Common Forms
R. John Dawes
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How can you create a form or survey within a group so that it can be open for users to fill out and update and eventually compiled into a data set.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Alison Alvarez on 13 Jan, 2011 08:40 PM
To make a collaborative dataset, just import an empty one with columns representing the data you want to gather. You can allow members of your group to edit and add records to a dataset by making it editable. You'll see a button to allow you to do this on your dataset information page. Anyone within your group should then be able to access the dataset and fill out records.
You will have to republish your dataset for the new data to show up, but that can happen with the click of a button.
However, we are developing a new feature in the near that will allow users to create html forms to collect data and make doing surveys easier.
3 Posted by John Dawes on 18 Jan, 2011 07:41 PM
Alison!,
Thank you so much for your help on this topic. It worked perfectly and I really appreciate all of your work to get this data set in. I have one more question and I promise this will be the last one for a while and I think it is pretty easy to answer. Is there any way to reproject Geo TIFF images without arc GIS. Basically I have a lot of Land Cover geo tiffs that are in USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version X cell Size: 30.00 Meters Y cell Size: 30.00 Meters. When I tried to import them the system said that they needed to be re-projected to WGS-84. Is this possible?
Thanks again for your help and sorry to have a new question every ten seconds.
Best,
PS: I attached a sample file
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Support Staff 4 Posted by higgins on 18 Jan, 2011 07:45 PM
Hi John,
The way I usually do this is using the GDAL suite of tools: http://www.gdal.org/
In particular, the gdalwarp and gdaltransform utilities can do this. (See http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html for documentation --- unfortunately they are not very easy to use!)
Mike
5 Posted by John Dawes on 18 Jan, 2011 07:59 PM
Mike,
Thanks! It looks like I need to use gdal warp. However I am having difficulty downloading the file. Do you have the link where I can download and install the software?
Best,
RJD
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Support Staff 6 Posted by higgins on 18 Jan, 2011 08:03 PM
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries
Look for your operating system in the list. (Note: I haven't used the pre-built versions --- I've only built them myself from source code, so I hope they actually work...)
Mike
7 Posted by John Dawes on 18 Jan, 2011 08:11 PM
So it looks like FW Tools is the one I need for Windows. I will download and install
Best,
RJD
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8 Posted by John Dawes on 18 Jan, 2011 08:37 PM
Mike,
I am using open EV to try and import and reproject the files. Basically it is supposed to support geo tiff but I can't seem to import anything into the program. Can you please look at the file I am trying to get into the system and tell me what I should add or take out? These Geo Tiffs were downloaded straight from usgs.
Best,
RJD
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Support Staff 9 Posted by higgins on 18 Jan, 2011 08:39 PM
I think your email system quarantined the attachment. Can you attach the file to the thread on our support site?
10 Posted by R. John Dawes on 18 Jan, 2011 08:41 PM
Here it is, I think if we can get this to import I should be able to get this to reproject
Support Staff 11 Posted by higgins on 18 Jan, 2011 09:06 PM
Hmm, I'm not sure. I unzipped the file, and ran gdalinfo on it, which read the files 08971835.tif and 08971835.aux. It was able to detect the projection. I'm not sure how Open EV differs...
12 Posted by John Dawes on 18 Jan, 2011 09:31 PM
I just am not sure what I am doing. I have went to the gdalinfo site but cannot get the files to open.
RJD
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