Thursday, September 4, 2008

Hurricane shape files


Hurricane season is upon us, and what better way is there to start looking at spatial data than with these storms?  The National Hurricane Center has GIS data for their storms.  This is also a good introduction to the potential nightmares of downloading spatial data. Make sure to read the page about the program that you have to use to convert some of the kinds of data into shapefiles.

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