WMS:Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Data Sources for use in WMS

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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:

  1. Go the site: http://atlas.lsu.edu/
  2. Choose “Download Data”
  3. Choose the map scale such as “http://atlas.lsu.edu/q24k/1:24,000 Scanned Topographic Maps”
  4. Use the map to navigate to the area you want.
  5. Select the map
  6. Choose the Download button
  7. Unzip the map on your computer
  8. Open WMS
  9. Right Click in the Project Explorer of WMS
  10. Choose Preferences
  11. Change the Image options to Always Convert Tiff and to Save the new JPG in the current directory.
  12. Open the image.
  13. Voila – you have your image in WMS. Repeat for other Quads as necessary.
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