I have received a CSV file as part of my Email Alert, how do I add it as a layer in ArcView?
– Re-name the extension of the CSV file to .txt – Open ArcView – Click on ‘Tables’ in the Project window and select ‘Add’ – Change ‘List Files of Type’ to ‘Delimited Text (*.txt)’ and navigate to the .txt file, select and click OK – Select the View window – Go to ‘View’ on the Main Menu > ‘Add Event Theme’ – The Add Event Theme window will open with the following automatically selected: Table: The .txt file that you selected X Field: Longitude Y field: Latitude – Click OK and your hotspot/fire points will show up in the View window To permanently save your detected hotspot/fire points as a shapefile: – Select the fire points theme in the View window – Go to ‘Theme’ on the Main Menu > ‘Convert to Shapefile…’ – Give it a file name with .shp extension – Click OK.
