Voice: overlays layers of 2D locations and database attributes
Designed to convert USDA Dlgs into .shp files with attendant relational databases. Edit shape files and their attribute databases. No longer uses any dll's or ocx's.

Vector Frequently Asked Questions

• VOICE™ : Vector Overlay Information Classification Extrapolation. Open (.shp files), edit, analyze, annotate, layout a legend, and print as a map. Extract Classified layers of objects having x,y coordinates and attribute information. (Layers: Hydrology, Vegetation, Soils, Transportation, Urban-utilities, and Elevation). U.S. Geological Survey software dlgv32 allows preview and evaluation of (USGS) data, (USGS) National Atlas. ArcExplorer® GIS software is developed and marketed by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. SOEST Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) has great data too.

Try a 'real' dlg or .shp and if it crashes tell me the html page locating the shape file so i can test that .dlg or .shp file. Shape and dxf readers and writers have been rewritten and a .shp editor now exists

• Question: Ver 1.0.0 Build 8, Windows version 4 NT
  An error was detected when trying to fetch registration info.
• Answer... I do not have any NT version
  ?16 bit Dll's?
  ?Improper Installation - registration of dll?
  Winsite has a different version (does not register the Dlls so it might work better) than ZDnet

• Question: When I tried to convert to a shape file the program froze during process and issued the following, i/o error 103.
• Answer... ?File not Open? The Import gets the incoming file and converts it to an outgoing file: it does Not store in memory so cannot import to 1 type then save as another. (should not be able to..) .. dll not working? ?File location changed?

• Question: During dxf output the file process seemed to work but when I tried to call up the dxf file in autocad I got the following message: error in Appid Table on line 24,Invalid dxf input.
• Answer... ?works in other cad programs (version 1.3 rewritten)

Vector To Do:

• VOICE needs development on: Subject Groups ?
• Display
  All the USDA database sections:... reorganize and reindex...
  attribute classification (Statistical Class range)
  database display of the Linked database
  selection of mapping attributes to compute database statistical maps... First a list of precomputedable maps... then field selection or what?
  Calculate Bearing, Distance, Perimeter, Area, Volume
  Legend, Grid, Source-Summary-such information, Map arrangement for printing
• Editing
  Resample- Thin data
  Snap undershot, Trim overshoot
  Convert Lines to Polygons on a different layer
• Import-Export
  Registration of Corners, Least Square bundles, or to current Layer
  Map Projection conversion, Adjustments (+-*/ a value)
  Import: ASCII XYZ, DLG SDTSS, DOT BTS, DXF, SHP 3D, Tracer Lists, TIGER(R), netCDF, CDF, HDF, and __??files.
  This version DOES NOT convert dlg opt files to .dxf (line entities now, increased dxf later). This version DOES NOT export files to .dxf always correctly...
  sdts files to .shp or .dxf. maybe in the future
  Wintab driver for digitizer
  a 2D-3D vector editor... SOS MAP not VOICE for 3D GL.

• ??
• Smooth out the user interface...