On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:55 AM, David Carmean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think we need to be careful about the flowlines and in particular the > artificial paths; I'm not yet convinced that any of the flowlines should > be depicted on the map. > > Artificial paths should be thought about (since they tend to contain a *lot* of nodes, which the database doesn't like because it uses up hard drive space), but the flowlines are needed to designate the centerlines for rivers. When a river is too thin to exist in the NHD Area shapefiles, the flowline is the only indication that the river exists.
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