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Downloading data

1. In a web browser, go to the University of Pittsburgh Comparative Archaeology Database at http://www.cadb.pitt.edu/.
2. Click Datasets by Goegraphic Region >>.
3. Scroll down to the CENTRAL AMERICA section.
4. Click on the dataset assigned to your project group: Rio Tonosi Valley, San Ramón de Alajuela, Masaya, OR Volcán Barú. (NOTE: The demonstration was performed using Upper Térraba.)
5. Scroll down to THE DATASET section.
6. Under the Spatial Information section, the coordinate system is listed. Record this information.
7. Under the Spatial Information section, click Collection lots:.
8. Click the DXF file link to download.
9. On the browser, click the back button to return to your main dataset webpage.
10. Under the Numeric Data section, click ?
11. Scroll to the bottom and click the XLS file link to download

Importing CAD (.dxf or .dwg) data into a file geodatabase

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1. In the Geoprocessing pane, search "join" and click the Spatial Join tool.
2. For 'Target Features', use the drop-down menu to select your lots polygon layer.
3. For 'Join Features', use the drop-down menu to select your lot IDs point layer.
4. For 'Output Feature Class', rename the feature class something like "LotsWithIDs".
5. Leave the rest of the defaults and clickRun.

Add new field

1. TxtMemoClean

   TxtMemo.strip()

    

2. After join, show sort missing and reverse join to see which don't have it, or symbolize by join count (we don't have time for data cleaning)

3. Export with join

Questions for Molly

1. Are you attending?
2. Do they download topo and hydrology for final map
3. Do they download only one Excel?
4. Do you have the site instructions handout?
5. Will they know what all the variables mean?