| Download Town of Carrboro Digital Data |
| Topography (.dxf) |
Download 2-foot contours, in .dxf format, by index tile. These files are zipped.
.Dxf files can be viewed in CAD packages or a free viewer (ArcExplorer) can be downloaded from ESRI at esri.com. |
| Orthophotography (.sid) |
2003 Orthophotography in MrSid format (.sid), in color, by index tile. For some tiles, the 2003 photography is not available; for those tiles there is 1998 black and white photography. Be sure to download both the .sid and the .sdw files for the 1998 tiles.
MrSid images can be viewed in many software packages or a free viewer can be downloaded from LizardTech at lizardtech.com. |
| Town-wide data (.shp or .dxf) |
Town-wide data includes various layers of Carrboro data in Arcview shapefile format (.shp) or, in some cases, in .dxf format. These files are zipped. |
| Instructions for Downloading Data |
For town-wide data, select Town-wide data , and then pick the dataset you want. Town-wide data is generally in shapefile format.
For tiles (topography or orthophotography), select Topography or Orthophotography for an index of tiles.
Find the area you are interested in in the index using the zoom and pan tools.
Use the hotlink tool (the lightning bolt) to pick the index tile for the data you want to download.
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