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Solution: Get GIS data for a specific geography

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Solution: Get GIS data for a specific geography

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] All right, here is my solution to getting GIS Data for a Specific Geography. I thought it would be cool to take a look at Lake Michigan. So here I am at GIS Open data at the state of Michigan that we visited before. Let's type in Lake Michigan and see what we get. Ooh, Lake Michigan Bathymetric Contours. Let's go for that. Awesome, now I'm going to download it. So I'll click on Download and let's search for Shapefile. That's good. And we will download this. Now let me go ahead and unzip the data and then visualize that in ArcGIS Pro. Extract, (indistinct). Okay, here I've opened up ArcGIS Pro. Let's go to the Catalog. Here are the contours. Pull them over, and I don't really like that color, so I'm going to right click here in the contents on the symbol and choose the color that I'm most interested in. There we go, awesome.

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