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April 28th, 2011
Turn a Spreadsheet into Polygons

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TractBuilder has made creating data easy with its Tools 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 and a legal description can be used to create polygons. “We like making people’s lives easier,” Kyle Souza, Sales Manager for TractBuilder, “that’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 Spotting Tool, which allows users to import a spreadsheet with footage calls for multiple well locations and creates shapefiles with well points and wellbore lines. And we already have the Quartering Tool for ArcGIS, which makes creating individual polygons super efficient; some users report as many as 80 polygons with attributes 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.” Read More