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.