Working with project > Using templates(specific design of plot shapes)
If your project needs a specific design of a plot shapes, you can use a shapefile of any shape as a template. To use templates you have to create a “Templates” directory in your project directory and two subdirectories named “Border” and “Centers”. The “Border” directory will contain polygonal shapefiles called “Border_YourName.shp” defining the shapes of the plots. The “Centers” directory will contain point shapefiles called “Centers_YourName.shp” defining the center points of the plots. If the subdirectory “Centers” does not exist, the option to import points is not available.
Note: Example directory Templates
Working in Field-Map Data Collector:
- When you create a new plot in Field-Map Data Collector, choose “Import shapefile/Use template”. For further information on how to establish a new plot, see the Field-Map Data Collector user guide.
- Click Open shapefile button.
Note: Following screenshots are from Field Map Data Collector
- Select “Use template”
- and then choose the template.
- You can rotate a plot template.
- Tools to view a template - left to right - full extent, zoom out, zoom in, pan to move.
- Click OK.
Note: a template rotate around the origin
- The Filename of a template is filled in box.
- Click OK.
- You can import the centers of the template polygons (contained in the folder “Your project”/Templates/Centers), to one of the layers (of a point or polygonal type) created in the Project Manager.
A result:
