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PHOTOMOD VectOr USER MANUAL

1. Using popup menu options you can also e revert object vertices numbering including subobjects revert vertices numbering for current subobject select current subobject set metrics accuracy 2 1 5 Hot keys You can use following hot keys while working with VectOr e View scale gt Zoom in lt Zoom out nitial scale Moving view window over the map PgUp Move up at window size PgDn Move down at window size Home Shift Tab Move left at window size End Tab Move right at window size CtrltPgUp Move to the upper map border Ctrl PgDn Move to the lower map border CtrltHome Move to the left map border Ctrlt End Move to the right map border up Move up at 16 pixels Ctrl down arrow Move down at 16 pixels Ctrl left arrow Move left at 16 pixels Ctrl right arrow Move right at 16 pixels Shift mouse moving Move view window corresponding to mouse cursor position Cursor moving Arrows Moving by 1 screen pixel Shift Arrow Moving by 8 screen pixels e Map operation To start operations of editing searching measuring etc you should click on corresponding icon Once operation is selected following hot keys become available Ctrl C To cancel current operation Ctrl left button of the mouse To complete operation e Map object selection Enter To select nearest object to cursor opens Object selection dialog If some operatio
2. KATE ea a 38 2 2 1 Deleting selected Object cess sawan araga aa ag ag ga ea ANG Dagan Bangah aa eg a E Ne 38 3 2 3 2 Delete panel uiuis succ rai pU bec boxes sta DE Ng Eoo AK EA EA ag ei 38 3 2 3 3 Deleting one sud ecc nba ER ROM Dri eae BRAND Pus EP M D EU RN 38 3 2 3 4 Deleting all subobjects 38 3 2 4 A O i 38 3 2 4 1 Changing code of marked 38 3 242 Copying object to User map auct PINE NAN LOU ELT IR Uo Bru DG 38 3243 Copying all SUBODIGO S Ngak aia tias 38 3 RACURS Yaroslavskaya 13 office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD A204 Full COPY 39 3 24 35 Moving 39 3 2 4 6 39 Expanding vector De uses 39 3 2 4 8 Marking Met 39 3 2 4 9 Viewing map control information esses 39 3 2 4 10 Changing scale range of marked objects 39 Mark panel sasaka 39 3 2 4 11 1 Restoring previously deleted objects i5 etn atti pedet on yn nenen 39 3 2 4 11 2 Intersection of marked 39 3 2 4 11 3 Smoothing marked objects UE Ra dH 39 324114 Filtering marked 39 324 113 Copying marked objects
3. There is a classifier color map at the left part of panel Click on color to be edited by left mouse button and change color appropriately Press Reset button to restore color map Press Standard to replace current color map by standard one To save changes made for classifier press Save button at the right part of panel Use Reset buttons for undo changes of corresponding fields 3 5 4 Layers editing Layers editor allows to e layers to classifier e delete layers from classifier and move objects to another layer e change layers names and displaying order 53 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD e sort layers by name number displaying order Layers editing dialog contains list of layers as a table of 4 columns layer number name displaying order number of objects To add new layer press Add button and enter layer name layer number and layer displaying order in appropriate table fields To delete layer select it and press Delete button To copy all objects from deleting layer press Copy objects button and select destination layer Press OK button To edit layers name displaying order etc select appropriate table field and enter new values To sort layers by different parameters use corresponding options in Sort menu 3 5 5 Semantics editing Semantics editing dialog contains list of attributes included to classifier as two non editable columns attribute name and
4. background color fill color map symbol used for the polygon filling 3 Point objects style color and origin coordinate symbol size multicolor map symbol Labels font color size angle background shadow alignment 5 Vector objects vector object style 4 There is a Scale check box which may be used for any vector object If this option is on object becomes scalable Scalable line objects thickness is scaling depending onto view scale The size of scalable vector objects and labels corresponds to object metrics Scalable point objects are displaying in accordance with their scale range non scalable objects are not displaying when current view scale is greater than original map scale You can use special map symbols for printing out to high quality printers The size of such symbols is set in micrometers and the color map is expanded To edit printer map symbol select Printer tabbed page Note that object style changing causes equal style changes for all objects with the same classification code 3 5 2 Editing classifier objects Used to create or edit object code layer displaying style attributes as well as create and delete objects themselves There is an objects table at the right part of panel This table may contain all objects or objects selected by Filter of classifier objects Current object is highlighted by magenta box Edited objects are highlighted by white box The
5. using pop up menu opened by right mouse button 3 2 1 9 step Undo Restores previously edited or deleted object 3 2 2 Object creation 3 2 2 1 Object creation modes Object creation menu includes following modes e Create object object type is selected from map symbols library Create object of type of existing object Create subobject Copy object Copy object to another map object type is selected from map symbols library Copy marked objects to another map Save object created by another application Create graphic objects line polygon raster symbol label 3 2 2 2 Creation of map object To create map object you should define corresponding map symbol object style its spatial coordinates metrics and attributes semantics Object style is created in special dialog that also allows you to set method of object creation manual or interactive vectorization manual coordinates entering loading coordinates from text file etc The sample of object is displaying in special view window You can use fast object searching by its name or classification code If object type and layer are selected you can use Ctrl and Shift keys to make group object selection For example you can select all line and polygon objects from layers called Road network and Road facilities Press Select button for final object style selection Besides you can select object style from Map legend panel You can attach attributes add semantics when
6. 5202894 2378715 RICH WOOD KEY 7 41 RELATIVE ALTITUDE 25 m OBJ 71111100 5 KEY 458793 6 5206181 2380839 5206106 2380903 5206113 2380923 5206168 2381003 5206265 2380961 5206181 2380939 SEM 1 129 BRIDGES KEY 6 434 OBJ 62310000 VEC KEY 393650 2 5207754 2379350 5207794 2379470 1 SERVER KEY 6 183 OBJ 62130000 DOT KEY 393399 1 67 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 5205731 2378440 CITY LABEL KEY 256 2 TYPE of the FONT 5 CODE of COLOUR 101 TEXT BERN OBJ 88000000 TIT KEY 16777218 1 5203728 2377794 BERN SEM 2 145 94 101 END SXF 3 0 EXAMPLE of a text SXF FILE GEODESIC COORDINATES 1 TOPOGRAPHIC P000 BERN P001 0 L 32 039 2 2 A P002 1 P101 0 8188502 0 1287180 P102 0 8203048 0 1287180 P103 0 8203047 0 1308997 P104 0 8188505 0 1308998 P109 5199356 6 2376216 0 P110 5208620 7 2376408 1 P111 5208431 0 2385915 0 P112 5199166 9 2385737 7 P1167 P117 1 P119 1 P207 50000 DAT 4 LAKE KEY 3 4 3 65536 4 196612 WATER TYPE FRESH I SHORELINE FEATURES CONSTANT TRUE ALTITUDE 546 m OBJ 31120000 SQR KEY 196612 8 0 8194135 0 1292739 0 8194108 0 1292878 0 8194059 0 1292925 0 8193964 0 1292916 0 8193893 0 1292742 0 8193898 0 1292638 0 8193991 0 1292606 0 8194135 0 1292739 RICH WOOD KEY 7 41 RELATIVE ALTITUDE 25 m OBJ 71111100 5 KEY
7. If object derived from SXF file has unique id equal to id of some object on a map this object will be replaced All other objects just get added to the map SXF file can be either text TXT or binary SXF If current map does not contain a map sheet corresponded to SXF file this sheet will be loaded to the map and the Work region is expanded You can update raster dataset by loading new raster objects from BMP PCX or TIFF format to current digital map 2 2 7 Printing a map To print a map or its selected fragment you need e turn on the printer e press Print button Once printing is over you get an appropriate message press OK It may take from several seconds to tens of minutes to print a map depending on map size computer resources printer type and printing quality Only objects selected by View contents dialog are sent to printer There are several modes of printing used to print a map e Normal creates hardcopy of variable filling intensity of polygons used to print on color and grayscale raster printers e Transparent creates hardcopy without filling polygons used to print to any including vector output printing devices Outline printing vector elements by lines on any printers There is a possibility to print the whole map as well as its portion To select print area press Select button and select map region by mouse VectOr supports changing the scale when printing In Fit to page mode the output scale i
8. Thus when printing polygon you should enter its fill primitive first and then its outline primitive At the left part of Print window map symbol corresponding to the object is displaying You can set output units pixels or mm Use Restore button to restore original object view To add primitive press Add button To delete primitive press Delete button Use Reset button to reset editing Use Parameters button to set primitive s parameters To change order of primitives use following options Up Top Down Bottom There are following options used to set printing style to different object types Printing style of line objects Printing style of polygon objects Printing style of point objects Printing style of labels Printing style of vector objects Printing style of templates 3 5 3 Editing general classifier data Used to select classifier to edit e change map name map type map scale code of classifier change color map You can edit a classifier of main map or any of classifiers of user maps To switch between classifiers use Select classifier button To edit classifier name up to 19 characters click on Name text field To edit map type click on Map type text field To change map scale click on Scale text field use also Large scale and Small scale to activate appropriate scale range up to 1 10 000 and less than 1 10 000 respectively Click on Classifier code field to edit code of classifier up to 4 characters
9. angle by mouse Control panel also allows to view elevation matrix parameters to change rotation angle and view angle to show hide grid and change its interval 3 4 25 Results displaying Allows to show hide window with calculation results and make more calculations using screen buttons or keyboard Buttons M MC MR used to work with memory as follows add to memory e subtract from memory clear memory e extract from memory 3 5 Editing classifier 3 5 1 Creating and editing classifier The digital classifier is a description of vector map layers included object types map symbols patterns attributes etc Description of layers objects attributes should contain digital code Map symbols can be represented in two forms for displaying and printing Digital classifier creation begins with preparation works that include defining type base scale and nomenclature title of digital map which is classifier created for list of using map symbols layers definition method of coding and so on There are standard classifiers of topographic information for maps and plans of 1 500 and 1 10 000 scales and maps of 1 25 000 1 1 000 000 scales These classifiers may be used as a base for defining object types included coding method and object attributes During special map creation navigation thematic tourist maps it is recommended to use corresponding paper maps to create map symbol library to be included to classifier Pre
10. e color map description e raster image raster map Working with raster images along with vector maps you can easily update and edit any digital information corresponding to exploring ground area RST file structure described in DOC SXF3 30 TXT 1 4 3 Matrix map structure VectOr handles matrix datasets basically DEMs or feature maps for the exploring region in the open MTR format MTR files contain additional data for the main VectOr SXF format to represent different characteristics of the map region Matrix format has following structure e passport data for the region e feature matrix of region There are two main types of the feature matrix e elevation matrix DEM e feature matrix thematic map Matrix can be built based on VectOr digital map vector objects DEMs may contain absolute heights of surface points relative elevations or its summarized values called attributes The feature matrix is created by searching vector objects based on user defined parameters The values of feature matrix are weight coefficients calculated by appropriate vector objects parameters MTR file structure is described in DOC SXF3 30 TXT file 1 5 Scale range One of advantages of digital maps versus paper ones is their displaying flexibility You can display and print digital maps in different scales using different map legends and so on However when using zoomed in map legend symbols or if the image is compressed when scaling some ob
11. selection in 3 8 1 3 section Only one object can be selected at once When editing or creating is done object is still selected so you can switch to another editing tool If you want to begin editing another object just select it by standard way Some operations are implemented for object group for example Deleting marked objects In this case you should previously mark do not confuse Mark mode with Select mode objects using Search menu tools Although there is a Save as option in File menu you should not save your map after editing Edited object gets saved right after its editing is completed It s possible to return to previous statuses of map unless it is sorted 3 2 1 2 Map editor options Map editor options are as follows Cut objects by map sheets objects that cover several map sheets in work region will be cut by every sheet border Cut objects by parent frame objects that cover several map sheets in work region will be cut by the frame where the first object vertex located Use semantics when object creating Adding semantics when object creating No frame editing Frame editing causes changes of map georeference and may have unexpected effect Tracing rate parameter of smoothing vector line created by interactive vectorization tracing over raster image Zone width Width of creating object parallel line Zone width can also be changed 2009 32 VectOr by and keys Joining tolerance
12. tolerance of joining corresponding objects located on adjacent map sheets If the distance between corresponding vertices is greater then tolerance value objects will not be combined e Filtering level distance between object vertex and line segment connecting previous and next vertices If this distance is less than Filtering level parameter this vertex is removed line filtering operation decreasing number of line vertices Recommended value is 1 5 Spline order used for line smoothing operation 3 2 1 3 Object selection To select object click left mouse button or press Enter when mouse cursor is placed over the object The dialog Object selection is opened Press Select button to select object it will be highlighted by red color In case when there are several objects under mouse cursor you can switch between them by Prev and Next buttons Once object is selected it can be edited used in measurements deleted etc In case if some main panel dialogs is active when you select object Object select dialog is not opening and selected object starts blinking You can see brief information related to selected object in the top of map window You can open Select object dialog by pressing Spacebar when object is blinking To cancel object selection press Esc key For fast object selection use Ctrl left mouse button In this case object will be selected without opening the dialog 3 2 1 4 Unselecting objects To unselect a
13. vertex in this mode D copying pseudo point without node creation Mode is just like the previous one but without node creation It can be useful when created object is snapping to the map border and there should not be nodes on it K copying fragment of object bounded by pseudo points This mode is useful if created and existing objects should have common part fragment Fragment selection is making by 3 points start middle end of fragment Second point can be equal to the first or third one So in this case only 2 points are used for fragment selection However if source object is a polygon always use 3 points Once copying is done nodes are created at the first and third snapping points P copying fragment of object bounded by real points Mode is similar to previous one except that only vertices can be used for fragment selection H creating horizontal line Mode of horizontal line drawing X const V creating vertical line Mode of vertical line drawing Y const F cancellation of modes H and V R current raster selection for interactive vectorization tracing While tracing it is possible to create an object over several opened rasters M memorizing cursor position on a map N go to the previous saved by M point 37 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD O starting interactive vectorization tracing 3 2 2 11 Map legend You can crea
14. 458793 6 2009 68 VectOr 0 8199360 0 1297456 0 8199245 0 1297606 0 8199256 0 1297652 0 8199345 0 1297833 0 8199496 0 1297732 0 8199360 0 1297456 SEM 1 125 BRIDGES KEY 6 434 OBJ 62310000 VEC KEY 393650 2 0 8201782 0 1293969 0 8201848 0 1294242 1 SERVER KEY 6 183 OBJ 62130000 DOT KEY 393399 1 0 8198578 0 1291976 CITY LABEL KEY 256 2 TYPE of the FONT 5 CODE of COLOUR 101 TEXT BERN OBJ 88000000 TIT KEY 16777218 1 0 8195414 0 1290589 BERN SEM 2 145 94 101 END 8 Appendix C MTRCREA TXT file structure MTRCREA TXT file defines objects used to create elevation matrix TXT file consists of information and comments strings marked by characters TXT file contains sections Each section begins with character Section Absolute elevation objects contains classification codes and names of objects with attribute Absolute elevation Object name is optional parameter and separate of classification code by space If section starts with ABS H OBJECTS keyword following are codes of objects included to processing matrix calculating If section starts with OBJECTS ALL keyword all objects with Absolute elevation attribute are included automatically and keyword is following codes of objects excluded from processing Section Relative elevation objects contains classification codes and names of objects with attribute Relative elevation Object name is op
15. Absolute elevation gt 100 To do it use dialog panel consists of three columns Semantics code name Condition Value Press Selected semantics to select attribute name Absolute altitude Double click on Condition to select and type 100 in Value text field To set selection by spatial object parameters open Map structure Measurements dialog Press Selected measurements button Set type of measurement for example length Set condition like length 100 in Single mode or 50 length 250 in Range mode To set condition use Expression panel You can use Model dialog to create several models of object selection set by dialogs listed above To create model press Create button to add model to Model list up to 256 models Selection models are saved once VectOr session is over and restored when system starts another time 2 5 2 Searching objects by query When searching objects by query you should use following searching parameters map layers and object classes object types map sheets Nomenclatures range of object IDs object attributes semantics spatial object parameters Full list of map layers object classes object types object attributes is defined by Map classifier To select layers to be marked you should open Map structure Layers dialog and selects needed layers in the list by mouse To select map sheets to be marked open Map structure Map sheets dialog and 2009 26 VectOr select unselect map sheets
16. To save object use standard save operation 3 2 6 5 Closing object This mode used to close line object that should be previously selected 3 2 6 6 Object rotating To rotate an object select it and rotate by left mouse button around current cursor position or selected object vertex Use standard complete operation 3 2 1 7 to finish rotation 3 2 6 7 Henumbering vertices Select corresponding vector object to renumber its vertices revert numbering order of vertices 3 2 7 Labels on the digital map 3 2 7 1 Creating labels All digital map labels may be divided on three main groups raster labels horizontal non scalable labels When such a label creation you should set its starting point on a map vector non scalable labels When such label creation you should set its starting point and direction on a map vector scalable labels When such label creation you should set its location on a map by two points 3 2 7 2 Editing labels To edit label select it and edit label text 3 3 Data sorting compression After any changes made on coordinates or semantics information corresponded to map objects it is recommended to start data sorting procedure to speed up further processing 43 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD This procedure also causes data compression Note that there is no way to restore previously deleted objects after sorting procedure
17. a map Rectangular coordinates XYZ can be calculated in two coordinate systems Pulkovo 1942 Gauss Kruger and UTM Geodetic coordinates BLH can be calculated using following datums Pulkovo 1942 WGS 84 and PZ 90 Geodetic coordinates can be displayed as degrees or radians Coordinate values in VectOr view windows correspond to current point on map cursor position Entering data in any dialog text fields cause recalculation of coordinates in all systems Use Show current point button to display coordinate values of current point when it is changed its position on a map Use Show button to redraw a map when new coordinates of point are entered 3 4 7 Distance from point to object To measure distance between point and object select the object first and set a point position by left mouse button The distance is displaying in the Results window To cancel processing press Ctrl Right mouse button 3 4 8 Distance between map objects Used to display shortest distance between map objects To display distance select source and destination objects Distance is computed between existing vertex of first object and closest point of destination object there may not be a vertex in this point 3 4 9 Building buffer zone Used to calculate a buffer zone around marked point line or polygon object To build buffer zone Mark objects using Search Mark mode Enter zone radius in meters Select a map to add created object to As a resul
18. airphoto central or panoramic and focal length value in mm You can transform entire raster as well as its fragment selected by rubber rectangle or by entering corner coordinates from keyboard In case of rotation you can transform only entire raster 61 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD Press Run to start transformation In case of transformation by control points system may ask you about points to be rejected 4 8 Export to DXF format Provides export of VectOr vector maps to DXF version AutoCAD 14 There are following limitations of export procedure Object semantics is not exported Object coordinates in DXF file are stored in meters in coordinate system of the source map Layers have new numbers file of correspondence between layer number and its name is created LAY Objects which can not be converted are replaced by marked objects some standard objects of different types So no objects are lost when export Displaying style of vector objects in DXF file is created based upon VectOr map symbols If necessary description of point objects can be retrieved from symbol DXL Symbol file is created using AutoCAD and a text editor DXL file should be selected in corresponding dialog text field if needed Labels are displaying as normal or italic depending onto starting and ending points of metrics Two temporary files are created when processing so you n
19. and raster information Color palette dialog includes following panels e Service used to set colors of map background selected objects marked objects and thickness of line for vector object displaying Map used to set colors for map displaying as well as brightness contrast parameters change color in map palette click on the appropriate one in the color map and change it as needed e Raster used to set raster color map as well as raster brightness contrast parameters To change color in color map click on appropriate one on the color map and change it as needed e Matrix used to set matrix color map as well as matrix brightness contrast parameters To change color in color map click on appropriate one on the color map and change it as needed 2 8 2 Setting fonts You can set fonts for map labels as well as fonts used by dialogs Screen fonts dialog allows you to set fonts used by map displaying and raster output devices Plotter fonts dialog allows you to set fonts for printing to vector output devices plotters 2 8 3 Image size and scale Digital map can be displayed in different scale There is a current scale value at the bottom part of the main window However visual object size distance between objects on screen height of label letters may not correspond to the paper samples It also can depend on monitor type It happens because MS Windows does not determine physical size of screen pixel but printer device
20. are three columns at the Semantics panel Code Type Name Code field contains codes of attributes Name field contains names of attributes These two fields are not editable Type field used to define attribute type Optional attribute may not be assigned or Obligatory attribute must be assigned when object is added to map Use View panel to view corresponding map symbol Map symbol can be edited just when working with Object group Press Add button to add semantics Press ESC to cancel semantics selection Press Delete button to remove semantics from the list Press Cancel to restore original semantics attached to object when it was selected 3 5 2 10 Scale range of classifier objects To make a map more viewable some object should be visible only when map scale is 2009 52 VectOr large enough Use Scale panel to set minimum and maximum map scale values to display object Press button to make object always visible Press Cancel button to cancel scale range selection 3 5 2 11 Printing style of classifier objects Use Print panel to set printing style of classifier object Printing style generally depends on object type point line polygon Press Color button to set object color All measurements line thickness dash length etc are in mm Printing style use a set of primitives for selected object type Primitives are printing according to the metrics first primitive is printing below second one and so on
21. attribute code Use Sort button to sort attributes by name or code Right part of dialog includes semantics related fields such as name code units type default value You can edit attributes directly in the table add new attributes Add delete attribute Delete Use Info button to view attribute related information To work with attributes from Classifier use List button Now you can edit classifier or create new one Add Use Save button to save changes use OK button to save changes and close classifier 4 Linked application tasks 4 1 General information This icon opens dialog of application task selection There are three main parts of the dialog window e task name e path to corresponding DLL file e control icons Use Add and Delete buttons to add and remove tasks from list To run application press Start button If some task is currently executing there is a checker near its name in the list Some DLLs also additionally marked by icon There are two basic types of application tasks e tasks which don t need operator s work For example converting formats transformation sorting upgrading and others e interactive tasks editing analysis reports building etc Applications should be implemented as 32 bit DLLs for Windows 95 or Windows NT To call applications from modules there should be two standard functions All tasks have to include function as follows extern C long int _ export WINAPI GetlnterfaceV
22. by known elevation values enter elevation values for this sheet for example 10 20 50 100 200 500 1000 1500 2000 e Control of depth level lines of topographic or geographic map sheet by known depths values enter such values like this 2 5 10 20 50 100 150 200 Use Filter button to select sheets to be processed Sheets pane To start processing press Run button You can cancel process Cancel button In this case application LOG will contain only errors related to already processed objects You can view processing results in Results window of Map editor LOG file line looks like this Elevation error h1 h2 n1 n2 where h1 h2 elevations of erroneous objects n1 n2 IDs You will get negative elevation values for up down digitizing direction and positive values for down up digitizing direction 5 Useful advises 5 1 Creation of arbitrary map fragment You can create map fragment of arbitrary shape by cutting it from standard rectangular or trapezoidal map For example it can be a zone of known radius around selected map object Note that such non standard maps should have type user maps To create such zone map you should Create user map to copy zone map to Create polygon object that encloses new map border build zone using Buffer zone process and save it as a map object Mark objects to be copied Search Mark Select object border of creating map Open mode Copy marked objects to another map Map ed
23. control menu e Select File Exit option Push F10 on keyboard 2 1 2 Moving map image To move an image in view window you can press Pan icon at the top menu and grab and move window contents In all other modes editing measurements you can just press left mouse button and move cursor outside window to get image scrolling in corresponding opposite direction Another way is to press Shift key and move mouse cursor as needed You can also scroll a map using keyboard Ctrl and PgUp PgDn Home End keys 2 1 3 Moving cursor You can move cursor using mouse or arrow keys along with Shift and Ctrl keys when cursor is located over the map image 2 1 4 Getting object description To select object click left mouse button or press Enter when mouse cursor is placed over the object The dialog Object selection is opened Press Select button to select object it will be highlighted by red color In case when there are several objects under mouse cursor you can switch between them by Prev and Next buttons The opened dialog allows viewing and editing semantics metrics scale range and displaying style of the object You can get detailed information about the object by pressing Info button Once object is selected it can be edited used in measurements deleted etc In case if some main panel dialogs is active when you select object Object select dialog is not opening and selected object starts blinking You can see brief informatio
24. control points rejected Gross error in coordinates of point may cause serious deformations Do you want to cancel processing Afterwards you can reject points those do not meet general criteria Corresponding warning looks like this Do you want to reject point 5 m If very big residuals occur you should stop processing and figure out the reason Most possible reasons are as follows Wrong point coordinates in the catalog Control point is not digitized properly Wrong point ID in corresponding object semantics Wrong point ID in the source material After necessary corrections start process another time 4 6 2 3 Error messages and warnings Warnings Names should be equal or select another directory invalid output region you should select another path name Do you want to make a copy when input region is to be replaced by output one you can create its copy Matrix is out of region Continue usually arbitrary coordinate system of source work region is different of real coordinate system Elevation matrix does not cover the entire region Some results can be incorrect Map border does not exist Do you want to create one using passport data If there is no map border in the source sheet you should create one for output sheet otherwise it will not be processed Errors that stop processing Invalid catalog of control points There is no code of control poi
25. convenient to use simple graphic objects that are not attached to classifier So Graphic map object is an object that is not linked to classifier but has metrics semantics unique ID and map symbol Map symbol pattern for lines and polygons is stored in object description When data is transferring in exchange SXF format map symbol is transferring along with other object parameters coordinates ID etc Instead of external code there is a layer number To put Graphic object on a map you should open appropriate user map or create a new one After this modes of map editor becomes available creation of line polygon point etc Map symbol parameters line pattern color thickness etc are available in the dialog opened according to current map editor mode 1 4 2 Raster map structure Digital raster map is a raster image of exploring ground area in defined scale projection coordinate system In fact raster image is 2D array of brightness values that can be acquired in some spectral interval Brightness can be represented by different number of colors depending on raster type VectOr stores raster images in open RST format and supports import of raster objects from 15 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD PCX TIFF BMP and other popular formats The structure of raster VectOr file is as follows e passport data related to image image size raster type color definition etc
26. in the list by mouse To set range of marking object IDs open Map structure IDs dialog and set minimum and maximum ID of marking objects To set criterion for objects selection based on their attributes open Map structure Semantics dialog and set on Selected semantics option If for example you want to display objects that have absolute elevation 100m you need to build an expression like this Absolute elevation gt 100 To do it use dialog panel consists of three columns Semantics code name Condition Value Press Selected semantics to select attribute name Absolute altitude Double click on Condition to select and type 100 in Value text field To set selection by spatial object parameters open Map structure Measurements dialog Press Selected measurements button Set type of measurement for example length Set condition like length 100 in Single mode or 50 length 250 in Range mode To set condition use Expression panel You can use Model dialog to create several models of object selection set by dialogs listed above To create model press Create button to add model to Model list up to 256 models Selection models are saved once VectOr session is over and restored when system starts another time 2 5 3 Searching objects by selected area To search map objects by selected area you should select area and set searching parameters Use mouse to select area on a map and complete operation see 3 2 1 7 section Then you have
27. into sheets of 1 2 500 000 Dividing sheet of 1 10 000 000 into sheets of 1 1 000 000 11 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 60 61 162 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 11 12 1 16 17 18 10 14 15 19 00 01 02 103 04 105 06 107 08 09 Dividing sheet of 1 1 000 000 into sheets of 1 500 000 01 jefe Standard nomenclature of geographic map includes subsystem code Midlatitude block code scale code and sheet number Codes of subsystems Midlatitude blocks and scales are as follows Subsystem block name Blocks of Midlatitude subsystem Europe Asia Pacific ocean North America Atlantic ocean North pole subsystem South pole subsystem Equatorial subsystem Subsystem code Scale 1 10 000 000 1 5 000 000 1 2 500 000 1 1 000 000 1 500 000 For the summary enlarged sheets 1 10 000 000 1 5 000 000 OORUN Scale code 01 02 03 04 05 10 55 Sheet number includes number of Longitude and Latitude zones which intersection it is located on Numbering of both zones starts at 0 and rises from bottom to top Latitude and from left to right Longitude Nomenclature template looks like 99 99 99 99 12 34 56 78 Character number Meaning 1 Block or subsystem 1 9 2 Scale 1 5 3 4 Number of Latitude
28. object selection if corresponding option of Map editor is on 3 2 2 3 Point object creation Point object of a digital map contains coordinates of one point The point object can be spatially connected to other objects of a map see Supplementary creation modes section To put point object on the map press left mouse button Its location can be changed unless left mouse button is released 3 2 2 4 Line object creation The line object of a digital map contains coordinates of two or more points Line object can be closed or non closed it can include several subobjects and spatially connected to other objects of the map Depending onto its type line object can be created as one of following e object of arbitrary configuration simple rotated or complex rectangle circle of known diameter result of interactive vectorization tracing over underlying raster entering coordinates from keyboard loading from text file Line object points vertices are creating when pressing left mouse button or Enter To close 2009 34 VectOr line object press L button Supplementary modes of creation are also available To save line object use standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section Pressing Backspace key deletes last added vertex To create a rectangle you should draw it on the map using left mouse button To create a rotated rectangle you should draw it on the map using left mouse button To create a complex rectangle you should add i
29. of datasets related to Work region and Map sheet The Work region dataset includes 1 Title of area 2 Source data Type of a map e Scale Name of resource file 3 Projection data e Ellipsoid Vertical datum Coordinate system Source projection 1st standard parallel 2nd standard parallel Central meridian e Origin latitude 4 Area extents 5 Additional information e Plane and elevation units e Digitizing rate e Type of a framework Not editable records e Resource file name since it is created only when passport creation e Scale e Area extents since they are calculated automatically by map sheet extents If map type gets changed you get a warning that data are in wrong projection So it is not recommended to edit Map type Map sheet data set includes 1 Nomenclature sheet title 2 Coordinate of the sheet rectangular and geodetic 3 Data related to a map document e Sort and type of the initial map document e Date of survey 4 Declination data e Magnetic declination e Average meridian convergence e Annual magnetic declination e Date of measurement of the declination 5 Data files name the name is common for all data files with HDR DAT SEM GRA 2009 30 VectOr extensions All map sheet related data sets can be edited except Nomenclature since it is constant for standard map sheets You also must not edit coordinates for this type of maps Once Add button is pressed new dialog wi
30. points coincide with control points taken from vector map Raster scale size and origin position are changed after transformation Raster transformation is provided by rsstrans dll started from Tools Run application Raster transformation menu 4 7 1 Raster transformation step by step Raster transformation process is organized in following steps Select source raster Source raster Select output raster Output raster Select transformation method Transformation Set process parameters Select raster area to be transformed Transformation parameters 1 Rotation includes following modes rotation and scaling rotation without scaling horizontal alignment 2 Transformation by map border by map corners by all points of map border including arch points You also have to select needed sheet from the list if Work region consists of several map sheets 3 Transformation by control points select control points catalog Control points select method of getting measured coordinates Measured points set maximum control points residual Control points residual select elevation matrix if 3D transformation Transformation by exterior orientation parameters select control points catalog Control points select method of getting measured coordinates Measured points set maximum control points residual Control points residual e Select elevation matrix if 3D transformation Besides you should set type of photo
31. river etc or a group of real world objects block of buildings or a part of object if it is a complex one some part of a building Vector objects can be separated to different layers on the map based on their thematic properties rivers roads etc According to thematic layer each vector object can be represented by symbol or pattern included to the map legend These symbols patterns are stored in the digital map classifier Following are the limitations of VectOr digital map e up to 65536 types of objects e up to 255 layers e up to 65536 types of characteristics for each type of objects Standard topographic digital map uses about 2000 types of objects 16 layers and 200 characteristics 1 4 1 2 Map nomenclature sheet title To make it easier and faster to look for map sheets of different scales and ground location every map sheet is assigned unique name called Nomenclature Nomenclature map sheet title is placed on the top north part of sheet either in the middle or right side Usually Nomenclature is following by a name of largest town located on the map Structure of Nomenclatures depends on map type topographic geographic aerial navigation city plans etc scale and coordinate system Russian Nomenclature structure based on 1 1 000 000 map sheets Any of them covers ground area of 6 degrees of longitude and 4 degrees of latitude Nomenclature of 1 1 000 000 map sheet includes number of Latitude zone Latin capita
32. sheet e zones S double sheets e zones T U sheets four in one Characters 8 9 10 depending on sheet type assigned following values e 1 2 3 4 if single sheet e 1 3 if double sheet e 1 if four in one sheet Character 8 is optional Samples of nomenclatures Scale 1 1 000 000 0 A 01 0 A 60 Scale 1 500 000 0 A 01 001 0 A 01 004 1 A 60 001 1 A 60 004 Scale 1 200 000 0 A 01 001 0 A 01 036 1 A 60 001 1 A 60 036 Scale 1 100 000 0 A 01 001 0 A 01 144 1 A 60 001 1 A 60 144 Scale 1 50 000 0 A 01 001 1 9 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia 0 01 144 3 0 60 144 1 A 60 144 2 Scale 1 25 000 A 01 001 1 1 A 01 144 1 4 A 60 144 4 1 A 60 144 4 3 Scale 1 10 000 60 001 1 1 1 60 001 1 2 3 A 60 144 4 1 1 A 60 144 4 3 1 The template of Nomenclature of 1 5 000 map sheet looks like 9 Z 99 999 999 12 34 567 8910 The symbols 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 correspond to 1 100 000 map sheet Symbols 8 9 10 integers 1 256 number of 1 5 000 map sheet on 1 100 000 map sheet Sample of 1 5 000 nomenclature 0 A 60 144 256 1 4 1 2 2 Nomenclature of geographic maps Standard scale range for geographic maps includes following scale values 1 500 000 1 1 000 000 1 2 500 000 1 5 000 000 1 10 000 000 Geographic maps are created in 4 subsystems zones th
33. to select map objects based on different parameters Table 2 4 Search menu options Option Meaning Search and mark Searching and marking map objects using query based on classifier 25 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD Option Meaning Search by query Searching object by query Search by area Searching by selected area Search again Searching object based on conditions selected for previous searching session 2 5 1 Search and mark objects Dialog Search object allows to use set of parameters for object searching map layers and object classes object types map sheets Nomenclatures range of object IDs object attributes semantics spatial object parameters Full list of map layers object classes object types object attributes is defined by Map classifier To select layers to be marked you should open Map structure Layers dialog and selects needed layers in the list by mouse To select map sheets to be marked open Map structure Map sheets dialog and select unselect map sheets in the list by mouse To set range of marking object IDs open Map structure IDs dialog and set minimum and maximum ID of marking objects To set criterion for objects selection based on their attributes open Map structure Semantics dialog and set on Selected semantics option If for example you want to display objects that have absolute elevation 100m you need to build an expression like this
34. 100 30 REACH WOOD HIGH TREES 71111110 30 REACH WOOD LOW TREES 71123000 7 GARDENS CONSTANTS CONSTANTS l value name l code of attribute ABSOLUTE ELEVATION 1 code of attribute RELATIVE ELEVATION END Sample of text file with a list of excluding codes Objects used to calculate elevation matrix _____ ABS OBJECTS ALL all objects with attribute ABSOLUTE ELEVATION REL OBJECTS ALL all objects with attribute RELATIVE ELEVATION except code 22630000 BLUFFS HYDRO CONST OBJECTS HYDROLOGY OBJECTS WITH CONSTANT ELEVATION code name Il 31120000 LAKES 31130000 RESERVOIRS HYDRO OBJECTS 2009 70 VectOr HYDROLOGY OBJECTS WITH VARIABLE ELEVATION code name 31410000 CONSTANTS CONSTANTS value name code of attribute ABSOLUTE ELEVATION 1 code of attribute RELATIVE ELEVATION 71 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia
35. 2 0 3 Deleting TOP M 43 3 2 04 Adding VO E 43 pur EEG ads _ Gen 43 a0 nass Um pF Dd NIC as BA DUAE 43 3 2 6 7 Renumbering 43 3 2 1 Labels on th digital api Sp ead nbi uM 43 Greating MERE TU SUIT 43 3 2 1 2 C dco RR Pr 43 24 Data Sor sasaran aan gagak anaa ag aa nana an a ag da Desc tubi exu us IEEE 43 34 Moeasuremenis on 44 Dds L neth of iV IBI ER m UT 44 Sr MESI RISE LISSE 44 3 4 3 Length of segment DN Ceu ooa M 44 3 4 4 Area of ore E UNE 44 Dr MES d E EE 44 2009 4 VectOr 3 4 6 Coordinates calculations iue epa erre eir lad evene enin eu LU Du RR IRR Sr SR RE RR 45 34 7 Distance from point o 45 3 4 8 Distance between map objects 45 SAD Building buffer 45 A10 Crossing iiit eS sake ni 45 3 4 11 Intersection of marked and selected objects sss 46 3 4 12 Defining map empty spaces no object areas 46 3 4 13 Marked objects operations enne nnne enne 46 SA As Objects statistical MING a 46 3 4 15 Marked objects statistical 1nf0 sccssscsscsssnsssesssnsceciseesncnescrasncssnnssiecsenssntensnesn
36. 30 nag aapa TENG GE EEE DEE Ga A GN NEG DIETER 31 2 21 General MGA ALI jes 32 3 2 1 1 General information related to object editing 32 Sd Map asana naa suka e Hp etu eh stie eru oa ANU en Ke iuda 32 A413 Object s lection osse ana MORE REGN tA PIRE orem 33 3 2 1 4 Waselecting o REGI Prov de pU a EA DG a DN RIDGE eee 33 A245 Selecting 23 210 Editing object ag ad ga nanda again 33 3 217 Completing NE T TU TT 33 SelB Canceling Operation ss sasawah ieg eaaa 33 32 10 One step NL 34 3 22 34 S21 Object creation Modes rsisi ari 34 3 2 2 2 Creation OF 34 3 223 Point object GrESLUOD 34 3224 Ge doble ERN top OR UR RR ARE Eu AK a MASSA 34 3 2 2 Polygon object creation a esee pha cns ovis exe 35 3 2 2 6 Creating object with the code of existing 35 3 2 2 7 Creating object group by coordinates retrieved from file 36 3 2 2 6 Creating 37 3 2 2 9 Creating vector object from conditional 37 3 2 2 10 Supplementary modes of object 37 asarana aan a ag a E aa Ta a aa an Bas GK a TE ag gan aa 38 3 2 9 Deleting
37. L View menu 24 241 View cont nts Map Stricture KAG Gaga a a ga ga A Ngga a Mam ONDE 24 9 2009 2 VectOr 2 4 2 Map displaying mode Map 25 21 3 Raster displaying parameters Raster sb eie pH eire or anna ictu anane Ri e 29 244 Matrix displaying parameters Matrix 25 2 4 5 User map displaying parameters o sso iot ib ER 25 2 0 Search quent ODDS o secs tides cines M DEE a KERANG Ve SNAM a Ta QUU Eos 25 4 Search and mark DIN Pid QNS 26 2 5 2 Searching objects By QUEE odd oc PURO ane eee 26 2 5 3 Searching objects by selected 27 2054 Searching objects by Namie RR ESQ 27 2 6 Tools menu options 27 2 7 Scale MENU Options mrt 28 2 8 Options TACT OP IOUS sadarga agan ataga naa Na bed seia E tutus ENE ga GA nce Etage ORNA dE 28 2 8 1 INIA PACES siressa ni E ENEE 29 28 2 PUM INS TENTE MEE 29 2 8 3 Image size 29 2 9 Window menu DUONG censa xb Unda pA DER I IU Sun MR Nena DM M UN IE 29 2 10 30 3 Basic application tasks 0ooe000000000000000 000000000 0000000000000000 eee eee eeene 30 2 Editing passport of vector MAD uses daa gan gan sone aaa aa a NE c ERR E EV NGETEN
38. Russia Set Transformation to To conic conformal projection and Method to Block Russia 57 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 45 62 93 Push Run button to start transformation 4 4 9 Map transformation to Transverse Mercator projection Set Transformation to To cylindrical projection and Method to Mercator 26 8 24 26 8 24 0 Push Run button to start transformation 4 4 10 Map transformation to cylindrical projection for Russia s latitudes Set Transformation to To cylindrical projection and Method to Russia 60 60 0 Push Run button to start transformation 4 5 Joining sheets of Work region This application is used for joining objects located on different map sheets and combine them to a group Application works in three modes Control of joining objects on the sheet borders in the Work region Expanding objects to the map border remove border undershoots Automatic combining joined objects to a group To execute application you should set undershoot tolerance and joining tolerance for map objects If you want to select some layers objects etc to be included to processing use Filter button Once operation is complete LOG file with full information about joined and not joined objects is created To start joining press Run button You can cancel processing by Cancel button in this case LOG file contains information related to only processed object
39. Software PHOTOMOD Module PHOTOMOD VectOr USER MANUAL Racurs Moscow 2009 S PHOTOMOD CONTENTS 1 e 7 WARIS iD MP 7 1 2 Hardware and software 1G UNS eoi curtis sei eni sua CY Din oer anna 7 1 3 General software structure sasae 7 Data NDES ttt c Tr 8 1 4 1 Vector maps structure 8 1 4 1 1 OR TIN Sheet ss rode st M don B tcm don NO Lee UR eaaa 8 1 4 1 2 Map nomenclature sheet title 8 1 4 1 2 1 Nomenclature of topographic 8 1 4 1 2 2 Nomenclature of geographic maps sess eren 10 1 4 1 2 3 Nomenclature of aerial navigation maps serene 13 EN T UU Umm 13 1 4 1 4 Structure of Vector zer EY RR HR ay ra ub nep na A Rn 14 14 15 Group Objects eos gom da I QURE P an b o bb DNA DES awa FUN CODI RUD HN 15 1 4 1 6 Graphic map object spese er 15 14 2 Raster Map SHUCtUES prr Rate a DOR GAE TAN KH NER DU gae 15 155 3 Matrix map SUNGUT Ska opis seni pns gag cutus vani bon tenet 16 I c Q 16 10 Vector installation ssa ragi sena aan n pu ani in etc RAN eun ODE UR XN 16 2 bi se ducato C 16 AES em 16 PME SUR US UU S 16 Dale Moving m
40. ameters layer type name in Create object dialog 3 4 12 Defining map empty spaces no object areas To define map empty spaces Mark a group of objects using Search Mark mode or manually e Activate Empty areas mode Setoutput empty object parameters in Create object dialog layer map name etc As a result empty areas are added to the digital map 3 4 13 Marked objects operations Panel of marked objects operation includes Crossing by selected object Crossing by drawn line Crossing and surrounding Intersection of marked and selected objects Marked objects info 3 4 14 Objects statistical info Used for polygons only Statistical window shows following information for common code objects total area number of objects minimum area value and corresponding object ID maximum area value and corresponding object ID 3 4 15 Marked objects statistical info Used to get information see previous section corresponding to marked objects 3 4 16 Building loxodrome To calculate loxodrome a curve that crosses meridians at equal angles set control points by left mouse button which will be connected by smooth curve The length of curve is computed and displayed 3 4 17 Building orthodrome To calculate orthodrome arc of great circle line set control points by left mouse button which will be connected by smooth curve The length of curve is computed and displayed 3 4 18 Matrix panel Ther
41. an 0 Once Add button is pressed Nomenclature dialog opens up After entering Nomenclature possibly using special template all map sheet related text fields become available Obligatory data for map sheet is coordinates rectangular or geodetic For topographic maps of standard Nomenclature this fields get filled automatically Otherwise coordinates must be entered manually For geographic maps there also should be filled fields of region passport standard parallels values central meridian and origin latitude Once all necessary fields are filled out you can close dialog or continue entering data for other map sheets You can also use Copy button for map creating In this case you select existing map and copy it to the created one for further editing Note that digital map passport can be edited any time using menu Tools View Passport 2 2 1 2 Creating plan Plan in VectOr terminology is simple version of a digital map Map in VectOr is a set of digital information associated with some ground site and built by standard rules including information about projection nomenclature vertical datum etc Samples of map are topographic geographic or aerial navigation maps Map passport must include all this information So in many cases it is easier and faster to create Plan for example it is tourist map of Lancaster county NE As a result you have digital map in which most of passport fields are filled automatically To create plan select New Pl
42. an option of File menu It is important to define what coordinate system you are going to use for your plan If it is large scale cadastral scheme you can take coordinates from source paper material If you want have no information about source coordinate system you should create your own one local coordinate system In this case before scanning your paper map you should 19 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia e add a rectangular border to map e assign 0 0 coordinates to the low left south west map corner e calculate map scale approximately Measure map size by X and Y axes and convert this distances to meters using scale factor If for example scale factor is 500 and rectangular X size 25 cm and size 50 cm you can set following coordinates for plan corners X southwest 0 0 Y southwest 0 0 X northwest 125 0 Y northwest 0 0 X northeast 125 0 Y northeast 250 0 X southeast 0 0 Y southeast 250 0 Besides coordinate values you should set scale factor 500 and select classifier to be used for plan If creating Work region includes several map sheets you should at first create all sheets separately and then combine them to Work region 2 2 1 3 Creating user map To create User map use File New User map menu You will need to enter its title type and the name of used classifier RSC file Scale entering is optional Once User map passport is created use
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44. ap transformation to conic conformal projection for 1 4 000 000 map Russia 57 4 4 9 Map transformation to Transverse Mercator 58 4 4 10 transformation to cylindrical projection for Russia s latitudes 58 4 5 Joining sheets of Work TeBIOfL 58 4 5 1 Control of joining objects on the sheet borders in the Work 58 4 5 2 Remove border undershoots oie aee rr RATHER 58 4 5 3 Automatic combining joined objects to a group 58 4 6 Vector map georeferencing 58 4 6 1 Creating catalog of control 59 40 23 gt 39 Z5 MU dU DE Na KG E NE Be a Ke a pU MGR Dat FR Qu 39 4 6 2 2 Control points TEJEOGLOTL HERE PUT 60 4 6 2 3 Error messages ond Warmings ausos evene Th BO aana anana tea nie i R E US 60 4 7 Raster image transformation esos sse incessant een 60 4 7 1 Raster transformation step by 61 ioci EET E TT 62 8 9 1 Symbol MG RR 62 TELLE Sample of symbol file 63 4 8 2 63 4252 1 Assigning SEMANTICS 64 4 9 Control of absolute elevaliDiis 64 5 Useful uro mc 65 5 1 Creation of ar
45. ard e map objects description Layers descriptions can de entered by filling corresponding table in layers editing mode one record for one layer Description of characteristics is entering in semantics editing mode by filling corresponding tables one table for one characteristic There can be created classifier of values for each table Note that for numeric attributes every code corresponds to the range of values for example width of the river 1 5m 2 10 m etc For point attributes one code corresponds to one value for example material 1 wood 2 concrete etc In case if attribute has corresponding classifier of values this attribute is numeric in input description table since physically it is number but it is displaying as logical value corresponded to current code If there is no classifier of values for described attribute this attribute can be defined either as numeric or as string Object description is entering by filling several tables from different lists It is recommended to input data as follows e main object parameters layer type classification code object name e additional parameters numbering direction scale range e semantics parameters values range default values etc e object type description e map object In many cases it is useful to have several displaying styles for one object Current style is depending on object attribute The simplest way is add new objects to be displayed by new style for examp
46. at cover the entire globe e Midlatitude main in conformal conic projection standard parallels are 30 and 60 degrees north e North polar central meridians are 90 degrees east and west Conformal azimuthal stereographic projection standard parallel is 60 degrees north e South polar central meridians are 90 degrees east and west Conformal azimuthal stereographic projection standard parallel is 60 degrees south Equatorial conformal cylindrical Mercator projection standard parallels are 26 deg 08 4 min south and north Midlatitude subsystem used for mapping of north hemisphere in 1 500 000 1 10 000 000 scale range Subsystem includes following 5 blocks e Europe central meridian is 20 deg east code 1 Asia central meridian is 90 deg east code 2 Pacific ocean central meridian is 170 deg west code 3 North America central meridian is 40 deg west code 4 Atlantic ocean central meridian is 40 deg west code 5 Blocks of midlatidude subsystem are composed as follows Europe Asia North America Atlantic Ocean Pacific ocean 2009 10 VectOr __ Composing polar subsystems Map sheet of 1 10 000 000 scale divided into 4 sheets 1 5 000 000 16 sheets 1 2 500 000 100 sheets 1 1 000 000 Map sheet of 1 1 000 000 divided into 4 sheets of 1 500 000 scale Dividing sheet of 1 10 000 000 into sheets of 1 5 000 000 10 11 i 1 Dividing sheet of 1 10 000 000
47. ates unless you start Sort procedure So you can restore previously deleted objects While objects restoring VectOr asks you to confirm restoring of each deleted object To go to the next object to be restored use Next button 3 2 5 Processing semantics of marked objects Map editor provides following operations for semantics of marked objects Adding semantics to all marked objects Deleting semantics from all marked objects Replacing semantics of all marked objects 3 2 5 1 Adding semantics To attach semantics attribute to marked objects Search and mark objects Search mode e Activate Semantics mode Semantics panel Map editor e lf there are several maps open select needed one Select name and value of adding attribute Note that attribute can be repeatable and non repeatable If you selected attribute that can has several values for example Trees birch oak you should tell the program whether to add new attribute value or replace previous one Press OK 3 2 5 2 Deleting semantics To delete semantics attribute of marked objects Search and mark objects Search mode Activate Semantics mode Semantics panel in Map editor If there are several maps open select one you need Select name and value of attributes to be deleted Press OK 3 2 5 8 Replacing semantics To replace semantics attribute of marked objects Search and mark objects Search mode Activate Semantics mode Semanti
48. ation name HWND Handle 0 of main application window Second type applications should be written in Borland version is upper than 5 02 since they use mechanic of classes export Nevertheless they may use components written in other programming languages Besides GetlnterfaceVersion second type applications should include following function extern C TMapTask WINAPI export GreateMapTask TMapWindow mapwindow TMapTask task try task new UserClass mapWindow catch task 0 return task TMapTask and TMapWindow classes are described in MTmaptask h MWmapwin h Class UserClass must be inherited from TMapTask You have to use PANAPI interface to develop second type applications in Delphi Visual C etc 4 2 Loading matrix map from GRD format 55 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD Elevation matrix can be represented as GRD text file of following structure DSAA file label i j number of columns number of lines Ymax matrix extents Xmin Xmax in rectangular coordinate system Hmin Hmax minimum and maximum elevation values H11 H12 H13 Hin elevation values H21 H22 H23 2 elevations relative to minimum value Hm1 Hm2 Hm3 Hmn For example DSAA 237 151 1770 000 4130 000 4190 000 5690 000 35 079 110 054 0 000 37 637 38 589 etc 43 Combining Work region to one map s
49. bitrary map COME SPERA cR c emu Ru ua 65 5 2 Creating raster map by paper S PORE RU Fb MERI HE Spe UR o dU Rex e 65 6 Appendix A DIR file structure 0oooo00000000 0000 00000000000000 EUR 66 7 Appendix B Sample of SXF file 00oo000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000000 nenen Manna nenen 66 8 Appendix C MTRCREA TXT file structure 0000000000000000 000e 69 2009 6 VectOr 1 Overview 1 1 What is VectOr The VectOr software is a powerful desktop cartography and GIS system developed for digital maps creating editing and printing out You can create digital map based on separate digital map sheets of different scales types and nomenclatures VectOr aggregates complete list of tools for visualization creating editing and searching map objects You can add different types of objects including non cartographic ones to the map display fragments of the map using different scales select objects and process groups of objects based on semantics and metrics parameters VectOr is running under Windows 95 or Windows NT operation systems VectOr supports MDI interface and drag and drop mode to make the system user friendly and simple You can use True Type fonts while map creation and make high quality hardcopies using a comprehensive list of output device
50. bjects Puts nodes on each intersection point of marked objects to build spatial topology 3 2 4 11 3 Smoothing marked objects Used to smooth marked object using splines Note that as a result of smoothing operation object changes its shape and may cause changes in topology relationships between objects 3 2 4 11 4 Filtering marked objects 39 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD Filtering operation decrease number of object vertices and makes object shape simpler 3 2 4 11 5 Copying marked objects to user map To copy group of objects for example all highways of width gt 10 meters to user map you should mark them using Search menu options or mark them manually In case of selection by query program will ask you to confirm copying of each marked object If you are going to copy objects to several map sheets they will be cut on sheet borders automatically For example you can copy all objects from 1 200 000 map create Work region consists of four sheets of 1 100 000 and finally get your objects on all of them Note that you can copy objects only to the map with border It is also preferable to use common classifier for both source and destination maps 3 2 4 11 6 Deleting marked objects Used to delete marked highlighted by magenta color object s You should confirm each object deleting after appropriate system warning 3 2 4 12 Text panel Used to create and edit compound an
51. ch kind of data are information about transportation network weather forecast etc To store these datasets you just have to add them to additional layers object types including attributes in the map classifier However there are some disadvantages in this way e user defined objects located on different map sheets are separated when saving and its further processing is not convenient in most cases e there is no way to view data put on one map on the other one for the same region e it is necessary to expand and keep up to date several map classifiers for the maps of different types and scales 2009 14 VectOr So VectOr allows to store user datasets separately of the main maps in special user maps User map consists of just one map sheet of unlimited size The size gets changed as some objects are added removed to from map The User map can be displayed along with Vector map and Raster or Matrix maps The same instance of User map can be visualized on different Vector maps and edited by different users User map has its own classifier not equal to the classifier of the main map The number of displaying user maps along with the main Vector map is unlimited User map objects can not be linked to the user classifier Objects of User map can be easily imported from popular GIS systems via DXF or MIF MID formats User map is rescaling appropriately when moving from one vector map to another Data related to user
52. cs panel in Map editor If there are several maps open select one you need Select old and new name and value of attribute Press OK 3 2 6 Vertex operations Vertex operations panel includes e edit marked vertex edit common vertices of adjacent objects delete vertex add new vertex close object rotate object 2009 42 VectOr 3 2 6 1 Editing marked vertex To edit a vertex you need to select line place cursor near line which causes selection of the closest vertex You will see a rubber line connecting cursor position and nearest line vertex You can edit selected vertex in drag and drop mode Use arrow keys for precise positioning Object is saving by standard complete operation 3 2 1 7 section 3 2 6 2 Editing common vertices of adjacent objects Used to edit spatially connected objects Process is similar to Editing marked vertex except that in this mode after editing moving a vertex all corresponding vertices vertices with the same coordinates of adjacent objects also move to the same position 3 2 6 3 Deleting vertex To delete a vertex you need to select line and place cursor near line vertex to be deleted You will see a rubber line connecting cursor position and nearest line vertex Vertex is deleted by standard complete operation 3 2 1 7 3 2 6 4 Adding vertex To add a vertex to line or polygon select source object and add vertex by left mouse button Insert position is defined by cursor
53. d printing object style To change object layer press Layer button To change object name up to 30 characters press Name button To cancel editing press Cancel button 3 5 2 1 New object creation Default settings for new object are as follows e standard code line object service layer default displaying style no attributes semantics visible for map of any scale To change default parameters you need to edit corresponding text fields Note that new object created when some filter is set on will get corresponding layer and type assigned Change or reset filter if needed Use Save button to save new object In case of zero code or when object code is equal to another object code object can not be saved and user has to correct code value after appropriate system warning or just cancel operation New object is appended to objects table 3 5 2 2 Copying object Used to copy object and all its parameters except Code to new one Note that unique Code of output object must be entered Use Save button to save new object In case of zero code or when object code is equal to another object code object can not be saved and user has to correct code value after appropriate system warning or just cancel operation New object is appended to objects table 51 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 3 5 2 3 Copying group of objects Used to copy group of objects Note that unique C
54. d single map labels Compound label creation mode used basically for editing map sheets created before text along curve mode was implemented On such lists some labels were divided by segments like Mud dy Cre ak To combine segments of such a label select them one by one working in Creating compound label mode To complete combining press Ctrl Enter if you need to edit text while combining press Space key and press OK once text is edited When compound test is created you can select and edit its base curve See Editing vertex section 3 2 4 13 Group panel Group panel includes following options add object to group delete object from group delete all links in the group combine group to object 3 2 4 14 Topology panel Used to build spatial topology relationships between map objects e Merging objects Copy object fragment Create subobject based on map object Creating objects intersections Dissection of line object Dissection of area object Joining objects vertices Joining line objects Creating a node Object smoothing Filtering objects Joining objects 3 2 4 14 1 Merging objects Used to merge objects of common type To merge objects select them one by one and complete operation 3 2 1 7 section To cancel operation use 1 step undo or Cancel button of Edit menu 3 2 4 14 2 Copying object part 2009 40 VectOr Used for topology adjustment of objects that must have common border T
55. e and profile color Profile can be also calculated taken Earth curvature into account if corresponding option is on 3 4 21 Building profile along existing object This mode used to build 3D profile along a selected line or polygon object using underlying elevation matrix Select object to build profile along it Resulted profile is displaying as a color diagram in which Z coordinate value represented by Y axis value and line length by X axis value You can view following values while moving cursor over the profile e elevation elevation values of start current and end points of profile e distance distance between start and current profile points e Profile height distance from Earth surface to line connecting start and end profile points You can move start end and current points to chosen altitude For this purpose you should set appropriate values in Z offset text field You can save profile Save As button as WMF EMF formats for further using in MS Windows applications Parameters panel allows to set options of profile visualization such as line and profile color Profile can be also calculated taken Earth curvature into account if corresponding option is on 3 4 22 Building viewshed VectOr is computing Viewshed model based on elevation matrix if any To calculate viewshed you need to set one or few visibility sectors including view point and sector boundary drawn by mouse or entered from keyboard as coordinate valu
56. e are following operations with matrix available in the matrix panel e Matrix creation based on vector e Matrix 3D displaying Viewshed building drawing sector on screen Viewshed building entering sector coordinates from keyboard 2009 46 VectOr e Profile building along drawn line e Profile building along map object e Z coordinate viewing 3 4 19 Calculating absolute elevation Used to calculate absolute elevation in map point marked by cursor in case when corresponding elevation matrix is available 3 4 20 Building profile along drawn line This mode used to build 3D profile along a line drawn over elevation matrix Use left mouse button to draw a line Resulted profile is displaying as a color diagram in which Z coordinate value represented by Y axis value and line length by X axis value You can view following values while moving cursor over profile e elevation elevation values of starting current and ending points of profile e distance distance between start and current profile points profile height distance from Earth surface to line connecting starting and ending profile points You can move start end and current points to chosen altitude For this purpose you should set appropriate values in Z offset text field You can save profile Save As button as WMF EMF formats for further using in MS Windows applications Parameters panel allows to set options of profile visualization such as lin
57. ect type To change object type you should select object and set its new type 3 2 4 7 Expanding vector line To expand continue digitizing vector line select it As a result the cursor is located at the last object vertex defined by vertices numbering order If you need to add vertices in the opposite direction press R key Then draw vector line in standard way All additional object creation modes are available 3 2 4 8 Marking grouping Used to mark objects on the map manually Every marked object is added to object group for further possible group processing delete group copy group decode group move group to another map and so on 3 2 4 9 Viewing map control information Used to view control information related to created digital map Listing error list you can analyze spatial objects current error is associated with Note that previously you should execute one of map control procedures 3 2 4 10 Changing scale range of marked objects Used to set lower and upper values of scale to display not display an object 3 2 4 11 Mark panel Used to work with objects marked by queries Search or by tools of Marking Grouping panel 3 2 4 11 1 Restoring previously deleted objects All objects deleted after last Sorting procedure can be restored Using Restore deleted objects dialog you can select which deleted objects are to be restored or press All button to restore all of them 3 2 4 11 2 Intersection of marked o
58. ee Map tree File menu option is a hierarchical multilevel genealogy chart looking structure that can be created and edited by user for fast searching needed map by its name Originally right after installation map tree is setup based on sample data included to installation package It is up to user to edit map tree or create new one Map tree related information is stored in TRE file The Map tree information for every map includes map name and its location on your computer Map location can be stored as full path or as partial path associated with parent branch Below are the samples of valid map trees General map E MAP Europe MAP 1 EVR MAP America MAP2 US MAP Special maps D DATA MAP Amap of a site of the river map1 map soil map terr map And General map Europe E MAP MAP 1 EVR MAP America E MAP MAP2 US MAP Special maps A map of a site of the river D DATA MAP map1 map A soil map D DATA MAP terr map To edit a map tree use Add Edit Delete options of map tree menu Edit 2 2 4 Loading data from external formats 2 2 4 1 Loading vector data To create a digital map it is necessary to convert data stored in exchange format to internal format of VectOr To load dataset stored in the exchange format you have to select corresponding SXF file As a result of conversion MAP HDR DAT and SEM files associated with the map sheet are created You will also need RSC file to use it a
59. eed disk space twice as big as DXF file size By default DXF file and temporary files are created in MAP file directory All error messages are written to LOG file 4 8 1 Symbol file structure Symbol file is used when converting to DXF format DXL one line SCALE 2000 line SYMBOL several lines SYMBOL several lines SYMBOL several lines SYMBOL several lines END one line where mandatory keyword SCALE 2000 SCALE mandatory keyword 2000 map scale END mandatory keyword SYMBOL description consists of 3 lines OBJECT CODE one line SEMANTICS optional several lines SYMBOL DESCRIPTION several lines OBJECT CODE looks like OBJ EXTERNAL CODE DOT where OBJ mandatory keyword EXTERNAL CODE external object code in VectOr 8 digits DOT mandatory keyword for point object SEMANTICS looks like 2009 62 VectOr SEM NUMBER OF CODES SEMANTICS CODE SEMANTICS VALUE SEMANTICS CODE SEMANTICS VALUE gt number of lines is equal to OF CODES each SEMANTICS CODE SEMANTICS VALUE code at the new line where SEM mandatory keyword SEMANTICS CODE SEMANTICS VALUE integer values Semantics is optional part of the file It is used only for symbols of common external code and displaying style but different graphical representation for example round metallic pillars concrete pillars wood pillars etc Semantics is assigned according to the ma
60. ersion return MAPACCESSVERSION If application is written in Visual C you should use export If you work in Delphi following statement can be used declspec dllexport instead of 2009 54 VectOr procedure GetlnterfaceVersion stdcall export This function should be always called before the application running for comparing version of MAPACCESS library used when application writing in corresponding library installed with the system If the versions are different applications can not be executed and you have to recompile application The variable MAPACCESSVERSION is declared in mapapi h If the application is using only functions included to MAPAPI interface classes from mapacces library are not used returned value can be equal to 0 Second function should look like follows extern C long int _ export WINAPI CallMapFunction long int hmap TASKPARM parm Variable hmap contains identifier of open map For modules this variable should be cast to TmapAccess type TASKPARM structure is described in mapapi h typedef struct TASKPARM APPLICATION PARAMETERS long int Language Language code 1 ENGLISH 12 RUSSIAN HINSTANCE Resource Module of application resources const char HelpName Full file name const char IniName Full ini file name const char PathShell Path to the application exe dll const char ApplicationName Applic
61. es Viewshed control window options includes e text field for output raster file name selection view point parameters coordinates elevation shear angle etc e output raster view parameters transparency color of non visible areas etc e viewshed building modes cell is visible from all view points or at least from one view point 47 RACURS UI Yaroslavskaya 13 office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD All viewshed dialog parameters are saved in VectOr ini file and restored for every viewshed session 3 4 23 Building buffer zones Used to calculate a buffer zone around marked object To build buffer zone Mark objects using Search Mark mode e Enter zone radius in meters e Select a map to add created object to As a result of processing new user is created with resource file ZONE RSC User object layer is added to resource file of current or new map e Buffer zone object is created in this layer with attribute Zone radius There is a possibility to change process parameters Open file INI located in LOG directory associated with current map Find section named ZONE and needed parameters such as code name of zone objects code and name of semantics layer name and RSC file name 3 4 24 3D terrain displaying Opens window containing 3D image of elevation matrix if any To open control panel of 3D view mode press left mouse button over displaying elevation matrix Set orientation and view
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63. face Digital maps manager is a DLL used for digital maps creating editing etc Service modules are data converters printing modules modules of calculations and analysis and others All of them are also implemented as DLLs Such a structure allows users to create their own applications and easily integrate them to the system See also DOC MAPAPI DOC file 7 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia 1 4 Data types The digital map may contain following cartographic datasets e vector maps e raster images e matrix datasets Different types of datasets can be processed separately or as a whole They can be converted to a number of formats or from one type to another displayed printed out edited etc 1 4 1 Vector maps structure VectOr processes vector maps stored in open SXF format Datasets from F1 F20V MIF MID DXF and other vector formats can be converted to from SXF For SXF description see DOC SXF3 30 TXT DOC SXF4TXT DOC files 1 4 1 1 Vector map sheet Digital vector map dataset includes e Passport data corresponding to map sheet nomenclature scale projection coordinate system rectangular and geodetic coordinates of corners etc e Metrics data coordinates of vector elements e Object attributes semantics data Object of a digital map is a collection of digital data metrics semantics reference data corresponding to real world object bridge
64. heet This application is used to combine source Work region to output vector map consisted of one map sheet Source work region can include any number of sheets Output vector map is created based on all corresponding Work region s parameters Thus output scale digitizing rate map projection are equal to source ones There are following options of this application Remove borders of source map sheets Create border of output region Automatic merging output objects Press Run button to start combining Previously you must name output map sheet It is recommended to enter region name and nomenclature for combined sheet Otherwise output sheet assigns name of source work region and nomenclature of its first map sheet You can include to output map just a part of objects or their attributes Filter button You can view errors occurred during processing in LOG file stored in output map directory 4 3 1 Removing borders of source map sheets If this option is on output map does not contain source map borders If it is off source borders are exported to output map with a code Marked lines Once combining is done user can use Map editor tools to merge output vector object and delete objects referred to as Marked lines 4 3 2 Creating border of output region If this option is on the border of output sheet is built based on passport of output region If it is off output border is not created You can create or edit output s
65. heet border using standard Map editor tools 4 4 Vector map transformation Used to convert source vector map to destination vector map with different characteristics Process modes are listed below Map transformation to control coordinates by map border Map transformation to control coordinates by map corners Map transformation using control points by map border Map transformation using control points by map corners Map transformation to selected zone of Gauss Kruger coordinate system 9 2009 56 VectOr Map transformation to conic conformal projection for the block Europe Map transformation to conic conformal projection for the block Asia Map transformation to conic conformal projection for map of scale 1 4 000 000 Map transformation to conic conformal projection for 1 4 000 000 map Russia Map transformation to Transverse Mercator projection Map transformation to cylindrical projection for Russia s latitudes There is a possibility to include to output map just selected objects sheets layers attributes and so on To create a query for source objects selection press Filter button Transformation is done when all source map sheets get transformed You can view errors if any occurred during processing in LOG file stored in output map directory 4 4 1 Map transformation to control coordinates by map border To start transformation set Transformation to To control coordinates Method to By map border and push Ru
66. ication mode Program works interactively While processing it may ask you about control points rejection Besides you can get some error warning and information windows Main georeference dialog consists of following parts Paths and file names for Source region Output region Control points catalog Elevation matrix Status bars Standard screen buttons 4 6 2 1 Preparation Before running georeferencing process you should Select transformation mode using Elevation data menu data 2D transformation Elevation matrix 3D transformation Select source region Select output region default mode replaces input region by output region Select control points catalog Select elevation matrix in case of 3D transformation Set maximum control data residual value difference between real and calculated coordinates 59 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 4 6 2 2 Control points rejection Before processing of each sheet system provides rejection of bad control points points with a gross error in coordinate values There are following warnings used to help user to go through the processing There is minimum number of control points on the sheet Gross error in coordinates of point may cause serious deformations Do you want to cancel processing Gross error in coordinates of control point Do you want to reject it Maximum number of
67. ing object and its vertices to be combined To select another source object you should turn off and turn on Join vertices mode just press corresponding icon twice 3 2 4 14 8 Joining line objects Used to join line objects by moving vertex of source object to selected vertex position of destination object For example you want to connect line vertex on one map sheet to corresponding line vertex to another map sheet both of them located on the map frames To join lines select source line and source vertex then select destination line and destination vertex 3 2 4 14 9 Creating a node This mode is used to build topology relationships between objects that can belong either to one or to several layers Select source object select editing object and select vertex on editing object Editing vertex snaps to source object by shortest distance to create a node 3 2 4 14 10 Smoothing object Used to smooth object shape 3 2 4 14 11 Filtering objects Object filtering operation used to decrease number of object vertices Filtering level is set in Map editor parameters dialog 3 2 4 14 12 Joining objects 41 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia join 2 objects select them on by one and complete operation Use Join tolerance parameter in Editor options window to set a maximum distance between objects to be joined 3 2 4 15 Restoring edited objects VectOr memorizes all map st
68. is done 3 4 Measurements on a map VectOr contains a complete set of tools necessary for spatial measurements over the vector map including calculations of distances areas perimeters and so on There is a special icon bar available at the left side of screen when you are in measurements mode Each icon in the column relates to some measurement mode Tool tips corresponded to each icon are also helpful when measurement mode selection All options related to objects visualization are available in measurements mode thus you can change styles of objects displaying show or hide chosen objects change map background etc Following are the measurement modes supported 3 4 1 Length of drawn line This mode allows to calculate length of a polyline drawn by user Polyline vertices are entered by left mouse button and connected by straight segments Use Backspace to remove last selected vertex You can also use portions of existing objects to calculate length For this purpose press right mouse button and select option named Copy part object Then select an object and mark by 3 points fragment to be included to line To finish line adding use standard save operation 3 2 1 7 You can also set a displaying style for saved object using options of Saving conditional object dialog If the map includes elevation matrix final line length will be calculated on surface as 3D To cancel started processing press Ctrl Right mouse button 3 4 2 Object
69. itor Set on Cut by selected object option Select a user map to copy objects to Copy objects 5 2 Creating raster map by paper source If you are short in time to digitize scanned raster map to convert it to vector format you can use raster map as a background and vectorize just objects you currently need In this case you need to combine all materials to raster or raster vector Work region You can create raster map in 2 ways 1 If you combine source raster map sheets to one map you have to create a passport for every map sheet included to Work region and make for each of them following operations e Open vector map sheet e Add to the map corresponding raster Make raster transformation by map corners Run application Raster transformation e Cut raster by map border Raster list Properties Extract By map object 65 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 2 If you combine raster map from different fragments if for example big paper source was scanned by overlapped portions you need e Open one of the fragments it is recommended to begin with the fragment located inside common image e first step orientation Raster list Properties Place by two points Horizontal alignment Add second raster and georeference it to the first one Raster list Properties Place by two points with scaling and rotation using two points on each raster e Cut raster by d
70. jects can cover other ones causing problems in visual map perception There is a technology called Map generalization to make your digital map nice looking and more informative One of the main generalization rules is to set visibility of every object according to the current scale of displaying map Scale range can be set for class of objects forest lake sidewalk etc when digital classifier is creating it also can be redefined for any single object by digital map editor tools Besides user defined scale range VectOr provides automatic generalization procedure for different object categories Starting at some scale relative to the basic one VectOr changes size of labels removes relatively small objects changes thickness of polygon boundaries etc 1 6 VectOr installation To start working you should install PHOTOMOD system or VectOr itself in case of separate VectOr purchasing See also manual for PHOTOMOD system 2 VectOr interface 2 1 Basic info 2 1 1 Start and exit VectOr can be started from PHOTOMOD Montage Desktop module as well as separately VECTOR EXE 2009 16 VectOr System is handling by mouse and keyboard Screen is divided into work area panels menus and messages area Once you have finished VectOr session all maps get closed All displaying parameters including relative windows placement are saved in service INI files To exit VectOr make one of following operations e Double click on exit button of
71. l character starting from equator A zone to the north and number of Longitude zone integer number starting from 180 degrees longitude 0 zone to the east Thus for example 1 1 000 000 map sheet of area around city of Smolensk is named N 36 Smolensk 1 4 1 2 1 Nomenclature of topographic maps Nomenclature map sheet title of topographic maps depends on their scales There is a list of standard scales of topographic maps below 1 1 000 000 2009 8 VectOr 1 500 000 1 200 000 1 100 000 1 50 000 1 25 000 1 10 000 1 5 000 Template of Nomenclature of 1 10 000 map looks like 9 2 99 999 9 9 9 2 1234 567 8 9 1011 Dot or dash may be used as delimiter Character number Meaning 1 Hemisphere 0 north 1 south 2 Latitude zone Latin character from A to U Numbering is starting from equator 3 4 Longitude zone Integer from 1 to 60 Numbering is starting from meridian of 180 degrees to the east 5 6 7 Number of 1 100 000 map sheet 1 144 or number of 1 200 000 map sheet 1 36 or number of 1 500 000 map sheet 1 4 8 Number of 1 50 000 map sheet 1 4 on 1 100 000 map sheet 9 Number of 1 25 000 map sheet 1 4 on 1 50 000 map sheet 10 Number of 1 10 000 map sheet 1 4 on 1 25 000 map sheet 11 Sheet type Latin characters A D can be one of following e single A B C D e double A C e four sheets in one A Sheet type depends on latitude zones e zones A single
72. le object Building that has attribute Material can be separated on two objects Wood buildings and Concrete buildings Another way is to create set of objects separated by range of attribute values and displaying style In this case you should select source object and switch to set of objects creation mode Set of objects creation begins with selecting one or two attributes that define object displaying style if number of such attributes is greater than 2 you should combine two methods described above All displaying styles are entering to object view table At the beginning of object set creation this table contains 49 RACURS Co Ul Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD just style for source object For each attribute the range of possible values should be defined These ranges are entering to the first line of link table for 1st attribute and to the 1st column for 2nd attribute You can set displaying style for each attribute You can also change displaying style of map objects from dialog Object selection Once object is selected press Info button and set object displaying style Style tabbed page on Info dialog You can use following parameters for style editing and creating 1 Line objects new line style color thickness and dashes parameters for existing line style of vector objects located along the line 2 Polygon objects style of vector objects located along the polygon perimeter
73. le of known diameter result of interactive vectorization over underlying raster entering coordinates from keyboard loading from text file Polygon object points vertices are creating when pressing left mouse button or Enter Polygon object is closed automatically Supplementary modes of creation are also available To save line object use standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section Pressing Backspace key deletes last added vertex To create a rectangle you should draw it on the map using left mouse button To create a rotated rectangle you should draw it on the map using left mouse button To create a complex rectangle you should add its vertices one by one by left mouse button all polygon segments are intersected at the right angle To save any polygon objects use standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section To create a circle of fixed radius you need to set its radius and center point You can use previously created point object as a center for circle as well as any polygon vertex Refer to Supplementary modes of creation section for details To create an arbitrary circle you need to draw it by left mouse button You can use previously created point object as a center for circle as well as any polygon vertex Refer to Supplementary modes of creation section for details Vectorization tracing is a process of interactive following line features of raster image to convert them into vector format To start vectorization you need to se
74. length Used to calculate selected line polygon length perimeter 3 4 3 Length of segment This mode is available just for line and polygon objects Once object is selected you should select its fragment by 3 points in case of polygon and by 2 points in case of line After third point of segment is selected measuring fragment is highlighted and its length is displaying in the results window To cancel processing press Ctrl Right mouse button 3 4 4 Area of drawn polygon This mode allows to calculate area of a polygon drawn by user Polygon vertices are entered by left mouse button and connected by straight segments Use Backspace to remove last selected vertex You can also use portions of existing objects to calculate length For this purpose press right mouse button and select option named Copy part object Then select an object and mark by 3 points fragment to be included to line To finish line use standard save operation You can also set a displaying style for saved object using options of Saving conditional object dialog according to classifier To cancel processing press Ctrl Right mouse button 3 4 5 Object area This mode works for polygon objects only Select polygon and press right mouse button and left mouse button to display its area Note that area value is calculated excluding area of subobjects islands O 2009 44 VectOr 3 4 6 Coordinates calculations Used to calculate coordinates of a set point on
75. lications or when you want to edit classifier change object list change relations between objects and corresponding attributes It is possible to convert whole dataset to exchange format as well as copy just selected layers objects object types etc To filter select objects for conversion use Filter button which opens Structure of a map dialog Conversion procedure automatically creates DIR file containing names of resource file RSC and names of SXF files in case of several map sheets If program fails all invalid records are missing and program tries to process rest of them Errors related information is stored in LOG file To save vector map as a text file you should convert source data from internal VectOr format to text version of SXF file To do this you should select output file name and nomenclature of saving map if there are several map sheets included Default output filename is equal to 2009 22 VectOr input map file name You can save any fragment of digital map in BMP and EMF formats for further processing in external applications Matrix and raster data are saved in EMF format as rasters Vector data can also be saved either as raster normal mode or as vector printer mode See View menu options 2 2 6 Map upgrading Map upgrading procedure adds to current map new objects retrieved from SXF file The Map taken from SXF file should have the same scale projection and nomenclature as the upgrading one
76. lue Height if superposition menu is used There are two options in this menu Maximum maximum of underlying 2 coordinates is put to elevation matrix e Average average of underlying Z values is put to elevation matrix There can be used auxiliary text file MTRCREA TXT when matrix creation that contains information related to vector objects used for computing elevation values You can set output matrix cell size resolution in Element size text field 2 2 1 4 1 Fast mode of matrix creation Elevation matrix can be computed in Fast or Normal modes All matrix cells can be separated to two groups 2009 20 VectOr e cells which values are calculated at the first step of processing using information related to vector map objects e cells which values are calculated based on values of neighboring cells The difference between Fast and Normal modes is that in first case smaller area and less number of directions are used to calculate values of second group cells So second group cell values calculated by Fast and Normal methods may be slightly different 2 2 2 Opening digital map To open existing digital map use File Open menu Now it is available for viewing editing printing out etc You can open several maps at the same time and switch between them as needed If you open map in exchange format SXF TXT DIR PCX BMP TIFF etc it is converting to internal VectOr format for further processing 2 2 3 Map tr
77. lute elevation 100 To do it use dialog panel consists of three columns Semantics code name Condition Value Press Selected semantics to select attribute name Absolute altitude Double click on Condition to select and type 100 in Value text field To set selection by spatial object parameters open Map structure Measurements dialog Press Selected measurements button Set type of measurement for example length Set condition like length 100 in Single mode or 50 length 250 in Range mode To set condition use Expression panel You can use Model dialog to create several models of object selection set by dialogs listed above To create model press Create button to add model to Model list up to 256 models Selection models are saved once VectOr session is over and restored when system starts another time 2009 24 VectOr 2 4 2 Map displaying mode Map image The vector map can be displayed in several ways Normal all digital map objects are displaying in accelerated mode according to the map legend stored in the digital classifier Draft objects are displaying in draft simplified form Printer map looks completely like its hardcopy using full library of output styles Printer outline polygons look like not filled 2 4 3 Raster displaying parameters Raster list Used to add remove change properties of raster objects included to map e raster view modes full saturated transluce
78. map is stored in following files metrics object coordinates 5 semantics object attributes SSE information index records SHD map symbols SGR Passport file for user map has SIT extension 1 4 1 5 Group objects Digital information associated with ground area is stored in separate map sheets Real ground objects and map symbols map grid contours etc can be located on different map sheets For convenient work with such objects there are two ways Using user maps which contain one sheet of variable size depending on its contents Using group objects Group object is a map object real or conditional which divided into map sheets but gets combined every time it is opening common object metrics is composed by single ones Once Group object is edited it is automatically cut by map sheet borders Map frames may have arbitrary configuration You can create group objects automatically in Sheets adjustment mode or manually using Add objects to group Remove objects from group options of Map editor icon panel Group objects are supported just in case when VECTOR INI file contains string Group ON 1 4 1 6 Graphic map object Most of digital map objects are described in map classifier Object description includes object code layer number map symbol and other parameters However when you need to put on a map additional information some comments auxiliary lines polygons it is more
79. n button 4 4 2 Map transformation to control coordinates by map corners To start transformation set Transformation to To control coordinates Method to By map corners and push Run button 4 4 3 Map transformation using control points by map border Set Transformation to By control points and Method to By map border Afterwards you should enter coordinates of map corners and arch points if any Once last point is selected push Run button at the appeared dialog 4 4 4 Map transformation using control points by map border Set Transformation to By control points and Method to By map border Afterwards you should enter coordinates of map corners Once last point is selected push Run button at the appeared dialog 4 4 5 Map transformation to selected zone of Gauss Kruger coordinate system Set Transformation to To Gauss Kruger coordinate system and set following Method parameters Zone XX and Column XX Push Run button to start transformation 4 4 6 Map transformation to conic conformal projection for the block Europe Set Transformation to To conic conformal projection and Method to Block Europe 30 60 20 Push Run button to start transformation 4 4 7 Map transformation to conic conformal projection for the block Asia Set Transformation to To conic conformal projection and Method to Block Europe 30 60 90 Push Run button to start transformation 4 4 8 Map transformation to conic conformal projection for 1 4 000 000 map
80. n is active when object selection selected object is blinking Press Enter again to go to the next object Press Shift Enter to go to previous object Press Ctrl Enter to complete operation Space opens Object selection dialog when object is blinking Ctrl Enter fast selection of closest to cursor object without blinking and opening dialog e Searching map objects Ctrl F Opens object Searching Marking dialog Ctrl L Continues object searching starting at the last found one 2 2 File menu options Menu File used to access to digital data in different formats 2009 18 VectOr Table 2 1 File menu options Option Meaning New Create map user map plan matrix etc Open Open existing vector map raster image or matrix Map tree Select a map from list Add Add to active map raster matrix or user map Close Close map raster or matrix Update Add and update data in active map Save as Save map in selected format BMP DIR MTW SXF TXT EMF Print Print a map or its fragment Printer Setup Select printer parameters Exit Exit VectOr 2 2 1 Creating digital map 2 2 1 1 Creating new map To create a new map select New Map option of File menu Dialog window consists of two main parts see below appears Area data e Map sheet data First fill area related fields and press Add button Obligatory parameters of map creation are the name of resource classifier file RSC and scale value greater th
81. n map viewing Table 2 3 View menu options Option Meaning View Contents To select objects to be displayed Map image Type of visualization normal draft printer printer outline Matrix image Type of matrix visualization color or grayscale Raster list Changing raster displaying parameters Matrix list Changing matrices displaying parameters User Map Changing user maps displaying parameters Embedded Object 2 4 1 View contents Map structure The dialog box Map structure used to select objects for displaying by different criteria Map object are structured as follows Map layers and object types Object styles List of map sheets Range of object IDs Objects attributes semantics e Spatial object parameters Full list of map layers object types object attributes are defined by Map classifier To select layers to be displayed you should open Map structure Layers dialog and select needed layers in the list by mouse To select map sheets to be displayed open Map structure Map sheets dialog and select unselect map sheets in the list by mouse To set range of displaying object IDs open Map structure IDs dialog and set minimum and maximum ID of displaying objects To set criterion for object displaying based on its attributes open Map structure Semantics dialog and set on Selected semantics option If for example you want to display objects that have absolute elevation gt 100m you need to build an expression like this Abso
82. n object you can Select new one Press Cancel button on Select object dialog Press Ctrl and right mouse button Press Cancel on pop up menu opened by right mouse button 3 2 1 5 Selecting object part You can select a portion of object by selecting 2 for non closed line or 3 for closed line metrics points using left mouse button This mode can be used for editing or making measurements when message string is Select part of object 3 2 1 6 Editing object part Select object part by three points and edit object part point by point move them to a new position To complete editing press Ctrl key and left mouse button To go back use Step back or Restoring edited object 3 2 1 7 Completing operation To complete operation for example calculate segment length or save line you can e press Ctrl Enter e press Ctrl left mouse button e press right and left mouse buttons e press Yes or OK in appropriate dialog If you complete object creation by double click additional vertex is created Otherwise not 3 2 1 8 Canceling operation To cancel any operation you can 33 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD click again on the same icon to get it released select another operation close corresponding task in Tools menu press Ctrl right mouse button if currently some object is selected it is at first deselecting and you have to press Ctrl right mouse button again to cancel operation
83. n parts task name path to corresponding DLL file e control icons Use Add and Delete buttons to add and remove tasks from list To run application press Start button If some task is currently executing there is a checker near its name in the list Some DLLs also additionally marked by icon 2 7 Scale menu options Used to scale a map on the screen Table 2 6 Scale menu options Option Meaning Zoom In Zooming in map by left mouse button Zoom Out Zooming out map by left mouse button Full Display full map Zoom 1 1 Display map in 1 1 scale There also two ways to change map scale press lt or gt keys to zoom in zoom out map respectively select zooming mode by right mouse button 2 8 Options menu options Table 2 7 Options menu options Option Meaning Coordinate System Selecting coordinate system Colors Selecting palette for map displaying Fonts Selecting fonts used in map displaying and dialogs Screen Options Screen size and image scale Language Language used in interface English or Russian Redraw after s Period of digital map updating There are following coordinate systems available 1 Rectangular in Meters 2 Rectangular in Map units 3 Rectangular in Pixels 4 Geodetic Radians 5 Geodetic Degrees 6 Geodetic Degrees minutes seconds 2009 28 VectOr 2 8 1 Map palette Used to set colors and brightness contrast parameters of a map including vector
84. n related to selected object in the top of map window You can open Select object dialog by pressing Spacebar when object is blinking To cancel object selection press Esc key For fast object selection use Ctrl left mouse button In this case object will be selected without opening the dialog The object metrics related information includes e number of subobjects ID of displaying subobject number of points in object subobject distance between current and following point of object subobject azimuth angle between current and following point of object subobject etrics can be set using different units meters in rectangular coordinate systems map units in rectangular coordinate system pixels in rectangular coordinate system radians in geodetic geographic coordinate system degrees in values range 1E 6 1E 7 in geodetic geographic coordinate system e degrees minutes seconds in geodetic geographic coordinate system If you edit object by changing distance and angle coordinates of vertex that follows current one are changed You can not correct coordinates of the first object vertex this way To edit elevation values in object metrics first you have to open Full information window by mouse double click over the dialog title or select Full info from pop up menu that appears by right mouse click over the dialog o 17 RACURS UI Yaroslavskaya 13 office 15 129366 Moscow Russia
85. names of SXF TXT or MAP files in arbitrary order Each file name is stored in separate string If file name does not include paths files must be stored in DIR file directory or its subdirectories For example DIR file is stored in C DATA directory SXF file name looks like OMAHA omaha sxf So full path to SXF file is C DATA OMAHA omaha sxf You can also include full paths to file names Different files may be stored in different directories All files should contain maps of common type and projection If the Work region covers several zones of coordinate system SXF file that covers maximum area should be at the first place in the SXF files list All other SXF files will be georferenced to the coordinate system of the first one 7 Appendix B Sample of SXF file EXAMPLE of a text SXF FILE RECTANGULAR COORDINATES 1 TOPOGRAPHIC P000 BERN 2009 66 VectOr P001 0 L 32 039 2 2 A P002 1 P101 0 8188502 0 1287180 P102 0 8203048 0 1287180 P103 0 8203047 0 1308997 P104 0 8188505 0 1308998 P109 5199356 6 2376216 0 P110 5208620 7 2376408 1 P111 5208431 0 2385915 0 P112 5199166 9 2385737 7 P116 1 P117 1 P119 1 P207 50000 DAT 4 LAKE KEY 3 4 65536 4 196612 WATER TYPE FRESH SHORELINE FEATURES CONSTANT TRUE ALTITUDE 546 m OBJ 31120000 SQR KEY 196612 8 5202894 2378715 5202876 2378775 5202844 2378795 5202784 2378790 5202740 2378713 5202744 2378668 5202804 2378655
86. ndow gets opened You need to enter map sheet nomenclature using standard template if needed When dialog Input of nomenclature is closed input data fields appear on screen Coordinates data fields should be filled obligatorily In case of standard map sheets with known nomenclature this fields are filled out automatically In all other cases you should enter coordinate values manually For geographic map it is also necessary enter projection related data including 1st and 2nd standard parallels central meridian origin point latitude Once all necessary data is input you can either close the dialog or continue input adding new map sheets 3 2 Vector map editor To activate vector map editor select Tools Map Editor option Vector map editor is an integrated part of VectOr system and used to creation and editing digital vector maps There is a panel of icons located along the left screen border Each icon corresponds to option of vector map editor You have to push the appropriate icon to activate editing mode you need In case when you are working in one editing mode and do not finish the editing operation all other icons are not available Once editing is completed the vector object is saved to file automatically If program failures during the input and editing data is not lost displaying options such as color scale background view contents are available when editing and can be changed any time you need Map editor functions are a
87. neral aan awan Nagane ana Panganan aa 53 3 54 Layers Un ENG PG Na E Laa ENG kk E a na ak ag ah ga ag ah 53 3 35 5 Semantics Edine kasan aana a ag a 54 4 Linked application 54 d General 54 4 2 Loading matrix map GRD 55 43 Combining Work region to one map 56 4 3 1 Removing borders of source map sheets isis eod pred aout xke rt paa Qr pO PNIS 56 4 3 2 Creating border of output region DURO Ebo IOS dU 56 Jd Vector map 56 4 4 1 Map transformation to control coordinates by map border 57 4 4 2 Map transformation to control coordinates by map 57 4 4 3 Map transformation using control points by map border 57 4 4 4 Map transformation using control points by map border 57 4 4 5 Map transformation to selected zone of Gauss Kruger coordinate system 57 4 4 6 Map transformation to conic conformal projection for the block Europe 57 4 4 7 Map transformation to conic conformal projection for the block Asia 57 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia 4 4 8 M
88. nt average transparent none e raster color map e raster relative position on digital map You can place raster relatively to current vector map using following methods place raster by one point place raster by two points with scaling place raster by two points with scaling and rotation move raster to southwest map corner These modes are available in Raster list Properties menu e current raster position in view window e scale e resolution e optimization optimization speeds up raster displaying and reduce required disk space for raster storing e Color view preferences When adding rasters of BMP PCX TIFF formats corresponding converter to internal RSW format is started Multi selection mode is also available 2 4 4 Matrix displaying parameters Matrix list Matrix map can be displayed using two modes e Color map Grayscale In case of color map color range from deep green low elevations to deep brown high elevation is used In case of grayscale low elevation pixels look dark and high elevation pixels look bright 2 4 5 User map displaying parameters User map list menu used to change a structure of the list of files of user maps and properties of a user map selected in the list of files To access user map parameters use right mouse button or Properties button User has possibility to not display a user map and change a structure of displayed layers and objects 2 5 Search menu options Search menu used
89. nt in the catalog There is no semantics code of control point ID in the catalog Errors that stop processing of current map sheet Control point arrays are not filled out Too few points for transformation Map sheet coefficients are not found New extents of a map sheet are not found Errors of map border creation Passport does not contain new sheet coordinates All errors related information is displayed at the dialog It is important to take it into account even in case when processing is complete successfully error and warning messages are duplicated in the Work region register 4 7 Raster image transformation Basic sources of errors included raster objects scanned maps are source paper or transparent film deformations Aerial raster images also characterized by tilt relief displacement errors caused by Earth curvature refraction and difference between scales of 2009 60 VectOr raster image and output digital map The main purpose of raster transformation is minimizing influence of listed errors before on screen digitizing Each raster should be transformed separately There are 5 transformation algorithms supported By two points rotation Rotation with scaling By the border of nomenclature vector map sheet By set of control points By exterior orientation parameters for aerial raster images As a result of transformation raster image gets resampled in such a way that corresponding image
90. o create common border of objects you should Select source object object which part should be copied to destination object Select source object part to be copied Select destination object Select destination object part to be replaced Complete operation You should select object part by 3 points Operation is available for line and polygon objects only 3 2 4 14 3 Creating subobject by existing object This mode used to create subobject of polygon island as full copy of existing object For example you want to draw forest glade that has exactly the same border as already digitized lake in this forest To execute operation select source object lake and parent object forest 3 2 4 14 4 Creating object intersections Used for lines and polygons only To intersect objects select them one by one In case when a point already exists in intersection it is not duplicated 3 2 4 14 5 Dissection of line object To cut a line select line object and select dissection point 3 2 4 14 6 Dissection of polygon object Polygon object can be dissected by line object or another polygon object To dissect cut vector polygon select it then select line or polygon vector object used to cut the source one 3 2 4 14 7 Joining object vertices Used to join vertices of different map objects To join vertices you should select source object select vertex on source object to join vertices of editing objects to Then select edit
91. objects This mode is used to delete all islands Subobjects of polygon To execute operation you should select parent polygon 3 2 4 Map objects editing 3 2 4 1 Changing code of marked objects Changing code of marked objects used to access new map symbol to the group of objects When reassigning map symbol all object parameters name attributes etc may be changed except its coordinates 3 2 4 2 Copying object to user map To copy object to user map you should select object to be copied and select destination map and output object type since source and output maps can be linked to different classifiers 3 2 4 3 Copying all subobjects Used to copy all subobjects islands on one polygon to another polygon To copy you should select source and destination polygons and complete operation see 3 2 1 7 section To cancel operation use 1 step undo or Cancel button of Edit menu 2009 38 VectOr 3 2 4 4 Full copy of object To copy object select it and set a new object position in drag and drop mode Use arrow keys along with left mouse button pressed for precise object positioning Object is saving by standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section 3 2 4 5 Moving object To move object select it and set a new object position in drag and drop mode Use arrow keys along with left mouse button pressed for precise object positioning Object is saving by standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section 3 2 4 6 Changing obj
92. ode of output group must be entered 3 5 2 4 Deleting object Used to delete marked highlighted by magenta color object s You should confirm object deleting after appropriate system warning 3 5 2 5 Deleting object group Used to delete all objects from group currently marked object is belonged to Marked object is highlighted by magenta color You should confirm group deleting after appropriate system warning 3 5 2 6 Filtering classifier objects Used to select layers and object types you currently need Note that new object created when some filter is set on will get corresponding layer and type assigned Change or reset filter if needed 3 5 2 7 Searching for classifier objects Used to search classifier objects by classification code List of objects with selected code is displayed in the main dialog window Use Next and Previous buttons to scroll object list Use Select button to select corresponding object on a map 3 5 2 8 Displaying style of classifier object Displaying style panel used to set how to display map objects All measurements line thickness dash length are in pixels except otherwise specified Displaying style of line objects Displaying style of polygon objects Displaying style of point objects Displaying style of labels Displaying style of vector objects Displaying style of templates 3 5 2 9 Semantics of classifier objects You can add semantics attribute to object of classifier There
93. p classifier Symbol description BLOCK block in DXF terms consisted of graphical primitives used to represent ENDBLK point object Block is created in AutoCAD environment Data in the line should be written from the first position 4 8 1 1 sample of symbol file Symbol file for 1 2 000 maps processing contains a description of two symbols DXL SCALE 2000 Beginning SYMBOL OBJ 51470000 DOT SYMBOL CODE 2 48 1 gt SEMANTICS 103 BLOCK T gt SYMBOL DESCRIPTION ENDBLK End SYMBOL Beginning SYMBOL OBJ 51550000 DOT SYMBOL CODE BLOCK UN gt SYMBOL DESCRIPTION ENDBLK SYMBOL END 4 8 2 Creation of symbol file DXL Symbol file is a text file with dxl description Symbol file contains a description of map symbols of a map of selected scale prepared by AutoCAD It can be used only for point objects processing As a rule one symbol file is created for maps of one type and scale For example file 2000 dxl for cadastral city map of 1 2 000 scale To create a file you should 63 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 1 Add to symbol file object code OBJ 2 Load AutoCAD 3 Draw a symbol in AutoCAD Symbol extents should be in mm Coordinates of origin point should be 0 0 in coordinate system of AutoCAD scheme 4 Press Create block and Atthe appeared window Creating block descrip
94. p sheet objects At the first step you should enter contours interval for controlling standard topographic map with constant contours interval or enter elevation or depth values to contours interval field Control of elevations depths can be implemented either taken into account direction of digitizing or not Use Digitizing direction option to set on off this parameter If it is off digitizing direction is not taken into account and elevations are controlled only by real elevation values In this case you can set arbitrary contours interval This mode is used if you have big number of errors caused by digitizing direction with standard contours interval To eliminate error messages related to break objects like bluffs you should include codes of such objects to MAPKWA INI file in VectOr directory MAPKWA INI structure comment object code type object code type for example 91000000 0 31410000 1 where 0 line object 1 polygon object Application modes available 2009 64 VectOr Control of absolute elevation values of topographic map sheet with constant contours interval enter contours interval for example 20 e Control of absolute elevation values of topographic map sheet with variable contours interval enter elevation values range and contours interval for this range for example 150 500 10 500 2000 20 2000 8000 50 e Control of absolute elevation values of geographic map sheet
95. paration works includes 1 Layers description layer name up to 30 characters unique layer number layer displaying order 0 255 2 Map objects description 2009 48 VectOr object name up to 30 characters classification code 8 characters object type line polygon point label vector template layer number digitizing direction scale range which scales are used to display not display object list of obligatory attributes semantics list of optional attributes semantics list of characteristics used to set object s displaying style map symbols corresponding to object 3 Semantics characteristic description Attribute name up to 30 symbols Attribute classification code 1 65535 Attribute type string numeric bit classification code etc Minimum maximum default values common for all objects Minimum maximum default values common for single objects Repeat check box Set it on in case when attribute may have several values for one object Many to one mode 4 Classifier of values of semantics characteristics e classification code of attribute 1 65535 e classification code of attribute value 1 65535 e attribute value up to 30 characters To input collected information you can use resource editor RSCEDIT EXE under MS DOS It is recommended to input data as follows e layers description e description of all possible characteristics of objects e description of used color map if not stand
96. r map is adding to the main map which it will be used along with First object can be added to User map just after it is included to real map At this step it is georeferenced to real map coordinate system and can be opened as separate document if needed and get object added 2 2 1 4 Creating matrix There are several ways to open Matrix creation dialog File New Matrix menu icon in Map computer panel add non existing file to the matrix list All information related to current map and user map objects is using when matrix creation Elevation matrix can be computed in fast mode Elevation matrix can be computed for selected region or for selected map sheets To build matrix for the entire region set on All region option To select some region portion press Select button in Output area panel and select area you need by two clicks of left mouse button Area borders can be also set by coordinate values in North South West East text fields Use Relief type menu to set a type of elevation calculations e absolute matrix is calculated based on vector objects with True altitude attribute as well as vector objects having Z coordinate in metrics e summary when output elevation values are calculating as a sum of absolute elevation and elevation of vector objects with relative elevation attribute In some cases there are several vector elements under creating matrix element To define how to calculate output elevation va
97. rawn outline Raster Properties Extract Manually For example There are 3 raster images converted to RSW format from BMP PCX or TIFF format To combine them to raster map you need 1 Georeference first raster by two points on the raster and vector map or by control points set 2 Georeference second raster by two points on the second raster and corresponding points on the first raster or somehow else 3 Georeference third raster 4 Set visible area for each of rasters 5 Save combined raster map to exchange format As a result this map can be loaded as a whole from RSW format 6 Appendix A DIR file structure DIR file used to combine different vector and raster maps to Work region DIR file contains name of region file name of region name of classifier and names of loading SXF TXT and MAP files File DIR has a following structure DIR NAME region name gt name of file classifier RSC gt name of data file gt name of data file gt Region name gt region name up to 24 characters It is optional field If it does not exist it will be equal to the name of sheet of first SXF file included to the region lt Name of classifier file gt name of RSC file mandatory field Name of data file name of binary or text SXF file or MAP file mandatory field First file string must contain DIR keyword The second string is a classifier file name For example MAP103P RCS Following strings contain
98. re are tool tips that show code name and layer of objects mouse cursor is located over To edit object parameters click on it by left mouse button Once object is edited you can save it after appropriate system warning There is a tool bar above objects table that includes following tools Create new object Copy object Copy group of objects Delete object Delete group of objects Below the table Filter Group Find buttons are located Use Filter button to select objects 9 2009 50 VectOr by query Filter Use Search button to find object s with selected classification code for further processing At the left part of panel there are following buttons used to edit main object parameters such as code type name and layer as well as following buttons Type Semantic Scale Print To save editing press Save button If Group of objects option is on all changes made for selected object Code Layer Semantics will cause equal changes for all objects in the group Some parameters such as Type or Semantics that define object displaying style can be changed only when working with object group as a whole To enter or edit object code push Code button In case of zero code or when object code is equal to another object code object can not be saved and user has to correct code value after appropriate system warning or just cancel operation To change object type press Type button Note that type changing cause view an
99. region 13 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia Digital maps database structure DATABASE STRUCTURE Work region passport MAP SHEET PASSPORT MAP LAYER MAP LAYER DIGITAL MAP CLASSIFIER All map sheets nomenclature sheets included to Work region must have the same scale projection and coordinate system The data related to Nomenclature sheets is located in the following files e Metrics coordinates of objects DAT e Semantics attributes of objects SEM Reference data indices for fast searching object or its description HDR There is one passport file MAP for the entire Work region that consists of records related to each map sheet All information related to object attributes and characteristics is stored in digital classifier of work region RCS file Work region is created when loading data form SXF file using DIR file see Appendix A Any map sheet included to work region can be edited updated and passed from one user to another separately of other work region map sheets Data files corresponding to one Work region should be stored in one directory 1 4 1 4 Structure of vector user maps The structure of vector maps allows storing digital representation of real objects of region as well as user related datasets that can be rapidly varied in time The samples of su
100. s Joining is done as soon as all sheets of work region are processed 4 5 1 Control of joining objects on the sheet borders in the Work region In this mode the system provides only control of objects joining without the metrics correction Use this mode to control joining accuracy Set tolerances to 0 in this mode 4 5 2 Remove border undershoots Used to expand map object to the map border in accordance with undershoot tolerance parameter If Expanding objects to the map border option is off tolerance is equal to 0 and the process does not work Set on Control of joining objects on the sheet borders in the Work region option when working in this mode 4 5 3 Automatic combining joined objects to a group Used to combine joined objects to a group When working in this mode set Control of joining objects on the sheet borders in the Work region off Expanding objects to the map border option can be on or off depending on your current needs If objects are already joined you can set it off or set tolerances equal to 0 You also have to set GROUP ON in VECTOR INI file 4 6 Vector map georeferencing Used to transform Work region from arbitrary coordinate system to selected coordinate system based on catalog of control points coordinates You can transform single map sheet or work region that consists of several map sheets It is necessary to have at least 5 control points equally spread over each transformation area Digital classifier
101. s calculated automatically to fit current paper size Map is divided into pages according to page size page orientation Portrait or Landscape and page margins You can view output page layouts in Print dialog To select printer and set its parameters use Printer setup option To print map border by black color set Print border option on There are three radio buttons below the view area located in the upper left part of Print dialog e shows map in details in view area e Scheme shows map border in view area to see its relative position when printing fast visualization e Information shows map related info in view area Possible problems with printing often caused by e not enough space for print file that created on disk where MS Windows is installed e using wrong printer driver for example PostScript 2 3 Edit menu options Edit menu used to pass datasets to other applications via clipboard and graphic files 23 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia Table 2 2 Edit menu options Option Meaning Undo Cancels last executed operation Copy Copies selected fragment to clipboard Copy to Copies selected fragment to EMF or BMP file Copy Map window Copies contents of current active window to clipboard Copy Map window to Copies contents of current active window to EMF or BMP file 2 4 View menu options View menu used to set options for currently ope
102. s supported by MS Windows The system kernel is implemented as a set of Dynamic Loading Libraries DLLs that allows to add any map handling functions easily Applications can be created using different compilers as well as MS Visual Basic and databases such as FoxPro or Paradox The main features of VectOr system are as follows E creation and using hierarchical structure of database including following levels work region map sheets layer objects editing digital maps using GUI creating new level updating deleting copying and restoring map objects displaying map objects using standard geographic topographic cadastral and other map symbols supporting standard Russian map classifiers object coding supporting user created map symbols measurements on the map distances areas perimeters buffer zones statistical parameters colorful and grayscale hardcopies changing map contents and scale when output WYSIWYG mode C Pascal Delphi Visual Basic Builder and other programming interfaces 1 2 Hardware and software requirements Pentium 16 mb RAM Windows 95 98 2000 NT 1 3 General software structure VectOr is implemented as module separated multitasking system All modules may be called from the main shell VectOr includes digital maps manager command shell service modules VECTOR EXE file is used as a command shell It is responsible for user inter
103. s XY coordinate values are in rectangular coordinate system after 4 symbol there are strings containing coordinate pairs corresponding to object points m After RAD keyword there are pairs of vector point geodetic coordinates B L in radians After GRAD keyword there are pairs of vector point geodetic coordinates B L in decimal degrees After GMS keyword there are pairs of vector point geodetic coordinates in Deg Min Sec format Note that the range of possible latitude values is from 90 south to 90 north degrees and the range of possible longitude values is 0 360 degrees Sample of a text file MET BEGIN II Point objects radians RAD 0 97065938 0 65882652 0 97058971 0 65838004 Point objects Decimal degrees GRAD 55 65802244 37 54409293 Point objects meters 6171257 20 7408038 50 6169977 20 7407298 50 2009 36 VectOr Point objects Degrees Minutes Seconds GMS 55 39 28 88 37 32 38 73 55 39 18 96 37 32 20 51 END To add object to map use By coordinates from text file mode of Object creation dialog 3 2 2 8 Creating subobject To create subobject island of polygon or part of line select parent object and create subobject line or polygon by standard way 3 2 2 9 Creating vector object from conditional object This mode is used to reassigning attributes to the object created by some VectOr application For example when buffer zone is built aro
104. s a classifier If you use text version of SXF file it has TXT extension If you use file of directions DIR extension as a source it should load vector data according to its internal reference to RCS MAP and SXF files to include them to creating Work region The name of Work region will be set according to the name of the first SXF file or the name taken from DIR file If you need to select some vector objects to include to the creating map use Filter button to open Map structure dialog If loading map sheets are locating in adjacent zones of topographic maps all coordinates will be recalculated to the first sheet coordinate system If some records can not be read from file they are skipped Information about bad records is put to the LOG file When data loading VectOr is verifying codes of source objects in the classifier and the validation of its semantics attributes In case of source data errors VectOr 21 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia generates error message in LOG protocol Objects having invalid classification code are displaying by red outline All attribute records associated with this objects will be started at character 2 2 4 2 Loading raster data Raster objects needed to be included to the raster map can be loaded from one of the following formats to VectOr raster format called RSW BMP PCX e TIFF To load raster image you should selec
105. s do You can use Screen options dialog to set Screen size default value diagonal is 1 5 inches less than passport one and Zoom factor Image increasing makes a map more viewable but changes its real scale If diagonal value is set correctly and zoom factor is equal to 100 the accuracy of image displaying is 0 5 pixel Map symbols are displaying it its real size when displaying scale is equal to the map scale Displaying scale changing causes appropriate changes in map symbol size MAP DISPLAYING PARAMETERS DO NOT CAUSE CHANGES IN CALCULATIONS OF COORDINATES DISTANCES AREAS etc 2 9 Window menu options Window menu options used to handle user interface elements on the screen Table 2 8 Window menu options Option Meaning Cascade To display windows as a cascade Mosaic To display windows as a mosaic Arrange Icons To put all icons to a row Close To close all open documents 29 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 2 10 Help menu options There are two choices under Help menu Information opens VectOr s help and About that opens panel containing following information Program version Hardware key ID Mail address of software developing company Web site E mail address 3 Basic application tasks 3 1 Editing passport of vector map To edit passport of the map select View Passport option from Tools menu Map passport consists
106. s follows Select object type Create point object Create line object Create polygon object Create label Create object with existing code Create object group by coordinates from file Save conditional object Create object layouts Delete selected object Delete one subobject Delete all subobjects Move object Full copy backup of object Edit vertex Create node Delete vertex Close object Edit label Change object type One step undo Create subobject Copy portion Delete marked object Restore deleted objects Edit common vertices of adjacent objects Rotate object Copy object to user map 31 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD Add vertex Intersect objects Merge objects Copy all subobjects Copy marked objects to user map Joining vertices Dissection of line object Joining line objects Delete panel Group panel Topology panel Restore edited objects Parameters of edit session Code conversion of marked objects Filtering objects Smoothing objects Point panel Creation panel Panel Processing semantics of marked of objects Add semantics to marked objects Delete semantics of marked objects Replace semantics of marked objects Text panel Selection panel Expand line object Classification 3 2 1 General information 3 2 1 1 General information related to object editing All editing operation can be executed for selected object See detailed description of object
107. should have control point object with mandatory attribute point ID Code of control point and code of its semantics should be contained in digital catalog of control points coordinates While georeferencing transformation origin point of the coordinate system is transferring 2009 58 VectOr automatically and vector map is georferenced to coordinate system of control points catalog You can estimate transformation accuracy by relative position of equal points and borders on adjacent map sheets of the work region 4 6 1 Creating catalog of control points Catalog of control points coordinates should have following structure OBJ XXXXXXXX SEM XXX comment N1 X1 Y1 H1 N2 X2 Y2 H2 Nm Hm Where CAT file beginning mandatory field OBJ mark of control point code mandatory field XXXXXXXX external code of control point mandatory field SEM mark of semantic code of control point s ID mandatory field XXX semantics code of control point s ID mandatory field comments optional field N1 Nm control points Ids mandatory field X1 Xm real coordinates of control points in meters mandatory field Y1 Ym coordinates of control points in meters mandatory field H1 Hm absolute elevations of control points optional 4 6 2 Running process To georeference vector map to selected coordinate system you should Open Work region Start vecttrans dll in Run appl
108. t appropriate raster file Output RSW file will assign the same name and rsw extension Set the Scale and Resolution dots per inch parameters for output RSW file Note that these values can be changed during further processing To change all related to raster image parameters Scale Resolution Color Map Georeference use options of Raster list dialog 2 2 4 2 1 Loading BMP files Source BMP file must be standard Windows uncompressed BMP file No restrictions for image size and color map 2 2 4 2 2 Loading PCX files The source file should be standard PCX file No restrictions for image size and color map 2 2 4 2 3 Loading TIFF files The source file should be standard TIFF file version 6 0 No restrictions for image size and color map 2 2 5 Saving data 2 2 5 1 Saving digital map Saving digital map causes saving all types of data vector raster matrix to appropriate files Saving procedure is also starting automatically according to time interval set in Parameters menu Redraw after Editing objects get saved directly to files after finishing each editing operation All intermediate situations are saved in auxiliary files in LOG directory These files are cleaned up after sorting map procedure 2 2 5 2 Saving data in exchange format Digital map can be saved in following exchange formats SXF TXT BMP EMF It is needed to convert vector data to exchange SXF format if you want to make the data available for other app
109. t first polygon vertex by left mouse button or copy it from existing object To start automatic procedure you should set the direction by mouse cursor and press O key To save vector line use standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section 3 2 2 6 Creating object with the code of existing object To create object with the code of existing object you should select existing object first and 35 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD then create a new one 3 2 2 7 Creating object group by coordinates retrieved from file You can create object or group of objects of common type which described in text file as a set of coordinates of vector elements First you have to prepare text file appropriately e text file has to have MET extension e text file must not to have empty strings e text file may have service fields File beginning keyword a mandatory field BEGIN Information beginning keyword a mandatory field Object beginning keyword a mandatory field Rectangular coordinates m 0 0 0 0 0 O Degrees in decimal form Degree minute second Comment string ________ Service fields must start at the first string position MET BEGIN END are mandatory keywords the description of object description is delimited by Strings located between symbols must contain only coordinate values or comments strings By default or if coordinate section marked a
110. t of processing new user is created with resource ZONE RSC e User object layer is added to resource file of current or new e Buffer zone object is created in this layer with attribute Zone radius There is a possibility to change process parameters Open file INI located in LOG directory associated with current map Find section named ZONE and needed parameters such as code name of zone objects code and name of semantics layer name and RSC file name 3 4 10 Crossing marked objects Used to view a list of marked objects that cross drawn line or selected object To make following modes available you should mark needed objects using Search Mark dialog Crossing by selected object Select object to view list of marked objects crossed by selected objects Crossing by drawn line Draw a line on map to get a list of marked object crossed by this line Crossing and surrounding Select polygon or closed line object to view list of marked objects crossed or surrounded by selected object You can save object list you got to the text file 45 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD 3 4 11 Intersection of marked and selected objects You can create a new object by intersection of marked and selected objects Mark needed objects using Search Mark mode Select map object closed line or polygon to be used for new object creation Set new object par
111. te map legend including most usable map objects for fast and convenient access to them VectOr map legend located at the bottom of screen and looks like rows of pictograms up to 255 lines with map symbols associated with map objects Every row of map symbols has unique name for convenience of object searching Once legend is created you don t need to open complicated Classifier dialog to search and select map object Just click on corresponding pictogram in map legend row To show map legend click on corresponding icon of Map editor panel When map legend is opened first time all pictograms have gray cross on them which will be replaced by appropriate map symbol when created To add map symbol to legend press any pictogram and select map symbol Note that map legend is linked to map classifier so if classifier is edited you should recreate map legend you will get appropriate system warning 3 2 3 Deleting objects 3 2 3 1 Deleting selected object Once an object to be deleted is selected you get warning message to confirm delete operation Press OK to delete object You can restore it using Undo operation 3 2 3 2 Delete panel Delete panel includes following modes deleting one subobject deleting all subobjects deleting marked objects 3 2 3 3 Deleting one subobject This mode is used to delete an island subobject of polygon To execute operation you should select polygon and its subobject 3 2 3 4 Deleting all sub
112. tion press Select objects Select graphical primitives used to draw a symbol and press Spacebar At the appeared Creating block description window enter unique block name up to 30 characters for example Well and set origin point coordinates as 0 0 Press OK to create block Use File Export option of the main menu to save clock to DXF file for example BLOCK DXF You should use DXF version 12 e Find block Well description in the DXF file and copy it to symbol file after SYMBOL CODE from BLOCK keyword to ENDBLK keyword 5 Assign semantics if needed SEM 4 8 2 1 Assigning semantics To assign semantics to object in the symbol file you should use file of text classifier for point objects SEMANT TXT This file consists of 2 tables TABLES OF SEMANTICS TABLES OF OBJECTS Afterwards Open file of text classifier for point objects SEMANT TXT Find table row with external object code in TABLE OF OBJECTS Memorize all SEMANTICS CODES with this external code SEMANTICS CODES marked by should be obligatory used Goto SEMANTICS TABLE Among all memorized SEMANTICS CODES find codes with SEMANTIC VALUE is classifier For these codes select corresponding numeral SEMANTICS VALUE do not use name of semantics Assign semantics codes and values you got to the object in symbol file in accordance with symbol file description 4 9 Control of absolute elevations Used to control absolute elevations of ma
113. tional parameter and separate of classification code by space If section starts with REL H OBJECTS keyword following are codes of objects included to processing matrix calculating If section starts with REL OBJECTS ALL keyword all objects with Relative elevation attribute are included automatically and keyword is following codes of objects excluded from processing Optional section Hydrology objects with constant elevation contains classification codes and names of hydrology objects with constant elevation lakes for example that do not have attribute Absolute elevation Optional section Hydrology objects with variable elevation contains classification codes and names of hydrology objects with variable elevation rivers for example Section Constants contain values and names of constants such as Absolute elevation or Relative elevation Sample of MTRCREA TXT file 69 RACURS Co UI Yaroslavskaya 13 A office 15 129366 Moscow Russia PHOTOMOD l Objects used to calculate elevation matrix ABS H OBJECTS ABSOLUTE ELEVATION objects d code name 11200000 points of state network 12000000 elevation pickets 21000000 main contour lines 21300000 additional contour lines II 31120000 lakes REL H OBJECTS RELATIVE ELEVATION objects code default values m name 71111
114. to select searching parameters search inside outside area searching distance used in outside mode e filter object selection by layer type attributes etc 2 5 4 Searching objects by name This mode is used to search objects by value of selected attribute To set attribute semantics name used by searching operation press Setup button and select semantics by double click or OK button You can also manually enter semantics name By name mode or semantics code By number mode in Search semantics text field You can type just first characters of attribute name code for speeding up for example Lancast instead of Lancaster or 167 instead of 167523 All dialog parameters attribute values are saved and restored for next Searching sessions 2 6 Tools menu options Table 2 5 Tools menu options Option Meaning Map Editor Editing vector map Map Computer Measurements over digital map Map Navigator Navigation through digital map Map Sorting Sorting and compression data View Passport Viewing and editing map passport Map classifier Editing and adding object attributes and map symbols Run Application Running application tasks 27 RACURS UI Yaroslavskaya 13 office 15 129366 Moscow Russia You can find description of such programs as map editor measurements on the map map passport in Basic application tasks section Run application dialog consists of three mai
115. to user 40 Add 11b Deleting marked 0bjecis ossis itn e e DA 40 3 24 12 Text panel P m 40 7 Eoi T TT 40 52414 Topology panel breues XII Pte tes na 40 40 324 142 Copying object 40 3 24 1 14 3 Creating subobject by existing object uus eee 41 3 2 4 14 4 Creating object intersections nennen nnne 41 3 24 14 5 Dissection of 41 Bd 4 14 6 Dissection of polygon object 41 Joining object sane 41 Aud Be Joining line ODIO 41 3 2 4 14 9 Creating 41 3 2 4 14 10 Smoothing object 41 3 22 4 1411 Filtering sk asas TM 41 eoe tui Pea dU a EEE PUN DENE NA 41 3 24 15 R storing edited OD COIS sono dtes oen t Ron aver ted Nc Rad SE dni d aaa 42 3 2 5 Processing semantics of marked objects 42 9091 42 345 4 Deletmu SEMANTICS S eia ctt Na GAK SER MR UN edv iU DIN MINE 42 3 2 5 3 Replacing sse iud deci e oO bU Diae ee 42 3 2 6 Vertex operations PR TT DOT 42 A251 M EBEN 43 3 2 6 2 Editing common vertices of adjacent 43 2
116. ts vertices one by one by left mouse button all line segments are intersected at the right angle To save any line objects use standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section To create a circle of fixed radius you need to set its radius and center point You can use previously created point object as a center for circle as well as any line vertex Refer to Supplementary modes of creation section for details To create an arbitrary circle you need to draw it by left mouse button You can use previously created point object as a center for circle as well as any line vertex Refer to Supplementary modes of creation section for details Vectorization tracing is a process of interactive following line features of raster image to convert them to vector format To start vectorization you need to set first line vertex by left mouse button or copy it from existing object To start automatic procedure you should set the direction by mouse cursor and press O key To save vector line use standard save operation see 3 2 1 7 section 3 2 2 5 Polygon object creation Polygon object of a digital map is a closed polyline Displaying style of polygon is defined in map classifier Besides main exterior boundary polygon can include islands subobjects Polygon can be spatially connected to other map objects Depending onto its type polygon can be created as one of following e object of arbitrary configuration simple rotated or complex rectangle circ
117. und selected vector object To save conditional object you have to select object type by the same way as when creating new vector object 3 2 2 10 Supplementary modes of object creation The supplementary object creation modes are used to provide spatial topological relationships between objects that can belong to one or different map layers Using supplementary object creation modes you can copy existing point or object portion to creating object with or without node creation To activate supplementary object creation mode use corresponding option of pop up menu or appropriate keyboard key Supplementary object creation modes include copying real point This mode is useful if you want to create object that exactly goes through already existing ones For example you draw electric power line connecting existing piers point objects To activate Copying real point mode press key Then select object used for snapping to and start drawing Press 1 for each vertex should be snapped to existing point You can use any objects to be snapped to in case of lines and polygons their vertices are used for snapping T copying pseudo point with node creation This mode is pretty much similar to previous one but now you use not existing vertex for snapping to it can be located anywhere on selected line In other words this mode works like snapping to object and previous one provides snapping to object vertices Node is created in every snapped
118. zone Longitude zone of subsystem 00 24 5 6 Number of Latitude zone Longitude zone of 1 10 000 000 1 5 000 000 1 2 500 000 1 1 000 000 maps 00 99 7 8 Number of Latitude zone Longitude zone of 1 1 000 000 1 500 000 00 11 Nomenclature samples 2009 12 VectOr Subsystem Europe Scale 1 10 000 000 11 01 Scale 1 5 000 000 12 01 10 Scale 1 2 500 000 13 01 21 Scale 1 1 000 000 14 01 53 Scale 1 500 000 15 01 53 10 1 4 1 2 3 Nomenclature of aerial navigation maps Nomenclature template looks like 9 9 99 99 1 2 34 56 Meaning 1 Block 1 main block 2 north pole block 3 south pole block 2 Scale 1 1 2 000 000 2 4 000 000 3 4 Longitude zone 01 12 5 6 Latitude zone 01 20 Sample of nomenclature The main block of a scale 1 2 000 000 1 2 10 05 1 4 1 3 Work region Usually nomenclature sheets divide the source cartographic data used for maps of different types and scales Each sheet corresponds to exact area of the ground It is necessary to merge somehow several paper sheets to work with them as a whole The merging procedure is very simple in VectOr software You can correctly display as many as needed digital map sheets on the screen all together if they have the same scale and map projection At the same time each of them is still stored in separate file The collection of map sheets to be processed all together is called Work

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