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===How can I load a data table from a spatial database or data store into a Map in Spatial Manager Desktop™?===
 
===How can I load a data table from a spatial database or data store into a Map in Spatial Manager Desktop™?===
To access spatial databases or data stores you need to have defined a User Data Source (UDS) (to learn more about UDSs, see: [[Spatial Manager Desktop™ - FAQs: Data sources| Data sources page]]You can load a data table from a spatial file using the right-click menu over the file item itself, over a table from the file or over any UDS that refers the file, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map. You can also double-click over the file item itself, over a table from the file or over any UDS that refers the file, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map (this behaviour may be configured in the application settings)
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To access spatial databases or data stores you need first to have defined a User Data Source (UDS) including all the parameters to connect (to learn more about UDSs, see: [[Spatial Manager Desktop™ - FAQs: Data sources| Data sources page]]). You can load a data table from a spatial file using the right-click menu over the file item itself, over a table from the file or over any UDS that refers the file, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map. You can also double-click over the file item itself, over a table from the file or over any UDS that refers the file, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map (this behaviour may be configured in the application settings)
  
  

Revision as of 12:03, 26 February 2014

Introduction

  • Objective of this section
    • To load spatial information tables included in spatial databases
  • Topics in this section
    • Accessing spatial databases: UDSs definition using connection and setting parameters
    • Schemas and classes: structures of tables contained in databases
    • Other connections like ODBC, etc.


How can I load a data table from a spatial database or data store into a Map in Spatial Manager Desktop™?

To access spatial databases or data stores you need first to have defined a User Data Source (UDS) including all the parameters to connect (to learn more about UDSs, see: Data sources page). You can load a data table from a spatial file using the right-click menu over the file item itself, over a table from the file or over any UDS that refers the file, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map. You can also double-click over the file item itself, over a table from the file or over any UDS that refers the file, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map (this behaviour may be configured in the application settings)


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To learn some other interesting ways (drag and drop or openning from Windows explorer) to load spatial data from files, take a look at Drag and drop of SHP, KML, GPX, etc., files to a Map


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