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Determining Climate Risks with NASA Earthdata Cloud
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add 02_Geospatial_data.md and 01_Geospatial_data_formats.md (issue #64) #75

Closed marielaraj closed 4 months ago

marielaraj commented 5 months ago

I am not sure how to add the data format examples. For example, for a shapefile I put an image showing the names of all the associated files?

dhavide commented 5 months ago

I am not sure how to add the data format examples. For example, for a shapefile I put an image showing the names of all the associated files?

Yes, that's a pretty good question. I gather all the files in a shapefile are binary-encoded, so we can't meaningfully show the lines of any of the files. It would be nice to have a visual representations of the collection of files that constitute a single "shapefile" (the terminology is misleading in that a "shapefile" seems to need several files).

The image below is extracted from GISGeography. image I find this image a little confusing; it still doesn't clarify for me what a "shapefile" actually is. If you can find an example of a small, single "shapefile" — with the appropriate bundle of mandatory files & perhaps some optional files — and screenshot an image like the one above, that, I think, would do the job.

Let me know if this answers your question, @marielaraj .

marielaraj commented 4 months ago

@dhavide I´ve already updated the document with your comments and added the 01_Coordinate_systems.md file.