Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse

Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse Help

Click on a link for more information.

If your question is not answered here, please e-mail Tainy Kone or Luis Martinez at the University of New Orleans Coastal Research Lab.

Other options:

• Go back to Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse-- close this window, or go to http://www.pbc.uno.edu.

• For general information about the Louisiana Digital Coast webGIS, please see the text on the opening page at http://www.pbc.uno.edu

Online Mapping

Click this 'Reload Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse' button once to reload the Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse web GIS page if something isn't working correctly. Oftentimes, things like clicking on the layers, tools, or map window too quickly, slow connection, or an incomplete load will cause problems. An error message like the ones below might appear. Simply click 'OK' on the error message, reload the Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse by clicking the 'Reload Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse' button, and try again.

Map window

The map window is the center window that contains the map area that you are viewing. To zoom in and out or move around (panning) the map, see the Toolbar Help. If you receive an error while zooming in and out or panning the map, you should reload the Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse webGIS by clicking the 'Reload Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse ' button near the top-right corner of the Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse webGIS screen.

 

Text and information window

The text and information window is used by several Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse webGIS tools to retrieve and disseminate information from and to you, the user.

 

Links

The links at the bottom of the Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghouse webGIS screen give you quick access to related Pontchartrain Basin websites.

 

Download Data

The Pontchartrain Basin Clearinghousing uses the following file formats:

1. Shape file (*.shp) - Shape files are a group of files used with geographic information systems. For more information please click here.
2. Image file (*.tif) - Tagged image format is used to store images. For more information please click here.
3. Keyhole Markup Language and Keyhole Zipped files (KML and KMZ) - These files can be used with the lasted version of Google™ Earth. For mor information please click here.