| Cartography |
| Q: | Can the orthoimagery MrSid files available from MEGIS be projected to state plane? |
| Q: | Currently, we are looking for road maps which contain the names of the streets in a 1:24,000 scale, preferably. The road data from your site does not appear to contain the street names? |
| Q: | How can I convert lines drawn on aerial photos to digital data? |
| Q: | How do I determine proximity between public secondary schools using the SCHLIB layer in ArcView? I have some instructions on how to do proximity, but need help isolating the secondary schools? |
| Q: | How do I determine the area of land and water in Washington County? |
| Q: | How do I figure out what projection my data is in? Think it's state plane but not sure. |
| Q: | I am trying to create a nature trail map for an area of interest. I need to find a suitable reference point, a road intersection, a snowmobile trail, a monument? |
| Q: | I can't seem to figure out the units for a Maine GIS data layer? |
| Q: | Is there a quick and easy way to determine the square mileage of a given town in Maine using ArcView? |
| Q: | Trouble mapping points of XY data from tabular data? |
| Q: | We have a .dbf table of facilities, how do we turn that into something viewable in ArcMap? |
| A: | Use a RELATE to join the table to a GIS coverage. If the table has a field for town or geocode for example it can be joined to the layer METWP24. |
| Q: | What are the different zones used in the State Plane Coordinate System for the State of Maine? |
| Q: | What is the magnetic declination for Liberty, Maine? How accurate is that? |
| Q: | What is the projection of Maine GIS data? |
| Q: | When I add data to my view, Maine GIS data doesn't show up on my parcel layer? It's way above it, or out of the view. |
| Q: | When converting between NAD83 and NAD27, can a consistent number of meters be added or subtracted for any location in the state to convert between datums? |
| Q: | Why do the MEDOQs not fit the Bath parcels? The ORTHO_HF seems to be OK? |
