[Talk-us] NHD: python or java?

[Mike N.]

I have updated the wiki page with an example process to select Shapefiles 
directly from the NHD site.     Let us know if that doesn't work for some 
reason.

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> Thanks, I thought there was something already tailored for the NHD
> data, that was what I was looking for.  I put the link on the wiki
> page.
> I checked the link to the NHD files, and they are all in .mdb access
> data files (personal geodatabase).  What is everyone using to get them
> into shape files?  org2ogr?  Directly to shp, or thru postgreSQL?
> I found this command line to try out:
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" [output dir] [data].mdb
> using the latest FWTools2.4.2 a 500mb .mdb turns into 140mb of .shp
> files and most seem empty.  Suggestions on what I am doing wrong??
> -- 
> Dale Puch