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Coordinate Information - Download file information

All vector posted data are in:

GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

For Iowa DOT downloads that do not have a projection file, you can right click here and select "Save As"; rename to match your downloaded shape fle.

GeoTIFF files are in:

State Plane Cooridinate System 1983 - Iowa North (1401) - in meters - for all counties in the north plane

State Plane Cooridinate System 1983 - Iowa South (1402) - in meters - for all counties in the south plane

Please Note:
Year 2005 GeoTIFFs have a LZW compression. Arcview 3.3 does not read images with this compression unless a new dll is installed, see http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techArticles.articleShow&d=27185 for instructions .