Digital Spatial Data

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Enterprise Data Management Section (EDM)
Geographic Data from the DNR/EDM Library

These CDs include digital geographic data provided to Wisconsin Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs) by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Enterprise Data Management Section (EDM). The data provided is without any representation as to the suitability for a particular application and is intended for use with ArcView or ArcInfo. The complete dataset consists of four CDs.

Spatial coverage: Wisconsin
Temporal coverage: N/A
Scale: Varies (see below)
Format: Shapefiles, ArcInfo coverage or ESRI Grid.
Coordinate System: WTM 83/91
Access Constraints: Available to students, faculty, and staff of the UW-Milwaukee for educational purposes.

CD # 1 of 4

Includes the \dv_doc directory and the following DVGISLIB modules:

• 100K High-Density Base Layers.
• 100K Hydro,
• 100K Local roads from the US Geological Survey's 1:100K-scale digital line graphs,
• Roads from the Census Bureau's 2000 TIGER files.
  
• 100K/2M Low-Density Base Layers.
  • 100K County Boundaries, from the Census Bureau's 1990 Tiger files,
  • Dams,
  • 2M Hydrography,
  • 100K Minor Civil Divisions, from the Census Bureau's 2000 Tiger files,
  • Historical 100K Minor Civil Divisions, from the Census Bureau's 1992 TIGER files,
  • 100K Miscellaneous Infrastructure,
  • 100K Dot Railroads,
  • 100K Dot State Trunk Highways,
  • 100K State Boundary.
    
• 24K/12K Low-Density Base Layers.
• PLSS Townships from 24K Landnet,
• US Government Grants of Land from 24K Landnet'
• 24K Geographic Names (GNIS),
• State Outline from 24K Sources.
  
• Cartographic Label Point or Line Layers.
• County Road,
• City,
• MCD,
• Native Americans, Reservations, Federal lands, etc.,
• DNR Project Property,
• State Trunk Highways,
• PLSS Township,
• Watershed.
  
• Low-Density DNR Management Boundaries.
• 24K DNR Geographic Management Units,
• DNR Regions,
• Outstanding and Exceptional Resource Waters; occassionaly updated by Water Division,
• 24K DNR Watersheds and Subwatersheds,
• Beer, Deer, and Turkey Management units. 
  

CD # 2 of 4

Includes the following DVGISLIB modules:

• 24K/12K High-Density Base Layers.
• PLSS Sections from 24K Landnet,
• PLSS Quarter-quarter-sections from 24K Landnet.


• Other Managed Lands and Facilities.
  • Recreational Trails,
  • Conservations Easement Tracts,
  • County forests,
  • Ownership of Federal Lands except National Forests,
  • Ice Age Trail,
  • National Forests,
  • 100K Native American Reservations,
  • Forest Tax Law,
  • Waterfowl Production Areas,
  • Archaeological and Historical Sites.
    
• Quad Index.
• 12K Quarter-Quad index,
• 1x1-Degree Cell index,
• 24K, 100K, 250K, 62.5K USGS quad index.
  
• 40K WISCLAND Land Cover.
• WISCLAND Land Cover, grid format.
  
• 40K WISCLAND Land Cover.
• WISCLAND Land Cover, Erdas .img format.

CD # 3 of 4

Includes the following DVGISLIB modules:

• Ecological Boundaries.
• Omernik's Ecoregions,
• Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin,
• National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units,
• Natural Divisions (Hole & Germain),
• Lake Phosphorus Ecoregions.


• Low-resolution Hillshades and other Elevation-related data.
  • Derived from 75-meter DEMs.
    
• Surface Water from 1:24,000-scale sources.
  • Contains information from the Registry of Waterbodies.

CD # 4 of 4

Includes the following DVGISLIB modules:

• High-resolution Hillshades and other Elevation -related data.
• Derived from 30-meter DEMs.


• Land Cover.
  • Original Vegetation Cover, Cover Points, Landuse/Landcover.

Please visit WI DNR website, for more information: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/

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