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Manual Instruction Niagara College Graduate Student Mapping

Dmitry Tatarenko

Niagara College GIS/GM Postgraduate Program

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1.1. Table of Contents

1. Introduction................................................................................................................ 1

2. Geodatabase creation .................................................................................................. 1

2.1. Geodatabase .............................................................................................................. 1

2.2. Data Collection ........................................................................................................... 1

3. Uploading Collected Data ............................................................................................ 2

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1. Introduction

The document served as a manual instruction for Niagara College Graduate Student Mapping

web application to setup and update purposes. The manual provides all the basic steps of

creating and modifying project data.

2. Geodatabase creation

Create a new or add data to existing geodatabase file (Figure 1). New file should be created in

CSV format. (the detail description of the format can be founded here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values).

Figure 1 Geodatabase in CSV format

2.1. Geodatabase

Minimal Geodatabase configuration should include the following students’ data:

last and first names;

year of graduation;

current position;

employer name;

employer address (street number, street name, city, country and postal code

should be separated with comma)

2.2. Data Collection

Based on the student data (First Name, Family Name, Year of Graduation, Graduation

Program) next data should be collected from different public reliable resources (e.g.

LinkedIn) (Figure 2.) :

Student current position (title),

Employer Name (Name of organization),

Employer address (as a street number, street name, city, country and postal

code)

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Figure 2 Data Collection

3. Uploading Collected Data

Go on https://www.arcgis.com/home/signin.html and sign in with your ESRI Global

Account (Figure 3).

Figure 3 Authorization Procedure

After authorization click on the My Content button. From the My Content list, choose

needed map to modify.

In the table of contents, all imported layers can be observed (Figure 4).

Current Table of Contents includes the following layers:

2008-2013 Niagara College EMA Graduate Students;

1999-2012 Niagara College GM GIS Graduate Students;

City Level Cluster (data regarding cities where students work);

Country Level Cluster data regarding countries where students work);

Country Boundaries

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Figure 4 List of layers

Each layer can be changed, renamed, or modified, etc. by access to layer’s properties( Figure

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Figure 5 Layer properties

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Pop-up properties can be set by clicking on “Configure Pop- Up” button

Figure 6 Pop-up Properties

All pop-up properties should be set as follow by “Configure Attributes” menu( Figure 7) :

Figure 7 Configure Attributes

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Symbols for current layer can be set in layer’s properties and clicking on “Change Symbols”

menu (Figure 8)

Figure 8 Symbols Change

Range of symbols visibility can be set by “Set Visibility Range” (Figure 9) . This makes symbols

to appear depending on the map scale. Symbols sizes for project are:

- Student Symbol (45 px)

- City Level Symbol (50 px )

- Country Level Symbol (90 px)

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Figure 9 Set Visibility Range

Visibility Ranges for project are :

Student Symbols (In closer than:1:18,489,298, Out farther than - )

City Level Symbols (In closer than: 1:36,978,596, Out farther than: 1:36,978,596)

Country Level Symbols (In closer than: - Out farther than: 1:50,000,000 (Continent))

To add a new data, click on “Add” button and choose “Add Layer from File” (Figure 10.)

Figure 10 Add Layer from File

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In the “Add Layer from File” wizard choose a root to the CSV format of geodatabase file that

was prepared in previous steps. To georeference the students location choose “World” address

property (Figure 11).

Figure 11 Address georeference

In the “Add CSV Layer” wizard, Address Field Name should be specified as Address Location

Field. Click Add Layer. Newly imported data will appear on the map (Figure 12).

Figure 12 New Layer

All parameters of the new layer can be set as mentioned bellow.