Hi Lucy, When it comes to GIS in Arches, there are a few different levels that you should be aware of.
Regarding the PLSS overlays that I included in the Cane River project: this is completely superficial, meant only for visual reference, and having nothing to do with the resource coordinates themselves. I did it by creating a Web Map Service using Geoserver (independent of Arches) and pulling it in on top. There are other ways of creating an overlay like that, but, again, it has no bearing on your resources and cannot be used in the search bar. As you have found, if you want to search by these grid references, the easiest way is to have them added to each resource as searchable attributes. To this end you've been adding new nodes, which will require changes in the location.htm, location.js, and forms.py files to support the new nodes. The most "GIS way" to deal with this issue could involve another type of overlay that Arches supports, which is described in this documentation: https://arches-hip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/loading-data/#optional-gis-layers-for-administrative-areas. This is how, given a set of polygon areas, you can be sure that any new resource that is created within a given polygon will automatically receive the name of that polygon as an "administrative area". With a bit of GIS expertise, plus editing the graphs, and extra editing on the forms and their javascript, you could conceivably create two GIS files, one for each grid system, and each with a one meter square for every grid square. Then any new resource would receive, as attributes, the names of the grid squares (i.e. the coordinates) that it overlaps. This approach would definitely require some advanced work, and would require you to start with the creation of two new nodes anyway... Hope that's helpful. I'm sorry I can't give you a quick, easy solution right here, but as I mentioned before, any changes to the graphs require supporting changes to the forms, which can quickly become an involved process. Adam On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7:40:46 AM UTC-5, Lucy FJ wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have two unrelated questions: > > 1. I have modified several authority files through the Reference Data > Manager and would like to see these modified versions in the database but > we cannot find them. Where do they reside? > > 2. There are many input fields (boxes) on the input forms that we do not > need but they appear to be mandatory. We have loaded up the sample > reference data. Is there a simple way to makes these fields optional > without needing to change the program? i.e. I am looking for a user method > of being able to ignore these fields. > > Thank you very much for any help, > > Lucy > > > > -- -- 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.
