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The following set of tools is carried over from my old website, “Paddy’s Wagon”. This collection of ARC/INFO AMLs (and a couple of ArcView Avenue scripts) may save some time doing batch processing of grids and coverages. The lot of them can be downloaded here: pbarabe_gis_toolbox.tgz.

ARC/INFO

• DOTarc – A “dot” arc file for configuring your A/I sessions
• ls.aml – Forced to work in NT-land? Too used to UNIX and/or don’t want to &sys dir all the time? Well then…
• cartoprism.aml – Makes a nice surface for display from coarse PRISM data
• clipem.aml – Clip multiple coverages in a directory or list of coverage names
• gridclipem.aml – Same as clipem.aml but uses the GRIDCLIP command in GRID module
• impcov.aml – Import multiple coverages from a list of e00 files
• jpgplot.aml – Use ARCPRESS to plot those jpegs you had to export from buggy ArcView (instead of just plotting your layouts)
• manyrename.aml – Rename multiple coverages or grids in a workspace based on string matching
• mergwkspc.aml – Merge two workspaces
• mvcov.aml – Copy a coverage to another workspace and kill the original
• mvgrid.aml – Same as mvcov.aml but moves a grid
• prjcov.aml – Project multiple coverages in a directory or list of coverage names
• quarterimg.aml – Split images from a list or directory into 4 quarters each.
• prjgrid.aml – Same as prjcov.aml but projects grids

ArcView

• l_quadzoom.ave – Zooms a View graphic in a layout to the extent of a user-chosen quad or region
• v_quadzoom.ave – Zooms a View to the extent of a user-chosen quad or region
• uniqueID.ave – Calculates consecutive, unique IDs into a field of the user’s choice