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====== Workflow to generate PaleoGIS projects ====== | ====== Workflow to generate PaleoGIS projects ====== | ||
Having to work with PaleoGIS at work, I've been iterating on a workflow with the colleagues from the EarthByte group to produce a minimal, yet production-ready workflow to generate | Having to work with PaleoGIS at work, I've been iterating on a workflow with the colleagues from the EarthByte group to produce a minimal, yet production-ready workflow to generate | ||
+ | ===== Notes on PaleoGIS ===== | ||
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+ | * The public manual for version 4.2 can be found on [[https:// | ||
+ | * The manual //for the plate modeler// 8-O is located [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Setting up a clean database ===== | ||
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+ | Building a PaleoGIS model without a PaleoGIS license, access to MS Access and being in Windows is close to impossible. There are ways to programatically do this but almost exclusively this is limited to the settings above. Some days of researching the webs didn't yield anything useful (e.g. using Python to write the database table). The used '' | ||
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+ | Here's my take on what I think is the most robust way to generate a working PaleoGIS model without actually having access to PaleoGIS. It leaves the last step of model building (importing the rotation file) to the PaleoGIS user with a valid license: | ||
+ | - Use ArcCatalogue to generate an empty Personal Geodatabase ('' | ||
+ | - Import the feature data through right-clicking on the database file and selecting '' | ||
+ | - From an existing and working PaleoGIS database, copy over the following tables by simple drag' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - a timescale table of choice (referenced by the '' | ||
+ | - Modify the following parameters in the '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * Adjust the '' | ||
+ | <note important> | ||
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+ | Once the database is complete and the name-attribute mapping in the '' | ||
+ | - Open up an ArcMap document with PaleoGIS installed. | ||
+ | - Open up the PaleoGIS settings {{ : | ||
+ | - Register the new model by clicking on '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | <note warning> | ||
+ | - Once this is done, PaleoGIS will probably have a little hissy fit, but close the '' | ||
+ | - Make sure that the toolbar is available through right clicking on the ArcMap menu bar, the activating the '' | ||
+ | - Select the '' | ||
+ | - Select '' | ||
+ | - Select '' | ||
+ | - Your plate model for PaleoGIS should now be complete and useable. If necessary adjust the '' | ||
- | {{tag> PaleoGIS GPlates workflow}} | ||
+ | {{tag> PaleoGIS software Plate_tectonics Reconstructions GIS GPlates workflow}} | ||