Menu
Bar
The
Menu Bar contains the following pull-down menus:
The File menu contains commands which allow you
to process text files containing large numbers of coordinates, or to exit the
program.
The Open command allows you to select a text file
containing coordinates to be processed. It begins the file processing dialog by
bringing up a standard File Open dialog box that you can use to select the file
to be read. For more information, see the descriptions of File Processing, or
of the File Processing user interface.
The Create File Header command allows you to
create a coordinate file header for a specified datum and coordinate reference
system, along with any associated parameters. It begins the input file header
generation dialog by bringing up the Create File Header window, which is
identical to the lower half of the File Processing window.
The Load Settings command allows you to set the current
format options, input and output datum selections, input and output coordinate
reference system selections, and any associated parameter values, to the
settings previously stored in the settings file, which is located in the data
directory.
The Save Settings command allows you to save the
current format options, input and output datum selections, input and output
coordinate reference system selections, and any associated parameter values, to
the settings file, which is located in the data directory.
The Exit command
immediately terminates the application, causing the main window to disappear.
The Edit menu contains conventional text editing
commands which allow you to cut, copy, and paste text into and out of text
fields in the interface.
The Cut command allows you to cut text out of
text fields in the interface and save it to the clipboard.
The Copy command allows you to copy text out of
text fields in the interface and save it to the clipboard.
The Paste command allows you to paste text into
text fields in the interface from the clipboard.
The Options menu contains commands that allow
you to control the format and precision in which output coordinate values are
displayed, as well as the look and feel of the interface itself. Newly selected
format options take effect when the Convert button is pressed, or when the
Input or Output coordinate reference system selection is changed.
The Format… command
causes a tabbed dialog box to appear. This dialog box has tabs for Number
Format and Precision. The Number Format tab provides sets of radio buttons
corresponding to the Geodetic Units, Geodetic Separator, Sign/Hemisphere,
The Geodetic Units command provides a set of
options that allow you to control the angular units in which output geodetic coordinates
are displayed. The format in which geodetic coordinates are displayed is also
affected by the setting of the Precision option. For example, if the Geodetic
Units option is set to Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, but the Precision option is set
to 1 minute, no seconds subfield will be displayed. Geodetic coordinates may be
input using any variation, or combination of variations, of the supported
formats.
This option causes output geodetic coordinates
to be displayed in degrees, minutes, and seconds format, i.e., DDD MM SS.FF.
This option causes output geodetic coordinates
to be displayed in degrees and minutes format, i.e., DDD MM.FFFF.
This option causes output geodetic coordinates
to be displayed in decimal degrees format, i.e., DDD.FFFFFF.
The Geodetic Separator command provides a set of
options that allow you to control the character used to separate the degree,
minutes, and seconds subfields when output geodetic coordinates are displayed.
Geodetic coordinates may be input using any of the supported separator
characters.
This option causes the degrees, minutes, and
seconds subfields of output geodetic coordinates to be separated by a blank
space (' ').
This option causes the degrees, minutes, and
seconds subfields of output geodetic coordinates to be separated with a slash
('/').
This option causes the degrees, minutes, and
seconds subfields of output geodetic coordinates to be separated with a colon
(':').
The Sign / Hemisphere command provides a set of
options which allow you to control the way in which the sign or hemisphere of
output geodetic coordinates is displayed. Geodetic coordinates may be input
using either of the supported methods of specifying sign or hemisphere.
This option causes output geodetic coordinates
to be displayed with a minus sign('-') as a prefix when their values are
negative. No sign is displayed when their values are positive.
This option causes output geodetic coordinates
to be displayed with a hemisphere letter ('N' or 'S' for latitude, 'E' or 'W'
for longitude) as a suffix.
The
This option causes output geodetic longitude
values to be displayed in the range from-180˚ to +180˚.
This option causes output geodetic longitude
values to be displayed in the range from 0˚ to 360˚.
The Precision command provides a set of options
that allow you to control the precision with which output coordinates are
displayed, ranging from 1 meter (or.01 second) to 100,000 meters (or 1 degree).
GEOREF, MGRS, and USNG coordinates are truncated, while all other coordinate
values are rounded. In general, you should use the Precision option that
matches the precision or accuracy of your input data, whichever is worse. If no
Precision option exactly matches this value, use the next better precision. For
example, if your source data looks like "20 55 44.22N, 55 55 42.86E",
with an average error of 0.2 seconds, use the 0.1 second Precision option. If
your data looks like "20 55N, 55 55E", and is accurate to one minute,
use the 1 minute Precision option.
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 100,000 meters (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 1 degree (for
Latitude and Longitude values).
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 10,000 meters (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 10 minutes (for
Latitude and Longitude values).
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 1,000 meters (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 1 minute (for
Latitude and Longitude values).
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 100 meters (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 10 seconds, 0.1
minutes, or 0.001 degrees, as appropriate (for Latitude and Longitude values).
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 10 meters (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 1 second, 0.01
minutes, or 0.0001 degrees, as appropriate (for Latitude and Longitude values).
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 1 meter (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 0.1 second,
0.001 minutes, or 0.00001 degrees, as appropriate (for Latitude and Longitude
values).
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 0.1 meter (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 0.01 second,
0.0001 minutes, or 0.000001 degrees, as appropriate (for Latitude and Longitude
values). A warning is displayed whenever this precision level is selected,
because the software has not been tested to the level of accuracy that the
additional displayed digits imply.
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 0.01 meter (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 0.001 second,
0.00001 minutes, or 0.0000001 degrees, as appropriate (for Latitude and
Longitude values). A warning is displayed whenever this precision level is
selected, because the software has not been tested to the level of accuracy
that the additional displayed digits imply.
This option causes output coordinates to be
displayed rounded (or truncated) to the nearest 0.001 meter (for Easting/X,
Northing/Y, Z, and Ellipsoidal Height values) or to the nearest 0.0001 second,
0.000001 minutes, or 0.00000001degrees, as appropriate (for Latitude and
Longitude values). A warning is displayed whenever this precision level is
selected, because the software has not been tested to the level of accuracy
that the additional displayed digits imply.
This option toggles
the display of leading zeros in output geodetic coordinates. When it is
selected, leading zeros are displayed in the degree, minute, and second fields
of all geodetic coordinates.
The Look and Feel
command provides a set of options that allow you to control the general
appearance of the application GUI.
This option causes the
GUI to have the default Java look and feel.
This option causes the
GUI to have the look and feel of a Motif user interface.
This option causes the
GUI to have the look and feel of a Windows user interface.
The Datum menu contains commands that allow you
to create and delete user-defined datums.
The Create Datum command allows you to create a
new user-defined 3-parameter or 7-parameter datum. It opens the Create
Datum dialog box where you can specify the code, name, and parameters for a
new user-defined datum.
The Delete Datum command allows you to delete a
previously created user-defined datum. It opens the Delete
Datum dialog box where you can select the user-defined datum to be deleted.
The Ellipsoid menu contains commands that allow
you to create and delete user-defined ellipsoids.
The Create Ellipsoid command allows you to create
a new user-defined ellipsoid. It opens the Create
Ellipsoid dialog box where you can specify the code, name, and parameters
for a new user-defined ellipsoid.
The Delete Ellipsoid command allows you to
delete a previously created user-defined ellipsoid. It opens the Delete
Ellipsoid dialog box where you can select the user-defined ellipsoid to be
deleted.
The Convert menu
contains commands that allow you to convert coordinates.
The Convert Upper to
Lower command allows you to convert the coordinates in the upper half of the
window to the coordinate reference frame specified in the lower half of the
window, outputting the results to the lower coordinate fields. Its effect is exactly the same as that of the
Convert: Upper to Lower button.
The Convert Lower to
Upper command allows you to convert the coordinates in the lower half of the
window to the coordinate reference frame specified in the upper half of the
window, outputting the results to the upper coordinate fields. Its effect is exactly the same as that of the
Convert: Lower to Upper button.
The Help menu contains commands that provide you
with additional information about the GEOTRANS application and its operation.
The Contents command allows you access to the
on-line help.
The About… command provides version information
for the GEOTRANS application.