Importing AGS Files

Keith13hk asked: I am trying to import an AGS(3.1) file for plotting a cross section. What should I put in the field requesting a 'Correspondence File'?

ANSWER: The purpose of a correspondence file is to map differences between the data structures of the file you are importing and the gINT project database into which you are importing it. AGS files need a correspondence file to import them into gINT for several reasons, including among others:

  1. Project data in gINT must be in a table called "PROJECT", the group name in the AGS is "PROJ".
  2. Borehole data in gINT must be in a table called "POINT", the group name in the AGS is "HOLE".
  3. The POINT fields HoleDepth, North, East, Elevation, and Plunge are program specified names. They cannot be changed. The corresponding variable names in the AGS are HOLE_FDEP, HOLE_NATN, HOLE_NATE, HOLE_GL, and HOLE_INCL.
  4. Plunge in gINT and HOLE_INCL in the AGS are the angle from the horizontal. However, in gINT a hole inclined vertically down is entered as -90°. In the AGS it is 90°.

If you are using a gINT standard AGS file set, it includes a correspondence file designed to map between an AGS data file and the standard gINT AGS project database. For example, if you installed the "gINT std ags 3_1" file set, you have a library file named "gINT std ags 3_1.glb", a project database file named "gINT std ags 3_1.gpj", and at least one correspondence file (although there may be two), named "gINT std ags 3_1.gci" (and/or "gINT std ags 3_1.gcx").

These files are installed by default in the DATATMPL folder under gINT, but you may store them anywhere, and specify the folder using the gINT menu File:System Properties dialog, Data Template property.

So IF you have the gINT standard AGS file set installed, and IF it is installed in the default location, and IF you have not changed the default File:System Properties Data Template file location on your PC, what you will put in the field requesting "correspondence file" is:
C:\Program Files\gINT\datatmpl\gint std ags 3_1.gci

There is a complete discussion of correspondence files, using an AGS correspondence file as an example, in gINT Help under the title "Correspondence File (glossary)".


Pat Cummings
gINT Trainer