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What is LTBP? Overview Participants Regional Offices  Features: Calendar Photo Gallery Publications  Programmes: Biodiversity Environmental Edu. Fishing Practices Geogr. Info. Syst.   Help Desk   LARST   Newsletter   Metadata   Participants   Publications Pollution Sedimentation Socio-economics Training  Processes: Legal Convention Strat. Action Prog.  Management: Reg. Co-ordination  Projects: Nyanza Course Uvira Renovations World Environ. Day  Administration:  Project Resources			GIS Help Desk Choose Data Format? -------- Metadata -------- Ways to Present the Data -------- Image Data -------- Data Georeferencing -------- Raster Data -------- Map Data -------- Tabular Data -------- Nonspatial Tabular Data 2. Ways to present the data: Presenting Locational Information Any latitude-longitude data must be in decimal degrees, not in degree, minute, second. 5° 15' 30"= 5.255 (be careful to put " . "and not " , ") The references to the hemisphere must be with a negative sign, not with N or S references or E, W. Only numbers are allowed in these columns 5° S = -5 Units The units of the numeric data must be in the header of the column, not in the column itself and no blank cells are allowed in the header of the columns. Format Try to have only one row containing headers information, and at the top of the spreadsheet only. Delete all empty rows. It is useful to have a unique ID number for each row. Data Only put numeric data in the numeric columns.
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