Editing National Transfer Format

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The '''National Transfer Format''' ('''NTF''') is a [[file format]] designed in 1988 specifically for the transfer of [[geospatial information]]; it is administered by the [[British Standards Institution]]. It is now the standard transfer format for [[Ordnance Survey]] digital data. The present version (2.0) conforms to BS 7567.<ref>British Standard BS 7567: Electronic transfer of geographic information (NTF), 1992.</ref>

It has three parts:
*Part 1: Specification for NTF structures
*Part 2: Specification for implementing plain NTF
*Part 3: Specification for implementing NTF using BS 6690 (= [[ISO 8211]])

==References==
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