File Import dialog

As described in the overview, you can import new spatial data (geographies) and attribute data (datasets) into SpaceStat in several formats: shapefiles, gdb files, Excel files, text files, and DBFs.  If you have imported a problem file, you can also bring along attribute data via a Gauss file.  Shapefiles and gdb files can hold point, polygon or line geographies. Currently line geographies, like roads, can be used for visualization, but not as input for statistical analyses.  

Text, Excel, and DBF files can only hold point geographies (i.e., columns with x and y coordinates) or datasets.   Note that if you import a shapefile that already has associated attribute data in a DBF, you can import and timestamp both the geography and datasets at the same time, as described here.

Click here for a step-by-step introduction to importing shapefiles and gdb files (for use as new geographies, or for merging with existing geographies).

Click here for a step-by-step introduction to importing Excel files, text files, and DBFs for use as point geographies, or here to use a file of one of these types for importing a dataset.

For information on adding new spatial weight sets to a SpaceStat project, click here.