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Atlas from Your Desktop GIS |
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Even
though Atlas has an easy-to-use interface, I have found
some users using their desktop GIS to determine what areas
for which they needed data, and then finding the areas
a second time on Atlas in order to download data. However,
it is possible to use Geomedia and ArcView as interfaces
to the Atlas dataserver. With links below, you can download
indices displayable with Geomedia and ArcView with embedded
URLs. The URLs connect to a page on Atlas that will display
currently available data for a selected area. The indices
include Parishes (from 1:250,000 scale), 1:24,000 quarter-quads,
1:24,000 quads, 1:100,000 quads, and 1:250,000 quads. |
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For
Geomedia users: |
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here to download a Winzip file containing the
indices as feature classes stored in an Access warehouse.
Unzip the Access mdb file and make a connection
to it inside Geomedia. |
| Use
from a map window |
Use
from a data window |
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Add any of the feature classes to the
legend.
- Double
click on any feature of the feature classes.
- Click
on any URL attributes (colored blue) in
the displayed property form.
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- Open
a "New Data Window" and select
a feature class from the connection.
- Click
on any of the URL attributes (colored
blue).
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web browser should open displaying a page from Atlas
giving what data is available for the selected feature.
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For
ArcView users: |
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here to download a Winzip file containing the
indices as shapefiles. All the shapefiles are stored
with geographic coordinates (decimal degrees in
NAD1983 datum). Unzip the files and display them
as themes in ArcView. |
| Use
from a view |
- Use
the Identify tool to identify a feature.
The attributes of the feature will display.
- Copy
one of the URL attributes
- Paste
the URL into a web browser.
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There
is a way to have ArcView link to URLs in attribute
columns. See
for the procedure to do the hot-linking.
(Thanks to Hugh Phillips of 3001, Inc., for the
link!) |
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