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If you would like to download and prepare the data for this tutorial from scratch, follow the instructions below:
- Go to the City of Houston's GIS website and click the Download button under Open Data section.
- In the search bar, type roads and click enter.
- Click COH MAJOR ROAD Feature Layer.
- Click the Download dropdown button and choose the Shapefile option under the Filtered Dataset. A popup box will appear containing the compressed files. You can see the folder contains different types of files such as CPG, DBF, PRJ, SHP, and SHX.
OPTION 2: Accessing tutorial data from Fondren Library using the gistrain profile
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