Buttons in the Tool Bar Ofcyber-Mapping Window, from Left to Right

Note: All the names of windows are underlined, and all the names of buttons are in Italic format.

Buttons in the tool bar ofCyber-Mapping window, from left to right:

GIS tools

(1) Map contents

(2) Find

(3)Full extent

(4) Zoom in

(5) Zoom out

(6) Pan

(7) Identify

(8) Spatial select

Survey method selection

(9)Leica RTK

(10)Laser

(11)Laser encoder

(12)Topcon

(13)Als

Communication port control

(14)Open port

(15)Close port

File/ Record

(16)New Shapefile

(17)Save Record

Tools for control parameters

(18)Attribute

(19)Monitor port

(20)Control

(21)Clear

Open the software, two windows will show: Cyber-Mapping, Map Contents.

Cyber-Mapping is the main user interface for this software.

1. Create a new shapefile:

Click on New Shapefile.

Type in the name you want for your project inSave As. For example, here we type in “test” as file name. Click Save.

Map Contents shows again. You’ll see a new layer called “test” shown in it.

1. Creat a new control file:

Click on the Control .After the Control File Form window shows, click on New.

Type in file name “Control1” and save it.

Now we can see another window –Control Point Form.

Click on Type in button.

You can choose the coordinate system you want to use for your project. Among UTM(Universal Transverse Mercator), DD (Decimal Degree) and DMS (Degree, Minute and Second), we choose DMS for instance.

Then in the Type in DMS Format, type in

Name: Als1

Latitude: 394151.217889

Longitude: 110 55 53.208143

Height: 2020.099 (The unit of Height is meter)

Click OK. The software will convert DMS to DD and you just click OK when small windows containing DD latitude and longitude show.

Repeat the Type In steps. Input other points:

Name: Als2

Latitude: 394147.276861

Longitude: 110 55 43.377059

Height: 2009.317

Name: az1

Latitude: 394151.971559

Longitude: 110 55 54.237558

Height: 2021.41

Name: az2

Latitude: 394147.760309

Longitude: 110 55 40.904486

Height: 2006.493

Now in the Control Point Form window, there are four points in the list. And GPSX and GPSY are UTM x and y?

The points we typed in are displayed in Cyber-mapping.

Click Identify. Try to identify one of the points.

The Identify Resultsdisplays the information of the point Als1.

Choose control point and backsight:

Click on the square button to the left of Als1 and the whole line is highlighted.

Then click Control in Control Point Form.

Click on the square button to the left of az1 and the whole line is highlighted. Then click Backsight button.

Click Re-Calculate button.

Click Check button. Then there comes out Form Check Control Parameter window.

The software calculates parameters according to control and backsight you type in. As in this example, the bearing shows 313.4189.

Click OK.

And if you change control point or backsight or both, click Reset button.

Then you need to confirm your choice. Click Yes.

For instance,you use Als2 as control point and az1 is still the backsight.

Highlight the whole line of Als2 and click Control.

Highlight the whole line of az1 and click Backsight.

Click Re-Calculate and Check. You can see the bearing is 299.1857 this time.

Click Ok and close the Control Point Form.

If you check your harddisk now, we’ll find there is a shapefile named control1 created.

Next time if you still want to use the same control file, click on Control in Cyber-Mapping.

In Control File Form, click Load.

Choose Control1.shp in Select control file window.

In Control File Form, click the pull-up button, choose Control1.shp.

Click OK.

Then you can choose your control point and backsight in Control Point Form. Don’t need to type in again.

1. Set up proper communication—open port

Click the Open port (14).

It is grayed and the Close port button right next to it becomes usable now.

1. Choose the right application:

(1) Click on the Als.

The Form Check Control Parameter window shows again. Check your control point and backsight. And click OK.

In Attribute, type in

Enter Attribute: point1

Antenna Height: 1.5

And wait until ALS is trigged, click Ok.

In the lower right corner of Cyber-Mapping, the number 0 is changed to 1. This is an increment for recording how many points you acquire that haven’t been saved.

Click the Save button, the fifth one from the left of the tool bar. Notice that the increment goes back to 0.

If you don’t want to save this point, click clear in Cyber-Mapping. And the increment goes back to 0.

1. Using Topcon Application:

Click on the Topcon.

Confirm the control point and backsight and click OK in the Form Check Control Parameterwindow.

Now there are two small windows for Topcon application: Attribute and Topcon Control.

In Attribute, type in:

Enter Attribute: topcon1

Antenna Height: 1.5

Click Ok.

And wait until Topcon is trigged.

If choose single mode:

Click Single in Topcon Control. And you’ll get the measurement of one point every time you click Single.

If choose continuous mode:

The software can simulate the continuous shot mode once you click Track in Topcon Control

1. Stop Acquire

In Map Contents, two layers are displayed now. If you finish measuring and have saved measurements, highlight the “test” layer and click Stop Acquire.

Notice buttons in survey method selection and communication port control areas are grayed.

If you want to continue measuring, just click Set Acquire in the same window.

7. Display in 2D or 3D view

Shapefiles can be displayed in 2D or 3D view.

For instance, we now want to display two shapefiles in Cybermapping fold: alsA,

alsB.

(1)Remove layers

Remove the “test” and “Control1” layers from Cyber-Mapping.

In Map Contents, highlight “test” and click Remove layer.

Repeat this step to remove “Control1”.

Or just click Clear layers in Map Content. This will remove or clear all the layers displayed.

(2)Open shapefiles:

To display shapefiles, click Add file… in Map Content.

Select the file you want to display in Select file for new layer.

Now we add alsA and alsB as two new layers in Map Contents.

And in Cyber-Mapping, they are displayed in 2D view.

The red dots are from alsA.

The blue dots are from alsB.

If we want to check some information about those points in alsA or alsB, highlight alsA and click Table in Map Content. You will find these two are in different data format.

The table of alsA shows that its format is the same as the control file Control1, so we cannot click Set Acquire to apply any kind of survey method on it. If you do so, the error information will be displayed.

(3)display in 3D view

Now we want to view alsB in 3D format.

On the menu bar of Cyber-Mapping, pull out “Help” and click “Strike”.

After Select Features shows, highlight alsB in the left half window and click Add.

After “alsB” is displayed in the right half window, click on 3D.

Now we can see the 3D View interface.

Check in the square beside “alsB”.

Now we can use the Rotate button to rotate the map.

Or use Zoom button to enlarge the view.

On the menu bar, “Size” is for changing the size of the points displayed in 3D View.

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