I’m a packrat II
Here’s another find. My fishing license from the summer I stayed with my grandparents when I was 16. All my grandad and I did was fish. And fish. And then fish some more. Those were the days. I just realized the license only cost $19 for a non-resident annual license. Wow, you can barely get a resident license anywhere for that these days. And how ’bout that “funky-fly-trying-too-hard-to-have-a-cool-signature” signature?
Getting excited over data is nothing to be ashamed of. Why I remember the first time I saw the gigapixel image and got chills up and down my spine. There’s nothing quite so exilarating as a photograph scanned at 2600dpi, a mp3 with proper metadata or an XML document which passes a well-formedness test.
Hold your head high my friend and be proud of your nerdery.
Metadata…ahhhh….something I deal with everyday. And usually it’s crappy metadata too. You are correct, nothing like good metadata to make life easier.
And the gigapixel image…nice.
Chad & other GIS-types,
http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/
If you’re ever looking for 7.5 min topos in other areas, try this government website, it’s awesome. You can download all the quads for an entire county if you click on “quick counties” on the bottom left. Luckily, the topos are in UTM. Don’t choose the county mosaic though, because a lot of the detail is lost, especially when printing.
You can also get census data, DEMs, TIGER roads, National Land Cover data, etc., etc.
So, you’re not the only one who gets excited about data!
Yeah Cindy, you’re right, the NRCS Data Gateway is sweet. I’ve gotten alot of seamless data from those guys. Once I ordered TIGER roads for a multistate area, and they actually called me to make sure that I really wanted that big of an area. They processed the order because they had never tried anything that large before and wanted to test the limits of their system. True nerds.