Metacat Spatial Option Demo





Upload a Spatial EML Document: * A Spatial EML Document describes and includes a spatial dataset (eg, a .shp or .dxf file). The EML must reference the spatial dataset as a file(s). The spatial data file(s) and the EML that references it must be combined in a standard Zip file for uploading.

This is a demonstration of the Metacat Spatial Option (MSO) that shows the ability to select Ecological Markup Language (EML) documents stored in the Metacat server: (metacat.nceas.ucsb.edu). Additionally, the user may choose to select places in the USA - for a qualitative sense of where (spatially) the EML documents exist.

1] to select the EML Document: zoom in, press the blue info 'i' button and point to a red dot.

2] to select a known place: zoom in, press the blue info 'i' button, press the 'circled i' (next to the USA known places layer selector) and then point to a black dot.

* Make sure to position the mouse directly over the feature while selecting it.
* Any of these features can be made selectable by a simple configuration change see: selectable layers
* EML documents are represented as red dots -- the center of the dot is the geometric center of that EML data package. (a dataset comprising a global study will lie at the intersection of the equator and the prime meridian).