Hi David, There are several ways that you can register GIS data (including shapefiles) as a map overlay in Arches. Note that this is different than importing the data into Arches.
You'll need to set up a way to serve your shapefile data to Arches via a service. Luckily, there are several options including using GeoServer, ArcGIS Online, and others. If you want to serve your shapefile data as vector tiles, I would suggest the following approach: 1. Load your shapefile into PostGIS (there are lots of tutorials on this on the web). 2. Use pg_tileserv (https://github.com/CrunchyData/pg_tileserv) as your vector tile server. 3. Define the styling of your shapefile content using the Mapbox specification. Lots of ways to do this, but one great tool is Maputnik (https://github.com/maputnik/editor) 4. Register your map source and layer with Arches As for DISCO, we're currently working on the package and its not quite done yet. You can follow along with our progress at https://github.com/archesproject/arches-for-science-prj. Hope this is helpful Dennis On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 7:05:47 AM UTC-7 David Osborne wrote: > I have been away from the Arches arena for almost a year, after finishing > the implementation for Jersey Heritage, while I concentrated on my research. > > I'm now looking at using Arches for my research data, so I was wondering > what the current state of play is for using ArcGIS info. I have some > geochemistry data I would like to install as a map overlay (the file > extensions are .cpg, .dbf, .prj, .sbn, .sbx, .shp, .shp.xml and .shx). Is > there a how-to anywhere to describe how to import this? > > I will also be generating some scientific analysis data I would like to > incorporate and the DISCO package might be a good way to do that – is it > available to use yet? > > I've just set up Arches 5.1 in an Ubuntu 18.04 VM. > > Thanks for any words of wisdom! > David > > *David Osborne *BA MSc > AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD researcher > Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham > https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/david-osborne/ > -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/51ffb5ae-dc01-46a5-8dec-3b2b54b009ddn%40googlegroups.com.
