Dear All,
I have to admit that not many contractors have supplied digital information as yet. But big pipeline projects have supplied data to us in MapInfo .tab files showing line route, point and polygon data, and a big urban project supplied outlines of features in a .dxf file. Other research projects have supplied grid refs in database format which could be converted to MapInfo tab files for point data. We normally ask for MapInfo tab files but the variety of systems, some pretty old, used by contractors prevents them from conforming to our requests. If we aren't getting digital data, we should be getting it, and in a format that is inter-operable.
Cheers,
Neil
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