Locating the Closest Borehole

Borehole Manager | View | Locate Closest Borehole
RockPlot2D | Locate Closest Borehole

This tool is used to display the borehole data record whose location is closest to an X and Y coordinate pair that you type in or select with a mouse. This tool is available in two places:

• The View menu of the Borehole Manager, where you type in the coordinates to be searched.
• In RockPlot2D, where you right-click on a map location to be searched.

Typical applications include hand-entering a known GPS coordinate captured on a study site to locate the closest sample station, or right-clicking on a map location to retrieve the data record for that site.

Menu Options

If you right-click on a RockPlot2D map location and choose Locate Closest Borehole, there are no menu options displayed. The borehole record closest to the map point you right-clicked will simply be shown as highlighted.

If you selected the Borehole Manager | View | Locate Closest Borehole option, you will be prompted:

• Point Coordinates: Here you can specify the X and Y coordinate of the location whose closest borehole is to be retrieved.
  Note that the coordinates need to be entered in the output units you've defined for the program.

When you click the Process button, control will be transferred back to the data window, and the borehole record closest to that point will be displayed.

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