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Fieldwork Physical 3D LC1 Using 3D GIS primary data for fieldwork
Key Stage 4
Year 11
Geography
This is a GIS guide showing how to use 3D GIS primary data for physical fieldwork. We're using a ready-made 3D scene fieldwork P, for physical, 3D, and you can see the title at the top of the screen here. The first thing we're going to do is to see how you can use your geo-reference data as proportional orientated 3D symbols. So the first step is to click Time over here, and then the cog at the bottom of the screen, and switch Apply Time Filter off. And then once again click Time. We're gonna use those functions later in this presentation. So at the moment the data is visualised simply as orange dots at each site, but to configure them we need to open the layer to configure it. So we click the Layers panel and then the three dots at the end of the layer name. We're going to use River Ashbrooke data CSA, which stands for cross-sectional area of the river channel. So the three dots gives us some options, and we're going to click Layer Style within those options. And then we're going to click the dropdown in the first element, which is choose main attribute. So in the dropdown we select CSA, and we can see that just here, and clicking that changes the symbols to be proportional to values of the data. But the default symbols aren't necessarily what we want, especially for 3D presentation. So we go to step two, Choose a drawing style, and select from that panel 3D Counts and Amounts. We select that and then click Options. Then find Marker and click that, and you'll see that one of the options is a cube. So we select that and click Done. Next we have a colour box beneath that. So we click the colour box, we're gonna switch the Solid colour on, and that's a little button down there, easy to miss. Then click the pen to choose a colour. We're going to suggest this code here. And that's a kind of blue colour, which seems appropriate for this data. If we click Done twice, what we then need to do is to move to Size to alter that so it's appropriate. So if we make the smallest size 40, and we're gonna suggest the maximum size is gonna be 100, and that will change the size of the symbols. And furthermore, we're going to go to Rotation to rotate the symbols by the bearing data, and that will change to show the direction of flow to some extent. We're also going to add labels. So if we click this it adds labels, which are not necessarily what we want, but if you scroll down a little bit, you can choose which labels you want, and the most appropriate one is going to be the site number, and you can see that's much clearer. And then click Done twice. Now what we haven't done so far is to take advantage of this 3D facility, but we're gonna do that now. So if we start tilting the map like this, we can start seeing the 3D landscape and appreciate the topography and appreciate the 3D symbols. So we can make adjustments like this using the pan and zoom controls or the mouse. There are different ways of doing this, but you can see you can get a really good impression of what the landscape looks like. What we can also see is that Church Stretton, which is quite a sizable village just here, is at the base of the river valley, and that's where the river water flows through just here. And what you might want to do is to experiment with different base maps. So if we just shut the layer manager for a moment so we can get a better appreciation of the landscape, and then we can change the base map, perhaps just to one other for now, Topographic 3D. Now this is very similar to the topographic in 2D maps, but as you'll notice, it does actually have all the buildings shown. In the future these will be available, probably, and look quite lifelike, but at the moment we're not quite there. So you can use that to really get an appreciation of how the river is interacting with the landscape and the people's activities there, particularly their housing, their industry, their shops, public buildings, and so on. And we can evaluate how the base maps work. Obviously the contrast with topographic is very good. We can see everything very clearly on that. But then if we put that back to Imagery Hybrid, perhaps there's some advantages of that. So if we just go to Imagery Hybrid here, we see a more realistic landscape, and perhaps there's more emphasis on the landscape here, whereas with the Topographic there's a bit more emphasis on the data. But here we can make perhaps stronger links with what's going on in the landscape and our data. And having done this good work, it's probably a good time to save our work. So we can click Save. If you want to add your initials after that, you can to distinguish it from other people's work. Next we're gonna see how to configure the popups for these 3D symbols. So we go to the Layer Manager, and in the options for our layer we click Layer properties, not Layer style but Layer properties. Then we click Configure pop-ups and check the Enable pop-ups is switched on. And in Title, we're gonna type this formula of words, which is going to pick up the site number from the dataset. And for the Fields list, we just want to show one piece of data, so we're going to click Delete, and then we're going to add what we want, we're gonna customise what the popup shows. So in Text, we're gonna type this formula of words. Once again, we're picking up the data from the dataset. That's the bit in the curly brackets there, and I've added square metres after it. So CSA = what's in the dataset, and then we've added square metres for the units. After that, we click OK. Then we're gonna add one more piece of content. So we Add content. This time it's gonna be an image. We click Image, and in URL, we type {Image_URL} in curly brackets, with an underscore between the words, and you can see an image has appeared in the popup. Then click Done three times, and you can check to see that your information in the popups is appearing for all the sites. And this is a good time to save our work. So we save our work like that. Our next step is to configure the time-enabled data, so going to switch the time slider by switching the clock and then the cog at the bottom. And we need to switch the time filter on by applying it like that. The small dropdown in Time slider mode. And in that one, we choose Show data progressively. And in the Time intervals tab just here, we can leave that as 30 minutes. In Play rate, which is the third tab, we can click that to Fast. Then we just make sure we can see the valley where our data has been recorded. And if we press play, or stepping forward, stepping back, we can see the data appearing. And of course some of the sites are slightly hidden around the corner, so if we tilt the map, we can see those, the early sites, Site 1 and Site 2, like that, and then we can play the whole thing. And there's Site 8 at the end. Then the time slider can be toggled on and off by simply clicking the clock.
Fieldwork Physical 3D LC1 Using 3D GIS primary data for fieldwork
Key Stage 4
Year 11
Geography
This is a GIS guide showing how to use 3D GIS primary data for physical fieldwork. We're using a ready-made 3D scene fieldwork P, for physical, 3D, and you can see the title at the top of the screen here. The first thing we're going to do is to see how you can use your geo-reference data as proportional orientated 3D symbols. So the first step is to click Time over here, and then the cog at the bottom of the screen, and switch Apply Time Filter off. And then once again click Time. We're gonna use those functions later in this presentation. So at the moment the data is visualised simply as orange dots at each site, but to configure them we need to open the layer to configure it. So we click the Layers panel and then the three dots at the end of the layer name. We're going to use River Ashbrooke data CSA, which stands for cross-sectional area of the river channel. So the three dots gives us some options, and we're going to click Layer Style within those options. And then we're going to click the dropdown in the first element, which is choose main attribute. So in the dropdown we select CSA, and we can see that just here, and clicking that changes the symbols to be proportional to values of the data. But the default symbols aren't necessarily what we want, especially for 3D presentation. So we go to step two, Choose a drawing style, and select from that panel 3D Counts and Amounts. We select that and then click Options. Then find Marker and click that, and you'll see that one of the options is a cube. So we select that and click Done. Next we have a colour box beneath that. So we click the colour box, we're gonna switch the Solid colour on, and that's a little button down there, easy to miss. Then click the pen to choose a colour. We're going to suggest this code here. And that's a kind of blue colour, which seems appropriate for this data. If we click Done twice, what we then need to do is to move to Size to alter that so it's appropriate. So if we make the smallest size 40, and we're gonna suggest the maximum size is gonna be 100, and that will change the size of the symbols. And furthermore, we're going to go to Rotation to rotate the symbols by the bearing data, and that will change to show the direction of flow to some extent. We're also going to add labels. So if we click this it adds labels, which are not necessarily what we want, but if you scroll down a little bit, you can choose which labels you want, and the most appropriate one is going to be the site number, and you can see that's much clearer. And then click Done twice. Now what we haven't done so far is to take advantage of this 3D facility, but we're gonna do that now. So if we start tilting the map like this, we can start seeing the 3D landscape and appreciate the topography and appreciate the 3D symbols. So we can make adjustments like this using the pan and zoom controls or the mouse. There are different ways of doing this, but you can see you can get a really good impression of what the landscape looks like. What we can also see is that Church Stretton, which is quite a sizable village just here, is at the base of the river valley, and that's where the river water flows through just here. And what you might want to do is to experiment with different base maps. So if we just shut the layer manager for a moment so we can get a better appreciation of the landscape, and then we can change the base map, perhaps just to one other for now, Topographic 3D. Now this is very similar to the topographic in 2D maps, but as you'll notice, it does actually have all the buildings shown. In the future these will be available, probably, and look quite lifelike, but at the moment we're not quite there. So you can use that to really get an appreciation of how the river is interacting with the landscape and the people's activities there, particularly their housing, their industry, their shops, public buildings, and so on. And we can evaluate how the base maps work. Obviously the contrast with topographic is very good. We can see everything very clearly on that. But then if we put that back to Imagery Hybrid, perhaps there's some advantages of that. So if we just go to Imagery Hybrid here, we see a more realistic landscape, and perhaps there's more emphasis on the landscape here, whereas with the Topographic there's a bit more emphasis on the data. But here we can make perhaps stronger links with what's going on in the landscape and our data. And having done this good work, it's probably a good time to save our work. So we can click Save. If you want to add your initials after that, you can to distinguish it from other people's work. Next we're gonna see how to configure the popups for these 3D symbols. So we go to the Layer Manager, and in the options for our layer we click Layer properties, not Layer style but Layer properties. Then we click Configure pop-ups and check the Enable pop-ups is switched on. And in Title, we're gonna type this formula of words, which is going to pick up the site number from the dataset. And for the Fields list, we just want to show one piece of data, so we're going to click Delete, and then we're going to add what we want, we're gonna customise what the popup shows. So in Text, we're gonna type this formula of words. Once again, we're picking up the data from the dataset. That's the bit in the curly brackets there, and I've added square metres after it. So CSA = what's in the dataset, and then we've added square metres for the units. After that, we click OK. Then we're gonna add one more piece of content. So we Add content. This time it's gonna be an image. We click Image, and in URL, we type {Image_URL} in curly brackets, with an underscore between the words, and you can see an image has appeared in the popup. Then click Done three times, and you can check to see that your information in the popups is appearing for all the sites. And this is a good time to save our work. So we save our work like that. Our next step is to configure the time-enabled data, so going to switch the time slider by switching the clock and then the cog at the bottom. And we need to switch the time filter on by applying it like that. The small dropdown in Time slider mode. And in that one, we choose Show data progressively. And in the Time intervals tab just here, we can leave that as 30 minutes. In Play rate, which is the third tab, we can click that to Fast. Then we just make sure we can see the valley where our data has been recorded. And if we press play, or stepping forward, stepping back, we can see the data appearing. And of course some of the sites are slightly hidden around the corner, so if we tilt the map, we can see those, the early sites, Site 1 and Site 2, like that, and then we can play the whole thing. And there's Site 8 at the end. Then the time slider can be toggled on and off by simply clicking the clock.