Create a Free Account

Developers are required to create a free eRAMS account in order to build and publish geowebpages.  For detailed instructions on creating an eRAMS account please visit the Getting Started page.

Login

The “Create” environment can be accessed here (account required): http://erams.com/resource/create 

Log into the system using your eRAMS username and password on the upper right corner of the webpage.

Build

After logging in, options are available in the bottom panel of the canvas to upload spatial layers, tables and documents, as well as information from FTP or HTTP resources.

Enter the following information to create your customized web page:

• Data/Information Type: This menu is used to broadly categorize the resource, options include boundary, climate, geology, hydrology, land use, population, water or other.
• Organization: Select a corresponding sector such as academic, public utility, NGO, or private sector.
• Data: Developers can upload both geospatial informations as well as word documents and tables
  • Click “Geospatial Layers” tab to upload feature (i.e. point, line, or point, including shaefile formats) and raster datasets. You can upload a compressed (zipped) file that contains all files for a given shapefile layer.
  • Tables/Docs: click the “Table” and “Doc” buttons to upload documents that will be made available in the resource page.
• Metadata: add metadata for the resource including title, creator/submitter, purpose, keywords, spatial domain, citation, and description. These information will be used to populate the resource documentation information that appears in the right panel of the published resource page.
• Customize: developers can modify colors, images and other properties of the published information
  • Resource Colors – change the background and font color of the right panel in the published resource page by clicking the boxes and selecting a new color.
  • Images – to include an image in the documentation materials in the left panel in the published resource page, click the “Edit” button and then select the red “+” icon from the submenu bar.

Publish

Once you are satisfied with your resources, click “Create”. This will generate a URL for your resource.

Add Time Series Data

After you have published a resource page, follow these steps to attach time series data to features in your dataset:

1. Click the “Map” tab in the left dashboard.
2. Open Project Layers.
3. Under Geospatial Layers, locate the folder with the title of the resource you just created. The spatial layer associated with the resource is organized under this folder.
4. Click the title of the spatial layer to open the layer menu. Select the “Time Series Data” option.
5. Upload a table of time series in “comma separated format”, which must include a “gid” and “a “date field”. The “gid” field is used to link the time series data with each feature in the spatial layer. The data field is used for analysis and visualization of time series.

View Attributes

View the table and graph the attributes using the time series options.  The published resource webpage will include an option to view features in the spatial layers with time series data.

1. Select a feature with time series data from the map in the left panel or from the table in the right panel, and click time series from the feature identification menu on the map.
2. Options in the time series window will provide access to the table, a statistical summary of the attributes, or plotting of the data.