INROADS - SURVEY Attributes

Kenny,

As Chuck mentioned in his posting, you need a later version of the InRoads Group to take full advantage of Survey attributes and notes. 

Thanks,

Jason Smithey

Hi Jason, I tried the steps that you mentioned before. i am using Inroads Survey 8.05. I did not see the attribute option.

Thanks caddcop

You need to be in InRoads XM or newer to have 100% access to Notes and Attributes. They are two very different things, too.

In earlier versions, you could export arrtibute values as descriptions when writing survey shots to geometry, but it was very limited. If a point could have multiple attributesbut also sometimes have only one or none, the order of the attribute values was not constant in the description.

For example, if you had three attributes - A, B & C and point 100 had all three valued at 1, 2 & 3, while point 101 had only C valued at 1 and point 102 had A & C valued at 1 & 2, the descriptions in cogo would be:

100 - 1,2,3
101 - 1
102 - 1,2

So you did not know which value was assigned to which attribute unless every attribute had a value.

In XM, there is an XML survey report command and you can write your own XSL style sheet to do anything you want with the data. For an idea of the process, there is an FWD report that creates an FWD file from the survey XML data.

Creating or modifying XSL stylesheets to create custom reports is not a trivial task, but its also not rocket science. You could probably hire someone to do it if necessary.

Kenny,

Go to File> Export> Survey Data and switch the Export as type to Text File (*.*).  Specify a file name and click the Export button.  Specify a delimiter and the number of required columns.  Click Next.  On Step 2 of 2, set the Data Type to Point Name.  Select the second column and set the Data Type to Attributes, and so on.  Click Finish and you should have a file with the items that you desired.

Thanks,

Jason Smithey

Hello, is there a way to export the attributes/notes along with the point nums. The report option only gives the code option but no attribute/notes option

Thanks