This section of the plug-in contains a list of required information that users must provide.
¶ Output Type (vector data only)
This setting is only available when the selected Input Layer is a Vector GIS data.
The dropdown contains the following items:
- Data Layer [default value]
- Reachability
- Municipal Budget
Some settings will become available/unavailable depending on the selected Output Type.
¶ Output Path
Users need to specify where ur-scape's Data folder is located (e.g. c:/ur-scape/Data/). This can be done by either writing/pasting the path onto the input fild or via the Browse button.
¶ Layer Name
This name will be used in ur-scape to identify the selected layer. Layer names should preferably be short and clearly describe the data (e.g. Population Density)
¶ Location
This value indicates which location the data belongs to. It can be the name of a continent, country, region, province, city, neighbourhood, etc. For global data, this value should be set to "World". The chosen location name will appear in ur-scape's Site panel.
The Resolution field will be change depending on whether this value is "World" or others.
¶ Resolution
This dropdown contains a list of predefined resolutions as well as an option to provide a custom resolution. The available items in the dropdown will change depending on the value of Location.
When Location is "World", the following items are available:
- National - 0.5 min (0.00833 degrees)
- Continental - 5 min (0.08333 degrees)
- Global - 25 min (0.416 degrees) [default value]
Otherwise, the following items are available:
- Neighbourhood - 10 x 10 metres
- City - 100 x 100 metres [default value]
- Metropolitan - 300 x 300 metres
- Custom
If Custom is selected, users are able to input their own resolution in metres. Resolution values are recommended to be between 1 and 1000 metres.
¶ Units
Units' dropdown contains a list of predefined units:
- None
- population/SqKm2 (Relative)
- population/ha (Relative)
- AMSL (Absolute)
- Custom
If "Custom" is selected, users are able to input their own units and choose to indicate it as relative via the Relative checkbox.
¶ Date
Users can specify the date of their data via three input fields: year, month and day. Their formats are YYYY, MM and DD, respectivelly (e.g. 2020 / 04 / 23). Year is always required, whereas Month and Day are optional. However, if either Day is filled in, then all three fields are required.