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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Data stewards from several of the Divisions (DWRM, DEAR, DARM, and DWM) and the CA/MapDirect Team have been working together with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">OTIS/GIS Section for over a year to refine the symbology used to represent many of their point data layers. This effort was motivated by the need to graduate from the traditional simple markers (circles, squares, triangles, diamonds, etc) to a set of improved symbols that represent the underlying data in a more meaningful way.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Over the next several weeks the symbology updates will occur in stages as follows:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">For ArcGIS (DataCatalog and DataMiner) desktop users, a gis-l will be issued a week in advance to keep you informed as to which layers are to be updated. </FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">New symbols will be applied to five</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">existing layers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> at a time, on the Monday following the gis-l notification. A follow-up gis-l will be sent apprising users of the completion of the symbology update</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> for DataCatalog/DataMiner</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Users are requested to make a note of these dates and update their saved projects accordingly. Please note that the changes apply only to the symbology of the layers and not to their spatial content. The layers will be available as before from their original categories in DataCatalog and DataMiner.</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">These symbology changes will be carried over to the display of the layers in CA/MapDirect Web Mapping Application concurrently. These updates will be documented in the ‘What’s New” window under the “Help” banner in the CA/MapDirect welcome page.</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">OTIS/GIS Section</FONT></SPAN></P>
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