A Standard job format, is an interchange format that an Orbitas field job can be imported from or exported to. Upon request, each format will be added to an Orbitas Subscription and can then be optionally redistributed by a Subscription Administrator to groups within that Subscription.
A Standard job format, is an interchange format that an Orbitas field job can be imported from or exported to. Upon request, each format will be added to an Orbitas Subscription and can then be optionally redistributed by a Pro (or Subscription Administrator) to groups within that Subscription. I may have gone into slightly too much information on the Shape format. However, that is the one that gets us into issues with most city/state entities so documenting it well I think will help with that.
Standard Exports will look the same for all users. Each format has unique constraints. Please see the details on the constraints of each format. Should a user desire a standard format that has different constraints / schema from what is listed, it can be requested to be upgraded to a "Premium" format. Please see details on premium formats.
ESRI Shapefile
Google KMZ
PNEZD (Import and Export)
Partner XML
Partner JSON (Import and Export)
Clearion Shapefile Format
AutoCad DWG (Formatted for AT&T As-Builts)
All Standard Exports will have the same parameters as shown below:
DATUM: This parameter (defaulted to WGS84) represents the correction datum that was in use at the time of collection. By default GNSS devices will record Latitude/Longitude/Altitude information in World Geodetic System of 1984, adjusted by epoch to conform with the International Terrestrial Reference Frame. However, it is possible to apply a different "correction datum" in the field. The most common is when utilizing an RTK network that is referenced to NAD83(2011) or NSRS11 (National Survey Reference System of 2011.
It is highly critical to ensure that you select the NAD83(2011) option if exporting from an RTK corrected job in the US, to avoid datum shifts.
LINE_SPAN: This parameter (defaulted to span) allows the user to visualize their "Line" information collected with an Orbitas location as either segments (spans), or as one continuous line. If continuous is selected, lines will be broken at the change of "LineType" attribute or if the parenting ends or forms a loop. * Please note that if Spans are not chosen, span form information will not be properly displayed.
The exception to the line_span is PNEZD format. Due to the nature of PNEZD file types, there is no line to include.
USERDEPTH_UNIT: This parameter (defaulted to feet) allows users that collected data with a supported line locator, to change the units that the depth exports to. * In the KMZ format, this field will also affect the reported accuracy units.
Exports to a compressed, "zip" file with the name of the job that was collected. Once extracted, each job will have a number of shapefiles. Each shapefile consists of a PRJ,CPG,DBF,SHP and SHX file as you can see below. There will be a generic shapefile called "Locations" exported. This will include every location collected, regardless of Location Type. Each "Line Type" will be exported to its own shapefile. If "Form" information is collected for any location or quick feature… a shapefile of that name will also be created.
See the images to view the sample job used, and the resulting structure of the compressed shapefile
Foreword: In order to maintain a dynamic schema, Orbitas software utilizes a JSON collection format for its forms. Any Form data exported to a "Standard ESRI Shapefile" Format will be displayed in this JSON format ( See the example of EdgeofPavement ). If it is desired to break these form controls out into individual attributes, a "Premium" export must be created with custom setup and change fees.
PNEZD (or Point, Northing, Easting, Zed, Descriptor) is an industry standard comma delimited text format. It is a common import method to populate many drawing applications. The one unique part of the PNEZD is our descriptor. The Tri-Global Descriptor upon export consists of "Location Type"-"Location Note"-"Depth".
1435868.683 2507600.076 736.58 Pole--NONE
1435910.404 2507651.1 731.16Pole--NONE
1435954.493 2507707.481 722.28PartnerUnit--NONE
Google KMZ is a zipped folder, containing a Tri-Global formatted Google KML file, plus icons and color schemes as defined in the Orbitas style set for the subscription. This is one of the most complete standard formats due to its dynamic nature and can contain all information included in the configuration, with (1) notable difference.
Attachments (or Photos), photos are now "Reduced" from their original size. They are reduced to be 600 pixels wide. The width of these photos corresponds with their display size within the KML itself. This is an attempt to prevent KMZ files from "timing out" on export. The size of the photos could prevent some KMZ files from being exported in the original format.
Should a user desire full size photos, they can be downloaded directly using the instructions in our Accessing Photos support resource.
A Premium Job Export, is a format that an Orbitas created job can be exported to or imported from as well, however the difference is that a Premium Job Export carries with it an additional cost. The additional cost will consist of a creation and modification cost, as well as an annual maintenance cost. The benefit to this format is that it is created uniquely for each entity that contracts it, and can save hours of time on data management for Tri-Global clients.
The following are all Premium Job formats, some additional criteria may be necessary for some formats:
1 Spatial Internal Feature Format (IFF)
12d Model
Actian Ingres Non-Spatial
Actian Ingres Spatial
Adobe 3D PDF
Adobe Flash (SWF)
Adobe Geospatial PDF
Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher
Adobe Illustrator (IEPS) Adobe Product Representation Compact (PRC)
Aircom ENTERPRISE Map Data/ASSET Data
AIXM 4.5 (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model XML version 4.5)
AIXM 5.x (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model GML)
Amazon Aurora Non-Spatial (MYSQL_AURORA_NONSPATIAL)
Amazon Aurora Spatial (MYSQL_AURORA_SPATIAL)
Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift Spatial
Apache Parquet
ASPRS LiDAR Data Exchange Format (LAS)
ASTM E57
Australian Asset Design and As Constructed (ADAC)
Autodesk 3ds
Autodesk AutoCAD DWF
Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF
Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data
Autodesk FBX
Autodesk IMX
Autodesk MapGuide SDL
Autodesk ReCap
Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG)
BC MOEP
BC MoF Electronic Submission Framework (ESF)
Bentley MicroStation Design
Bentley MicroStation GeoGraphics
BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
CADRG (Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics)
Canadian Council on Geomatics Interchange Format (CCOGIF)
Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED)
Caris NTX CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Point Cloud
CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Raster
CARTO
Cesium 3D Point Cloud
Cesium 3D Tiles
CIB (Controlled Image Base)
CITS Data Transfer Format (QLF)
CityJSON
CKAN DataStore (FME Desktop Package)
COLLADA (Collaborative Design Activity)
ComGraphix Data Exchange Format (CGDEF)
CouchDB
CSV (Comma-Separated Value)
Danish UFO
Data File
dBASE (DBF)
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)
DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data)
Dutch Top10 GML
E00 (Esri ArcInfo Coverage/Esri ArcInfo Export)
Elastic Elasticsearch
BC MoF Electronic Submission Framework – (XSD-Driven)
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Epic Games Unreal Datasmith (UDATASMITH)
ER Mapper ECW
ER Mapper ERS
ERDAS IMAGINE
ERDAS RAW
Esri-JSON (Esri JavaScript Object Notation)
Esri .hdr RAW Raster
Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service
Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service
Esri ArcInfo Generate
Esri ASCII Grid Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb Mosaic Dataset)
Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb Raster Dataset)
Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb)
Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Open API)
Esri Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S)
Esri Knowledge Esri Mapping Specification for CAD (MSC)
Facet XDR
File Copy
FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
FME Augmented Reality (FME AR)
FME Augmented Reality (FME AR) (Deprecated)
FME Feature Store (FFS)
FME Server Automations
Garmin GDB
Garmin GPI
Garmin MapSource
Garmin POI Generic (Any Format)
GeoConcept Map
General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
GeoJSON (Geographic JavaScript Object Notation)
GeoRSS/RSS Feed
GeoTIFF (Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format)
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
GIF Rasterizer
glTF (GL Transmission Format)
Golden Software Surfer Binary Grid
Google BigQuery
Google Cloud Spanner
Google Cloud SQL Non-Spatial (MYSQL_GOOGLE_DB)
Google Cloud SQL Spatial (MYSQL_GOOGLE)
Google Fusion Tables (Non-Spatial) (Service Ended December 3, 2019)
Google Sheets Google Sheets v4 (FME Desktop Package)
Google WebP GPS eXchange Format (GPX)
Graphic Technologies, Inc. (GTI) GTViewer
Halliburton GeoGraphix CDF
HERE Venue Map (GML)
HTML
HYPACK Border
IBM Cloudant
IBM DB2/Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Non-Spatial
IBM DB2/Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Spatial
IBM DB2 Non-Spatial (JDBC)
IBM Informix Non-Spatial
IBM Informix Non-Spatial (JDBC)
IBM Informix Spatial
IBM Netezza Spatial and Non-Spatial
IBM PASW (SPSS) .sav
IDRISI Raster
IDRISI Vector Format
Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)
Industry Foundation Class STEP/XML Files (IFC)
InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE)
INSPIRE GML
Intergraph FRAMME Standard Exchange Format (SEF)
Intergraph GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouse
Intergraph MGE
Intergraph Raster ITT ENVI .hdr Raw Raster
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
JPEG 2000 (GeoJP2/GMLJP2)
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
Landmark Z-Map Vector
Landmark Z-Map Grid
LandXML Leica Independent Data Exchange Format (IDEX)
MapBox MBTiles
MapBox MBTiles Vector Tiles (MVT)
Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) and MVT Tileset
MapInfo SpatialWare
Marconi PlaNet
MariaDB/SkySQL (MySQL-compatible) Non-Spatial
MariaDB/SkySQL (MySQL-compatible) Spatial
Meta Raster Format (MRF)
Metria AutoKa Transfer File (FF)
Mojang Minecraft
Microsoft Access (JDBC)
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (JDBC)
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Spatial (JDBC)
Microsoft Azure Storage Table
Microsoft Bitmap (BMP)
Microsoft DirectDraw Surface (DDS)
Microsoft DirectX
Microsoft Excel Reader (XLSXR) and (XLSXW)
Microsoft MapPoint Web XML
Microsoft OGDI DataLab
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft SharePoint List
Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database (MSSQL_SPATIAL) Spatial
Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (MSSQL_ADO)
Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial (JDBC)
Microsoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC)
Microsoft Word
MongoDB
MongoDB3
National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form)
NGDC Hydrographic Surveys Data Exchange (HYD93)
NIfTI (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative)
Northgate StruMap
OBJ
ODBC 3.x
OGC CityGML
OGC CSW (Catalogue Services for the Web)
OGC GeoPackage
OGC GeoPackage Tiles
OGC GML (Geography Markup Language)
OGC GML v2.1.2 (Geography Markup Language)
OGC GML SF-0 (Geography Markup Language Simple Features Level SF-0 Profile)
OGC/Google KML
OGC IndoorGML
OGP P1/90 Post Plot Positioning Data
OpenSceneGraph (OSGB/OSGT)
OpenStreetMap (OSM) XML
Oracle Autonomous Non-Spatial
Oracle Autonomous Spatial Object
Oracle Non-Spatial
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
Oracle Spatial Object
Oracle Spatial Point Cloud
Oracle Spatial Relational
Oracle SQL Loader
PCD (Point Cloud Data)
PCI Geomatics Database File (PCIDSK)
PenMetrics GRD
PHOCUS PHODAT
Pixar USD (Universal Scene Description)
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
PNG Rasterizer
Point Cloud XYZ (POINTCLOUDXYZ)
Pointools POD
PostGIS (Raster) PostGIS
PostgreSQL
Precisely MapInfo Extended TAB
Precisely MapInfo MIF/MID
Precisely MapInfo TAB (EFAL) (Technology Preview)
Precisely MapInfo TAB (MAPINFO/MITAB)
Precisely MapInfo Vertical Mapper Grid (NGrid)
Presagis .flt (OPENFLIGHT)
QVX (QlikView Data Exchange)
R Statistical Data (RData) Array as Raster
R Statistical Data (RData) Non-Spatial
R Statistical Raster Data (RRASTER) .grd
Regional Geographic Information System (REGIS)
Salesforce
SAP HANA and Cloud Platform HANA Service Non-Spatial
SAP HANA and Cloud Platform HANA Service Spatial
SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
SAS (Statistical Analysis System)
SeabedML (GML) SEG-Y SGI Image
Smallworld 3
Smallworld 4/5
Snowflake Non-Spatial
Snowflake Spatial
Socrata DataSync
Socrata2(FME Desktop Package)
SOSI GML
SpatiaLite
SQLite
SQLite Spatial (GDAL) (SpatiaLite)
STAR-APIC Mercator MCF STL (Standard Triangle/Tessellation Language)
Sun Raster
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
Swedish I2K/G2K (Interface 2000 GML)
Swedish KF85
Swedish Masik
Swiss INTERLIS (ili2fme)
Tableau Data Extract (TDE)
Replaced by Tableau Hyper
Tableau Hyper
Teradata Non-Spatial
Teradata Spatial
Terrasolid TerraScan
TetGen
Text Feature Store (TFS) Fixed Schema
Text Feature Store (TFS) Variable Schema
Text File
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
TomTom POI
TopoJSON (Topology JavaScript Object Notation)
Trimble SketchUp
Unfolded Data (FME Desktop Package)
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model (USGSDEM)
UK OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer (GML)
UK OS MasterMap Highways Network (GML)
UK OS MasterMap Sites Layer (GML)
UK OS MasterMap Topography Layer (GML)
UK OS MasterMap Water Network (GML)
Vector Markup Language (VML)
Vector Product Format (VPF) Coverage and Database
VOIV (VoxelGeo OpenInventor)
X11 Pixmap (XPM)
X3Dand VRML
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
XSD-Driven XML
