SDTS Data Translation
Our friends at the USGS keep us informed of the latest resources available for manipulating SDTS data. Keep posted in our SDTS Translators Page and our SDTS FAQ Page.

ArcView Scripts

• AVCatalog - ViewPoint AVCatalog lets you store ArcView documents outside of ArcView project files. ViewPoint AVCatalog handles standard ArcView documents (views, themes, tables, charts, layouts, etc.), plus new ViewPoint documents, such as areas of interest (AOIs) and workbooks (collections of documents)

• LayoutViewFrame - Makes a layout viewframe almost exactly with the extent of selected polygon graphics in a view. An intermediate view document is created with the window dimensions defined by the extent of selected graphics

Mapinfo Scripts

• GridContour - GridContour, from Mercator Geosystems, is a MapInfo plug-in that creates a MapInfo map of polylines or polygons representing contours and the area’s between them of a specified area. This Area is represented by a MapInfo grid.

• HotSpot - Originally a crime analysis tool, hotspot takes the centroids of objects of any MapInfo map (typically point data) and generates a MapInfo grid

CAD Freebies

• AutoTag - AutoTag Professional v2.0 for R2000 maintains valuable general information about a drawing

• BatchPlot - Batch Plot Utility enhances AutoCAD 2000's plotting capabilities