Sorting Points in a Traverse

TPC can sort the points in a traverse so that when the traverse is drawn in Drawing View, the points create a center line, a boundary, a feature line or whatever makes sense. TPC does this using a "nearest neighbor" sort.

Here's how it works:

• You select the traverse points you want to sort. You can sort all the points in the traverse or just selected ones.
  
• Then you tell TPC which of the selected points to start with. If you don't give TPC a starting point, it picks the most outlying point of those selected for sorting. This is the first point.
  
• Starting with the first point, TPC finds the selected point that is nearest to it, then advances to that point and finds the next nearest selected point and so on.
  
• TPC continues until each selected point has been included in the sort.
  
• TPC then rearranges the selected points in the Traverse View to reflect the order in which they were sorted.

Why Sort Points?

The ability to sort points allows your field crews to collect points in any sequence, making them more efficient in the field. Once the data is imported into TPC, you just sort points into traverses based on their point descriptions, then sort those traverses that will define lines on the final map (sidewalks, curbs, centerlines, etc).

If you do site work, this is one TPC feature you have to try.

Editions

Personal, Premium, Professional

Related Topics

Traverse View
Inserting Traverse Points
Deleting Traverse Points