Now, add a layer that displays parcels in one part of the city of Redding. This layer contains size, value, and address information about the parcels. It does not contain information about the owners. You will join to a data source that contains that information later.
You will make the parcels semi-transparent so you can see the other features underneath.
To add the parcel layer to the map
- In
Display Manager, click Data
Connect
To Data. - In the Data Connect dialog box, under Data Connections By Provider, click Add SDF Connection.
- Click
next to the Source File field
and navigate to the folder where you copied the sample files. - In the Open dialog box, select Assessor_Parcels.SDF and click Open.
- In the Data Connect dialog box, click Connect.
- Select the Parcels layer under Add Data To Map and click Add To Map.
- Close the Data Connect window.
- In Display
Manager, select the Parcels layer
and click Table.
Information associated with the parcels is displayed, but the information does not include owner-related data.
Data associated with the parcel layer is displayed.
- Close the Data Table.
To style the parcels in the map
- In Display Manager, select the Parcels layer and click Style.
- In the Style Editor, click the color in the Style entry.
- In the Style Polygon dialog box, change the Foreground Transparency setting to 50%.
- Change
the Foreground Color to a light
shade.
Change the foreground transparency for the parcel layer.
- Click OK and
close the Style Editor.
The parcel layer is draped over the surface. Because it is transparent, you can see the surface underneath.
You added a surface that contains elevation information, and you used that information to create a theme that varies color by elevation. You added contour lines to identify the elevation levels. You draped a layer of data over the surface and made it transparent so you could evaluate its elevation based on the surface below.
The styled surface helps you evaluate parcel elevation.