[postgis-users] Re: USGS NHD data to PostGIS

Reid Priedhorsky reid at umn.edu
Mon Feb 5 14:08:06 PST 2007


Randy George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>             As an experiment I'm attempting to import USGS NHD data
> ftp://nhdftp.usgs.gov/SubRegions/  into PostGIS. The NHD data comes as ESRI
> geodatabase .mdb files. I was glad to see that ogr2ogr now supports ESRI
> geodatabase mdb format, so I tried using ogr2ogr 1.4.0 in FWTools 1.1.3, but
> ran into some problems.

Hi Randy,

I don't know how to fix your problem, but at 
<http://nhdgeo.usgs.gov/viewer.htm>, you can download NHD data in 
Shapefile format. Does that meet your needs?

Take care,

Reid



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