BASE Editor Module : Commands : Create Source Areas
 

Create Source Areas

 

Menu

Tools > Features > Create Source Areas

Generate one or more Source Area polygons automatically from the source information attribute of a combined surface. The source attribute can be selected from a surface layer, such as the “Contributor” layer, in string format. When finished, areas will be created to represent each data source that contributed to the surface.

Interface

The Create Source Areas command uses the following dialog box.

Option

Description

Source attribute

The attribute in the source surface that identifies the data source from which each node was populated. The Contributor attribute is used by default and cannot be changed.

Output Layer Name

The feature layer on which to create the new area features.

Area Object Acronym

The object acronym to assign to the new area features.

Map Attribute

Parse Attribute

Procedure