Digital Procedures
The following is a collection of procedures established by Map Library staff to assist faculty, staff and students with software, data and electronic atlas use. Although these procedures are available to the public domain, some steps 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.
ArcGIS
- 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
ArcView 3.2
- 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
MapInfo
- Using SQL Functions "Left$()" and "Right$()"
- Converting UTM coordinates to Latitude/Longitude
- Census Data: Beyond 2020, Excel and MapInfo
- How to "cookie cut" in MapInfo
- Importing DMTI DEM data in MapInfo with Vertical Mapper
Web Resources
- E-Stat
- Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) Maps
- GeoSearch2006
- CanMatrix (Canada Topographic Maps) - Georeferenced
- CanMatrix (Canada Topographic Maps) - PDF/TIFF
- Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) Maps
- Screen Capture (using Microsoft Word 2007)
- URL-Driven Zoomify Webpage
- My Google Map | Google My Map video
- My Google Earth
- Our Digitized Collections