Which data set should I ask for? I'm assuming Shapefiles, but I want to make sure.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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