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- Name/Version: Findarc
- Reviewer / Date: Hugh Phillips / June 1996
- Date of last known release: ca. March 1996
- Function: Intelligent Arc/Info / ArcView data location, assessment, and documentation utility
- Background Information: http://geodesigns.com/findarc.html (This URL was broken 1/2/2001)
- Platform/OS: SUN SPARCstations, SunOS and Solaris 2.x
- Principal Contact: David Lanter, Geographic Designs, lanter@geodesigns.com
- Status:
- No longer available. Shortly after release of this software, David Lanter sold his company, Geographic Designs (that also produced Geolineus), and the software never resurfaced.
- Metadata Storage Structure: not applicable
- Description:
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Findarc is utility that helps locate and document Arc/Info and ArcView coverages, GRIDs, shapefiles, projects, and workspaces. It searches the current default file system or directory for Arc/Info and ArcView data to identify file owners, state of topology, and projection information. The output is a comma delimited file which is easily imported into ArcView for sorting and querying, or filtered with UNIX tools like grep. The information obtained about coverages with this tool is the same that can be found with the Arc/Info 'DESCRIBE' command.
As it exists currently, Findarc is an exceptional metadata utility, however it stops short of what one might hope for in such tool. If it went a little further, and did some statistics on the attributes, it might guess range, codeset, and unrepresentable domain for attributes and report them.
- Cost: $249 per floating license (US$). Volume discounts available.
- Notable Plus:
- Unique utility to aid in creation of metadata by performing a critical first step, locating candidate data sets.
- Notable Minus: -
- Sample of Interface: Command driven
- Sample Output
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