![]() Some values have “National Park”, others don’t Some of the values in the NAME field had “National Park” somewhere in the name, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end. In this case I wanted to label all of the National Parks. I was working with the WPDA dataset and labeling a subset of the polygons. Append a string if another string doesn’t already exist I’m going to write them down here and maybe I won’t have to look them up in the future! And maybe it will help someone else. Often I will figure something out, do the thing, move on, and then kick myself 6 months or 3 years down the road when I have to figure the same thing out all over again. Typically this is for formatting the names of features before generating labels, but not always. You can always email as well.From time to time I need to edit attributes in the MAPublisher MAP Attributes table. If you find a bug or find that the program isn’t doing what you’d like it to, please use the Feature Request menu. Similarly, when uploading boundary files, the more points a boundary has, the longer it will take to load. For the moment, we have set limits to kml uploads at 400k. Serving up a lot of data onto a map can take some time to load into a browser. You can also use freely available opensource icons. Export png files, making sure that they have transparency. ![]() When making your symbols, we suggest using Adobe Illustrator, setting up a document with several 20×20 pixel art boards. If someone puts bad data on the map, you can remove it if you are the administrator. If they sign in but do not answer any questions, then you can email them to see how you can help them.Īt any time you can review and export data. Promote your map via facebook, email, twitter, public meetings, word of mouth, etc. Each kml should only have one combination of category and description in order to assign the data correctly. You can assign a menu order to the categories. Set up the line and point categoriesįor this you can utilize and share pre-made categories and icons.įor each category, you can assign more specific definitions, but you don’t have to. On some maps you may request data from contributors. This is helpful during later analysisĪllow upload. You can make a text banner or import an image This is what your contributors will see when they come to the page.Ĭreate a banner. Go to your projects, and add a new one if needed Project Set-up (edit)Ĭounty or boundary – You should see a list of available countiesĪdd welcome text. Log in to your email address and password If you would like to be a project administrator, please visit: Contributor – These are people who contribute to your map.Project Admin – This is probably you, the person who is initiating the wikimap.The project administrator then summarizes the data and analyzes it in a Geographic Information System such as QGIS, ArcGIS, MAPublisher, Google Earth, etc.).Īs an option, the information can be summarized on a map designed by a cartographer at one of the following scales: 1:20,000, 1:50.000, 1:85,0000, 1:1000000. Users can also comment on each others’ comments. ![]() They can do this by drawing lines, placing points, or pushing an “I’m here” button. Users read the intro and proceed to note information on the map based on their personal experience. The other option is to just let people add their own data. When setting up the map, the project administrator has the capability of importing data for users to comment on. Upon logging in, the user describes him/herself based on a set of categories the admin created prior to making the page public. ![]() The project admin creates a map web page that contains set of lines, line descriptions, points, and point descriptions. ![]()
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