Exercise 4: Import Buildings

Import building footprints. Use properties to determine building height and style.

When you import building footprint data, you can map corresponding properties like roof slope and roof material. Use facade material for the rule style.

If you do not have an exact match for a property, you can use an expression to create that match. In this example, determine the height of buildings based on an expression that uses the properties Floors and Floor_Hght.

To import building data

1. On the Data Sources panel, click (Add File Data Source).
2. Click the file type for your building file, such as SHP.
3. Navigate to the file containing building data and open it.
4. On the Data Sources panel, double-click the new entry to configure it.
5. Set the Type to Buildings.
6. Map any other properties that the original source file contains.

   For example, map properties from your original data store to the Roof Slope and Roof Material properties.

7. To map the Facade property to a style rule, select Facade from the Rule Style drop-down list.
8. If your original data does not contain an exact match for Roof Height, create an expression to map the product of two numerical properties to create Roof Height.

   Click the Expression Editor icon in the Rule Style field.

   Create the expression Floors * Floor_Hght and click OK.

9. Click Close & Refresh.