[Talk-us] Counties Data Import

Paul Fox pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us
Fri May 9 18:09:26 BST 2008


matthew wrote:
 > Ian,
 > 
 >   You might want to consider breaking it up into more "natural"
 > sections based on the sub-basin ID. This would keep contiguous
 > drainage basins intact and would not require any additional clipping
 > since the subbasin id is included in the attributes of the NHD lines.
 > Water does not respect political boundaries and I don't see any real
 > reason to process the data as if it did.

would long/large bodies of water still be split into multiple
ways, so as not to cause huge fetches from the server?  (i just
don't want to have to fetch the whole mississippi watershed because
of a small bounding box in missouri.)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 52.3 degrees)




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