This CD-ROM contain a digital version of Open File 4201 Dewar Lakes, Nunavut _______________________________________________________________ About the CD-ROM ---------------- Open files are preliminary products and have not gone through the GSC formal publication process. 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 \Map# - Open file map \Base - Topographic data sets \Bgeol - Geological data sets \Shp - File format \Map# - Open file map \Base - Topographic data sets \Bgeol - Geological data sets \Doc - Text files (.txt) of descriptive notes, references, map credits, legend - Pdf files (.pdf) of descriptive notes, references, legend \Jpeg - Folder containing jpeg files (.jpg) of all figures and open file maps \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: \BGEOL bedrock geology \BASE base (topographic) data Example "data type" file names: bas - All base linear and point features, not including hydrology features bor - Border of map geo - All geological unit polygons segmented with shorelines hyd - All hydrology features lin - All geological linear features ntl - Neatline of map msc - All miscellaneous arcs and points pnt - All geological point features txt - All annotation on map face 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 this CD-ROM should be addressed to: M.R. St-Onge Continental Geoscience Division Geological Survey of Canada Natural Resources Canada 615 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E9 tel.: 613-995-4935 fax: 613-943-5318 e-mail: mstonge@nrcan.gc.ca _______________________________________________________________