Automated Land Acquisition Tool (A.L.A.T)
ALAT is an add-on tool used by surveyors and consultants to prepare Land Acquisition drawing. It assists user to calculate the original lot area, required area and the balance due to new right of way. Its usage is easy to be handled by any level of users. ALAT is a simple tool that does not require any training. Its major advantage is shortening the working time and producing automated drawing by eliminating common mistakes done with manual calculation. It produces the tabulated calculation result that conforms to surveyor’s general format.


Data Format
ALAT uses Xdata format to store Land Acquisition information. The Xdata is associated with Region object in Autocad drawing. User can easily converts all the lot areas that are bounded with Region objects.
Interactive Input of Lot Data
The user can input the LA data of the required area such as district name, lot number, CP area etc using a special window. This panel allows user to add or modify the data and automatically updates the Xdata.

Calculation Output
ALAT calculates all regions that intersect with ROW boundary, and then saves the result to an Excel CSV file. User can edit CSV file before ALAT reads this file to generate area and ROW coordinates tables in the drawing.

Drawing Style and Annotations
The drawing can be annotated with the lot number and point label on the both side of ROW. The user also has a choice to generate hatch for the required area.