SHPTOOL Application

The Army Geospatial Information Center has the capacity to validate 2D and 3D data (just a few themes) in CAD format. In this format the geographical entities (roads, buildings, references, vegetation areas) are represented by graphic elements (areas, lines and points) characterized by their graphic attributes (level, color, thickness and style).

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an indispensable tool over the last decade for an increasing number of decision-makers with a huge impact in all fields that use and analyze spatially distributed data. The processing speed, consistency and accuracy inherent in a GIS system make it indispensable in any inputs and/or outputs of a geographical nature.

The most common advantages of using GIS are associated with the data themselves, once inserted into the system, are manipulated with enormous speed and all interactions are associated with their geometry, also allowing the use of mathematical and statistical tools. GIS enters our world as an asset in decision-making processes, facilitating data refresh and producing maps quickly and efficiently.

The current methodology validates 2D data by automatic batch/script processes in cad (Computer Assisted Design) environment, and the geographic elements points, lines or areas are differentiated by their graphic attributes according to their characteristics (type, level, color, style and thickness). In this way, it is necessary to map between the geographical elements and the various graphics that represent them. GIS, unlike CAD, implements relationships between objects, which allows the use of spatial analysis tools such as buffering to determine other objects within a given neighborhood.

Thus, the objective of the SHPTOOL application framed in the VIGeo3D project (3D Geospatial Information Validation) is to provide a set of functions, in the same application, with certain functionalities that innovate the production chain of the Military Charter, Scale 1/25 000, Serie M888, with a methodology that allows the validation of three-dimensional data in GIS environment, using the new tools available in the area of geographic information.

GitHub: "SHPTOOL"