Data Creation Innovation: An Easy way to turn a Spreadsheet into Polygons

TractBuilder has made creating data easy with its Tools for ArcGIS, and now it i
s even easier with the Auto-Quartering Tool. For the first time, a simple sprea
dsheet containing Township-Range-Section information and a legal description can
be used to create polygons.
Houston, TX April 26, 2011 â TractBuilder has made creating data easy with its Tool
s for ArcGIS, and now it is even easier with the Auto-Quartering Tool. For the
first time, a simple spreadsheet containing Township-Range-Section information a
nd a legal description can be used to create polygons.
"We like making peopleâ s lives easier," Kyle Souza, Sales Manager for TractBuilder,
"thatâ s why our drafting tools for Metes & Bounds and Aliquots have been so popular,
they are just so easy-to-use. At the end of last year we released our Well Spo
tting Tool, which allows users to import a spreadsheet with footage calls for mu
ltiple well locations and creates shapefiles with well points and wellbore lines
. And we already have the Quartering Tool for ArcGIS, which makes creating indi
vidual polygons super efficient; some users report as many as 80 polygons with a
ttributes per hour, and that is by doing them one at a time. It is just natural
that we make a tool for users to create this type of data from a spreadsheet."
The Auto-Quartering Tool can perform all the same types of calls that the TractB
uilder Quartering Tool can:
Standard Calls (NE4, S2 S2, SE2 SW4, etc)
Less & Excepts and Joined features (NW4 Less NW4 NW4, S2 And SW4 NW4, etc)
Distance calls (The North 200 FT, The South 12 Acres of the West Half, etc)
Any columns in the spreadsheet will automatically be added as attributes to the
resulting polygons, so you donâ t have to worry about adding the info to the polygons
once they are created. As with their other tools, TractBuilder has designed th
e Auto-Quartering Tool to work with ArcView, as well as other ArcMap/ArcGIS prod
ucts. And this tool is compatible with versions 9.3 and up (including v10 sp1).
The Auto-Quartering Tool will debut at a reduced price of $1995 and include the
regular Quartering Tool for all orders placed by the end of May, 2011. Thatâ s half
off the regular price for these tools! Please contact TractBuilder for details.
About TractBuilder
TractBuilder is a GIS software and services company, based in Houston, TX. Trac
tBuilder is best known for its unique tools used to map legal descriptions in Ar
cMap. Using the TractBuilder Tools for ArcGIS users can efficiently map lines a
nd polygons according to quartering/aliquot and metes & bounds descriptions. Tr
actBuilder also offers GIS drafting services, custom ArcGIS programming, and web
portal design. More information can be found at http://www.tractbuilder.com, o
r contact them at 1-866-95-TRACT or sales@tractbuilder.com.
You can join TractBuilder online several ways:
http://twitter.com/tractbuilder
http://www.youtube.com/tractbuilder
http://www.scribd.com/tractbuilder
Contact:
Kyle Souza
TractBuilder
5338A Darling St.
Houston, TX 77007
713-300-9709
salesinfo@tractbuilder.com
http://www.tractbuilder.com