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Garry Petrie

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Sep 21, 2026, 3:30:20 PMSep 21
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I decided to try out the shapefile export in Topodroid.

I found the objects in the sketch were rendered in ArcGIS Pro. However, when geo-referenced, the shapefiles contained no lat/lon information and ArcGIS placed it at lat/lon = 0.0/0.0, Atlantic ocean.

Is this feature still in development?

Garry Petrie

Balambér Hakapesz

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Sep 21, 2026, 4:48:58 PMSep 21
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Manual 13: 

Shapefile ".shz"
Survey data can be exported as shapefile. There is a shapefile for the stations and one for the shots (both legs and splays). If the survey contains disjoint pieces, a shapefile is exported for each pieces with a georeferenced station. Data are corrected with the magnetic declination. Each shapefile consists of three files: the data file, with extension ".shp", the index file, ".shx", and the attributes file, ".dbf". The files are zip-compressed and the zip is saved with extension ".shz".

If you have georeferenced at least a station and checked the appropriate checkbox in the export dialog, the data are exported in the WGS84 reference system, and corrected with the magnetic declination.
Otherwise the data are exported in local coordinates and the magnetic declination correction is not applied.


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Garry Petrie

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Sep 21, 2026, 7:32:20 PMSep 21
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Don't need the manual to observe it Doesn't go into ArcGIS Pro. Yes, clicked the box and had coordinates for an included station. I also inspected the .dbf files and no embedded coordinates. 

I really hate reporting bugs here, it's always the patronizing response, "read the manual."

Balambér Hakapesz

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Sep 21, 2026, 8:23:36 PMSep 21
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I'm sorry, but the manual is the only place where people can be informed about how the program works.
But I'll send an example:
This is supposed to be at a golf course in Philadelphia.
WGS84 coordinate system.

INSERT into surveys values( 22, "4075", "2026.09.22", "probe", 0.0000, "", "0", 1, 0, 0, 0 0 );
INSERT into shots values( 22, 1, "0", "1", 10.000, 20.00, 30.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 1, 0, 0, 0, "", 1, 1790035629, 0, 0.00, "", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 );
INSERT into fixeds values( 22, 1, "0", -75.0000000, 40.0000000, 165.96, 200.00, "", 0, 2, "", 0.0000000, 0.0000000, 0.0, 2, 2, 0.0000, -1.0, -1.0, 1.000000, 1.000000 );

wkt_geom name
Point ZM (-75 40 100 0) 0

Balázs Holl

4075.zip
4075.shz
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