Questions and answers

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Questions and answers

• Spring 2002 courses
• Superior, St. Regis, Alberton, Condon MT

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Customizing icons for point themes?

• Edit the legend for the theme you want to change.
  From the Theme menu, select the command "Edit
  legend" (or click on the symbol in the table of
  contents). This launches the Legend Editor
  dialog.
• In the Legend Editor dialog, double-click on the
  symbol to edit it. This brings up the palette
  dialog, which can display the fill pattern,
  color, marker, etc.

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Customizing icons (continued)

• Click on the far-right button, the image of the
  palette, to show the Palette Manager dialog.
• From the Palette Manager dialog, select the
  "Type" to be "Marker".  This adds a button that
  says "Import" to the dialog.

• Click on the "Import" button, launch the "Load
  Icon" dialog
• Navigate to the picture file and click "OK"

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Clipping themes?

• Use the geoprocessing wizard
• File-gtExtensions, select Geoprocessing
• View-gtGeoprocessing Wizard, select Clip one
  theme based on another
• Great directions in the wizard can clip based on
  the entire theme or just the selected features
• Example Clip and create a theme containing only
  the rivers within Mineral County

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Clip it

• In the countys theme, select Mineral County in
  the table so it is the only feature selected
• Run the geoprocessing wizard

Clip Hd43a.shp based on countys.shp, and use
selected features only
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New theme is smaller

• Only the data you want easier to manage

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Mine tunnel, shaft locations?

• Montana mine data available from NRIS
• For locations of tunnels and shafts, have sent an
  email request to the state Bureau of Mines and
  Geology
• Pat Kennelly, pkennelly_at_mtech.edu
• Status Waiting to hear back from Pat

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Lewis and Clark historical maps?

• Great links from the EOS Center project
• www.lewisandclarkeducationcenter.com
• Library of Congress site
• lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr001.html
• Nicholas King map, 1803
• www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/tlc0295.jpg
• Samuel Lewis composite map, 1814
• www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/872m.jpg
• David Rumsey collection of early North American
  maps
• www.davidrumsey.com

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Historical census data?

• CEIC site has MT population data to 1890
• ceic.commerce.state.mt.us/Demog/historic/index.htm
  
• fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
• Mineral County disappears from census lt 1920
• Created in 1914 from parts of Missoula County
• 1920 census shows 4 townships in Mineral County
• NW to SE Saltese, Cedar, Superior, Frenchtown
• Irregular boundaries, map is hard to read

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A quick lesson in historic subcounty census
geography

• Dave Martin, CEIC Research Specialist, 444-2896
• Two ways the census treats subcounty areas
• Census Tracts, aka Block Numbering Areas
• Census County Divisions, aka Minor Civil
  Divisions, aka Townships in Mineral Co.
• Townships, precincts used in Missoula, Mineral
• 1990 marked a major change in subcounty areas
• New Mineral definition West End, Superior,
  Alberton

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Before 1920

• Look at Missoula County census data
• 1910 census lists Missoula Co. townships
• Includes Cedar, Frenchtown, Saltese (Saltese
  organized from Cedar in 1906)
• Full data in Volume 2, Population 1910, Reports
  by States with Reports for Counties, Cities and
  other Civil Divisions, Alabama-Montana, page 1142

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Census 1890-1910 (pg 1142)
4 Sanders County formed from Missoula Co, 1906 5
Includes population later in Sanders, Flathead,
Ravalli 6 Saltese organized from Cedar in 1906
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More information

• Historical Society library Helena
• Mansfield Library, UM, regional depository for
  federal documents (first floor, census under C.)

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Golf courses?

• travel.state.mt.us/tripplanner/thingstodo/golf.htm
  
• Complete listing by towns and types of courses
• Perform a table join by city name

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Ghost towns?

• Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society
• http//www.montana.com/ghosttown/
• Email from Jan OBrien (jemlo13_at_wtp.net)
• Montana has over 600 ghost towns and mining
  camps.  Our map currently contains only
  approximately 200 of those sites, and will
  hopefully have additional sites added in the next
  publication.  We do not have an official list of
  sites at this time, nor do we have specific
  locations (latitude/longitude).  The ghost towns
  and mining camps included on our map are a result
  of many years of research, interviews and on-site
  visitation by myself and other members of our
  organizationWe purposely did not give accurate
  directions to sites, as many are on private
  property, and we were requested to not give
  details of their locations in order to protect
  them
• See Montana Pay Dirt, by Muriel Sibell Wolle

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Elevation and topo data?

• Digital elevation model (DEM) and contour line
  data available from NRIS
• DEM requires 3D Analyst
• Diane has an evaluation copy of several
  extensions for exclusive use in the school

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How accurate are the contours?
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Adding pictures to layouts?
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Adding hotlinks?

• Requires a field that contains the filename

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Changing label fonts

• Cant change individual labels in 3.2
• Change the default setting and all subsequent
  labels take on that font type

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Resizing spline text?
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Watersheds?