by Mark Littlewood and Anne Kilgour Cooper, adapted by Anna Hodgkinson The dish screws on the top and the black cable attached to the pole screws into the dish. Wait for the main menu screen to load. For survey, either press 1, or use the yellow arrow keys and highlight ‘Survey’ and press ENTER (red button). Press SHIFT followed by F3, which will connect you to the internet and enable your GPS to get an accuracy of up to 15mm. There are some crosshairs at the very top of the screen. They will have a large, a medium sized or a small circle around the centre, the small circle being the desired. Check the numbers at the bottom right of the screen (3D CQ). This will tell you your accuracy. You can’t record points with an accuracy of 0.075m or more. Lines Replace the CF card and tum the GPS on. Make a list and sketch-map of the points to be staked out for orientation and take this to site. N.B. These will be downloaded as a NOCODEPOINT shapefile, but saved only as separate points. Location: Project\Survey\Dated folders\folder with correct date\LGO Project Closed polygons are produced with tools found in the Sextante toolbox, such as the “Polygonize” function. Open the main view of the gvSIG project (unless, of course, it is already open). — You can now highlight the layer in the TOC and save it as a shapefile (Layer - Export as - shapefile) Metadata Matrices - useful examples for data maintenance a) GIS:
