Not the case. All of Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, and
most of the productive Mid-west ag lands have been digitized. As each state has
a Soil Survey and the funding of most of the digitization of legacy soil surveys
has been paid for by state funding, the USDA has had problems gaining access to
it for their publication. Purely politics in this. Mostly though many of the
counties are complete with the exception that they need "certification" by the
USDA/NRCS State Conservationists- these are mostly political appointees that
rarely do much of anything therefor the work stacks up on their desks. There is
also the fear that someone might resell the soil surveys and they want to
maintain "certification" of orginality.
The DLG noise we now hear may in fact be for the 1:250,000 scale which has been
around for many years now. The 1:24,000 stuff can be found when available via:
The BIG Picture
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/
The USDA National Cartographic Effort
http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/ncg/ncg_org.html
And Finally the Soil AkeExploiter Site - Read it and weap!
http://www.itc.nrcs.usda.gov/soils_explorer/index.html
MidNight Mapper
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Neil Havermale wrote:
>
> > My NRCS contact told me I can get Digitized soil map data in the DLG
> > format. Can anyone tell me what I will need to access this data? Can I
> > use this type data in EXCEL? Can I use Surfer to make the maps?
>
> Ron,
>
> There's a dlg2mif (I think it is) on the mapinfo ftp server. It works. And
> let me know what you've found for soil coverages. Out here, only a few
> counties have been digitized and we'd love to have the data for the western
> states.
>
> Rich
>
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