Land Surveying and Geomatics: Software

On-Line Resources for Land Surveying and Geomatics Your comments are welcome and appreciated.
Last Revised: 17 Jul 2011 .... links updated and verified: 20 March 1999

Software:
COGO, Geographic Calculators, CADD, Terrain Mapping, Description Generators, GPS, Navigation, GIS, Imagery, Water Resources, Hydrography, Business, Lists & Collections, other

Coordinate Geometry [COGO] etc.:

ProCogo, with or without AutoCAD
Geodetic Software Systems' The Logical Surveyor Suite of Programs.
C & G Software Systems
with a CAD interface:
General CADD Pro Surveyor 3-D
SiteComp
MicroSurvey for Dos, Win, and Acad.
GMS Survey from Mapping Technologies, Inc.
CogoCAD
Geo-Plus, Land Surveying Software, Civil Software - includes COGO, DTM for AutoCAD,MicroStation, PowerDraft, IntelliCAD.
Survey/Civil Solutions for AutoCAD from
Boston Harbor Software
Carlson Software
PacSoft has great cogo and competent interfaces for MicroStation and Acad
James Schuchert's QuickCOGO
Mark Huber's MCOGO
GeoCalc Coordinate Geometry Software
Simplicity Systems has a number of COGO and other programs
PC Survey for Windows
Copan — free COGO software for Windows, PalmOS, or PocketPC
Traverse PC for desktops and palmtops
ProSurv Data Collection
for HP calculators:
at hpcalc.org
Surveyors' Module International [SMI]
Tripod Data Systems [TDS]
RAMSS
GeoCalc
surv50.ca free cogo and geodesy software

Ephemerides and datum conversion:

Corpscon... for Windows ....[note: DOS version not located 9 Nov'98]
2000 Solar and Polaris Ephemeris on line and downloadable in Windows help format.
from Elgin, Knowles & Senne, Inc.
from the US Naval Observatory
from Victor Fraenckel's ftp site:
Inverse -- for dist. between two lat/lon pairs
Direct -- input lat/lon, az & dist; derive lat/lon
Rule2LL -- scale lat/lon from quad sheet
UTM2LL -- UTM - > lat/lon
LL2UTM -- lat/lon - > UTM
Blue Marble Geographics
EasyTrans from geoIma
John Banta's Coordinate File Conversion page
GenCoord Geographical Calculator
Az_Proj Azimuthal Equidistant Projection map creation
GMT, the Generic Mapping Tools
GeoWiz from Blue Moon
UTMCON from Windmill Shareware
GeoCalc
GeoMenu

NLREG: Non-Linear Regression Analysis Program

Computer Aided Drafting and Design [CADD]:

a good list of low cost 3D CAD programs

CivilWorks add-on for Acad and IntelliCAD
The CAD Society
CADopia, based on the DWG-compatible IntelliCAD platform.
DesignCADD 3000
some of the cogo listings are integrated CADD applications
Tri-Service CADD/GIS Center
CivilKit, lisp utils for surveyors and engineers

Terrain Mapping:

TIN Master, with or without AutoCAD
Atoll Land Surface
SierraSoft - 3D Topography and more
GeoComp
Softree - Traversing, mapping and terrain modeling software
Model Maker
3d Mapper Desktop Digital Photogrammetry System
LSS Terrain Modelling System
Terrain Map 3.0 [tmap30.zip] for Win'NT or '95
Landscape Explorer (now free) and Visual Explorer from Geomantics are landscape modelling packages; Landscape Visualization products also available
DLG and DEM translator from Gecko Software
a DLG to DXF translator [dlgx133.zip] available from SimTelNet or BuildingWeb
DEM translation software from Micropath Corporation
DEM visualization for Win 3.1 and Win'95 from rshorne@delphi.com
Surfer from Golden Software
Vis5D for interactive visualization of large 5-D gridded data sets
SSC (Desktop) and PocketDTM (WindowsCE) software from Atlas Computers

Description Generators:

GPS:

from NAVTECH
GPS-Pro Map
Precision Mapping for Windows
Jupiter from Pulsearch !!not found Mar'99
Azimuth Software GPS logging for Windows
from UNAVCO
FieldWorker GPS data collection
Waypoing Consulting has a number of products
MapSite from Stellar Navigation Systems
SA Watch
C-Map
Map Publisher products from Avenza
from Windmill Software
Software developed by Fam. Jin-Lu

Navigation and Tracking Software:

Gnomad
Ozi Explorer
CSE Computronics, Ltd.
RAStrac
Fugawi moving map software.
MoveMap Moving Map software for OS/2 with GPS Interface
Liikkuva Systems International, Inc. Retki GPS Land Navigation System
Mobile Maps from High Country Software
MapPad for Windows CE
GPSS for Windows with sound and voice recognition
IDA Corporation"'s TRAKIT Automatic Vehicle Location system
turn by turn route guidance & information system.
Etak's SkyMap
Marine Navigation Software from
Nobeltec
TT Designs
Main Course Productions

GIS:

SoftMap
Manifold
MapInfo Desktop Mapping Resources
OSU Map for the PC GIS
PC Moss GIS
Lisa GIS for PC/DOS Win32
MapMaker GIS for Windows
GRASS, the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System GIS from the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Resource Laboratory.
Idrisi
Maptitude
TNT from MicroImages
MFworks from ThinkSpace, Inc.
SOLO CE data collection from TDS/Tribmle

Imagery manipulators:

PCI ...[alternate link]
ER Mapper
ERDAS Imagine
Image Alchemy format converter, including Postscript to RTL
TerraScan
from IDI
WinCATS viewer for DRG and DOQ files

Raster to Vector:

NDS/Map, now NeuraMap from Neuralog, Inc.

TracTrix from Trix Systems

I/Vector from Ideal

R2V from Able Software

KVEC

Water Resources:

Haestad Methods
BOSS International
from Environment Canada
from the Environmental Modelling Research Laboratory at BYU and distributed through Environmental Modeling Systems Incorporated (EMS-I)
from Aquarian Software
from the USGS; ftp: water.usgs.gov/pub/software

Hydrographic Survey:

Business Tools:

Project Tracker Pro
TABS Plus Time and Billing Software for Professional Land Surveyors and Engineers
SurvaBASE Job Costing/Control Package
SurvaLync Business Software
Latitude Project Management Software
Cost Management Software
cvlSoft Project Management Software

lists and collections:

from
- NGS .... ftp: ftp.ngs.noaa.gov : National Geodetic Survey
- USGS .... ftp: ftp://www-nmd.usgs.gov/pub/software/current_software/ : U.S. Geological Survey
- BLM : Bureau of Land Management
  - Cadastral Software
  - GIS Utilities
- USACE : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  - TEC : Topographic Engineering Center
  - HEC : Hydrologic Engineering Center
- NGDC : NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center
- UNAVCO : University Navstar Consortium
- EPA : Environmental Protection Agency
- FEMA
GeoScience Software list
from Thoen's ORES, a fine list
Oliver Weatherbee's GIS Software Listing
Simtel's Mapping directory for DOS
The Engineering Software Center
Surface Modelling
Groundwater shareware
from BuildingWEB
Technical Software News
table of available programs for Cave Surveying
at the GeoCommunity

other:

Cad Closure is a closure tool, but more specifically it is intended to be a final checking tool for a drawing ready to be stamped.
analytical close range photogrammetry:
Photo Modeler
3D Builder
Triad boundary retracement analysis software, best-fits record data with found monumentation.
Gravsoft: a system for geodetic gravity field modelling.
Environmental Modelling from Scientific Software Group
Rockware Incorporated Earth Science Software
input metes and bounds descriptions for a map:
MapDraw
Muncy's Plat Pronto
Add-ons for the NGS Data Sheets:
PafMap Consulting
MDS
PCs Plus
Geodos for the Psion
Win3.1 based "calculator with database support" from MetalChip

ARDI is the company that makes Executor, a 100% native software Macintosh emulator for PCs.
for x86 emulation on a Mac, look into QEMU

Note: References shown are not an endorsement.
Sites and software not shown are not a counter-endorsement.

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