Mapping with ARCVIEW Aihua Pu

Outline Background Data sources Mapping with ARCVIEW Maps

Background Display regional differences in heart disease and life style factors Display regional differences in cardiac catheterization, percutaneous interventions (PCI), and coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) in BC.

Data Sources BC Cardiac Registry: cardiac procedure data Stat Canada: Health service deliver authority (HSDA) boundary data Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS 2003): heart disease and life style factors data

Different Mapping methods GIS software ARCGIS (ARCVIEW) Mapinfo etc SAS

Good things about ARCVIEW Easy to get data Simple to use Cheap to buy ( It’s a one time purchase, only $513 )

Adding data

The shape file of BC HSDA Add Data

Mapping with ARCVIEW

Join the text file

Match!

Interactive label: label one feature at a time in position chosen by user Dynamic label: Label all feature at once

Add a new dataframe and copy the layer to the dataframe

Use zoom in to select a specific inserted area

Inserted map

Click on Select Feature Tool the attribute table will appear with all of the selected features highlighted blue.

Select the identify and click on the feature of interest A flash screen will appear that shows the attributes associated with that feature

Maps

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