How to Customise MOSAIC by Importing Data Files — Transcript

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1. 0:00welcome to mccony's Mosaic
2. 0:02in this video I'm going to show you how
3. 0:04we can import a spatial data set into
4. 0:06Mosaic this feature is great for those
5. 0:09of you who already have a large data set
6. 0:10of sites Properties or assets that are
7. 0:13in data tables
8. 0:14but you want to view spatially and
9. 0:16overlay them with mosaic's common data
10. 0:18layers
11. 0:19once you've signed up to Mosaic Pro
12. 0:21you'll get access to the Mosaic
13. 0:23workbench toolkit by clicking on the
14. 0:25workbench icon
15. 0:27if you are a first-time Mosaic Pro
16. 0:29subscriber you get a 30-day free trial
17. 0:31and use with no lock-in contracts to
18. 0:33Trail mosaic
19. 0:38Mosaic workbench was designed to give
20. 0:40you control over customizing Mosaic to
21. 0:42your bespoke needs there are three types
22. 0:45of data sets that Mosaic will recognize
23. 0:47and they are as a CSV file a geojason
24. 0:50file and a KML file if your data files
25. 0:54are in Excel you can easily convert into
26. 0:56CSV file by changing the format from
27. 0:59Excel to CSV Mosaic will need you make
28. 1:02sure your data sets are clean from empty
29. 1:04Fields repeated data sets and merged
30. 1:06cells
31. 1:07you may need to data clean your file so
32. 1:10that it is in a neat and orderly format
33. 1:12with columns and rows filled out
34. 1:14what is also important is that your file
35. 1:16has a spatial location such as latitude
36. 1:19and longitude
37. 1:20this allows Mosaic to spatially plot
38. 1:23your data set on the digital map
39. 1:25Mosaic also has an upload limit of 5
40. 1:27megabytes per data set
41. 1:29if your data set is too large for this
42. 1:31you can either remove unwanted data
43. 1:33columns or rows or break down into
44. 1:36smaller sizes
45. 1:37in this sample I have a data set of my
46. 1:39property developments in an Excel file I
47. 1:42have checked to make sure that my file
48. 1:43is clean and ready for upload if at any
49. 1:46time you get stuck in this process check
50. 1:48out our troubleshooting section in the
51. 1:50downloadable user guide when I'm happy
52. 1:52that I have cleaned my data set and it
53. 1:55is ready I'm going to Simply drop my
54. 1:57data file into the Mosaic import window
55. 1:59Mosaic will now automatically read my
56. 2:02data set I'm going to give this dataset
57. 2:04a name description icon and select a
58. 2:07color scheme of my choosing I'm also
59. 2:09going to check the data set fields and
60. 2:11make any amendments or edits that I any
61. 2:13need to do
62. 2:22now that has been done mosaic has a
63. 2:24checklist and when all is ready I'm
64. 2:26going to import and Mosaic will now show
65. 2:28this data set in my workbench in my
66. 2:30workbench I now click on my new Mosaic
67. 2:33layer and spatially visualize it in
68. 2:35Mosaic where I can overlay it with
69. 2:37mosaic's common data sets it really is
70. 2:39that easy from here I can customize
71. 2:41again at any time by editing my icons
72. 2:43color scheme and data fields or by
73. 2:46creating categories
74. 2:48to find out more advanced features or to
75. 2:50troubleshoot issues you may have simply
76. 2:52download our user guide direct from
77. 2:54workbench or contact us here at Team
78. 2:56Mosaic and we'll help you get going