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Convert DFW Log File
Can I convert an old DFW Log file to a viewable Exp file?
I have these in .log and .csv formats from DFW.
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Re: Convert DFW Log File
Could work with the KND Log cleaner.
- DuncanR
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Re: Convert DFW Log File
If they are *.csv files produced from B&G DFW, they should be directly readable by Expedition already. Maybe there is a column order or timestamp issue to be resolved, Nick can comment on that.
Once you have processed the file with KND Log Cleaner, Expedition cannot read it; again, maybe Nick can say why, I have always assumed it is a timestamp format issue.
- Nick
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Re: Convert DFW Log File
Expedition can't import Dfw log files. I don't have a sample and don't know what the format looks like.
I also don't know what KND does to the Expedition log files. Presumably they modify them in some way to make them easier for them to read.
- DuncanR
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Re: Convert DFW Log File
I've just had a look. Essentially KND log cleans up the blank rows or extrapolates to your parameters. What makes a KND-clean logfile unrecognizable to Expedition is that it changes the order of columns. So in Expedition the first 3 columns Boat ID, Time, BSP, with Lat and Long about 23rd or 24th column. In KND-cleaned logfiles, the order is Time, Lat, Long, Boat and so on.
So cleaning a DFW logfile in KND and then changing the column order might work.
- Campbell_Field
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Re: Convert DFW Log File
DfW log files are very different to Exp ones, not least the format of time, date and pos, and that they are user configurable.
You (probably - not tested) could use KND Log cleaner to output a log file that would look like an Exp file, but would probably still require some manual intervention.
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