Shovel Probes Map

The shovel probes map contains complete information about the locations of all households, archaeological operations, and shovel probes. The map is provided as an AutoCAD (Release 12) .DXF file for importation into a variety of CAD, GIS, and other software. The coordinate system in the .DXF file is based on the national map system coordinates in the grid Colombia West, with datum Bogotá Observatory, except that the units in this .DXF file are in kilometers rather than meters, and the initial digit (always a 1) has been omitted from the eastings. In AutoCAD, this map could be converted into coordinates that match the national map system exactly by moving all its contents (with the command MOVE) 1000 drawing units east, and then scaling it up (with the command SCALE) with a scale factor of 1000. The layers in this file, their colors, and the information contained on each are as follows:

• GRID_AREA (White/Black): AutoCAD closed polylines indicating the limits of all the individual household grids of shovel probes.
• GRID_NUMBER (White/Black): AutoCAD text entities providing the numbers of the individual household grids. These numbers are very small and contained within the corresponding polylines.
• OPERATION_AREA (Green): AutoCAD closed polylines indicating the limits of all the numbered archaeological operations.
• OPERATION_NUMBER (Color 133): AutoCAD text entities providing the numbers of the archaeological operations. These numbers are contained within the corresponding polylines.
• PROBE_GRID_POINT (Color 171): AutoCAD point entities locating all of the shovel probes excavated in household grids.
• PROBE_NUMBER (Black/White): AutoCAD text entities indicating the numbers of all the shovel probes excavated.
• PROBE_TRANSECT_POINT (Color 41): AutoCAD point entities locating all of the shovel probes excavated in the initial transects.

Click here to download the file PROBEMAP.DXF (1,330 KB) .

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