This CD-ROM contains a digital version of Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4433, Sheet 1 of 2 (CD-ROM) Blanchfield Lake Baffin Island Nunavut Published 2003 NOTE: Open files are preliminary products and have not gone through the GSC formal publication process. _____________________________________________ About the CD-ROM ---------------- This CD-ROM contains several sets of digital data files. ArcExplorer Installation ------------------------- Navigate to the install program, ae2setup.exe, in the "apps" directory of this CD-ROM.Double-click the ae2setup.exe file and follow the on-screen instructions. Getting Started --------------- To view the data sets, start ArcExplorer and from the File menu, click Open Project. Navigate to the "data" directory on the CD-ROM and open the plotmaps.aep project file. Directory Structure ------------------- The CD-ROM is divided into the following directories: \meta - Metadata for the open file maps \data - Data in a variety of formats (see below) \e00 - File format \of4433 - Open file map \base - Topographic data sets \geology - Geological data sets \shp - File format \of4433 - Open file map \base - Topographic data sets \geology - Geological data sets \doc - Pdf files (.pdf) of descriptive notes, references, legend \apps - ArcExplorer software can be installed from this location - A free data viewer, ArcExplorer, is provided in this directory - See http://www.esri.com/ for more details - Double click on the *.EXE file and follow the installation instructions Directory Names ------------------------ Standardized "file type" directory names: \e00 E00 files \shp SHP files Example "data type" directory names: \geology bedrock geology \base base (topographic) data Example "data type" file names: bas - All base linear and point features, not including hydrology features geo - All geological unit polygons segmented with shorelines hyd - All hydrology features lin - All geological linear features ntl - Neatline of map pnt - All geological point features Documentation --------------------- \readme.txt - general overview (this file) \lisezmoi.txt - aperçu \citation.txt - recommended citation \licence.txt - disclaimer, copyright, and licencing information Data Files ---------- All data are provided in a variety of formats Vector: E00 - Arc/Info ASCII interchange format files allow Arc/Info coverages to be read by Arc/Info on all platforms - This format is also supported by many other GIS packages Shape - DBF database format is a standard format for reading data into GIS software Each data subdirectory contains regular format files. The regular files can be accessed directly from the CD-ROM. .aep - an ArcExplorer file _______________________________________________________________ Assistance ---------- Questions, suggestions, and comments regarding the geological information contained in the data sets should be addressed to the contact person who is knowledgable of the data set, as noted in the metadata file. Questions, suggestions, and comments regarding the digital format, distribution or cartographic products should be addressed to the contact person who is responsible for distribution, as noted in the metadata file. _______________________________________________________________