Import From MGCP (Defense Mapping)

Summary

Imports Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP) metadata into a Topographic Features Data Management (TFDM) geodatabase.

Usage

• MGCP stores metadata in three feature classes: Cell, Subregion, and Source. TFDM stores metadata in the DatasetAreas and CollectionAreas feature classes.

• The TFDM DatasetAreas features must already exist and be contained by the MGCP Cell to import.

• The tool writes attribute values from Cell and Subregion features into the TFDM DatasetAreas feature class. It also inserts some hard-coded or derived values.

  TFDM DatasetAreas Field	MGCP Cell or Subregion value
  DQS	Cell.CLSTAT
  ETS	61
  ETZ	Subregion.SVSPCD or Cell.CVSPCD (Subregion has precedence)
  HZD	300
  MEM	Cell.CCMNT
  RCG	Subregion.SORIGA or Cell.CORIGA (Subregion has precedence)
  ZI002_CCN	Subregion.SCPYRT or Cell.CCPYRT (Subregion has precedence)
  ZI002_CCN	Subregion.SCPYRT or Cell.CCPYRT (Subregion has precedence)
  ZI002_CUI	Limited Distribution (limdis)
  URI	https://www.mgcp.ws/ + Cell ID derived from the Cell geometry
  AHA	Subregion.SACEVL
  AVA	Subregion.SALEVL
  CID	Subregion.SUBRID
  EQC	Subregion.SSCALE
  MDE	Subregion.SEDDAT

  DatasetAreas feature class fields list and target values

• The tool writes attribute values from the MGCP Source feature class into the TFDM CollectionAreas feature class.

  CollectionAreas fields	Value
  ZI001_SSY	Source.SOURCE
  ZI001_SSN	Source.SOURCE_IDENTIFIER
  ZI001_SSD	Source.SOURCE_DATE

  CollectionAreas feature class fields list and target values

Syntax

ImportFromMGCP_defense (in_cell_features, in_dataset_areas)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
in_cell_features	The input MGCP Cell features. The tool reads Subregion and Source features from the same workspace that stores in_cell_features.	Feature Layer
in_dataset_areas	The input DatasetAreas features. The tool reads CollectionAreas features from the same workspace that stores in_dataset_areas features.	Feature Layer

Code Sample

ImportFromMGCP example (stand-alone Python script)

The following script creates MGCP Cell and TFDM DatasetAreas feature layers. It executes the ImportFromMGCP function, using the feature layers as input.

# ImportFromMGCP.py
# Description: Imports MGCP metadata into TFDM
# Date October 2010

# Import arcpy and the defense mapping toolbox
import arcpy
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("defense")
arcpy.ImportToolbox(r'C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Defense Mapping Tools.tbx')

# variables for data paths and feature layers
Cell = "C:\\data\\TFDM_Metadata_Tool_Data\\Import\\Import_MX_MGCP_TRD3.gdb\\MGCP_Metadata\\Cell"
DatasetAreas = "C:\\data\\tfdm.gdb\\LTDS\\DatasetAreas"
MGCP_Cell_features = "Cell_Layer"
TFDM_DatasetArea_features = "DatasetAreas"

# MGCP Cell Feature Layer
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(Cell, MGCP_Cell_features)

# TFDM DatasetArea feature layer
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(DatasetAreas, TFDM_DatasetArea_features)

# Import MGCP into TFDM
arcpy.ImportFromMGCP_defense(MGCP_Cell_features, TFDM_DatasetArea_features)

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments

Licensing Information

ArcView: No

ArcEditor: Requires Defense Mapping

ArcInfo: Requires Defense Mapping