Hello All, The most asked question we get is: Is there a free LandXML viewer? We should work on a better answer than "no" (or not that I know of). While we did just publish the new "LandXML to SVG converter" web application, you still need the Adobe SVG Viewer plugin or Firefox 1.5+ to see the graphics. You also loose LandXML metadata in the translation and it currently only works on LandXML-1.0 files. Earlier this year Jeff Bramlett donated a .NET application called LandXML Companion that provides a nice 2D view of LandXML-1.0 files. I updated the code to support new 1.1 additions and .NET 2.0, but it still needs a bit of polish. In previous years, Jeff also built a Java 2D viewer that has since fallen out of date. I would like to build on the work Jeff has done, but need some feedback from you on the direction we take providing a free LandXML viewer. Questions for end users out there: * Would you prefer a .NET or Java (or both) based LandXML graphical viewer? * Is 2D enough or do you want see 3D as well? * What other kind of non-graphical data would you like to see? Questions for software developers: * Who would like to help me work on this as an open source project? * Would you prefer to work on the .NET or Java viewer? Also, there have been quite a few recent additions to the LandXML.org web site: * A new build (21) of the LandXML SDK is now available. As requested, we added build projects and pre-built binaries for Microsoft Developer Studio 2003 and 2005 using the latest Xerces 2.7 XML parser supporting both Win32 and x64. * The new <http://www.landxml.org/SoftwareDemos.htm> Software and Demonstration page <http://www.landxml.org/SoftwareDemos.htm> has two new web applications "LandXML to SVG converter" and "email address geo-encoding to Google Earth". * Australian ePlan Workshop materials from the ICSM 2006 Conference, September 2006, Cairns, Australia posted on the Workshops <http://www.landxml.org/Workshops/Workshops.htm> page. * The US FHWA IHSDM 2006 Public Release (Version 3.00) is now available for download at www.ihsdm.org. Regards, Nathan Crews www.landxml.org