Abstract: A system and method of graphical display of survey information in which input survey data is classified as important or less important and the graphical display shows the important data as a point and a solid vector, and the less important data as a point and a stub-vector, such that the display of the less important data does not significantly obscure the display of the important data.

Abstract: A cursor tool is assigned to a cursor and a first cursor control event is performed. If a predetermined time interval expires before a second cursor control event is performed, the cursor tool is activated. The first cursor control event may be a mouse down event and the second cursor control event may be a mouse up event. In another embodiment, a plurality of cursor tools are assigned to a cursor and a sequence of cursor control events are recognized. The sequence may begin with a mouse down event. If one or more mouse move events follow, a determination as to whether these are intended events is made. So long as no tools have previously been selected, if the mouse move events are determined to be intended events, a first of the assigned cursor tools is selected. Alternatively, if the mouse move events are not intended events but the events occurred after a preestablished time limit, a second of the assigned cursor tools is selected.