topic Newbie needs help with opening shapefiles in ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Questions

Newbie needs help with opening shapefiles

CraigPlath — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:10:22 GMT

I've searched and can't come up with much, so hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.

I'm trying to open files such as these here:
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/climaps/climaps.pl?directive=order_details&subrnum=&region=Lower%2048%20States&filename=temp05c

So I've downloaded all of those into a folder, and also renamed the .prj file to match the others. It opens, but all i see is a very tiny version of the shape.

I don't really know what I'm doing here. i suspect the issue is with that .prj file, but can someone help me out? I'm running ArcGIS explorer 2.0.0.1750.

Thanks

Re: Newbie needs help with opening shapefiles

MarkBockenhauer — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:34:03 GMT

Try the attached .prj file. rename it from .txt to .prj

mark

Re: Newbie needs help with opening shapefiles

CraigPlath — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:52:55 GMT

Thanks, now it's overlayed across the lower 48 as expected.

I was expecting it to show different colors for the different grids, like here:
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/climaps/temp05c.pdf

I realize now I'll probably need to set that formatting, but don't see how exactly. Is that possible with the Explorer Desktop? Can someone point me to a tutorial about this? I can change color for ALL data, but can't seem to specify different colors for different criteria.

I appreciate the help.

Re: Newbie needs help with opening shapefiles

CraigPlath — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:04:50 GMT

Ah, I see. You create queries, then format the results of the queries.