Re: [udig-devel] Data Format, Text Delimited

[Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

As you can see, the answer to your question is "no, not yet possible". 
However, I am very glad you asked, and in such a succinct way -- this is 
one of the classic desktop GIS use cases, and a high priority for us 
going forward.

Paul

Adrian Custer wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 07:46 -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > In your understanding, that would involve loading the text file as a  
> > table, then joining it to an existing spatial layer (of election  
> > areas, or counties or something), correct?
> >
> > Paul
>
> I was just talking to Jesse about this yesterday. Such a functionality
> is definitely needed and now, thanks to the work on the table, starts to
> be possible. It will require
>   (1) being able to load tables from text file, say as Comma Separated
> Values, and 
>   (2) being able to join based on a key, which will have to be unique in
> the text file
>
> Note also that the general solution would require being able to create
> new columns in the shapefile attribute table to serve as the key. This
> is needed because it's not guaranteed that the user can calculate from
> scratch the values in one of the geometric columns to use that as a
> join: consider a shapefile of states without any attributes where the
> user would have no way to create a join column in their CSV file. 
>
> So we have a little bit of work to go on this feature request...
>
> cheers,
> adrian
>
>
> > On 30-Nov-06, at 7:22 AM, John Oeffinger wrote:
> >
> > > I'm a newbie to both GIS and uDIG so please excuse this very basic  
> > > question.
> > >
> > > I have gone through the walkthroughs, watched the Flash tutorial,  
> > > and checked the help area.
> > >
> > > Can a user add text delimited data to a map?
> > >
> > > Can someone point me to information on what needs to be included in  
> > > a data file to be added to a map?
> > >
> > > All I need to do is add election return data or some non-census  
> > > state statistical information. Your help would be appreciated in  
> > > learning the steps needed to accomplish this.
> > >
> > >
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