Wednesday, May 9, 2012

North Dakota State Government





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username and password is in email

Download Shape Files is in top right corner
  - if adding to arcgis online, you only need zipped files
  - to add in arcmap, unzip folder and add shapefile through add data feature

Monday, May 7, 2012

PLSS data

PLSS data available from www.arcgis.com

http://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=north%20dakota%20PLSS&t=content


Data:
1. PLSS data
2. North Dakota government boundaries and PLSS data


PLSS data thru the US GIS Data Repository



Click to Download

Thank you TractBuilder for hosting this data! For processed data sets (subsets, shapefiles, kmls, and more) email sales@tractbuilder.com. 

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PLSS data thru the Department of Interior:


http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/lsis_home/home/index.htm

download BLM file GeoDatabase, metadata, and shapefiles by state and county


Thursday, May 3, 2012

North Dakota GIS data

Taken from http://www.nd.gov/gis/ :

http://web.apps.state.nd.us/hubdataportal/srv/en/main.home


Categories

Applications
Communications
Elevation
EmergencyServices
GeographicReference
Geology
GovtBoundaries
GovtLands_Federal
GovtLands_State
Hydrography
Imagery
LanduseLandcover
Locations
Soils
Transportation
Web Services


North Dakota maps:

The Hub Explorer is a browser-based interactive mapping tool that displays GIS Hub layers, grouped by data category. With this tool you can zoom, pan, query, print maps, and download vector data.

 http://www.nd.gov/gis/mapsdata/int-maps.html

visit: http://web.apps.state.nd.us/imf/sites/hubexplorer/jsp/index.jsp to extract spatial data


Free GIS data

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.


http://landcover.usgs.gov/landcoverdata.php#na

Great set of links to almost all land cover datasets. Links here include most of the datasets below, and many more esoteric data such as river observations, aquifers data and ocean colour information.


http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/

Various free data sets


http://www.datapages.com/Partners/AAPGGISPublicationsCommittee/GISOpenFiles.aspx

The AAPG, under the direction and guidance of the GIS Publications Committee and AAPG Datapages, is building a GIS / spatial library comprised of peer-reviewed Global Framework, Geothematic and Geographic themed projects. The project files are free to the public and can be downloaded from this GIS Open Files page.