Stream Profiles

On the Calculate Menu.  This option allows you to digitize a profile from a map on screen. This could be a stream profile, pipeline route, or another similar use.

Take the following steps:

• Open the map upon which you want to digitize, and blow it up so that you can clearly see the entirety of the route.
• Select Calculate, Stream Profile.
• Digitizing can use either point (double click to set each point) or stream mode (drag with the mouse down). Change modes by right clicking while digitizing.
• Select the first point on the profile.
• The program will draw the profile to this point.
• When done, right click on the map and pick the first option to end the selection.

When complete, the program will produce a graph of the route.

You can get the points used to calculate the program with the Analyze graph, view data menu choice. The order is x (distance along the profile line, in meters) versus elevation (in meters).

With this option, the program does not save anything that will survive a screen refresh or closing the window with the profile.

Annotate Map, create a line shape file can save the the location of your selections.  You can then draw the Terrain profile from the Table view of the database that goes with the shape file.

Last revision 10/25/2013