2.8. Appendix C: Dataset

For this exercise we use a land use vector layer for the Town of Amherst, MA and a scanned topo TIFF image for the same area. Please download archived files from here:

  1. landuse data [0.4Mb]

  2. topo [6.1Mb]

  3. You can download landuse file from MassGIS site directly

Then unzip files into your working/project folder. You should have the following files:

amhersttopo.tif
lus8.dbf
lus8.prj
lus8.sbn
lus8.sbx
lus8.shp
lus8.shp.xml
lus8.shx

Sources: MassGISLanduse data tiled by town