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

[Ed McNierney]

Tom -

I don't think the USGS offers any OGC map service that provides
city/town boundaries.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] [mailto:Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca] 
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 8:48 PM
To: 'Ed Martin'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Shape File with all US towns/ good places
to get shape files (or other mapserver data)


> -----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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