[Mapserver-west] map data question

[Tyler Mitchell]

Hi guys,
I also have a north american road layer, but not sure of the scales.  Let me 
know if you like to see it - it's on the map: 
http://spatialguru.com/maps/apps/global/

Tyler

On June 28, 2005 05:15 pm, Aaron Racicot wrote:
> Jeramie,
> You can download the 2004 TIGER data for California and extract the
> complete chain data from that.  If you use the CFCC code to filter what
> data is displayed (or better yet filter just that data when extracting
> it to a shapefile) you can just get the major roads.
>
> Here is some info:
>
> 1) Tiger data to download:
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2004fe/tgr2004fe.html
>
> 2) A PHP script I use to extract the county zip files out into their own
> directory and then convert to shapefiles.  It calls ogr2ogr, so make
> sure that you have access to that utility (send me mail if you don't
> have it or know what it is):
> http://pearl.ecotrust.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/util/batch_processing/proce
> ss_tiger.php
> Call it like "php process_tiger.php" in the directory containing all of
> the state directories (maybe just the CA directory in your case).
>
> 3) Create a tileindex on all of the shapefiles for the state that were
> created:
> In the directory that contains the california data execute
> find . -name "CompleteChain.shp" -exec ogrtindex
> CompleteChain_tindex.shp {} \;
>
> 4) Add it all to your mapfile:
> Here is a section from a mapfile that used the extracted shapefiles to
> display different road types at different scales:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   LAYER
>     NAME "TIGER 2004fe Roads - Line"
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>     TILEINDEX "CompleteChain_tindex.shp,0"
>     TYPE LINE
>     UNITS METERS
>     SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>     TOLERANCE 0
>     TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>     METADATA
>     END
>     PROJECTION
>       "proj=latlong"
>       "datum=NAD83"
>     END
>     CLASSITEM "CFCC"
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION /^A1/
>       NAME "Interstate"
>       MAXSCALE 400000
>       STYLE
>         SYMBOL 0
>         COLOR 0 0 255
>         SIZE 1
>       END
>     END
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION /^A[23]/
>       NAME "Highway"
>       MAXSCALE 200000
>       STYLE
>         SYMBOL 0
>         COLOR 0 255 0
>         SIZE 1
>       END
>     END
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION /^A[45]/
>       NAME "City"
>       MAXSCALE 100000
>       STYLE
>         SYMBOL 0
>         COLOR 255 0 0
>         SIZE 1
>       END
>     END
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION /^A[67]/
>       NAME "Other"
>       MAXSCALE 50000
>       STYLE
>         SYMBOL 0
>         COLOR 20 55 90
>         SIZE 1
>       END
>     END
>   END
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> You can create similar layers as annotation layers to put the labels on
> the streets.  Let me know if you need help with that as well.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Aaron
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-west-bounces at lists.maptools.org
> [mailto:mapserver-west-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Jeramie
> Gatchell
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:45 PM
> To: mapserver-west at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: [Mapserver-west] map data question
>
>
> Does anyone know of a source for California MAJOR road data?  Not the
> little roads, just the major 2+ lane type streets or a way to control
> which streets show up on the mapserver map?  Preferably something that
> is relatively new, most of the stuff I've found is from 1999 =[
>
> Any help would be awesome, thanks a lot everyone.
>
> Jeramie
>
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