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GIMLabs in Slovenia

Slovenian projects work in D96/TM, the current national grid, with D48/GK there for older survey data.

Coordinate systems

Every project picks its own grid: search the picker for "slovenia", the grid's name or its EPSG code. Set Slovenia as your company's country and GIMLabs suggests D96/TM (EPSG:3794) for new projects. Slovenia also falls in ETRS89 / UTM zone 33N (EPSG:25833), which any project can use instead.

D96/TM

EPSG:3794

D96/TM (Slovenia 1996 / Slovene National Grid), the current national grid, on ETRS89. The Prešeren Monument in Ljubljana reads E 461 780.75, N 101 402.77.

On ETRS89, so it converts to latitude and longitude without a datum shift. EPSG area of use: Slovenia - onshore and offshore.

D48/GK

EPSG:3912

D48/GK (MGI 1901 / Slovene National Grid), the older grid found in earlier survey data. The same point reads about 370 m further east and 490 m further south than in D96/TM, so a file in the wrong one lands some 600 m out.

Converts with EPSG's published datum shift (MGI 1901 to WGS 84 (4)), good to about a metre: plenty for the map, not a survey-grade conversion. EPSG area of use: Slovenia - onshore and offshore.

Your data, as written

What GIMLabs does with Slovene letters and the files a project in Slovenia brings in.

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Letters

Text with Slovene letters such as č š ž keeps them through import, the table editor, log and figure PDFs, site plans, AGS and CSV exports and downloaded file names.

02

CSV files

CSVs saved as UTF-8 or UTF-16 import as written, and so do files Excel saves in Windows-1250, the code page Windows uses for Slovene. There is no need to re-save them first.

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Excel workbooks

Drop an .xlsx on the import dialog and each visible, non-empty sheet imports as its own table. Workbooks store text as Unicode, so letters always come through.

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AGS

AGS4 files import and export. AGS4 Rule 1 only allows plain ASCII, so letters beyond Western European ones import with a warning, and the "ASCII only (strict AGS4)" export option writes a file a strict checker accepts.

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European geology

On Pro, the Manage map adds EuroGeoSurveys' EGDI 1:1 million surface geology for the whole of Europe, as two layers: lithology and age. Click a unit for its lithology, age and the survey that mapped it. The data is CC BY 4.0, and GIMLabs credits it wherever the layer is shown.

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Country and time zone

Choosing Slovenia in Product OS fills in the company's time zone, which dates and times in Manage, Insight and Connect are shown in.

Good to know

The European surface geology layer is served by the Geological Survey of Slovenia on behalf of EuroGeoSurveys.

Still UK-first

GIMLabs started in the UK, and a few things still show it. See what works across Europe.

Description checks follow BS 5930

The automatic soil and rock description checks follow BS 5930, the UK standard. They don't check against EN ISO 14688 or 14689 yet, so read their suggestions with that in mind.

AGS is a UK format

GIMLabs reads and writes AGS4, the UK data transfer format, and also imports CSV and Excel and exports CSV, so you don't need AGS to bring data in or take it out.

Other datums are good to about a metre

Grids on ETRS89 convert without a datum shift. Grids on other national datums, such as Amersfoort, MGI or S-JTSK, use EPSG's published shift, good to about a metre: plenty for the map, not a survey-grade conversion.

Some map layers are UK only

BGS geology, coal mining and historic Ordnance Survey layers cover Great Britain, and the Environment Agency's cover England, so they are left out for projects outside Great Britain.

The app is in English

Screens, emails and help are in English. Your data can be in any European language written in the Latin alphabet.

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