 Welcome to this tutorial we have put together to help you get the most out of CDC iMAP. The British Columbia Conservation Data Center assists in the conservation of our province's biodiversity by collecting and sharing scientific data and information about plants, animals, and ecological communities in BC. The CDC maps locations of species in ecological communities that are at risk in BC. You will be able to access this data using CDC iMAP. Remember that absence of element occurrences, or EOs, in your area of interest does not mean they are non-present. A detailed assessment of the property during the appropriate season is the only way to confirm presence or absence. Please use CDC's BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer tool to find out more about species and ecosystems in BC or to find out what may potentially occur in your area of interest. You can Google iMAP BC to find detailed instructions on basic to advanced functionality of the mapping application in general as I am going to provide a quick overview to help you get the most out of the tool quickly. So when you launch the application this is what you'll see. We have the splash page here which tells you a little bit about the data and the CDC. Importantly you can see, get some contact information if you're having trouble with the application or with the data here. Let's look at the layers tab. So the CDC layers are within the fish, wildlife and plant species. We can expand this a bit although not enough to see the titles unfortunately. We'll be working on that. Let me explain a bit about these layers. First of all I'll zoom in to get them to turn on as they are scale dependent. Just take a moment to load. Now the publicly available occurrences is a majority of our data and this is all the locations of species in ecological communities at risk that we have mapped. I'll jump down to this extirpated and historical layer. These are locations, element occurrences that have not been confirmed in 40 years or more. That doesn't mean they don't exist there anymore if they're historical. However we don't have confirmation of them still being there. Finally we have the masked secured layer. This layer essentially tells you that somewhere within this polygon is a secured location element occurrence. To get information about this we have to determine if you have a need to know. As it says here you need to contact CDCdata at gov.bc.ca and provide us with your project. A precise area of interest and why you need the information and we'll determine whether that's the case. Turn these back on. If we expand one of these layers with this arrow we can see we have some options here. One of the interesting ones that I'll show you is we can turn the labels on or off or we can change what labels are seeing. If we choose customize labels and if we would rather see at a quick glance what the English name of that species is or ecological community we can see it that way. I'm going to reset that back to default though. Finally really importantly here is the metadata URL. This will take you to an explanation of what the layer is representing as well as explaining the fields that you will see in the attribute information. Close that. Even if you don't know what you're looking at we can expand the legend here so we can see what these various colors mean. We've also preloaded some other layers that may be of interest to you as a user. Different administrative boundaries as well as land ownership and the biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification layers and eco sections as well. Now one other thing to note at the beginning here is as we set up what we want to view we have different options for basemaps so we can choose imagery which is helpful. Topography and light gray. I'm going to click it back to streets. You can also set your projection here. You have different options. I'll leave that at the default for now and we'll move on. We'll have a look at the navigation tab up here. You've got your usual suspects for moving around the map. Add day to BC layers. This is very helpful if a layer that you would like to view isn't in our preloaded layer. A couple that I would suggest if you're interested in fish wildlife and plant species you can browse through these layers. The wildlife species inventory is useful if you're looking for all species data not restricted to those at risk. These are observation data. There's a lot more in here for ecosystems. Another one you may be interested in would be the critical habitat layer. We can just search for that. Critical habitat. You can add this layer. Note that this is a federal layer. It is not a provincial layer. However, we host it here so you can use it in your analyses. If you, for whatever reason, close your layer list and need it back, you can choose this button. We have a quick print. Quick identifies on a particular polygon but we'll get into that a bit later. Zooming in these various fashions. Zoom to features as location or a layer. I'm going to show you this search window because it's quite useful if we are interested in a particular area. We can search for that and it does come up with useful search results along here. I'm going to zoom to say maybe the Cowichan Lake here. Now, if I decide this is an area of interest that I'm going to be going back to, I can save this as a bookmark to return to at a later date. We can click on the bookmark tab. Bookmark the current extent and name it whatever we want. Cowichan 1. Now we have this as a bookmark location. If we want to browse around the area but then want to return to that, we can use this little bookmark tool and go back to Cowichan 1. There we go. Finally, on this ribbon, we can upload spatial data. As you can see, there's a lot of supported file types. I'm going to upload a shape file. I have my Kelowna test area of interest. We'll open that. This is just a randomly drawn polygon. Here we can adjust the transparency of what we're seeing so we can see what's underneath it. Proceed. There we go. This is just a randomly drawn created shape file from previously. That I previously created. Now let's go on to the markup ribbon along here. As you can see, you can draw in the usual fashions. Once you've drawn, you can edit those or erase it or clear the whole, all the things you've drawn. Add a grid, clear the grid, and plot coordinates. Another thing I want to point out is that as you start working in this IMAP, you will see windows start to build up. You can just close those and we can close the search results so that we just have our basic layers showing. The export tab can be used to print a map. You can set your title. It will have the usual things like legend and north arrow. Export will just export the map view that you're looking at. The geotiff, you can export the map you're looking at in a geo-referenced image so you can bring that into other applications such as ArcMap. If you have been drawing on your map with graphics, you can also save those markups as a shape file, which is very useful. Now let's move on to the interesting stuff using the find ribbon. There's the usual distance and area measurements here. Double click and you can see that's 4,000 meters. Let's start it over here. The CDC quick select filter is really a very simple selection or filter. You can only select by one attribute at a time. Let's see what it looks like. If we want to select, for example, one particular species or community or a particular taxonomic group, this would be the way to do it. I'll hit next. I'm only interested in certain, let's see, certain species. For example, Alaska, Hollyfern, let's pick that. Here are the results that we see for that. I'm going to go into what you can do with these results in a little bit. For now, we're just going to move on to try a different kind of query. I'm not going to spend time on these two buttons here. The query and the filter are both SQL based options you have. If you're comfortable in that, that's great. You can go ahead and add multiple criteria to a query. If you want to know more, I would go to the general IMAP application instructions, and they'll help you with that. What I want to do is show you some more basic quick tools to get the information you need. Let's go back to our previous extent, which is a little more meaningful, back to our find, and I'm going to just close these two windows here. Let's look at these tools. If you're zoomed into an area of interest that you know the general area, you want to just click on the map and draw the area you're interested in, I suggest using this find data. If we just want to know what's on a particular point location, we can click that and see what occurs right here. There's just American Badger. However, we can also use these options of enabling buffering. If we want to know what's within three kilometers of the point we're clicking on the map, or even draw a polygon and want to know what's within a few kilometers of that, we can add these options. I'm going to move to an area, let's see, there we go. I want to know what's in this area. It looks really messy and it's hard for me to really determine what's in that area. So I'm going to enable my buffering, I'm going to close my results there, enable buffering and choose three kilometers as the distance I'm interested in and I'd like to see what that looks like on the map and continue. Now we need to set our identifiable layers. Now by default, they're all selected. Now we don't want to see everything that's in the area, we want to concentrate on, in this case, the CDC data, as well as any others you've uploaded, for example, the critical habitat or wildlife species inventory. But I'm going to start by clearing all the layers and then only add the ones that I'm interested in seeing. Now it's telling us here to draw a shape on the map and double click when finished and double click. It's then buffered that by three kilometers so we can see it jumped out a bit from where I actually drew. And it can take a little while sometimes to get all the results, but as you can see we have 97 in that area of interest. Now you need to note that every time you do a new search or identify it will replace what is your selected, these are your selected records with a new set. So if you move on to do another selection you're going to lose all of these. Now you can, however, save this identify selected set by going here and saving your results. So we could call this a random Okanagan polygon search. That way you can go back to them at a later date. Now I'm going to move on to a new spatial query, a new tool that we've created recently called the spatial query. This should walk you step by step through the process of selecting by an area of interest. And this does include the same kind of idea as you can do here. This is just a quicker step if you're just going to draw on the map. And after that I will show you what you can do with the results that you get. So I'm going to close my identifiable layers, close my buffer. I'm going to disable this buffering in case it starts confusing things. And as you can see we've lost our window here. I'm going to go back to the navigation and view our layer list again. It kind of just helps me a little bit. So we'll look at the spatial query. So this should talk you through step by step but we'll go through it. Select the layers that you want to query. So here you can get the results from multiple layers. You can also select any others you're interested in in your list. Next. And selecting your intersect method. So you can get all the results for your current extent. You can get results for an uploaded layer. And this is where I'm going to use the shapefile that we uploaded as an example. Or selected feature. And this would mean if you are interested in a selected polygon from another layer in the list available, then we can use that for example by a particular park or municipality. Or you can draw graphics as we did up above. I'm going to use uploaded layer. And we've only uploaded the ones. It will be the Kelowna test AOI. Next. And that will think for a moment. And here we have our results. And as you can see the results go up and up as it searches through each layer available. Let's just navigate over to where our shapefile is. And I don't think I have it turned on. So we'll turn that on. And you can see all of these red dots are where we have selected element occurrence. So now let's have a look at what we can do with the results we have. We'll go back to these 71. So record by record we could zoom on this and it will, or sorry, click on that and it will zoom into that actual record. Or we can view all the details of that element occurrence. So you can see there's a lot of information there. We can open up BC species and ecosystems explorer. So this is kind of cool. If you click on that it will actually run a search with our other tool. And give you these results and you can refer to the reports for a lot more information about that particular element. I'm going to close this though. Run a CDC report. So if we click on this it will return a PDF of all of the information that you see here in a reader friendly format. So that's useful. I'm going to close this viewing of the one record though. We can go up here to other menu options. Switch to table format. So if we do that we can see the same information in a table format as opposed to list. So these are the three layers. From here the only difference between the list view is that you can export to Excel. I'll go through the other options in a moment but I'm a little more comfortable in the list view. Other options include you can actually buffer on the selected occurrences, export these results to a CSV, export all these results to a shapefile. So this is obviously very useful and it will create as many shapefiles as you have layers that are in your results. So in this case we likely have three layers. So this is basically accessible, extirpated and historical and the masked. Of course the masked layer will only result in a polygon with no attributes. Now as mentioned when you do a new query, spatial query, you will have different results. So to save the ones you have currently you can save them here. You can combine the results with another search you've done. Or from here you can run the species and ecosystem report which will summarize all of the selected occurrences you have currently selected. I'm going to show you just a couple more interesting things with this new find, sorry the new spatial query. If we do want to do a search using graphics, we can choose the graphic we want to use to search by. It prompts us to draw a polygon on the map so we can do so, double click, geometry captured, we'll go next. And then we can buffer it or not, I'm not going to. Then we can add more polygons so we can actually create a number of areas of interest which is kind of cool. Next I'm not going to buffer that and then I'm going to submit those areas. And there we go. Now finally I want to do the last query of a selected polygon from another layer. So I'm going to close these results. I'm going to turn off that Kelowna layer and let's say we wanted to select by Provincial Park. I'm going to turn off all of these other layers that I don't want to see right now and turn on the Provincial Parks layer. So Okanagan Mountain Park, let's say we want to know all of the element occurrences mapped within Okanagan Mountain Park. I'm going to make sure that in my identifiable layers that I have that layer selected. Again we'll clear them all and just make sure that we have Provincial Park selected and identify there. Ok so there we have Okanagan Mountain Park now selected. I'm going to use my spatial query. Actually let's turn on our CDC layers now so we can just see what we're looking at. I'm going to go back to the spatial query. Select those layers I'm interested in getting results for next. And our intersect method this time will be selected features. So as you can see it's now just selecting everything within the Okanagan Mountain Park. And we have 33 results for that. And we can go ahead and do what we want with those results. And that concludes the overview of the CDC IMAP application. I hope you learned a tip or two from the video. And if you need help please contact CDCdata at GOV.BC.ca. And remember to use the BC species and ecosystems explorer tools well to get more information about species and communities in BC. Thank you for listening.