GIS conversion Memo and FAQ .

1. What kind of GIS format is used?
   1. Using other GIS formats, any suggestions?
   2. What are network_property files?
2. Where is documents and software?

1. What kind of GIS format is used?

   Our tool uses data provided GSI. The format is Japanese Metadata Profile 1.1a (JMP1.1a) that is based ISO19115.

   1. Using other GIS formats, any suggestions?

      Yes, it can't be helped that there are many GIS formats around the world. Their formats are not the same as JMP1.1a.
      Our step 1 consists of two step.(cf. run.sh)
      a. conversion form XML file to network_property files. [java GetData]
      b. conversion from network_property files to RoboCup Rescue road and node files.[java ConvertToBin]
      When you make network_property files from your GIS format files, you can make RoboCup Rescue road and node files by staring from 1.b :).
      

   2. What are network_property files?

      Three files - node.txt, road.txt, offset.log - are output after step 1a. They contains only minimum sets of data which are necessary to create the RoboCup Rescue road and node files
      • node.txt contains ID and its positions.
        The record are {,ID,numLongitude,numLatitude,} (Please ingnore extra commas :) ID is a sequential integer number. JMP1.1a represents a point's positron as (longitude, latitude) in the northern hemisphere. The unit of longitude and latitude is second. X (West-East) coordinate and Y (South-North) coordinate are calculated such as X (numLongitude)= (radius of our earth)*numLongitude/(360*60*60). The unit of numLongitude and numLatitude is meter(m).
      • road.txt record are { ,HeadNodeID,TailNodeID,ID,Width,}.
        HeadNodeID and TailNodeID are nodeID that are connected to the road. ID is a sequential integer number for the road. The last Width is the width of the road, and its unit is millimeter(mm).
      • offset.log contains coordinates of the lower left point
        
      A simple example will help to understand contexts of files.

2. Where is documents and software?

   Our 2005 TDF(Team Description paper) for Infrastructure Competition describes our tool. Tools and its manual are available from here.