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Galápagos Islands shape files

CaroleWacta — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:15:03 GMT

Hello ,

I am looking for shape file for the Galápagos Islands any idea where I can find the info?

Also, is it possible to convert .wms into shape file? How?

Thank you so much

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:36:59 GMT

Hi Carole,

Wow, it is harder than I thought to grab GIS data for the Galápagos Islands. Take a look at this thread. Someone asks the same question:

Vector Data for Galapagos - GIS - CartoTalk http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=8129

You may have luck looking at the sites for World Vector Shoreline:

NOAA Shoreline Website

And click here to be able to find data to access:

Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG | NCEI

There are also some downloads for Ecuador here that you can look through:

Ecuador

This thread may help answer your WMS question but, likely you cannot easily do this:

python - How to convert WMS to SHP? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange

I hope this helps.

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

CaroleWacta — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:47:16 GMT

Thank you so much Adrian.

Very helpful.

I will do that.

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:14:28 GMT

Carole,

Let me know if you are successful in finding what you need (and maybe you can post back to here to show where exactly you obtained your data).

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

CaroleWacta — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:04:19 GMT

Yes,

I will definitely do that.

Thank you.

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

AdrianWelsh — Sun, 01 May 2016 03:57:14 GMT

Carole, Did you find what you were looking for?

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

CaroleWacta — Wed, 04 May 2016 13:57:54 GMT

Adrian,

Yes, I did.

I actually was able to get the shape files from Open street map as osm , then I used QGIS to make them ESRI Shape file and I got all of the files now in ArcMAP.... Thank you so much

Re: Galápagos Islands shape files

kellycarignan — Thu, 05 May 2016 15:27:54 GMT

Maybe too late but Ecuador has a nice website for data.

Geoportal | GeoPortal del Instituto Geográfico Militar-Ecuador