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- Using a web browser, search for "h-gac gis" and select the result as shown below or go directly to: http://www.h-gac.com/rds/gis-data/gis-datasets.aspx.
- Under the Dataset Categories section, click the Hydrologic button to filter the results by subject.
- Under the Datasets section, click Major Rivers.
- Click Download Dataset.
- Click the blue Download button.
- Back on the H-GAC portal, under the Dataset Categories section, click the Water Quality button.
- Under the Datasets section, click Wastewater Outfalls.
- Click Download Dataset.
- Click the blue Download button.
Houston METRO Downloads
The Houston METRO website provides GIS data for the public transit system in Houston provided by METRO. For this tutorial, you will need the bus stops and bus routes data, which is included in the downloadable zip-file containing all of the GIS data available on the site. To obtain this data:
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There are two links in this section that look promising: METRO GIS Data Layers and METRO GIS Data. From the perspective of a GIS user, there is nothing about those particular link names that is helpful in deducing which link to download. After testing both downloads, we determined that the Metro GIS Data download contains only the METRO service boundary, while the METRO GIS Data Layers download contains
- Click METRO GIS Data Layers to download.
HCAD
Though it is not used in this course, the Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD) Public Data is another great online source that provides similar data such as highways, utilities, and water districts and is available at: http://pdata.hcad.org/GIS/index.html
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