Date:         Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:08:16 -0800
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From:         Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
Subject:      Re: County Decimal Coordinates
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i sure am!! anything that saves me
time when i'm cataloging is most welcome,
and i've found that getting bounding-box
coordinates and then entering them is one
of the most time-consuming parts of cm cataloging.

mary

Colleen R. Cahill 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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