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Adding Lots and Concessions in ArcView 3.1
general Instructions
- Obtain a copy of the lot and concession files.
- Unzip
Detailed Instructions
Contact the DRC to obtain a copy of the lot and concession files (these are part of the Ontario Fundamental Data Set provided through the Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange. See the Ontario FDS Web page for more details.)
The soil survey files are setup as .zip files. To use them, you can use either the built-in Windows unzip utility or Winzip to first extract the files into a folder. After unzipping the files, using Import71 utility, you will have to decompress the files into the same folder.
- Once the files are extracted, go into ArcView and click the Add New Theme button.
- Navigate through your computer to the folder where you extracted lot.zip and double-click lot.shp.
- Once the lot theme is added to the view, double-click the theme in the table of contents.
- Double-click on the symbol in the legend editor to open up the fill palette. In the
Fill Palette, click on the third square from the top on the left side — refer to the view below. Open up the color palette, and in the drop-down
menu, select Background and click on a box with X through it as shown in the image. Close the color palette window and click Apply in the legend editor.
Your view should now look something like the one below.
- Click on the lot theme in the table of contents to make it active. Under the theme menu, click Select by Theme...
- Under Select Features of Active ... drop-down menu, select Intersect. Under The Selected Features of drop-down menu,
select Soil. Click New Set.
- Once the area is selected, under theme, click Convert to Shapefile. Name this theme and save it. When prompted, click Yes to add it to the view.
- Repeat step 3 for the new theme.
Once you've completed the steps above, your view should now look something like the one below:
- Click on the Query Builder button and write a code which will enable you to select the township, the lot # and the concesssion #. Click New Set (in this example we are looking for lot#26, Concession#10 in the township of Puslinch.)
- Once the selection is done, click the Zoom to Selected button.
Your View should now look something like the one below:
- Click the soil theme in the table of contents to make it active. Click the Identify button.
- Click on any one of the soil types to see it's descriptions.
Part A: Viewing and Using Soil Profile Data in ArcView 3.1
Data Access
Contact
519–824–4120 ext. 56417
Visit
The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.