Date:         Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:22:34 GMT
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From:         Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: County Decimal Coordinates
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David Cobb kindly sent this to me a few years ago.  I recall deleting some columns of information and rearranging them slightly.  Might be worthwhile checking with him to see if there is additional information that might be of use to others (I only wanted W,E,N,S coordinates for creating map cataloging records)


Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
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-- "Colleen R. Cahill" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Due to the kindness of David Cobb, Phil Hoehn and Mary Larsgaard, there is
an Excel table with decimal coordinates for every US county.  This 411MB
file is available for download at ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/gmdndl/.  Please
save the file before opening it so to put less stress on our server. Any
questions on the data will have to go back to Mary.

I am also going to work on converting this data to the format used in the
MARC 034 field.  If I succeed, is anyone else interested in this?

Colleen
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