large-scale vector data ftp

I used to be able to ftp large scale (24k) vector data directly from the
USGS site via anonymous ftp at edcftp.cr.usgs.gov. The address I used, IIRC,
was pub/data/DLG/LARGE_SCALE. That directory does not exist anymore. There
is now a directory called /pub/data/DLG-24K/, but it is empty.

The site does indeed have an http download at
http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/DLG/LARGE_SCALE/ , but that is pretty much
a serious pain to use compared to ftp. For instance, I can't index it to
make an availability list, I can't script the downloading process, and I
hate clicking when typing works so much better and faster! :-)

Is there still an ftp site, in a different place, that I just don't know
about?

Thanks a lot,
Frank

Did I ask these questions in the wrong way? Has this become a low-traffic
group where people don't post much? Just curious.

Frank

Yes, this is a low-traffic group now. The DLG files are available through
HTTP at http://eros.usgs.gov/geodata/dlg_large/states.html

I don't know where they might be available through FTP. That host doesn't
seem to accept FTP connections.

--
Jim Irwin
http://www.holoscenes.com

jimirwin wrote:

Low-traffic group--you say that like it's a bad thing ;-)

Just to fill in a little detail, the security managers at DoI have
banned the use of FTP servers.

I would agree that it isn't convenient to use typical web browsers
to gather many similar files from an http server. However I would
encourage you to consider scripting the download by saving the
links you'll want in a file and then downloading them by running
a batch file or script of some kind. It's just my opinion but I
think this isn't overly complicated once you figure out which tools
you can use to get a single file from a http server. Using cygwin
for example you can run wget to download a URL that you specify on
the command line. So your batch file could be as simple as a large
list of wget commands, each with a slightly different URL as its
argument. Come to think of it, I recall that wget can be told to
folllow links on a site, downloading everything linked from a page.

Peter
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Peter N. Schweitzer (MS 954, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192)
(703) 648-6533 FAX: (703) 648-6252 email: pschweitzer@usgs.gov