Category: General

What is EPGS?

EPSG, which stands for The European Petroleum Survey Group, was founded in 1886 and consists of expert researchers, cartographers and geodesers of European oil companies. This group meets twice a year to discuss and coordinate issues related to the oil industry. In addition, EPSG protects geodetic parameters (datum and projection definitions, ellipsoid parameters, etc.) in …

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How to XML Files Merge?

Many software can generate reports as XML. I have received reports of users’ sessions in XML format from a GNSS software we have been using recently. However, the report for each session unfortunately did not come in a single XML file. This meant that I opened the XML file for each session one by one …

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What is Open Street Map?

Today, one of the possibilities provided by the advances in mobile device technologies and increasing social media applications is the use of map bases in every sense. Although most of the map bases (Google Map, Bing Map, etc.) are commercial, Open Street Map (OSM for short) is an open source, ad-free and non-commercial map application …

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Creating SHAPE File in NetCAD

The video below, prepared by Survey Engineer Hüseyin Cem İNCE; The process of exporting areal objects in a file with NetCAD .ncz extension as .shp file without data loss is explained. Since ArcGIS and similar software generally do not recognize files with .ncz extensions, users can view files with .ncz extensions after converting them to …

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