topic Where to find base data? in Public Safety Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363962#M420 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A very often asked question and one that can take a little digging to answer. Here's a couple of good resources for California data which you can download via ftp then store and use offline for a SAR op. Download these PRIOR to needing the data, so you are familiar with the data you have and not waiting for lengthy downloads when time is of the essence. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Spend some time poking around these sites, you'll find lots of good info.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>atlas.ca.gov</STRONG><SPAN> Lot;s of good data here</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CA 24k USGS basemaps </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>/pub/drg</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Transportation and travel routes, water ways, imagery, NED, landcover etc. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>/pub/casil</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>/pub/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover</SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>nhdftp.usgs.gov</STRONG><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>/DataSets</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>/hydrography</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There's many more sources for data, these should provide you enough to get started. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>tip: When displaying Tiff or SID files in ArcMap, change the display properties from Nearest Neighbor to Bilinear Interpolation for a sharper image.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:49:14 GMT JonPedder 2012-08-08T14:49:14Z Where to find base data? https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363962#M420 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A very often asked question and one that can take a little digging to answer. Here's a couple of good resources for California data which you can download via ftp then store and use offline for a SAR op. Download these PRIOR to needing the data, so you are familiar with the data you have and not waiting for lengthy downloads when time is of the essence. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Spend some time poking around these sites, you'll find lots of good info.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>atlas.ca.gov</STRONG><SPAN> Lot;s of good data here</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CA 24k USGS basemaps </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>/pub/drg</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Transportation and travel routes, water ways, imagery, NED, landcover etc. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>/pub/casil</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>/pub/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover</SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>nhdftp.usgs.gov</STRONG><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>/DataSets</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>/hydrography</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There's many more sources for data, these should provide you enough to get started. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>tip: When displaying Tiff or SID files in ArcMap, change the display properties from Nearest Neighbor to Bilinear Interpolation for a sharper image.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:49:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363962#M420 JonPedder 2012-08-08T14:49:14Z Re: Where to find base data? https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363963#M421 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Base data for the 11 western states may be downloaded from:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="ftp://ftp.nifc.gov/BASE_INFO/Statewide_GIS_Data/">ftp://ftp.nifc.gov/BASE_INFO/Statewide_GIS_Data/</A></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:50:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363963#M421 TomPatterson 2012-08-09T14:50:52Z Re: Where to find base data? https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363964#M422 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>1:50k vector data for all of Canada here:</SPAN><BR /><A href="ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/bndt/50k_shp_en/">ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/bndt/50k_shp_en/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>other data here:</SPAN><BR /><A href="ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/">ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Rick</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:14:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/public-safety-questions/where-to-find-base-data/m-p/363964#M422 RichardLaing 2012-08-10T00:14:22Z