Instructions & Procedures
The following is a collection of instructions and technical procedures established by Map Library staff to assist faculty, staff and students with software, data and web resources. Although these procedures are available to the public, some instructions may be site specific to the Brock University Map Library. If you encounter any difficulties, please send us an email and we will attempt to troubleshoot your specific problem. Refer to the software manuals for assistance regarding basic software functions.
Workshops
- Google Earth Tutorial - December 2009 Workshop
- My Google Map | Google My Map video
- My Google Earth (explore content and image overlay)
- Introduction to ArcMap
- Introduction to ArcMap for Computing in History
- Our Digitized Collections
Web Instructions
- Downloading Ontario Base Data
- Downloading Ontario Road Network Data
- Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) Maps
- Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) Maps
- National Topogrpahic Maps (CanMatrix)
- Using GPS Visualizer & Earth Point
ArcGIS Procedures
- Converting DEM Data to Raster
- Defining Projection for Raster GRID
data
- Merging GRID Files
- Clipping DEM Data
- Viewing DEM data in 3D
- Clipping Data in ArcMap
- Importing ArcInfo Interchange files (.e00) to ArcInfo Coverages
- Creating Points from x,y data in ArcMap
- Adding x,y Coordinates to a table in ArcMap
- ESRI (SHP) to Google (KML) File Conversion
ArcView 3.2 Procedures
- Importing Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED)
- NRCan DEM (CDED) Conversion from Decimal Seconds to Decimal Degrees
- Merge NRCan DEM (CDED) Data
- NRCan DEM (CDED) Conversion from Decimal Degrees to UTM
- Clipping Multiple Files using BatchClip.avx
Other Software Procedures