Thank you for this!
How wonderful, thank you NGMDB!
One thing we lost through Klokan a few years ago was the ability to search for Michigan Minor Civil Divisions and get accurate geographic extents for them. We have about 1,200 townships which are actual minor civil divisions that collect
property taxes & stuff. I notice that this NGMDB tool recognizes their existence in the search box, but doesn’t take the map to the geographic extent. Or maybe does sometimes? I’m still testing.
You can search for Onondaga Twp, Michigan but the map takes you to about a 4-square mile extent that doesn’t match the 36-square mile township. Delhi Twp, however, which is a charter township and has status closer to that of a city government,
does seem to go to the correct extent.
Counties are working just fine. Cities seem to be going to the correct extent.
Not nitpicking, just observing, and I’m thankful for this new tool.
Kathleen Weessies
Social Sciences Coordinator; Head, Map Library
Michigan State University
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Subject: Extent - replacement for kloken bounding box
Hey all,
Ask and you shall receive! Or at least, speak up you never know who's listening!
Check this out: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/extent/
Dave Soller and Chris Garrity of USGS heard our cries and put this together.
The question for the group - or as Chris calls all y'all - my team - what other formatting types do we need? I need the MARC OCLC formatting type
and that's it. What else are people using at bounding box?
Chris seems open to other comments or suggestions. Please funnel those through me and I'll share them with him.
Angie
Angie Cope
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