after the conversion). VERTCON implements predetermined grid shifts (analogous to NADCON horizontal grid shift files) for any particular point on the grid. THIS METHOD IS ONLY VALID IN THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR CONVERSIONS BETWEEN NGVD29 and NAVD88.
Horizontal Datum Transformation Methods
- Bursa/Wolfe
- Canadian National Transformation V2
- DMA MRE
- FD58 Datum (Final Datum 1958)
- HPGN
- Irish Grid polynomial datum shift to match OSi parameters
- JGD2000 Datum
- Molodensky
- Molodensky-Badekas 10
- NADCON
- OSTN02
NAD27 to NAD83 Conversions
NAD27 to NAD83 conversions (or vice versa) with the United States and associated territories are performed using exactly the same algorithm and data files as used by the National Geodetic Service's NADCON program. Results are numerically identical to those of NADCON. Version 2.0 of the Canadian National Transformation is fully supported for conversion within Canada.
NAD83 to HPGN Conversions
NAD83 to HPGN (NAD83/91 or HARN) conversions (or vice versa) are performed using the exact same algorithm and data files used by, and results are numerically identical to, the National Geodetic Service's NADCON program.
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