Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Ben Supnik bsup...@xsquawkbox.net wrote: Hi Y'all, The USGS was kind enough to send me the latest shapefile extract for the NHD yesterday. So my question is: is there some way I can process and repost this data that would make it more suitable for importers?

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:20 AM, James Umbanhowar jumba...@unc.edu wrote: On Tuesday 26 April 2011 09:09:21 Ian Dees wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Ben Supnik bsup...@xsquawkbox.net wrote: Snip I could rehost the NHD files on my company's servers for a while, perhaps even in

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Ben Supnik bsup...@xsquawkbox.net wrote: Hi Y'all, The USGS was kind enough to send me the latest shapefile extract for the NHD yesterday.  So my question is: is there some way I can process

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Y'all, From what I can tell: - Every water body does get a reach ID. I've seen nulls in this file but haven't yet figured out what they are...in local sample areas, all water bodies have reach IDs. - If there is linkeage between areas and flow lines (which I _thought_ there was when

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 12:50:41 Ben Supnik wrote: Hi Y'all, From what I can tell: - Every water body does get a reach ID. I've seen nulls in this file but haven't yet figured out what they are...in local sample areas, all water bodies have reach IDs. - If there is linkeage between

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data extract

2011-04-26 Thread Mike N
On 4/26/2011 12:50 PM, Ben Supnik wrote: Richard's idea of building an NHD tile map for tracing seems very do-able, but it wouldn't save a ton of time - every water feature would have to be hand-traced, even though we do have them in vector form already. I'm not at all comfortable with the