GSDA:Obtaining Land Use Data from WebGIS

From XMS Wiki - http://wikis.aquaveo.com/xms/

Users can download land use shapefiles from WebGIS in either UTM or Geographic coordinates. Refer to the following steps for guidance on obtaining a land use shapefile from this site:

1. Go to the WebGIS website and notice the three links found under the LULC Data Heading on the left side of the page,
2. Click on the Shapefile (Lat/Long) link to obtain data in geographic coordinates, or the Shapefile (UTM) for data in that coordinate system,
3. Click on a state on the map,
4. Click on a county,

   Be aware that the name of the county that your mouse pointer is over can be viewed in the browser's status bar,

5. Click on one of area links in order to download its corresponding shapefile,
6. Choose "Save Link (Target) As..." to save the file to your computer,
7. Unzip the files to your computer.

   You should now have 3 files that define the shapefile.

To import the shapefile into WMS:

• Open WMS
• Select Import from the File menu
• Change the Files of Type drop-down list to "Feature object polygons Shapefile (*.shp),"
• Navigate to the directory where you saved the files,
• Double click on the file with the *.shp ending,
• Select OK to the Import Shapefile Data dialog. Notice that WMS automatically assigned the LU_CODE field of the shapefiles attribute table to the WMS land use coverage attribute.