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NCIS GIS Viewer
Analytical Operations Department
National Crop Insurance Services
June 14, 2002
HTTP://GIS.AG-RISK.ORG
Click here
User Name and PasswordHit <Enter> after Password
Pick States Mode
Click once to add state, click again to remove
Set View Mode
Drag a rectangle to set the view. All of this view will fit onto the paper.
Afterwards, click on 2D View or 3D view to see map.
Set View Mode: Hiding of Entities
Default
Click this to hide counties by clicking on them
(Right click anywhere on SetView screen to get this menu)
Set View Mode: Hiding of EntitiesWe just hid all these counties (grayed out) by clicking on them. Click again to get them visible on map again.
2D View Mode(See at all the hidden counties)
3D View Mode
Rotate viewing angle by dragging the cube display indicator with the mouse.
Load/Save Menu (L/S)
(L/S) Load & Save to NCIS
Save worksheet to NCIS storage
Retrieve worksheet from NCIS
Save palette to NCIS storage
Retrieve palette from NCIS
(Use to share shading schemes between runs)
Screen dump to NCIS storage
Screen dump to NCIS storage
(best to hide buttons first)
(L/S) Load & Save to Text
Save worksheet to local text file
Retrieve worksheet from text file
Save palette to local text file
Retrieve palette from text file
For top-secret data:
No NCIS storage
No internet transfers.
(L/S) File Management
Opens File Management Menu
(L/S) File Management
Menu
(L/S) File Management Menu
(L/S) File Management Menu Right Click Submenu
(L/S) Generate one HTML Link
Highlight text, then cut & paste to an email
(L/S) Generate many HTML Links
Highlight text, then cut & paste to an email
ZoomIn enlarges picture; ZoomOut reduces it
Arrow buttons move the view around
Pan size sets the jump size in pixels for the arrow and zoom buttons. Pan cycles thru 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, 64,...
Navigation Buttons: Moving
Navigation Buttons: Pick StatesPick States button gets you “Pick States Mode”,
with the map of states in the US. That is where you choose MP/CH and pick the state(s) of interest.
Reminder of maps in use
Navigation Buttons: Map TypesTo MP/ To CH toggle button gets you into MPCI maps or
Crop-Hail maps (different CRDs). This button is only active in the “Pick States” mode.
Reminder of maps in use
Navigation Buttons: Set ViewSetView button gets you to a screen where you define the area to
be centered on the paper. Once there, you “drag a rectangle” to define a viewport (a viewing range).
View Option Menu (VO)
(VO) Select LayersChoose Layers and Labels to Display
(VO) Select VariablesShows if each variable is utilized.
Right Click variable to change.
(VO) Changes to “Select Variables”“Toggle All Printing Data” turns on and off data printout, “Print
Data on Map” does this one variable at a time, “3D Map” chooses a variable as the 3D response variable, “Edit Variable Name” to give it a better name.
(VO) Set Focus Choose a Layer for Mouse Focus
Townships get Focus
(VO) Set Focus: Special Layers Partial TWP to Master TWP Mappings
9-TWP & 25-TWP Neighborhoods
Both of the above, simultaneously
(VO) Set Focus: Special Layers County Concentric Circle Rating Districts (Ring1, Ring2)
Identify a 3D-Bar
Identify lots of 3D-Bars
(VO) Set Focus: Special Layers
Choose this to move the map title around
In conjunction with the layers ST, CRD, CNTY, TWP, Map Title. This special focus that should not be selected until you’re ready to move labels. Turn this off when done.
(VO) Set Focus: Repositioning Labelswith Drag & Drop
• Under the View Options, Set Focus menu, set focus to the layer with the labels (for example TWP), and check “Enable Drag & Drop for Moving Labels”.
• Using the mouse, <LeftButtonDown> inside the TWP to get focus, drag the label to a new location, and then release the mouse button (drop).
• When done, go back to the Set Focus menu to uncheck “Enable Drag & Drop for Moving Labels”.
(VO) Font & Outline
(VO) Font & Outline
(VO) Map TitleIf multiple layers, can choose title or even
not display one
(VO) Page Size (Default is 11”x17”)
Don’t forget to tell your printer about this when you get around to printing the map.
1000000 becomes 1,000,000
(VO) Misc. SettingsMoves all labels simultaneously
Adjusts space between data lines
Prints data over light gray flag, very useful over patterned shading.
(VO) Misc. Settings
Automatically uses lighter text color on darker floodfill colors.
Faster when shading large numbers of townships
Yipes! I lost my legend.
(VO) 3D Options
Change bar colors
Modifiable Summary of viewing angle
Change bar scale
Change bar type
Reference quantities to match bar height scale to other maps
Data Menu (D)
(D) Public Web Storage
Use this to access a big data file on one of your local web sites. Click submit to get the data, then click OK to get rid of this menu.
(D) CHFALC (NCIS CH Database)
(D) CHFALC: Click the State
(D) CHFALC: Click the Run
(D) CHFALC: Click the Layer
(D) CHFALC: Double-Click the Query
(D) CHFALC: Description AppearsClick OK
Query was successful
Resultant Map – Data is Now Visible
(D) CHFALC: Animation
…by Year
success
Not grayed out this time
(D) CHFALC: Animation
Starting EndingIt will sum or average, as appropriate for the variable(s)
Arrange labels and keys before pushing this button!Beginning year of period
currently on the map
(D) User File at NCIS
Data file suffixes are reserved by layer:
.st, .crd, .cty, .twp (choose one)
(D) Edit Data
(D) Edit Data, Edit Title & Data
Be sure to click the right layer, or its data will not appear
Edit the title for this layer. Can insert [EOL] for carriage return
Edit the data for this layer. No commas inside numbers! No white space inside variable names!
(D) Edit Data, Apply
Click “Apply” to check for errors and activate “Data Format” buttons
Verify the data is correctly understood.
(D) Edit Data, Formatting
Suitable for Lotus 123
I just clicked these two buttons to reformat the data in the window for “getting data out via cut & paste”
(D) Edit Data, Sample Data Sets
(D) Edit Data, Help on Data Input
(D) Edit Data, OK, Select Variables
(D) Edit Data, Select Vars, Double Click• Double-Click on a row to modify data printout on map• Click on OK to make the menu disappear• 3D is permitted on only one variable in one layer• Shading is not controlled here, see Palette menu instead
(D) Clear Data
Wipes out the data and titles for all layers. Useful for replacing old data set with new data set for the same state.
Palette Menu (P): Random ShadingDiagnostic Tool, not very useful
(P) Customized
Palette
(P) Customized PaletteFirst, choose the variable to floodfill/shade
Second, choose number of intervals
Third, bracket the data within a sensible plot range.
You can customize legend title
4th, you can automatically generate intervals
(P) Customized Palette - FloodfillingCycles through five arrays of colors
You can specify endpoints manually
Interpolates colors between end colors
Draw it now
Drag & Drop Colors to a List Element
Right click a list element to set color via RGB
(P) Customized Palette - Floodfilling
(P) Customized Palette –Shading Pattern
Click
(P) Customized
Palette –Shading Pattern
(P) Customized Palette –Shading PatternFirst, choose the variable to floodfill/shade
Second, choose number of intervals
Third, bracket the data within a sensible plot range.
You can customize legend title
4th, you can automatically generate intervals
Cycles through five arrays of patterns
(P) Customized Palette –Shading Pattern
You can specify endpoints manually
Draw it now
(P) Customized Palette –Shading Pattern
Drag & Drop Patterns to a List Element
Customize Patterns with these controls
Keyboard Hotkeys for Data Editing
<Shift> <UpArrow> Highlight text<Shift> <DownArrow> Highlight text<Shift> <LeftArrow> Highlight text<Shift> <RightArrow> Highlight text
<Ctrl><Ins> Copy to clipboard<Ctrl><C> Copy to clipboard
<Shift><Ins> Paste from clipboard< Ctrl><V> Paste from clipboard
Keyboard Hotkeysfor Making Pictures
<Ctrl> <H> Hide or Unhide Navigation Buttons
<Ctrl> <J> Screen dump to a JPEG file
<Ctrl> <G> Screen dump to a GIF file
Keyboard Hotkeysfor Animation
<Ctrl><N> Fetch the next year of data
<Ctrl><P> Fetch the previous year of data
Keyboard Hotkeys for Moving Labels <Click> followed by <Shift><Click>
(hold <Shift> while clicking mouse) repositions the label of whatever area the mouse “just got focused on”.
• Your new positions are saved with your worksheet, so you “remember” your moves.
• NCIS version of map label position unaffected by your moves.
• In this case Johnson county, KS got its label moved because “Focus=County”, and the mouse was clicked in Johnson county, and <Shift><Click> subsequently occurred off to
the East.