LandXML
File format for the exchange of civil engineering and land survey data
LandXML is an XML file format for interchange of civil engineering design and survey measurement data. It is the most common format for exchanging data on survey points, terrain and grading surfaces, road or rail geometries and pipe networks in infrastructure projects.
01History
LandXML was launched in the year 2000 to facilitate vendor-neutral interchange and long-term storage of civil engineering and survey data. It was based on an earlier ASCII format called E-ASE by AASHTO.
The format was adopted by national surveys, research institutes and planning software vendors.
The last official release, version 1.2 was published in 2008. A working draft for version 2.0 was published in 2014, but a final version has not been released as of 2025.
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