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SOILKEY 
Soilkey Identifier

Description

Linkage key used to relate between the CMP and the NAME and LAYER files.

Origin

The SOILKEY field is concatenated from the following fields in the NAME file:

  • PROVINCE
  • SOIL_CODE
  • MODIFIER
  • LU

Validation

  1. All records in the NAME file must have a SOILKEY code.
  2. SOILKEY codes in the NAME file must be unique

Usage

See the documentation on the Land Use (LU) for information on how to control the linkage between the CMP file and the NAME and LAYER files