Tribe.net. Local Connections Xander http://GeospatialInformationSyst.tribe.net/thread/4803131b-d8e3-4f86-8c63-bfe26a4e4e99#0d032f1c-f087-4e2d-bbe9-78ad07e43499 2007-09-14T13:33:38Z 2007-09-14T13:33:38Z

Yes, it was Lidar data. Wow... I guess I was impatient. I unsubscribed after a couple of weeks casue I figured no one was checking the posts... Here it is a year later and I search tribe for GIS and find this reply to it. Thanks, Belle. I found a tool called GPSBabel which is free and converts all types of xyz files to many different formats. http://www.gpsbabel.org/ AD

Xander 2007-09-14T13:33:38Z Belle http://GeospatialInformationSyst.tribe.net/thread/4803131b-d8e3-4f86-8c63-bfe26a4e4e99#59f945d5-3b51-454b-ad2b-50fbdc91151b 2006-09-18T22:03:40Z 2006-09-18T22:03:40Z

So is this lidar data you are working with? Or is it another kind of xyz?

Belle 2006-09-18T22:03:40Z Xander http://GeospatialInformationSyst.tribe.net/thread/4803131b-d8e3-4f86-8c63-bfe26a4e4e99#f0594164-1864-49ac-9345-6446b49b99d0 2006-08-30T17:20:53Z 2006-08-30T17:20:53Z

Hi I am currently the sole GIS professional for a county in Georgia and have been using ESRI products for 5 years now. I began with ArcINFO Workstation and transitioned to ArcGIS with the 8.3 release when they finally got the polygon topology to the point where I didn't have to go back and forth to workstation to check on it. :-) I use ArcINFO 9.1 currently and am about to transition to a enterprise geodatabase to support a part-time GIS Technician we are hiring (rolling out CU ArcEditor for them) and to serve .5 ft aerial photography we had flown this last winter. That should do for intros... now.. the question: I just received two DVDs of bare-earth points in .xyz (Either generated from Microstation or AutoCAD 3D) format. Unfortunately. ArcGIS does not support this format and does not even have a ArcTool to convert this to into something recognizable. I have searched through the ESRI support forums and found no tool that has been made to do this. I have googled until my fingers have bled and haven't even found a freeware way to convert, in batch, these space delimited data files to .csv (which ArcGIS DOES recognize). I took one of the .xyz files, saved it as a .txt file, manually added field names and replaced the spaces with commas and saved it as a .csv. Hurray, hurray, that worked!! BUT, I have a thousand files.... :-) Anybody know of a script or program that will do this? Free is the operative word here. Thank you, in advance, for your time in thinking on this.

Xander 2006-08-30T17:20:53Z