Dear Scenic Byway Personnel,

First I would like to thank you for giving Mountain Mapping the opportunity to provide GIS services to help conserve the beautiful lands around your Scenic Byway. The "GIS Data Collecting and Analysis To Include 25 Colorado Scenic and Historic Byways" project was a success and will be used to establish a state byways conservation plan. This delivery letter is to inform you of two things; a little background of where the data came from and also installation instructions for the GIS data.

BACKGROUND:

This Geographic Information System (GIS) data was gathered and compiled from the following various sources, please note though that not all data was available for all byways:

Bureau of Land Management

US Forest Service

Colorado Parks and Wildlife

University of Colorado Geospatial Data

Colorado Gap Analysis Project

National Wetlands Mapper Project

Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation

Wilderness.net

United States Geological Survey

Colorado Natural Heritage Program

Colorado Ownership, Management and Protection

Various departments in Forty-Seven Colorado Counties

INSTALLATION:

Your GIS data is being delivered on a flash drive and consists of three main deliverables:

·  A .mdb (a geodatabase) of all the mapping data gathered for your scenic byway (approximately 90-100 mapping layers)

·  A .mxd (an ESRI ArcMap 10.1 mapping document) that is ready for viewing, analysis, etc.

·  A folder with Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data of your scenic byway.

For installation:

1)  Please place this data onto your computer by simply copying from the flash drive the directory "CO Scenic Byway 2013 GIS Conservation Data" directly onto your C: drive. By doing this the mxd map document will be able to correctly find all its map layers.

2)  If you can't place it directly on your C: drive and have to place it in another location or another drive you will then have to go through File Repair in order for the mxd map document to find any of the map layers.

3)  File Repair is not hard, While in ArcMap in the .mxd you will need to File Repair twice:

a. Click the red exclamation point for any layer (besides the Digital Elevation Model layer) in the map's Table of Contents and re-point that layer to the location where you placed the data (it will be within the geodatabase). This will then repair the location pointers of all the geodatabase layers.

b.Then re-point the Digital Elevation Model by clicking the red exclamation point beside the DEM layer in the Table of Contents and pointing it to where you put the Scenic Byway DEM raster data within the DEM data folder.

If File Repair is too complicated or doesn't work then please call me for help over the phone, 719-539-7879.

I hope you get some good use out of this data and the subsequent plan. Please contact me with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

Yvonne Barnes

Mountain Mapping

1315 Angelview Cir.

Salida, CO 81201

719-539-7879