[Talk-us] US National Hydrography Dataset

[Adam Schreiber]

On 1/27/08, Matthew Perry <perrygeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 1:26 PM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:
> > On 1/27/08, Bone Killian <vitki at bonius.com> wrote:
> > > Matthew Perry wrote:
> > > > So my question's are:
> > > > Would anyone be interested in some sort of mass upload of hydrography
> > > > data (to follow on the success of the TIGER import!) ?
> > > >
> > > It seems like a good idea to me.
> >
> > The hydrography data includes lakes streams and rivers?
> >
> > Should this wait until we get the coastline import straightened out?
>
> The NHD dataset does include coastlines but I've specifically dropped
> them from the conversion for this reason. The worst that will happen
> is that a river will not appear to make it all the way to the coast or
> will extend out past the coast by a small amount. Easily fixable by
> hand.

I ask because a lot of the east coast I've imported includes rivers as
a matter of getting the coast right.

Cheers,

Adam