On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Ian Dees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I e-mailed the folks at the NHD about obtaining all the data for the US in > one chunk. They responded: > > -------------- > > We offer full national coverage of the NHD database on DVD. This includes > all medium resolution, and available high resolution NHD. This > is a April 2008 snapshot of the database. We have two versions of national > exports, SDE 9.1, or shapefiles. > > ArcSDE 9.1 Exports: 8.6 GB on 2 DVDs, requiring 20 GB of space when > unzipped > Shapefiles: 17 GB on 5 DVDs, requiring 42 GB of space when unzipped and > untarred > > ---------------- > > I will ask them to send the DVDs and post the data online if we are > interested in uploading it as a dataset. >
That would be awesome. Maybe we could rip out the TIGER hydrographic features and replace them with the NHD stuff. Maybe coastlines, too? I guess we'd have to be careful about duplicating/overwriting people's work, though. Karl
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