Thanks Adam! I will try it out soon. Anjo
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 3:51:56 PM UTC+2, Adam Cox wrote: > > 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.
