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Now, it's ok if you don't have all of the above information for your buildings; however, the more detail you have about your building means you can be more explicit in mapping your fragilities to your buildings for the damage analysis. Only in the more advanced analyses will MAEviz start requiring some of those other attributes (e.g. estimating structural damage cost requires the APPR_BLDG column since the cost of the structure needs to be known). HoweverOne stipulation, all of these columns do need to be present in the dataset, even if they contain no data because MAEviz will expect all of the columns to be there upon ingestiong. In the next version of MAEviz, this restriction of all columns being present, even with no data, should be eliminated.
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