Hello all, one of the results of the Arches installation I was creating for the Cane River Heritage Area is a toolbox I made to help me convert a bunch of shapefiles and spreadsheets I had into the .arches format. I just updated the GitHub repository that holds these tools, https://github.com/mradamcox/arc2arches, so feel free to use them and let me know how it goes.
Arches v3 has a utility for uploading shapefiles, but I had some non-spatial tables I wanted to upload, and also some file geodatabase tables/feature classes that would have been a messy conversion to .shp (super long text fields, etc.). So I decided to put effort into making a good way to convert existing data to the pipe-delimited .arches/.relations files. I augmented the .config file (now called .conflig) strategy to ensure that the field mapping from the input datasets could take advantage of the GROUPID that the .arches files use. That way, a name can be associated with its name type very easily. Also, though the .arches format requires that you enter the conceptid instead of prefLabel, I built these tools to run straight off of your authority documents (you'll have to enter the path). That way, you can use prefLabels in your shapefiles/feature classes/tables, and the script will convert that label to the correct conceptid (e.g. from "Building" in the shapefile to "RESOURCE_TYPE:1" in the .arches file). There is pretty good error handling at this point to help you with that process. I will be posting more in the next couple of weeks, and hope to improve these conversion tools as well... Cheers, Adam -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
