Steps - How to start? - Step 2

ACTIVATING A PROJECT

In a database, the graphical information is grouped by geographical areas, which is called a project. In the "DF" database there is a single project named "Brasilia ", which covers the "Plano Piloto de Brasilia" area.


To Activate a Project:

  • click on File - Project... in the main menu, or in the button   in the toolbar.
  • the "Projects" window will show up.

  • select the Brasilia project;
  • click on Load.

As mentioned before a project keeps data related to a geographical region. In order to have the information captured from the earth surface represented in a plane, like the computer screen or a paper sheet, we need to use a cartographic projection. The cartographic projection used here is known as UTM/SAD69 which can be seen in the Projection field. The SPRING documentation includes detailed information about cartographic projections . Later you will have the opportunity to check other project parameters as this one.

At this point a window named "Control Panel" will be displayed. This window allows the user to select what data he/she wants to visualize. Two lists are highlighted Available IL’s and Selected IL’s.

In the SPRING system the same kind of information is grouped in categories. In this database there are data of different categories, which will be described through these steps.

 


ACTIVATING A DATABASE    VISUALIZING AN IMAGE


 
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