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Geospatial Survey Map Layout Manual

Traverse Computation Layout Survey + Alignment + Rays Levelling Survey Coordinates Conv.(NTM-UTM-GCS) Survey Project Manager

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FROM THE AUTHOR Congratulations for owning a copy of Survey Map Software. If you don’t have the professional version, you will be able to do much but not with Layout Survey. Express is cool but limited! If this Software has been helpful to you or you have difficulty in understanding it or you’ve got some good information or perhaps you simply have one or two comments to make on the software or how this manual can be improved please send your suggestion, ideas, complaints or comment to my personal mail box [email protected] or [email protected] You could never tell how far you suggestion can go. Thanks to the Surveyors that suggested the following among others.

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Summary of report showing accuracy, Area and Angular Miclosures

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The Report sheet showing personal company name.

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Plotting of the Master Layout Plan Automatically

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Separation of Layout plots into various plots.

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Addition of Alignments and Rays Computations.

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Installation on windows 8, and other minute details

I do hope that our team will be able to serve you better in the future. Expect more! Your Partner in Survey Damilola Kolawole

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TABLE OF CONTENT. 1.

Manual entering of Plots

2.

Mass Upload of Plots

 Upload from excel  Upload from csv  Upload from Shapefile 3.

Plots Manipulation

 Back Computation  Area & Perimeter  Plot Number Generation  Pillar Number Generation 4.

Plot Administration

 Plan Number, Owners, Plot Size, Amount, Allocation 5.

Plotting

 Plotting of Master plan (Shapefile & Annotation of Pillar, boundary, plot number and Area.  Production of Individual plan in AutoCAD  Production of Master Plan in AutoCAD 6.

Report Generation

 Generation of back computation report (Coordinates, Bearing & Distances)  Generation of Summary Report of Plan Number, Owners, Plot Size, Amount, Allocation Status(Provisional, Final, Not Allocated), Date Allocated

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LAYOUT CAPABILITIES SurveyMap layout Analyst is the most powerful module of the software. •

With layout survey you can process hundreds of thousands of plot at a time!

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You can run back computation simultaneously for multiple plots and obtain their bearings, distance and areas.

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Using layout you can automatically generate a composite plan showing all plots with their plot Number, Area (sqm), bearing and distances.

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SurveyMap has the tool to generate individual plan of all plots from the composite plan at a click. Meaning that if you have a layout containing 500 plots, 500 separate plans would be generated in few seconds.

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You can also generate automated computation sheet showing either detail or summary report of your back computation.

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It also has an interface for managing owners, plan number and other information.

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With layout you can import a shapefile data containing plots and extract all the coordinates, generate pillar numbers and run back computation.

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7.1 LAYOUT USING MANUAL ENTRY OF PLOTS DATA Given the coordinates of PLOT A1 and PLOT A2 downloaded from Total Station as shown below. We wish to do a manual entry of coordinate of A1 and A2 into the Layout Manager Interface. Later we shall see how these coordinates can be uploaded automatically into the software from CSV file or Text file. PLOT A1 S/N

Pillar Number

Northing

Easting

1

LAG/09/A01

700677.000

567680.000

2

LAG/09/A02

700682.334

567697.819

3

LAG/09/A08

700647.847

567708.143

4

LAG/09/A07

700642.512

567690.324

5

LAG/09/A01

700677.000

567680.000

PLOT A2 S/N

Pillar Number

Northing

Easting

1

LAG/09/A02

700682.334

567697.819

2

LAG/09/A03

700687.669

567715.637

3

LAG/09/A09

700653.181

567725.963

4

LAG/09/A08

700647.847

567708.143

5

LAG/09/A02

700682.334

567697.819

With our given plots coordinates, you will learn how to

 Enter Plot Coordinate into the Layout form  Compute Back Computation for one plot at a time  Compute Back Computation for Multiple plots together  Get Area of individual plot  Generate Automatic Plot Number  Generating custom Pillar Prefix  Plotting of the two plots  Managing Owners, Plan Number and other information  Generating Report and printing  Export to AutoCAD SURVEY MAP LAYOUT STEP BY STEP USER GUIDE v8 Copyright 2006-2013 Geospatial Cooperation |All right reserves

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STEP 1: ENTERING PLOT COORDINATE INTO THE LAYOUT FORM 1. From the Tab Icons click Layout manager. the Layout Manager window will be launched

2. Click New Plot. The Plot Name Text Box appears

3. Type in the plot name i.e. PLOT A1

4. Click Add Coordinate

5. Type the first Pillar No, Y-Coord (Northing), X-Coord (Easting) as shown below.

6. After typing the first coordinates Click Add Coordinate. The first coordinate will be added to the table. 7. Repeat step 6 until other coordinates for the current plot “PLOT A1” have been entered. After you have entered the last coordinate, click Add Coordinate button

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again to make sure that the last coordinate is added to the table then Click the Update button

8. Repeat Steps 2 To 7. For and entering coordinates for PLOT A2 or any other plots. 

When you entered PLOT A2 in Plot Name textbox, all the coordinates of PLOT A1 will go into hiding. After entering all the coordinate of PLOT A2 you should have something like the one shown below.

Coordinates of Plot A2

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STEP 2: COMPUTE BACK COMPUTATION & AREA 1. To compute PLOT A1, type PLOT A1 at the Plot Name textbox to display the coordinate of PLOT A1. If you want to display the entire coordinate for PLOT A1 and PLOT A2, type ALL at the Plot Name text box

2. Click Plot Task – Calculate Area (Current Plot). The calculate area command will generate both the back computation and the area.

3. The Result Page below displays the Back Computation and the Area as shown below

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4. To compute PLOT A2, go back to the Plot Registrar Page, at the Plot Name; change PLOT A1 to PLOT A2. The Click Plot Task – Calculate Area (Current Plot). 5. The back computation and Area of PLOT A2 will be computed and added to PLOT A1 on the result page as shown below.

6. To compute Back Computation for Multiple plots together at once is simple. First select all the records on the Result page and delete so that we won’t have duplicate computation. 7. Go to Plot Registrar Tab, type ALL at the Plot Name text box to display the entire. coordinate for PLOT A1 and PLOT A2

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8. From the main Tab click Compute Layout. Your computation will be displayed on the Result Page.

7.2 MANAGING LARGE LAYOUT PLOTS Layout surveys often time contains more than two plots, usually 100s of plots and sometimes 1000s of plots. In a situation like this we cannot expect to start typing in the plot coordinate one by one. The correct option is to import those coordinates from excel and more commonly is the csv file (comma separated values) file. In this section you will learn how to import plot coordinates from csv file or text file into SurveyMap layout manager and process computation. 

Before you upload your layout coordinates arrange its plots in the following format. You can easily do this in excel. 14.55m 8,42-Approval, 20

The format for upload is in csv file or text file. Save your coordinates as .csv (comma delimited) But if you are importing from text file simply save your file as “.txt“ or “.csv” Take note not to include the heading column i.e. Sno, Plotname, Pillarno, Northing, Easting

1. Click the import layout Plot/Coord – From csv. You can find a sample layout coordinates consisting about 74 plots four plots in the tutorial folder on the CD. SURVEY MAP LAYOUT STEP BY STEP USER GUIDE v8 Copyright 2006-2013 Geospatial Cooperation |All right reserves

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Note, You can also import shapefile data containing plots into the Layout form-the coordinates would be extracted automatically.

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3. Your coordinates would be displayed.

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Click Compute Layout. The following result page will be displayed showing the back

computation of each plot.

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4. Click on Plot Manager Tab. The areas are displayed on the Plot manager. Other information such as owner’s name, Plan Number, Block Name can be entered. After entering that information you can click on update to save changes.

5. The plan information tab helps you to enter your company name, computation title, and other details. After entering the required information you can click on update to save

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changes. The information will show on the report.

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5. To generate summary report click the Report Tab

Refresh Print Report

Print Layout

Print Layoutefresh

PLOTTING WITH SURVEY MAP SOFTWARE Plotting In AutoCAD 1. You can take your plotting to AutoCAD with a single click, the file will be plotted in AutoCAD with all the plot parcel, bearing, Distances, Station number, area and plot number labels, You can export result to AutoCAD script for Automatic plotting in AutoCAD. 2. Click Export to AutoCAD – Composite Plan- Browse to a location to save your script file, specify a name and click save.

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3. Open AutoCAD, do your plot settings and goto tools menu run your script file. You may use the template provided with the CD which already include some settings. The drawing below shows the direct plotting to AutoCAD without any adjustment.

Plotting Individual Plot Separately The software also has the ability to separate your layout into individual plot.

1. Click Export to AutoCAD – Individual Plan - Browse to a location 2. Click New folder (All your AutoCAD Script file would be stored inside this location. Each script will bear the name of the plot-PLOT NAME) 3. Click Ok 4. Go and check the folder location again to see that your entire script files have been created. It does not matter whether you have 20 plots or you have 2,000 thousand plots the same process applies only the duration for processing that differs. Post Computation •

You can save your work and open in another system or simply save for later use. All survey work are saved in “.svy”

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You can export all your data to excel and do further editing.

Computation Sheet •

With the report you can also generate automated computation sheet showing all the plots with their plot number, area, plan number, owner etc. Information such as the Company name, computation title, Surveyor, date, field location, computer etc. can also be entered. Reports can be export to pdf and excel.

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your computation can easily be printed on any kind of printer such as hp, canon, Xerox etc

Plotting in SurveyMap •

You can –quickly see your Layout plot drawing in the map interface after computation by pressing the convert to map button.

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The map is plotted in a shapefile format which makes is it compatible to any standard GIS software.

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ALIGNMENT COMPUTATION Alignment is computed along a straight line between two points. 

You can enter input two (2) coordinates to start an alignment.

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Click Add Station. You can supply segment DISTANCEs and STATION NUMBERs to compute the series of set coordinates between the two control points.

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Click Compute Alignment Every Alignment computation done will automatically adds up to the existing one which helps you to keep a database of All alignment for a Block or A layout

Input Interface The inputs interface the following. SNo | PlotID | Station | Northing (m) | Easting (m) •

You can select a single plot to process.

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The input interface allows you to import values from Excel 2003 or Excel 2007, CSV file format, TXT file format

Output Interface The output interface displays the result of Computations, which consist. •

Alignment Description | Bearing | Distance | Northing | Easting | Block Name | Line Name

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RAYS COMPUTATION Rays are computed using different angle and distance.

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With the Rays module you can setup at an instrument station, Back sight to the Reference Station.

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Every Rays computation done will automatically adds up to the existing one which helps you to keep a database of rays computation

Input Interface The input interface accepts the following parameter. 

The coordinates of the Instrument Station and the Reference Back Sight Station.

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Target Ray Station | Included Angle | Distance

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The input interface allows you to import the above values from Excel 2003 or Excel 2007, CSV file format, TXT file format.

Output Interface The output interface displays the result of Computations, which consist. •

Ray Description | Bearing | Distance | Northing | Easting.

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