Table of Contents

1. Biodiversity GIS (BGIS) Online Maps
2. Getting Familiar with the BGIS Online Maps
3. Navigating Around the Maps
4. Using Intermediate Features of the BGIS Map Viewer
5. Using Advanced Features of the BGIS Online Maps
   1. Exercise using advanced features
   2. Measuring Distances
   3. Measure Area
   4. Upload Shape files
   5. Extract to Excel
   6. Extract GML
   7. Upload GPS waypoints
   8. The Markup Tools
   9. Working with Projects
   10. Save Session
   11. Save Markups to Shape File
   12. Extract Layer
   13. Downloading a layer
   14. Select by Buffer
6. Summary of built in functionality of the BGIS Web Map Service
7. Glossary of Terms

Upload Shape files

Upload Shape Files Tool will allow you to upload a ESRI Shape file that is unprojected (Geographic Lat/Longs using the WGS84 ellipsoid) onto the map service and view it. The shape file needs to be 1 MB or less.

Exercise

We are going to up load the boundary of thefarm near Genadendal to the map.

First you need the farms boundary. You can download a copy of the zipped copy of the shape file from the following URL http://bgis.sanbi.org/maptutorial/downloads/farmboundary.zip

When the file has downloaded unzip it to a location on you computer.

Now click on the . A form will appear in the Information Panel. Browse to find the shape attribute file (dbf) - farmboundary.dbf and the shape spatial file (shp) - farmboundary.shp where you unzipped these on you computer. Fill in a title for the new uploaded layer and a colour. 

 

Click OK and the file will be uploaded. You will receive a notification that in order to see the new layer you must turn in on using the .

Make the layer visible.