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SDTS Workshop Results - Technical Session


Speaker: Darrell Schmidt, Mapping Sciences Computing Specialist

Data Systems Research & Development Division
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems
P.O. Box 2009
Bldg 9208, M/S 8082
Oak Ridge, TN 37831

Topic: Exchanging Transportation Networks Between Two GISs Via the SDTS

Email: dlschmidt@ingr.com

Web: http://members.aol.com/alwayse


Mr. Schmidt discussed using the existing SDTS Transportation Network Profile (TNP) http://www.bts.gov/gis/reference/tnp_11.html

to successfully exchange transportation data between Arc/INFO and Intergraph MGE. This was part of graduate work at the University of Tennessee. He provided useful comparisons of spatial objects and terms from the three formats. Darrell's paper for GIS/LIS'97 and thesis are on-line at

http://members.aol.com/alwayse


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