Creating Island Breaklines in LP360

The following workflow and accompanying video describes the suggested workflow for digitizing breaklines around islands within LP360. Creating Island Breaklines: Workflow Configure a conflation task for the lake or main waterbody that the island resides within. Set up a conflation method for the conflation task This is dependent upon user specifications, the example in the video chooses…

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Pyramiding Files when Adding Files to Layer

About Pyramiding Files Pyramiding is used to improve display performance for large files. This is similar to the way reduced resolution overviews work. When the Pyramid checkbox is selected, a pyramid file (.QVR) is created for any file that is either missing the .QVR file or the .QVR file is older than the file. For LAS…

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Error Automatically Registering Licenses

When attempting to automatically register an LP360 license via the Registration tab within the LP360 License Administrator Program, the following error concerning the web service connection is displayed: In this instance click OK and select the second option to save the registration information to a text file and e-mail the text file directly to registration@lp360.com as…

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FEMA – Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping – Elevation Guidance

FEMA’s elevation guidance document retires Appendix A of the Guidelines and Specifications for Flood Hazard Mapping Partners (Guidelines) and Procedure Memorandum 61 – Standards for LiDAR and Other High Quality Digital Topography, while modernizing the guidance to align with the USGS LiDAR Base Specification v1.2, ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data (Edition 1, Version…

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No Connection Could Be Made Because The Target Machine Actively Refused It

Problem: On the License Server Info tab of the LP360 License Administrator one sees the error message “No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it”. Probable Resolution #1: Is the LP360 License Server machine turned on? Probable Resolution #2: Can the client machine communicate with the LP360 license server machine? Option…

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Silently Installing LP360 Clients

When managing the installation of LP360 on a number of computers it may be useful to use a silent install. The standard MSI switches “/qn”  and “/norestart” work, however, there are no command line parameters available at this time to configure the licensing. msiexec /i “LP360x64_v2019.1.30.3.msi” /qn /norestart Note: This must be run in an elevated…

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Best Practices for Minimizing Errors during GNSS Data Collection

Aimed at surveyors and GIS professionals who use geodetic-quality GNSS equipment to determine positions for land planning, coastal monitoring and other purposes, this video from NOAA’s video library covers best practices for reducing errors in the areas of: 1. location and environment, 2. equipment setup and 3. observation times and accuracy checks.  

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