Re: City boundaries

From: Saji Hameed <saji.nh_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Tue May 08 2012 - 19:39:45 MDT

Correction: that shapefile only shows the location info of each city

The urban boundaries dataset from the same site may be more appropriate.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/

TileMill http://mapbox.com/tilemill/ could be a nice web-based toolkit
to look at
shapefiles or even make maps out of them..

saji

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Saji Hameed <saji.nh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil,
>
> You can find shapefiles for US cities at
>
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/national/html/cities.htm
>
> You may have to extract the one for LA, though... let me know if you
> need hints on how to do it.
>
> saji
> --
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig@ucar.edu> wrote:
>> NCL does not have a city -boundaries database, but if you have a Shapefile of the your city boundary, you could easily plot it following one of the examples at:
>>
>>        http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml
>>
>> Hope that helps…
>> Rick
>>
>> On May 8, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Neil Berg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi NCL community,
>>>
>>> I can plot the boundary of Los Angeles County, but can not figure out if plotting the boundary of Los Angeles City is available/possible in NCL.  Does anyone know how to plot boundaries of cities and not counties?  Many thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Neil Berg
>>>
>>> Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
>>> University of California-Los Angeles
>>>
>>> nberg@atmos.ucla.edu
>>>
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