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The DSL download issue has been resolved. My DSL speed was a ridicules 327 kbps. But get this we were paying ATT for 1.5 mbps!!! They will be raising the speed to 1.5 that should take care of the slow download speed and maybe I can get the contour file faster and so be more do-able.

yes I know a map of Nevada exists. I have it downloaded and running in mapsource. I wanted to get the experience of making a map for myself.

DSL and the ones that I have downloaded seem to take 1 hour or so.

I am learning by making a map of Nevada. So far I've done transportation and GNIS and 3 of the 70 contours downloads. At this rate it should take me a month to download the remaining 67 contour files as listed in the excel spreadsheet. Is there a faster method of getting those contour files downloaded?

If I open pgAdmin and login with a password then I see several data bases, some have a red X through them but if I right-click the red X's they seem to go away. Then if I leave pgAdmin open I can process the downlaoded transportation files. I assume this transportation step now working because I ended up with a nice transportation.shp file that I can open in mapedit.

Next step...contours

I have the config file set to trusted. But when I try to install postgis I get this error message:
error opening file for writing
c:program files\postgresql\8.3\bin\libiconv-2.dll
abort   retry  cancel

then the error log has this message:

createdb: database creation failed:
error: database postgis already exists

I've used the control panel to remove the postgis program, re-started the computer and went through the steps again and continue to get the same error message. Any idea about what is going on?
Dean

I'm using the Topo process program and trying to follow the tutorial. The tutorial does not mention exporting. Did I miss something?
Dean

I can download the transportation files and then combine them into the "all_lines.*" files, but if I try to process them with PostGIS the "all_lines" file disappear and I'm left with a transportation.prj file. I thought I needed the transportation.shp file to latter add to the other components? It seems like I'm closer to what I need without the Process(PostGIS) step.
Dean