1. Creating a County ArcMap with Fiscal Year Conservation Practice Locations David Hoover ASTC, Idaho 2007 DC Meeting

2. Uses of a Conservation Practice Location Map  District Information  Workload Analysis  Supervisor Information

3. Process Steps  Obtain Practice Data in PRS  Import and Manipulate in Excel  Display in ArcMap

4. Start PRS

5. Go to “Tools”

6. Under “Quality Assurance Tools” go to “Data Viewer 2007”

7. Under “NCP Reports” go to “Custom Query”

8. Select “Idaho”, County Name, “Applied”, and “Latitude and Longitude”, and then hit “Download”

9. After a “short” while, open the file You will now be in Excel

10. The first Excel screen will be one of a pivot table; you can skip this step and go to the “Sheet2” worksheet

11. Sheet2 contains all of the FY07 conservation application data

12. There will also be a column labeled “latlong” but it is just a single column

13. Select this column by clicking at the top

14. Select Data-Text to Columns to divide this into two columns at the comma delimiter

15. Select “Delimited” as the file type

16. Check “Comma” and the delimiter type

17. Accept the defaults and click “Finish”

18. A new column will be created

19. Type in “lat” and “long” into the header row

20. Highlight the two columns and select Format-Cells

21. Select Number and set the decimal places to 4

22. Save the final Excel file under the county name

23. Start a new ArcMap project Add some basic reference data

24. Select Tools-Add XY Data

25. Browse to select the county Excel just created Set the “X Field” to “long” and the “Y Field” to “lat” Edit the “Coordinate System” information to match the data on the base map

26. Once the new shape file is created, all practices will be displayed!

27. Right click on the map layer then select “Open Attribute Table”

28. Under the “Options” tab at the bottom, choose “Select by Attributes”

29. Build a specific attribute query, such as by program, by a specific practice or suite of practices, or by resource concern – basically anything that is in the PRS download

30. After the query is made, certain rows in the attribute table will be highlighted. Close the attribute table. Right click on the map layer and select Data-Export Data. Export the selected attribute set to a new shape file and display.

31. Find this training set on the Idaho NRCS GIS page.