Add Layer

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Clicking on Add will open the window below (Figure 1). Depending on your data format, you can upload a Table, a Raster or a Shapefile. You then need to select a Category (choose that is closest to your type of data, this is only required to store the layer). You can optionally provide a Description of your dataset. Finally select your file and click Upload.

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Table

Make sure that your table meets the following standards:

Format: Only a semicolon delimited file ('*.csv') is valid.

Headers: the first line of the table is considered as headers, which have to be denoted correctly as described below.

Coordinate Columns: Latitude and Longitude columns are required.

- acceptable latitude column name: Latitude, Lat, Y, North, Northing

- acceptable longitude column name: Longitude, Lon, X, East, Easting

 NOTE:If the second line in the file contains null value (empty string) corresponding column considered to be of type string.

Example (VAR1 and VAR2 are arbitrary names)

INDEX LATITUDE LONGITUDE VAR1 VAR2
1 10.1 10.1 1 2
2 15.01 15.01 2 0

Coverage

  Format: Only one band *.tif format is valid. If coverage has more than one band only the first band is taken into account.
  

Shapefile

 Format: Only compressed zip file is valid.
 Contents: The zip file must contain *.dpf, *.prj, *.sbn, *.shp, *.shx, *.sbx files. 
 NOTE: Make sure files are directy in the zip folder.

Example:

Contents of zip file

Valid projection

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984 Datum: D_WGS_1984 Prime Meridian: Greenwich Angular Unit: Degree EPSG:4326

 For more information check WGS84