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===How can I load a data table from a spatial file into a Map in Spatial Manager Desktop™?===
 
===How can I load a data table from a spatial file into a Map in Spatial Manager Desktop™?===
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 [[Spatial Manager Desktop™ 2014 - FAQs: Data sources|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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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 [[Spatial Manager Desktop™ 2014 - FAQs: Data sources|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 [[Spatial Manager Desktop™ 2014 - FAQs: Data sources|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 12:37, 12 January 2014

Introduction

  • Objective of this section
    • To load spatial information from files with single or multiple content using different methods
  • Topics in this section
    • File load methods: data sources panel (direct from or through UDS), directly loading from Windows explorer or drag and dropping from the explorer to a map
    • Multiple content files: files including internal folders and those files including multiple internal schemas and tables


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

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


How can I open directly the folder containing a file in Spatial Manager Desktop™?

To open a file location, use the right-click menu over the file item in the "Data sources" panel


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