Is SALSA able to read .obs files from CEFB? or .lsa files from CMM?

[V. Kelly Bellis]

I have a ton, like about 30 years' worth, of terrestrial field data from Cadastral Electronic Field Book CEFB) developed by the BLM and in conjunction with the University of Maine Orono (UMO) (1)

CEFB dovetails with Cadastral Measurement Management (CMM) which is the suite of least squares programs also developed at UMO (also see WinCMM)

I also have a bunch of GNSS data since about 2001, but as I begin reading the SALSA manual, I don't anticipate its ingestion into SALSA to be as much of an issue. But the CEFB-CMM stuff, I'm not so sure. The fact that Dr. Ray Hintz's early work in this area extended well beyond UMO, the BLM, and AASHTO, I remain hopeful that these basic CMM file types; i.e., .obs and .lsa could possibly be ingested by SALSA.

If CEFB-CMM files can't presently be accommodated by SALSA, then please add this voice to any others making requests for SALSA to receive these CEFB-CMM data types. I don't write code, but am happy to do testing.

Thank you for any reply.

Kind regards,

Kelly

[V. Kelly Bellis]

After browsing Chapter 11 of the user manual discussing Custom Import Scripts, I thought that it might be helpful that I include some example of the CEFB-CMM .obs and .lsa which are a couple of fundamental files related to CMM. I've included other CMM-related files which are generated during CMM processing in addition to the .obs in answer to the question of whether or not these types of terrestrial data files will even work in SALSA.

Thank you for any reply.

Kind regards,

Kelly