Publications—Open-File Report 99–99
By Gregory E. Granato
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99–99
Prepared in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration. A Contribution to the National Highway Runoff Data and Methodology Synthesis.
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A program designed for point location and
calculation of error (PLACER) was developed as
part of the Quality Assurance Program of the
Federal Highway Administration/U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) National Data and Methodology
Synthesis (NDAMS) review process. The
program provides a standard method to derive
study-site locations from site maps in highwayrunoff,
urban-runoff, and other research reports.
This report provides a guide for using PLACER,
documents methods used to estimate study-site
locations, documents the NDAMS Study-Site
Locator Form, and documents the FORTRAN
code used to implement the method.
PLACER is a simple program that calculates
the latitude and longitude coordinates of one or
more study sites plotted on a published map and
estimates the uncertainty of these calculated
coordinates. PLACER calculates the latitude and
longitude of each study site by interpolating
between the coordinates of known features and the
locations of study sites using any consistent,
linear, user-defined coordinate system. This
program will read data entered from the computer
keyboard and(or) from a formatted text file, and
will write the results to the computer screen and to
a text file. PLACER is readily transferable to
different computers and operating systems with
few (if any) modifications because it is written in
standard FORTRAN. PLACER can be used to
calculate study site locations in latitude and
longitude, using known map coordinates or
features that are identifiable in geographic
information data bases such as USGS Geographic
Names Information System, which is available on
the World Wide Web.
Abstract
Introduction
Acknowledgements
The PLACER computer program
Installing PLACER
Using PLACER
Manual-input method
Input-file method
Anatomy of an input/output file
Case studies
Case 1: Map coordinates
Case 2: Known locations
Summary
References
Appendix 1: Study-site locator form
Appendix 2: FORTRAN code for PLACER
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Suggested Citation:
Granato, G.E., 1999, Computer program for Point Location and Calculating of ERror (PLACER): U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-99, 36 p.
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