Due to the relevance of importing points from data tables in many projects and works related to territorial information, cartography or surveying, 'Spatial Manager' includes multiple systems that simplify this task. MS Excel is one of the most used tools to produce and manage this kind of tables and we will review here a couple of options to import points from Excel files to drawings or maps
In any task or project related to territorial information it is very important to be provided with tools that facilitate the integration of multiple information formats from different sources. Although there are already some entries on this topic in this Blog, here you can review different 'Spatial Manager' options for loading and importing a variety of information in a few steps
Google Earth allows you to save any image of the maps that are shown on the screen considering which are the active Places and Layers along with a configuration file (.geprint) that stores the Map options but also the Map geolocation. 'Spatial Manager' (AutoCAD, BricsCAD and ZWCAD) now can read from the data in these .geprint files the raster image geo reference while importing it
Although since the first versions of 'Spatial Manager' has been possible to access WFS (Web Feature Service) servers, until now this has been done through two data providers based on FDO and OGR. Recently, a native WFS data provider has been added in the application, offering more advantages and features
