[Xastir] SDTS to shapefile conversion?

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

Fort those of you who followed the APRS Sig thread about Tiger 
inaccuracies a couple of weeks or months ago, this is a significant 
deal.  I may want to snag the shapefiles; I'll get ahold of the player 
in NYC who was so concerned about the TigerLine files.  This should make 
him happier.

One caveat: It is my understanding from our USGS State Mapping 
Coordinator that not all of the SDTS coverages have been appropriately 
reprojected to NAD83.

73, gerry

Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
> On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
>> It can, and it's easy. Assumning one has an SDTS vector layer untarred 
>> in the
>> current directory and gdal installed in the user's path,
>>
>> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" output_directory <layer CATD file>
> 
> 
> thanks.  I'll try this out.
> 
>> Note that USGS has announced that they are retiring the distribution of
>> SDTS DLG data on 30 Jan 2005.  They apparently consider it outdated
>> and plan to direct folks at national atlas data.  Download of DLG and 
>> DEM data
>> from the USGS ftp site will be disabled on 30 Jan.  If you like this 
>> data and
>> want to stock up, your window is closing.
> 
> 
> I've got all the DLG data (grabbed it a few weeks ago) and can make it 
> available.  I'll step up my search for a suitable server here.
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
> 
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