Obtaining Hydrographic Data from ESRI Census TIGER 1995

To obtain hydrographic data from ESRI, go to their Census TIGER 1995 web site at www.esri.com/data/online/tiger/index.html.  If you have trouble using this link, follow the bulletted steps below:

• Go to the ESRI home page at www.esri.com.
• Choose the DATA button near the top.
• Click the ArcData Online link.
• Choose the Browse ArcData Online button.
• Choose the DATA PROVIDER button.
• Scroll through the list of providers and choose the Census TIGER Data link.

1. If you have NOT registered, click the Register to Download Data Now! link to register before you continue.
2. If you HAVE registered, simply enter in your email address which you used to register and choose the Enter button.
3. Select a state from the list or from the map.  For example, choose Utah.
4. You may now select either a subregion (e.g., county) or a data layer type.  For example, choose the data layer type described as Line Features, Streams and click the Submit Selection button.
5. Either choose a county from the list or choose to download all counties.  For example choose Utah county only.
6. Click on the GENERATE FILE NOW button followed by the DOWNLOAD DATA NOW button.
7. Proceed to download, save, and uncompress the data.  Click here for more help on uncompressing files.  Once the data file is uncompressed, you will see another .zip file which you also need to uncompress.  You've now successfully obtained hydrographic data from ESRI.  In order to obtain data on lakes, the same steps could be followed as above, but instead of choosing the Line Features, Streams, select the Land and Water Outlines option.  Be sure to format (if necessary) the data before importing them into WMS.

 

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