NEZ Format

The Northing, Easting, Elevation (NEZ) format is that which the FC-4 unit of a Topcon EDM (electronic distance measurement) survey tool outputs. In terms of a fortran specification, it is 5A12 format. Strings are converted to numbers by programs that read NEZ files. The best NEZ data are actual survey data. But absent that, one can use tools to build an NEZ file (like bnez).

columns:
12345678911111111112222222222333333333344444444445555
         01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
         
          1    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000 SP001
          2    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000 SP002
          3    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000 SP003
          4    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000 SP004
          
12345678911111111112222222222333333333344444444445555
         01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123

Program topcon2 is written in the C-language. For those with Bison files, see the next section.