LUPMIS - GIS User Manual for Land Use Planning
Main menu:
- Home Page
- 0. Rationale
- 1. GIS handling
- 2. GIS data entry
- 2.1 Create new layer
- 2.2 Digitize line
- 2.3 Digitize point
- 2.4 Digitize polygon
- 2.5 Edit existing layer
- 2.6 Delete feature
- 2.7 Split line
- 2.8 Split polygon
- 2.9 Merge lines from different layers
- 2.10 Unite lines
- 2.11 Snap lines
- 2.12 Join polygons
- 2.13 Extend polygon
- 2.14 Insert island
- 2.15 Define unit surrounding islands
- 2.16 Create 'doughnut'
- 2.17 Fill 'doughnut' polygon
- 2.18 Fill polygon with 'holes'
- 2.19 Digitize parcels from sector layout
- 3. GIS operations
- 3.1 Create buffer
- 3.2 Create exclusion zone
- 3.3 Overlay units
- 3.4 Convert line to polygon
- 3.5 Derive statistics (area size, length)
- 3.6 Clip unit according to other unit
- 3.7 Create geographic grid
- 3.8 Move entire vector map
- 3.9 Move or copy individual features on a map
- 3.10 Adjust polygon to line
- 3.11 Convert points to polygon
- 3.12 Define by distance
- 3.13 Create multiple objects
- 3.14 Transfer styles from one layer to another
- 4. Attribute database
- 4.1 Start with database
- 4.2 Import database
- 4.3 Display database information
- 4.4 Enter attribute data
- 4.5 Attribute matrix of multiple layers
- 4.6 Seeds
- 4.7 Repair attribute data
- 4.8 Merge lines with attached database
- 4.9 Transfer attribute data from points to polygons
- 4.10 Copy styles, labels, attributes
- 5. Conversion of data
- 5.1 Points
- 5.1.1 Import list of points from text file
- 5.1.2 Import list of points from Excel file
- 5.1.3 Convert point coordinates between projections
- 5.1.4 Convert point coordinates from Ghana War Office (feet)
- 5.1.5 Convert point coordinates from Ghana Clark 1880 (feet)
- 5.1.6 Track with GPS
- 5.1.7 Download GPS track from Garmin
- 5.1.8 Download GPS track from PDA
- 5.2 Vector maps
- 5.3 Raster maps
- 5.3.1 Import raster map from external source
- 5.3.2 Quality-check raster file
- 5.3.3 Georeference scanned map
- 5.3.4 Re-georeference image
- 5.3.5 Load sector layout map
- 5.3.6 Shift raster map
- 5.3.7 Download Google Earth image
- 5.3.8 Clipping and masking images
- 5.3.9 Enhance georeferenced image
- 5.3.10 Batch-convert raster images
- 5.4 Communication with other GIS programs
- 5.4.1 Import GIS data from SHP format
- 5.4.2 Import GIS data from E00 format
- 5.4.3 Import GIS data from AutoCAD
- 5.4.4 Export LUPMIS data to other programs
- 5.4.5 Export GIS to AutoCAD
- 5.4.6 Change a shape file to GPX
- 5.4.7 Transfer GIS data to other LUPMIS installations
- 5.4.8 Digitize lines in Google Earth
- 5.5 Terrain data
- 5.1 Points
- 6. Presentation
- 7. GIS for land use planning
- 8. LUPMIS Tools
- 9. Databases
- Annexes
- A1. Map Maker setup
- A2. Background to cartography and raster images
- A3. Glosssary
- A4. Troubleshooting
- A5. Styles
- A6. Classification for land use mapping and planning
- A7. GIS utilities
- A8. Map projection parameters
- A9. Maps in pilot areas
- A10.Standards
- A11. LUPMIS distribution CD
- A12. Garmin GPS
- A13. Training
- A14. ArcView
- A15. Population statistics
- A16. Entry and display of survey data
- A17. External exercises
- A18. Programming
- A19. Paper sizes
- A20. Various IT advices
- A21. Site map and references
4.1 Start with database
4. Attribute database
4.1 Start with Database
Level of expertise required for this Chapter: Advanced; general Map Maker training
Attribute data are ‘textual’ data, i.e. not graphical, not spatial, not with coordinates, but describing in quantitative terms or text. They are always linked to a feature on the map (polygon, line or point) and do not have to follow a strict syntax.
Labels (text) and styles (numbers) are considered by some GIS programs as attribute data, but handled in Map Maker in a different way, not in an attached database, but in the original DRA file. There are various ways to transfer styles and labels to / from the database (see Chapter 6.2.9).
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You can enter display labels as temporary identifiers.
When you digitize in the live layer from the beginning,
- Tab Basics will enable the entry of display labels,
- Tab Styles will enable the entry of style numbers.
If your map is already digitized, use the Edit-tool from the toolbar left, click on the label point of the feature and the window will open, to enter the display label and/or style number.
You can check, that all units have the entered, numbered identifier with the selection manager:
Main menu > Edit > Show Selection Manager > Selection Manager window: Find > Find all > Find. The left column shows all identifier numbers:
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You can edit the existing database, for example, in Excel, through standard Excel file load or in Map Maker through Main menu > Utilities > Database utilities > Edit database.
Chapter 4.2 describes how to import a (new) database / spreadsheet from Excel into Map Maker.
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You link (‘associate’) a DBF file to a DRA file through the Project manager (right-mouse > Project manager > Select DRA file to be linked in the left panel > Data link > Database > Choose database > Select folder and attribute (DBF) file > Open
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More reading:
Sub-Menu:
- 4.1 Start with database ←
- 4.2 Import database
- 4.3 Display database information
- 4.4 Enter attribute data
- 4.5 Attribute matrix of multiple layers
- 4.6 Seeds
- 4.7 Repair attribute data
- 4.8 Merge lines with attached database
- 4.9 Transfer attribute data from points to polygons
- 4.10 Copy styles, labels, attributes