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Assembling Project Folders and You

*NOTE*
This tutorial was made based on the garfield county project, if you are using a different county, then just substitute your county's name in for Garfield anytime that it is used.

 

This will guide you through the process of assembling the project files that you have downloaded. The files are seperated because of the satelite images immense size, it must be seperated because of size constraints placed upon us. Right now, you should have downloaded and extracted two folders. One should be titled Garfield Projects, and the other should be titled Garfield. The following will guide you through the process of putting the project folder back together.

 

  1. First, go into the folder named Garfield, this contains the satelite image. This folder should be located inside your My Documents Folder if you followed the directions so far. Accessing the My Documents folder is pretty easy if you are using Windows XP, simply click the start button, and then close to the upper right of the menu, a choice should be My Documents; Click This.
  2. You Should now be viewing a window similar to this:
  3. Double click and the folder that is named "Garfield". It has been highlighted in red in the picture so that it is easier for you to view. The highlighted effect will not be present in your actual folder.

  4. Now you should be viewing something like this:

    Once you are in the folder, locate the file that starts with "naip" and that ends with ".sid" It's full name should be what is listed below in the table. The table below lists what each image file should be named. Once you find the file, right click the file, and select the option labled "copy"

    County File Name
    Garfield naip1-1_ok047_2003.sid
    Texas naip1-1_ok139_2003.sid
    Woods naip1-1_ok151_2003.sid

  5. Once you are sure that you have clicked the copy button, you can now close this folder by clicking the "x" button as you normally would to close any other window.

  6. Now you need to reopen the My Documents folder as you did in step one.
  7. Once in the folder again, we are going to open the Folder called Garfield Projects this time, it is the folder that is highlighted in blue.
  8. Once in the folder, you should see something very similar to this:

    Open the folder named "County_Map", it is the folder that is highlighted in aqua in the image above. Once you are in the folder, it should be empty.

  9. Once you are in the folder, Right Click anywhere in the white area within the folder, and select the "Paste" Option.

    Once you have selected to paste the file in that folder, you should see something that looks like this within the folder:


    Once the file is done copying, make sure that it is correctly named, otherwise, it may not work. It should be named "naip1-1_ok047_2003.sid" If it is not named this EXACTLY, then right click the file, and select "Rename" from the options, and name the file to this exactly as it is typed above.

Once the file is in the correct folder, and named correctly, you are done re-constructing the lesson folder. You may now close this window.