[Mapserver-users] Shape File with all US towns/ good places t o get shape files (or other mapserver data)

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Martin [mailto:edman007x at mac.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:46 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Shape File with all US towns/ good 
> places to get shape files (or other mapserver data)
> 
> 
> i don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but i'm 
> trying to 
> get a shape file (or any other format that will work) that 
> has the the 
> US towns and some way to reference to them for use with 
> mysql, i found 
> someone who said they should have something like that (i think) @ 
> zip.ya-right.net but that site seems to be down
> 
> so can any one give me a link to a place where i could get this data, 
> also i'd like to here of some good places to get the shape files (and 
> other formats)

Why not connect to it through OGC:WMS?  Check out http://gisdata.usgs.net/
under "Map Services".

..Tom


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