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<DIV>Lowell, Stephen, Ed,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the replies.</DIV>
<DIV>I'll try to contact USGS again. </DIV>
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<DIV>In the meantime, is there a free GIS tool (preferrably on Windows) I could use to</DIV>
<DIV>1) Get the WMS layer of a given USGS Urban ortho area</DIV>
<DIV>2) Use a "drawing" tool to draw the boundary myself and save that polygon as shapefile?</DIV>
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<DIV>It's manual labor, but better than not having exact coverage :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Lowell Filak <lfilak@MEDINACO.ORG></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">The following message was sent by Thomas Chesky <THOMASCHESKY@YAHOO.COM><BR>on Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:18:12 -0800.<BR><BR>> Hello,<BR>><BR>> Does anybody know how to get the boundary of USGS Urban ortho coverage<BR>in shapefile (or WKT etc.) format. I could only found the coverage index<BR>in raster format on the USGS site (seamless.usgs.gov) I'd like to be<BR>able to tell having a lat/lon coordinates whether it falls into one of<BR>the Urban coverage areas. The USGS WMS server provides boudary rectangle<BR>only (in GetCapabilities), which obviously will not solve my problem as<BR>the coverages are not rectangles.<BR>><BR>> There must be something like this otherwise how could USGS create the<BR>raster coverage index.<BR>><BR>> Any help is greatly appreciated.<BR>><BR>> Thomas<BR>><BR>> ps I emailed USGS as well but not yet received any
reply<BR><BR>Thomas,<BR><BR>For our tiny neck of the woods we ended up digitizing the urban areas we<BR>needed because we were never able to obtain anything but pdf's. That was<BR>a couple of years ago so possibly things have changed.?<BR><BR>Lowell<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com