We convert / vectorize / digitize your old paper drawings, digital raster images or computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) into intelligent, geographically-oriented vector data for your GIS application. Our knowledge of surveying, geodesy, cartography, data manipulation and GIS structure and development ensures high quality conversion. Our services include scanning, georeferencing, edgematching, polygon/area completion and line snapping, plus full data attribution.

Experienced in Tax Parcel Map conversion and building residential and urban thematic datasets for any industry standard GIS format.

Typical Municipal Capture includes:

Lots/Blocks

Parcels

Street Centerlines

Building footprints

We can produce multiple layer output for a single map source or combine multiple data sources (both graphic and non-graphic) into a single thematic layer. We also provide data cleaning and normalization of datasets from previous GIS conversion attempts as well as coordinate system and projection conversion.

Historic Map Conversion Specialists

We are capable of multi-scale cartographic interpretation of historic maps (including rod and chain unit conversions). Conversion includes manual rubbersheeting as well as digitization quality control and spatial placement assessments from current basemap data and aerial photography (where available). Our staff possesses an extensive knowledge of archives and repositories for historic maps (originals as well as copies in print and digital format) throughout the Middle Atlantic region.

Supporting your geographic data conversion needs

We guarantee high quality 100% conversion of paper maps and drawings, digital raster images, computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) files, or GIS datasets for use in your programs and workflows.

We Support Input from:

Hardcopy Sources

Raster Images

CADD formats - DWG, DXF, DGN, etc.

Older or other GIS formats - Arc/INFO Coverage, E00, MIF/MID, TAB, TIGER, DLG, etc.

Raster Image Input Formats Supported:

JPEG/JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format

TIFF/GeoTIFF - Tagged Image File Format/ Geographically embedded orientation in TIFF

PDF - Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format

SID - LizardTech Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)

DRG - U.S. Geological Survey Digital Raster Graphic

IMG - ERDAS IMAGINE File Format

BMP - Bitmap Image Format

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Output Formats Supported:

SHP - ESRI Shapefile

MDB - ESRI personal geodatabase

MIF - MapInfo Interchange Format

GML - Geography Markup Language

DWG - AutoCAD Drawing

DXF - Drawing Exchange Format

DGN - Microstion Design

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