AGENDA
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RESOURCES TO HELP WITH IDENTIFICATION
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https://ag.colorado.gov/conservation/noxious-weeds/colorado-noxious-weed-list
SITE VISIT/DATA COLLECTION
Create “Base Maps” of property prior to going to a site.
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COLLECTING POINTS
Find starting place on property then walk a sweeping/grid pattern through property.
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COLLECTING POINTS FOR AREAS
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UPLOADING WAYPOINTS
DNR GPS - Uploading waypoints and tracks to comp (If you plug in the GPS before opening the app and wait for the little usb icon to show on the Gramin’s screen, you can skip steps 3&4)
1. Download DNRGPS
2. Open App
3. Plug in Garmin to comp.
4. Go to the GPS tab and “Find GPS”
5. Once found, it will be listed under the tabs
6. Lower tabs - Waypoints, Tracks, Routes, Real-Time
6A. Setting Projection (This will be different based on version of Arc)
7. Click on/open waypoint lower tab, then click waypoint on the upper tab
8. Click Download. Scroll down and select waypoints from desired dates. Ex. Waypoints_25-MAR-22.gpx)
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9. “Download complete” “Ok”. Click “ident” at the top to organize alphabetically
10. Select (left of “type” column) waypoints in groups by species so you can save them as individuals. That way you have separate points when opening on arc pro
11. File, save to, Arcmap, File…
12. Put in the desired shared drive folder. S:, PUB. folder, Cons. Dist. folder, your name folder, create and put in clients folder, title with the species name
Create a specific “EDDMapS” folder within each client and follow the same file->save to->Arcmap-> file path and save the weeds with their Scientific name (ex Cirsium arvense for Canada Thistle). This will save a lot of time for reporting on grants.
13. Repeat for all species
14. Repeat process for tracks -Select the lower track tab, then select the upper track tab, download, select names/dated track, select top white box left of the “type” column, (or top ctrl+shift to bottom to select all)
ADDING POINTS TO MAP
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Adding collected points and lines
1. Stay on Map tab
2. Select “add data”
3. Find folder with garmin saved shp files
4. “Control + shift” on keyboard to highlight all desired points/tracks… or go one by one but who has time for that? Select “OK”
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Editing Symbology of added data
1. You can select points/tracks with the “select” tool in the middle of the same “map tab”
*Next* make it fancy
2. To edit symbology of points - go to the contents pane-
3. If you went the right click route - double click the given symbol on the symbology pane. Here you can change color, shape, outline, size, transparency, etc. SAVE, SAVE, SAVE
4. Back to the County Parcels - If you want to change color - Right click, symbology, click the symbol, gallery tab, black outline. Go to properties tab, dropdown for outline color, select whatever you want. You can also click dropdown again, click color properties and edit the transparency %
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EXAMPLE WITH POINTS AND TRACKS
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EXAMPLE
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CREATING POLYGON
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1. To start editing polygons (large areas of weeds) use points from the field and the “track” or walking route that you took
2. You can create the area shape with the polygon tool
3. Click the “View” tab
4. Select “Catalog Pane”
5. Select “Database” drop down arrow
6. Right click “Default.gbd.”, hover over “new”, select “feature class”
7. “Create Feature Class” pane appears
8. Enter desired name (this can be edited later by right clicking fc on contents pane, go to properties, general, name - initially you can't add spaces)
Ex. Weeds
9. Select feature class type drop down. For areas select “polygon” but you can create points (ex. Musk thistle points) and lines (ex. tracks) as well
10. Select finish (those are the only two inputs needed, name and fc type)
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11. The created feature is now available on the contents pane
12. You can edit symbology the same way as you edit points
13. To create polygons go to the “edit” tab at the top on the app
14. select “create”
15. a “create features” pane appears to the right
16. find your desired feature (the recently created feature class) and click on it
17. select the desired tool to create your polygon/area. I tend to choose the “polygon” tool because it's freeform. But there are circles, right angles, ovals, etc. It depends on the shape you are trying to create.
18. you can begin creating your shape. Every time you click you are creating “vertices”. These can be edited, moved, removed and you can add more to the polygon once it is finished. More vertices = more shape options
19. Trace/click along your track outline, enclosing the area
20. To finish your shape, double click on your last vertice - enclosing the shape
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EXAMPLE
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CREATING LAYOUTS
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1. Go to the insert tab
2. hit the “new layout” drop down and select your desired layout. Depends on prop size. I stick to the basic letter, portrait or landscape
3. I title it (sometimes….sometimes I just leave it as a layout). Right click the layout on the contents pane, go to properties, general, name. This one will be “Example Map”
4. still on the insert tab, select map frame drop down and select the satellite image of your map
5. click and drag on page where you want you map to be displayed
6. You can change the zoom/size of the image by staying on the layout (or whatever you titled it), and then go to the top layout tab. There is a button “Activate”. Select your drawn out map and then hit “activate”. Move/zoom in or out how you want it. Then the “X” button will be in the top right corner.
-You can press and hold the right mouse click/button and move the mouse forward and backward to fine-tune your zoom and get your parcel fitting into the map
7. on the insert tab, you can add desired north arrow, scale bar, legend, titles, logo and works cited/credits
8. you can change symbology for all of these if desired
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9. to insert title and credits, go to Dynamic text drop down, Select name for title. Click and drag. Type in desired title, Name, date (Example Map April 2022)
10. credits - same approach but select “credits”. I like to put “map created by ___”
11. for works cited (where we get the map image from and such) same drop down, scroll down, select “ service layer credits”. After drawing your space for that if you see “...” in red, the box needs to be bigger or text needs to be smaller. This takes the text off of your map and puts it in a more appealing spot :)
12. to add the logo hit the image icon under “graphics and text”.
13. Export to PDF
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EXAMPLE
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UPLOADING TO EDDMAPS
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When saving points into the EDDMapS folder, I download them from the DNRGPS right after I save all the common names. In new folder save point in scientific name.
Ie. Russian Knapweed and Russian Knapweed Area 1 points, save them all as Rhaponticum in the EDDMapS folder.
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Uploading Data:
From the eddmaps.org homepage (if you are signed in) click My EDDMapS on the top right
On the left you can select Bulk Uploads
Select Upload Data
Batch name- I generally write the district and the survey date e.g. South Side 8_16_24
I also usually just drag and drop from the EDDMapS file folder and then upload it.
FINAL TIPS & TAKEAWAYS
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