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Retrieve data from the National Map Viewer

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Retrieve data from the National Map Viewer

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- There are many ways to acquire data that you can use to build out the existing conditions of your model. For the United States, the National Map Viewer is a great free resource that can get you started. I'm going to start in a browser on the Google page and just type in National Map Viewer. Click the result that comes up and then click the tile on the right for the new download client. This is kind of a 2.0 version of the National Map Viewer which I find quite useful. I'll start by typing in the name of the location. So that's Carpinteria, California. Click the search hit, find the marker that shows the location that I'm interested in, and I'll go ahead and zoom into the area that I want to gather data for. So you probably recognize Rincon Point here and I'm going to look at gathering data for a rectangular area in this location here. So next I can choose what types of data I want to look for. And for our example here I want to look for elevation data, so I'm going to pick elevation…

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