topic Re: Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data) in Data Management Questions

Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data)

Noah_McLaughlin — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:36:14 GMT

Hello fellow mappers.

I'm trying to join some downloaded CANVEC data (canada vector data sheets) to the associated style file that is given along with the vector data.... But as where the data has been butchered (fields removed and ultered), I am unable to join on the respected code field.

Has anyone dealt with the data recently, and ran into this same issue?

Does anyone have a relatively quick work around?

Thanks,

Re: Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data)

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:52:14 GMT

are you on this page ?? Prepackaged data sets | Natural Resources Canada

do note the codes have changed between the new and the old

and then there is required read ... http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/canvec/doc/CanVec_en_Specifications.pdf

and the root page

Free Data - GeoGratis | Natural Resources Canada

Re: Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data)

Noah_McLaughlin — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:37:05 GMT

I downloaded my data from:

Geospatial Data Extraction | Natural Resources Canada

Re: Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data)

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:56:25 GMT

should be the same data, unless there is difference between the prepackaged and the interactive (prepackaged link is just to the right of the search button which takes you to my links)

Re: Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data)

Noah_McLaughlin — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 16:18:35 GMT

I am aware the codes have changed, which made the data unable to be linked as before, to the style file (ill attach it). My question is... is there a quick way to link the feature classes to the style file without updating the codes 1 by 1?

Re: Has anybody been working with Canvec data recently? (Canada data)

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:16:13 GMT

Don't do much stuff with styles, so that would make you the expert... but I am sure you are aware of this

Managing style contents—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop and if the CanVec data did a huge change, then one would presume that either the translation would be painless, or they forgot to include something with their data. It might be worth linking to them as well.