Latest Contributions by PaulLefebvre

I have a set of ~300 fixed agricultural field polygons in the Amazon for which I have 3 timed events or four historical land cover classes - year of removal of original forest for pasture, year of conversion from pasture to agriculture, and year in which double-cropping began. I am trying to figure out how to enable time on this layer so I can put it in a storymap and allow others to browse the data to get historical information about specific parcels. The data are currently in a shapefile format with an ID column containing a parcel number in each row, and year columns from 1976 to 2014 with a class label of 1-4 (forest/pasture/soy/double) for each parcel in each year; I also have a version with only 4 columns: parcel number, year of deforestation, year of pasture-ag conversion, and year of intensification. All the documentation I find for enabling time on features seems to refer to tracking a single time event, or a begin-end date, but not 3 separate events. I've also thought of rasterizing the whole mess and displaying it with the vector parcel map overlaid and labelled... Is it possible to do what I want using the built-in time tools? ... View more

There needs to be a way to set RGB, HSV, or CMYK as the default color scheme in the Color Selector window. Often while working on a map I need to make my own custom colors, perhaps to match colors in another layer or label. I tend to think about color best in RGB since I was trained in Image Processing, so I'll check the values of the color I want and  try to remember the RGB values for it while I open Color Selector, then I'll start typing in my values only to find that the Color Selector window has come up looking for HSV values. By the time I click the RGB tab and start over I've often forgotten the RGB values I wanted to use and have to go back and check them again. Allowing the user to set which color scheme they like to work with and know that it won't change would save lots of time and patience! ... View more