Pan2Applic

The software Pan2Applic is a tool to convert files or folders of files (ascii/tab-separated data files with or without metaheader), downloaded from PANGAEA via PangaVista to formats as used by applications, e.g. for visualization or further processing. It may also be used to convert files or zip-archives as downloaded from CD-ROM data collections, published in the WDC-MARE Reports series. Pan2Applic is distributed by WDC-MARE as freeware for the operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux.

Export formats supported by Pan2Applic are
 * 1) Ocean Data View (ODV), oceanographic GIS, see http://odv.awi.de
 * 2) PanMap, Mini GIS, see
 * 3) PanPlot, visualization of profiles or logs, see
 * 4) ASCII/text for individual processing
 * 5) Shapefile, format as used by GIS applications
 * 6) Google Earth, see http://earth.google.com

Further export formats may be added on request.

Pan2Applic output formats 1-4 are tab-delimited text-files with the extension *.txt. The DOI as a reference to the source of the data may be included as an option. The user is requested to quote all references related to the original data when publishing new products resulting from a PANGAEA or CD download and processing with Pan2Applic. The file *.cite lists the citations of each data set used for a compilation. In addition the file *.info contains a listing of all DATA DESCRIPTION headers. PANGAEA export files and Pan2Applic processed files can be opened by any editor or spreadsheet software.

The recent version and reference of Pan2Applic can be found at

Developer and contact [mailto:rsieger@pangaea.de Rainer Sieger]