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Data Sources
The primary gateway to accessing data for WMS can be found at: http://www.xmswiki.com/ and then go to the GeoSpatial Data Acquisition Page http://www.xmswiki.com/xms/GSDA:GSDA Some of the primary locations there are:
DEMS: http://seamless.usgs.gov/
LandUse: http://www.webgis.com/
Soils: http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/
Aquaveo: http://www.aquaveo.com/
The LSU site can also be helpful, especially for DRG Images of USGS Maps. To download and use these maps you can:
- Go the site: http://atlas.lsu.edu/
- Choose “Download Data”
- Choose the map scale such as “http://atlas.lsu.edu/q24k/1:24,000 Scanned Topographic Maps”
- Use the map to navigate to the area you want.
- Select the map
- Choose the Download button
- Unzip the map on your computer
- Open WMS
- Right Click in the Project Explorer of WMS
- Choose Preferences
- Change the Image options to Always Convert Tiff and to Save the new JPG in the current directory.
- Open the image.
- Voila – you have your image in WMS. Repeat for other Quads as necessary.