Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
...@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:36 PM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset Hi all, Any thoughts on loading and using the USGS NED data set with postgis? My

Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Woodbridge (wood...@swoodbridge.com) wrote: Thanks! that is exactly what I needed to know. I'm in the painful process of downloading the NED data from there seamless download application - I can not tell you how frustrating these stupid apps are. Just give me a simple ftp site

Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Ron M
Stephen Frost wrote: * Stephen Woodbridge (wood...@swoodbridge.com) wrote: Thanks! that is exactly what I needed to know. I'm in the painful process of downloading the NED data from there seamless download application - I can not tell you how frustrating these stupid apps are. Just give

Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Mike Swope
There used to be a service called geotorrent. It'd be nice if someone started that back up. How much data are you trying to download? You can still find some of the DEMs as a file download without having to deal with the seamless site. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ron M

Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Norman Vine
FYI there is a copy of the USGS NED on a fat pipe @ http://collections.sdsc.edu/dac2/telascience/telascience_data/elevation/usgs_ned/ On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Mike Swope wrote: There used to be a service called geotorrent. It'd be nice if someone started that back up. How much data

Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Norman, Awesome! this is much easier to deal with. There is no metadata with it, but it looks like it might be the 1 arc sec, 30m/pixel, data in a 16bit tiff. How do I interpret the pixel values? as meters from the ellipsoid? Thanks, -Steve On 8/20/2010 2:18 PM, Norman Vine wrote: FYI

[postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Eli Adam
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:36:42 -0400 From: Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com Subject: Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset To: PostGIS Users Discussion postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net Message-ID: 4c6eaf1a.3060...@swoodbridge.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format