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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:24:09 -0400
From: Andrew G McIntire <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Maps of municipal boundaries for the largest 50 US cities
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Although I work at the Census Bureau (and even have "TIGER" and
"Mapping" in my branch name), I don't work with the map server the
Bureau maintains on the web.  I do, however, know that you can turn
off those pesky roads if you want to.

If you go to http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl (starting
point for the TIGER Map Server), you can set the lat/lon you are
interested in (you may have to scroll down a bit).  Once you have a
map of the area in question, you can turn off (or on) many different
layers in the green box to the right of the map image.  These include
highways, counties, MSAs, census tracts, etc.

I don't know if this will meet your patron's needs, since the maps in
question are fairly small gifs, but it may be of some help.

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Andy McIntire                      Cartographer
US Census Bureau                   301-457-1116
TIGER Mapping Branch   [log in to unmask]

Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was,
or Longitude either, but she thought they were
nice grand words to say. - Lewis Carroll

Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:31:42 -0400
> From: marley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Maps of municipal boundaries for the largest 50 US cities
> Sender: marley <[log in to unmask]>
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> We have a student who needs to see clearly municipal boundaries for
> cities within metropolitan areas. This is an easy question to
> answer for county boundaries from printed atlases and web sites.
>
> I have found one web site, the Tiger site at the census where they
> have the municipal boundaries but we simply can't trace the
> boundaries because roads and other information overwhelm the
> boundaries.
>
> U. Va. has the County and City Cata Books but no boundaries. The
> U.S. Natl atlas on line has met. areas but not municipalities
> within.
>
> AceUSA has a point coverage at 1:12K.
>
> To complicate matters this student has never used a GIS. So first,
> any easy answers that I have overlooked, and second, a convenient
> warehouse for downloading shape files (ArcView) by met. area with
> the boundaries we need.
>
> Any leaads appreciated. Carol Marley, McGill University
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