Saving your project
Remember to save early and often! Select FILE/Save Project As “Shipwreck_myinitials”, and place it in the MyWorld>Data>Projects folder. The next time you open MyWorldGIS, at the top of the Data Library list, click the dropdown menu and choose Projects. Your project will be listed in the Projects folder, as “Shipwreck_myintitials.m3vz”.
Creating a new MyWorldGIS layer from the spreadsheet
You will create a layer in MyWorldGIS that shows all the positions mentioned in Sailing to Buy a Wedding Dress. Open the Excel spreadsheet IndustryLog; right click the first field heading for latitude. Choose format cells and choose number and set the decimal value to 6. Click OK. Save the table in the Shipwreck data/Created folder. Save the data table again, but this time, choose Save As and save your file as a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file. See Figure 7. Two warnings follow, for the first, click OK, and for the second, click YES.
Figure 7: Saving a CSV file.
Adding the CSV file to MyWorldGIS to locate known positions of the Industry and the Providence.
Launch MyWorldGIS if you have closed it; choose File/Import Layer. Navigate to where you saved your data table, and click Open. MyWorldGISwill open a preview of it. Check to make sure the correct fields are selected for your Latitude and Longitude values. See Figure 8.
Figure 8: Importing the Industrylog.csv file.
If you are in CONSTRUCT mode, the IndustryLog.csv will be added to the All Data Files folder in alphabetical order. Once you find it, drag it to the Layer List. If you are in VISUALIZE mode, the data table will be added to the top of the Layer List. From the Layer menu, save the layer in the Industrylog/Shipwreckdata/Created folder. See Figure 9.
Figure 9: Saving a layer in MyWorldGIS.
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