[Xastir] [Fwd: RE: water/hydrology shapes for Canada]

[Gerry Creager]

So I contacted Tom.  Below is the response. I think there's a little 
usable data in their portals...

73 gerry

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: water/hydrology shapes for Canada
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:06:37 -0400
From: Kralidis,Tom
To: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>


> I just got a request for any sort of access for water and 
> hydrology GIS data, preferably Shapefiles, from an Amateur 
> Radio Operator.  He (and I) use an app called Xastir 
> (www.xastir.org) that handles shapes pretty well... as well 
> as some 100 other map formats.
>

You know I combed through the source code to see how shapefiles were
handled -- glad to see use of shapelib!

> You're the most likely authoritative source for "look here" 
> or can't be done.
> 

Well, thank you :)

> Any thoughts?
> 

Here's our National Hydro Network:

http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nhn/index.html

Here's our national water portal (more specialized water data [quality,
hydrometric, etc.]):

http://www.environmentandresources.ca/reseau/

How's that for starters?

> Also:  How was FOSS4G?  I'm seriously jealous that I couldn't 
> go.  I've been going non-stop since I got back...

I didn't go due to budget constraints.  I heard it was good.  Steve won
the Sol Katz award, which is great news.  Other than that, I'm waiting
to hear reports from the blogosphere and such, of which there have not
been many.  I heard there were some wireless issues.

Cheers

..Tom

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