At all sites, attribute information was collected, supplementing the position information. The CBS that had been utilized in Managua has been permanently setup at the Proyecto office and generated the base files used for corrections. Typically one thinks of ArcView as software that allows one to see spatial data. But ArcView is actually five specific modules. Tables are the attribute data associated with a specific point, line, or area.
Charts are the rearrangement of that attribute data in a way that meets the needs of the project.
Layouts are the display of the spatial information in a way that conforms to accepted cartographic standards using accepted cartographic symbols. Scripts is a process of automating and customizing many of the abilities of ArcView. For the purposes of this course no attempt was made to deal with Scripts. All GPS collected files were migrated over into ArcView and converted into the same projections as ESRI's sample data sets. The GPS information collected during the field exercises were then displayed over ESRI's World files.