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Create a BRAT project for watersheds in BC
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layer name changes #12

Open smnorris opened 11 months ago

smnorris commented 11 months ago

Change the Name (but leave lyrName unchanged) to user friendly display text for the following layers in the project file:

Only a few layers but it could come direct from the catalogue api / bcdata

smnorris commented 11 months ago

Yes, bcdata already pulls the catalogue description. It is not always particularly revealing, but better than nothing:

$ bcdata info WHSE_FOREST_VEGETATION.VEG_COMP_LYR_R1_POLY --indent 2 | head
{
  "name": "WHSE_FOREST_VEGETATION.VEG_COMP_LYR_R1_POLY",
  "count": 5973855,
  "description": "This instantiated table is a join between VEG_COMP_POLY and VEG_COMP_LYR_R1_VW on FEATURE_ID.",
  "schema": [
    {
      "data_type": "NUMBER",
      "column_comments": "Provincially unique identifier for an instance of a spatial feature.",
      "column_name": "FEATURE_ID",
      "short_name": "FEATURE_ID",
smnorris commented 11 months ago

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$ bcdata info WHSE_FOREST_VEGETATION.BEC_BIOGEOCLIMATIC_POLY --indent 2 | head
{
  "name": "WHSE_FOREST_VEGETATION.BEC_BIOGEOCLIMATIC_POLY",
  "count": 15666,
  "description": null,
  "schema": [
    {
      "short_name": "FTRCLSSSK",
      "column_name": "FEATURE_CLASS_SKEY",
      "column_comments": "The unique key assigned to a Feature Class by the Ministry of Forests. The Feature Class Skey value for Biogeoclimatic Polygon is 435.",
      "data_type": "NUMBER",
smnorris commented 11 months ago

The catalogue web page does have a description and detailed purpose. Maybe just a link in the metadata is best. https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bec-map