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Let's start out describing the building data. The building data for MAEviz needs to be in ESRI's Shapefile format. Below you will find the column names and column types that MAEviz requires. Only the column types (e.g. integer, double, string, etc) must explicitly match because when we ingest the dataset, MAEviz will ask you to map your columns to the columns that MAEviz needs. For example, your structure type information might be in a column called s_type and MAEviz expects it to be called str_type so you can tell MAEviz that s_type maps to str_type and no changes need to be made to your dataset. I've categorized the columns into three categories: Very Important, Less Important and Least Important.
Building Columns:
Very Important
- STRUCT_TYP
Less Important
- OCC_TYPE
- APPR_BLDG
- SQ_FOOT
- DWELL_UNIT
- CONT_VAL
- STR_TYP2
- EFACILITY
_Least Important
- PAR_ID
- PARID_CARD
- BLDG_IDSTRUCT_TYP
- STR_PROB
- YEAR_BUILT
- NO_STORIES
- A_STORIES
- B_STORIES
- BSMT_TYPESQ_FOOT
- GSQ_FOOTOCC_TYPE
- OCC_DETAIL
- MAJOR_OCC
- BROAD_OCC
- APPR_BLDG
- REPL_CST
- STR_CST
- NSTRA_CST
- NSTRD_CST
- DGN_LVL
- CONT_VAL
- EFACILITY
- DWELL_UNIT
- STR_TYP2
- OCC_TYP2
- TRACT_ID
Now, it's ok if you don't have all of the above information for your buildings since the more detail you have about your building means you can be more explicit in mapping your fragilities to your buildings in the damage analysis and in some cases, the more advanced analysis will start requiring some of those attributes (e.g. estimating structural damage cost requires the APPR_BLDG column since the cost of the structure needs to be known). However, all of these columns need to be present, even if they contain no data because MAEviz will expect all of the columns to be there. One thing to note, some of these columns will be needed for more advanced analyses (e.g. estimating structural damage cost requires the APPR_VAL column since the cost of the structure is a required input)In the next version of MAEviz, this restriction of all columns being present, even with no data, should be eliminated.
Fragility Data
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