<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The US National Grid is an emerging
standard grid for emergency operations. More information is available by
visiting http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis/USNG. Particulary, you may
want to check out the presentation "USNG in Florida" available
at http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis/USNG/Documents/usng.ppt for an overview
of why this tool is being added to the GIS toolbox.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">But the reason for the message today
is to announce -- courtesy of the University of Florida's GeoPlan Center,
USNG data for all of Florida is now available for download at the Florida
Geographic Data Library. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You may visit http://www.fgdl.org, click
on FGDL Metadata Explorer, enter "usng" under the keyword search,
click Start Search, and select the grid size and appropriate UTM zone for
your area of interest...a big thank you!!! goes out to GeoPlan for making
this data available!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Or visit ftp://ftp1.fgdl.org, where
statewide 100,000m and 10,000 grids are available at ftp://ftp1.fgdl.org/pub/state.
and 100m and 1K grids are available by county within each county's core
directory -- for example -- ftp://ftp1.fgdl.org/pub/county/alachua/alachua_core.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Reminder -- the UTM 16/17 junction runs
down Jefferson county, so counties west are in UTM 16 and counties east
are in UTM 17 (and by the way, we are still working on Jefferson county
due to this challenge!).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We hope to have some websites up and
running soon to zoom to and/or identify USNG coordinates...details to follow.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Richard Butgereit<br>
GIS Administrator, Florida DEM<br>
richard.butgereit@em.myflorida.com<br>
www.floridadisaster.org/gis<br>
850-413-9907</font>
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