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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] HUGE X/Y Data Import into ArcView? |
| Date: |
11/21/2006 02:55:01 PM |
| From: |
Pat Waggaman |
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We run up to 10,000,000 X,Y,Z=B4s often with =
bathymetry. The most complete solution is =
Manifold, which would import the data or link to =
it, create the .shp and export it for opening in ARC(aic).
Alternatively the spreadsheet in Surfer is great =
for for manipulation of that number of points and can export .csv.
Lots of RAM in either case.
Pat
At 05:21 PM 11/21/2006, Joe Luchette wrote:
>You could load the text file into a database (Access perhaps) and then load
>it into Arc, or you could use a text editor like Kedit to then save your
>file as file format compatible with Arc (dbf or csv).
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>Joe Luchette, GIS Specialist
>www.MapServing.com <http://www.mapserving.com/>
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>On 11/21/06, Smith, Travis <tsmith@mnsengineers.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Listers,
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> >
> >
> > I have a VERY LARGE ASCII text file (500,000 points and another with 1
> > million), containing X/Y/Z points. I would like to import ALL of these
> > into ArcView 9.1. Is there a straightforward way to do this? I first
> > imported it into Excel, but found that Excel only imported the first
> > 65,000 or so: doesn't help me.
> >
> >
> >
> > With Excel's record count limit, I could parse the original file into
> > NUMEROUS subsets, but this wouldn't be very efficient. Is there a way to
> > import the source text file directly into ArcView, or, is there a better
> > program to use?
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> >
> >
> > Thanks very much,
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> > Travis
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>Joe Luchette,
>JLuchette@gmail.com,
>252.561.5751
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