Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Preparing for the Honolulu SWARS Workshop

Hey, friends. The workshop is coming up soon next week. I am very excited and really looking forward to seeing you all again. You have done a lot of great work so far. Let's work together and get the SWARS thing done next week, sort of. :))

To help me better prepare for the workshop and make more effiicent use of this opportunity, I'd like to hear from you on thoughts and ideas for the workshop. Are there any specific questions and issues you want to have addressed? Are there any specific techniques or tools you want to learn in ArcGIS? Do you have any other GIS related questions at all?

Well, inspired by our friend Mr. Ron Canarrela's wonderful work with the latest web/multimedia technology, I'm starting this blog just for our island projects. This should provide a better platform for improving communications.

To make clear, this is more of a personal effort, thus nothing here should be seen as official opinion from the USDA Forest Service or my direct employer GDIT. Hey, but on the other hand, we can keep it loose and express more freely, just like chats between friends.

All and any comments and ideas and questions are welcomed!
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 4, 2009 at 11:03 PM

    Liu...do you have any batch converter for Lat/Long to UTM...I have a layer of about nearly 300 points that I need to have converted to shapefiles.

    Points sample:
    Lat Long
    6.56592 158.13475

    Or if you have any other options please let me know...

    Peterson

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  2. LeoAugust 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM

    Hey, Peterson,

    This is a easy problem to solve, should be. Bring the layer, we will get it done in Honolulu.

    :))

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  3. LeoAugust 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM

    Question for you, Peterson.

    1) What data format do you have these 300 points currently in? Sounds like you have these lat/lon coordinates in a table.

    2) What is your end goal? Is it to have a point shapefile containing all these points in UTM projection?

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  4. LeoAugust 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    here is somewhere to start: http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=993&t=136245&mc=3#msgid394996

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  5. AnonymousAugust 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    Alii Leo,
    For our Palau group for this workshop these are our focus:
    Issue: Watershed
    Layers: State boundaries, Farms (commercial farms of Palau), watersheds, rivers, streams, infrastructure (buildings), historical sites, vegetation, conservation areas, mangroves, shoreline, compact road, soil and wildfire locations (Leo this layer has to be compiled).
    Value Classification/Scheme: 1 to 6

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