Locationaries are currently implemented as theme-independent polygon
shapefiles. They are theme-independent in the sense that, unlike
conventional shapefiles, they can contain all sorts of polygon features,
including parcels, buffered roads, buffered point name places, etc. The
only common characteristics between those features is that they all
have to:
- Be polygons.
- Have a text field called "NAME" containing the dictionary word. The
geographic extent of that polygon is the extent where the spelling is
valid for sure.
- Be in the same coordinate system, and that this coordinate system
must be defined within ArcGIS. It can't be of type "Unknown".
How to convert a feature class into a locationary
- Identify data sources would like to use as locationary source and
that contain correctly spelled words to use as dictionary words
- Make a copy that you will edit to conform to the locationary format
requirements
- Set the 2D or 3D coordinate system of the feature class if it's not
already defined.
- If necessary, create a text field called "NAME" and copy those
values into that field. One word per record.
- Optionally, delete all other fields from the feature class
- Buffer the feature class by a distance within which you consider
those words to be correctly spelled.
- If you are going to use data from different feature classes, use the
Simple Data Loader in ArcCatalog, or Copy & Paste in an ArcMap edit
session, or the Append tool from ArcToolbox to place all those features
in a single feature class.
- Repeat steps 1-6 for additional feature classes
- Export the resulting feature class into a shapefile if not already
in that format.
- Rename the shapefile as User_Polygon_Locationary.
- Place the shapefile
where MapSpeller expects it.
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