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Subject: Hurricane Katrina in Maps
Date: Tues, 6 Sep 2005
From: John M Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi All,

Here is a link to video from a local Baton Rouge TV station where the
reporter makes great use of GoogleEarth to explain the Levee breaches in
New Orleans.

Click on "Bruce Katz Illustrates Levee Breach."

http://www.2theadvocate.com/wbrz/video_index.shtml

Although some of the networks are using GoogleEarth, one network had a
terrible map that erroneously showed New Orleans west of Lake Ponchartrain

The area is also depicted on the Spanish Fort and New Orleans East USGS
7.5-minute Quads.    The "17th Street Canal" is on the west edge of the
sheets but it is labeled "Metarie Outflow Canal."    The larger canal to
east that also has a breach is the Industrial Canal.   Notice the contour
line near the north end of the Metarie Outflow Canal.  Its elevation is -5
feet.   The Superdome sits between the +5 foot and 00 contours.

Here is a site for GIS files for Louisiana for your patrons needing shape
files:

http://www.atlas.lsu.edu

It also has DRG and DOQQs for downloading.

The LSU Cartographic Information Center sustained no damage although there
were hurricane force gusts, and possible sustained, winds here in Baton
Rouge.  This is amazing since we in an 80-year old building with 8-foot
high wood frame windows on three sides surrounded by equally old Live Oak
trees.

The LSU community is helping with relief efforts with the state and federal
agencies and several universities in New Orleans are relocating their
administrative offices to campus.  The LSU Field House and Pete Maravich
Assembly Center are being used for special medical needs evacuees and
medical triage respectively.


John

John M. Anderson
Map Librarian and Director
Cartographic Information Center
Department of Geography & Anthropology
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803