2 Creating point shapefiles for individual animals
- If the locations of several animals are included in the shapefile you created in the steps above, you must create a separate shapefile for each individual. Isolating points for each animal may require an attribute query. For instance, you might select all records for “Animal 1” and create a separate shapefile. If you have 5 animals total, then you need to create 5 separate shapefiles: each shapefile would represent all the locations of one animal. Name the shapefiles something descriptive such as “ID_001.shp”, “ID_002.shp”, “ID_003.shp”, etc.