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Menu Bar

The Menu Bar contains the following pull-down menus:

File

Open...

Create File Header...

Load Settings

Save Settings

Exit

Edit

Cut

Copy

Paste

Options

Format...
Look and Feel

Datum

Create...
Delete...

Ellipsoid

Create...
Delete...

Convert

Upper to Lower
Lower to Upper

Help

Contents
About…

File

The File menu contains commands which allow you to process text files containing large numbers of coordinates, or to exit the program.

Open…

Create File Header…

Load Settings

Save Settings

Exit

Open…

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.

Create File Header…

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.

Load Settings

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.

Save Settings

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.

Exit

The Exit command immediately terminates the application, causing the main window to disappear.

Edit

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.

Cut

Copy

Paste

Cut

The Cut command allows you to cut text out of text fields in the interface and save it to the clipboard.

Copy

The Copy command allows you to copy text out of text fields in the interface and save it to the clipboard.

Paste

The Paste command allows you to paste text into text fields in the interface from the clipboard.

Options

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.

Format...

Look and Feel

Format...

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, Longitude Range and Leading Zeros options described below. The Precision tab provides a set of radio buttons corresponding to the Precision options described below.

Geodetic Units

Geodetic Separator

Sign / Hemisphere

Longitude Range

Leading Zeros

Precision

Geodetic Units

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.

Degrees/Minutes/Seconds

Degrees/Minutes

Degrees

Degrees/Minutes/Seconds

This option causes output geodetic coordinates to be displayed in degrees, minutes, and seconds format, i.e., DDD MM SS.FF.

Degrees/Minutes

This option causes output geodetic coordinates to be displayed in degrees and minutes format, i.e., DDD MM.FFFF.

Degrees

This option causes output geodetic coordinates to be displayed in decimal degrees format, i.e., DDD.FFFFFF.

Geodetic Separator

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.

DD MM SS

DD/MM/SS

DD:MM:SS

DD MM SS

This option causes the degrees, minutes, and seconds subfields of output geodetic coordinates to be separated by a blank space (' ').

DD/MM/SS

This option causes the degrees, minutes, and seconds subfields of output geodetic coordinates to be separated with a slash ('/').

DD:MM:SS

This option causes the degrees, minutes, and seconds subfields of output geodetic coordinates to be separated with a colon (':').

Sign/ Hemisphere

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.

+/-

N/S, E/W

+/-

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.

N/S,E/W

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.

Longitude Range

The Longitude Range command provides a set of options that allow you to control the range in which output geodetic longitude values are displayed. Geodetic longitude values may be input within either of these ranges.

-180_to +180

0_to 360

-180to +180

This option causes output geodetic longitude values to be displayed in the range from-180˚ to +180˚.

0 to 360

This option causes output geodetic longitude values to be displayed in the range from 0˚ to 360˚.

Precision

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.

100,000 meters or 1 degree

10,000 meters or 0.1 degree

1000 meters or 1 minute

100 meters or 0.1 minute

10 meters or 1 second

1 meter or 0.1 second

0.1 meter or 0.01 second

0.01 meter or 0.001 second

0.001 meter or 0.0001 second

100,000 meters or 1 degree

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).

10,000 meters or 10 minutes

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).

1000 meters or 1 minute

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).

100 meters or 10 seconds

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).

10 meters or 1 second

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).

1 meter or 0.1 second

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).

0.1 meter or 0.01 second

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.

0.01 meter or 0.001 second

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.

0.001 meter or 0.0001 second

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.

Leading Zeros

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.

Look and Feel

The Look and Feel command provides a set of options that allow you to control the general appearance of the application GUI.

Java

Unix

Windows

Java

This option causes the GUI to have the default Java look and feel.

Unix

This option causes the GUI to have the look and feel of a Motif user interface.

Windows

This option causes the GUI to have the look and feel of a Windows user interface.

Datum

The Datum menu contains commands that allow you to create and delete user-defined datums.

Create...

Delete...

Create...

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.

Delete...

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.

Ellipsoid

The Ellipsoid menu contains commands that allow you to create and delete user-defined ellipsoids.

Create...

Delete...

Create...

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.

Delete...

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.

Convert

The Convert menu contains commands that allow you to convert coordinates.

Upper to Lower

Lower to Upper

Upper to Lower

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.

Lower to Upper

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.

Help

The Help menu contains commands that provide you with additional information about the GEOTRANS application and its operation.

Contents

About…

Contents

The Contents command allows you access to the on-line help.

About…

The About… command provides version information for the GEOTRANS application.

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