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Now that we have a better understanding of the data format, we will go through the process of importing a buried pipeline into MAEviz. These steps will be just the generic steps since the file in the screenshots is only available in the Turkish version of MAEviz, but it will illustrate the process. If you are just going to use the MAEviz sample data, you can skip to the next section.
- To import a pipeline dataset, launch MAEviz if you haven't already done so and go to File-> Import found in the top level menu. You should see a screen similar to the figure below.
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- Click the Next button and you might see a dialog similar to the one below. If there are no extra fields in your dataset, then the dialog will be blank; however, if there are additional fields in your dataset you will be given an opportunity to assign them a more friendly-name (e.g. instead of bldgval you could give it Building Value as the friendly-name). The friendly-names will be stored as metadata with no alterations to the underlying dataset.
- In our case, there are no additional fields to set information for so click the Next button again if you also have a blank dialog. MAEviz will now prompt for a repository to put the dataset in, a descriptive name and a version number. See the figure below for an example.
- When MAEviz was initially installed, it created a repository called MAEviz Demo Data, which can be used to ingest the pipeline data into. Otherwise, choose a different repository or set one up through the MAEviz catalog view before ingesting the pipeline data. Click the Finish button when all fields have been entered.
View Pipeline Data
If you have not already done so, then you will first need to launch MAEviz.