Records=Rows; Fields=Columns

As a general note, data files contain rows and columns of information. Rows (records) appear horizontally and columns (fields) appear vertically in your data. The Table Records that define the data in the MultiNet^® Format Specification documents describe the information contained in each horizontal record in the data. Portions of each record (row) of information are divided into record fields (columns). In MultiNet^® specification documents, the presentation of record fields is vertical and their description is horizontal. Example:

Shapefile

Below is a portion of Shapefile data (nw layer) in dbf format:

ID	FEATTYP	F_JNCTID
13720000131081	4110	13720200063911
13720000131082	4110	13720200033340
13720000131085	4110	13720200052231

Below is the table record of the above data in the MultiNet^® Shapefile Format Specification document describing the record fields:

ABBR.	FULL NAME AND ATTRIBUTE VALUES	W	T
ID	Feature Identification	15	N
FEATTYP	Feature Type: 4110:Road Element 4130: Ferry Connection Element 4165: Address Area Boundary Element	4	N
FT	Ferry Type: 0: No Ferry (Default) 1: Ferry Operated by Ship or Hovercraft 2: Ferry Operated by Train	1	N
F_JNCTID	From (Start) Junction Identification	15	N
F_JNCTTYP	From (Start) Junction Type: 0: Junction (default) 2: Bifurcation 3: Railway Crossing 4: Country Border Crossing 5: Ferry Operated by Train Crossing 6: Internal Data Set Border Crossing	1	N

GDF-AS

Although the appearance of data in ASCII files is not always as uniform as that of dbf files and the field names are not identified in the data, the same guidelines apply: records are rows and portions of records (fields) are columns.

A portion of a GDF data record in GDF-AS format is below (underlines, bold, italics in this example are only to identify their place in the specification record type 03 below):

03FEAT_ID 10N <S>

Record type 03 in the MultiNet^® ASCII Sequential (GDF-AS) Format specification document describing the above data record field is below (underlines, bold, italics in this example are only to identify their place in the data above).

FIELD NAME	SIZE	TYPE	NO DATA	DESCRIPTION
REC_DESCR	2	N	Obl	Record Type Code (03)
FLD_NAME	10	G	Obl	Field Name The code of the attribute type which is specified in this record
FIELD_SIZE	2	N	Obl	Attribute Value Field Size The length of the field which is specified; for Data Type G the value is * meaning variable field length
DATA_TYPE	2	A	<S>	Data Type The type of characters that this field may contain. G = printable characters A = alphabetic characters N = digits I = digits and + or - AN = alphanumeric char
DATA_UNIT	3	A	<S>	Data Unit Code of the SI-unit or other standard unit or form in which the data values are expressed (ALWAYS BLANK)
UNIT_EXP	2	I	<S>	Unit Exponent 10LOG of the factor with which the data values have to be multiplied to obtain the unit as specified in Data Unit (ALWAYS BLANK)
*NO_DATA*	6	G	Obl	No Data Value if no data is being sent Obl = Obligatory *<S>* = Space characters