United States City\Town\Village Shape Files???

[Allan Doyle]

On 12/28/05, Adam <adam at jamradar.com> wrote:
> I've been looking everywhere and can't find shape files for all the towns in
> the United States.  I have found incorporated cities and county subdivisions
> but that's not quite town\city\village boundaries.
>
> Does this dataset exist for free?

You may have to get it on a state by state basis. I'm not sure if
there is a comprehensive list of state GIS agencies anywhere, but put
this into Google and you'll get quite a few - "state gis offices"

http://www.google.com/search?q=state+gis+offices

  Allan


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Basques" <bob.basques at CI.STPAUL.MN.US>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:50 PM
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Sort of MapServer related . . Stacked, or
> coincident points . . .
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > I need a way to handle a stacked point data set.  I'm working with a
> > Address dataset that has some points that are stacked in the same spot.
> > A few of them have hundreds of points in the same location, IE Apt.
> > Buildings, etc.
> >
> > Has anyone worked with a similar dataset before from MapServer?
> >
> > We have some ideas about how to display the data.  Nothing concrete
> > yet.  The current system relies on ImageMaps for the display of the
> > point data via a MapServer Template.  This works for the first (last
> > ImageMap record) in the imagemap, but how to view the other point
> > records from the same point.   We're in the mode right now to build some
> > Javascript handlers for a XML stream from MapServer, but this seems like
> > overkill for some reason.
> >
> > The dataset is such that I can't seperate the different points very
> > easily, nor should they I think.
> >
> > Any ideas out there?
> >
> > bobb
> >
>