Where to put spatial files?

[mcgregorian1]

We currently have all our spatial data files for the plot (e.g. SCBI roads, streams, etc) in the V drive. I'd like to put them on Github, especially as the V drive is filled with different versions of the same data, when in reality we only need a few for the plot.

Would it be better to add those shapefiles in a public or private repo?

The shapefiles I'd move over are:

• roads
• streams
• plot grid
• deer exclosure
• 10m contour
• biannual survey areas
• N/S divider line for intraannual surveys

[teixeirak]

The first 5 should all be public (and that will be very helpful!). The latter two may be better in the dendro band folder.

[mcgregorian1]

@teixeirak sounds good. The latter two are now in the denrobands folder whereas the first five are in SCBI-ForestGEO-Data.

[teixeirak]

Thanks!

[mcgregorian1]

For the record, I added the scripts for converting plot coordinates to lat/long. They are located with the other general shapefiles for the forestgeo plot

[gonzalezeb]

@mcgregorian1 These R scrips have almost the same information so please combine them and keep only one. Also move the script to the R script folder (since all files in the spatial folder are shape files). When you combine the scrips, I will make some minor modifications. Thanks!

[mcgregorian1]

@gonzalezeb it's done, and I've put it in the scripts folder.

I quickly went through the script and I noticed these two lines, which I think in the one you edited in January you removed the "20*" from the code.

Here's your edit: ## get grid coordinates by multiplying each quadrat coordinate by 20 and adding the corresponding within-quadrat coordinate (lx and ly) sigeo$grid_x <- (sigeo$quadrat_x - 1) sigeo$grid_y <- (sigeo$quadrat_y - 1)

And here's the original code. I wasn't sure what the original code was trying to do. ## get grid coordinates by multiplying each quadrat coordinate by 20 and adding the corresponding within-quadrat coordinate (lx and ly) sigeo$grid_x <- 20 * (sigeo$quadrat_x - 1 sigeo$grid_y <- 20 * (sigeo$quadrat_y - 1) + sigeo$ly

[mcgregorian1]

Also so it's known: to make a plot map based on lat/lon coordinates in R (and spatially projected correctly), the code Valentine and I made with ggplot (in survey_maps) for dendrobands can easily be used; we just have to specify the data as being the output from this conversion script.