Google Earth

We will be making an effort to make GIS data available for use in Google Earth, a free download from Google. You can download the Google Earth software from here: http://earth.google.com/downloads.html

The data being made available is in KMZ format and users can either drag and drop this file inside google earth or add it from inside google earth. Click here for a snapshot to see how to add KMZ files in Google Earth. You can also click on the link and automatically have it opened in Google Earth.

Data Download for Google Earth

GIS Data from FCC: Includes cellular towers, AM, FM, Microwave towers etc (New! Added 05/04/06)
All the data was derived directly from the freely available database extracts on the FCC website and later coverted to KMZ format. Please refer to this page for more information.

AM | Antenna Structure Registration (ASR)* | Cellular | Cellular Service Area Boundaries*

FM | Land Mobile - Commercial* | Land Mobile - Private* | Land Mobile - Broadcast

MDS/ITFS (Multipoint Distribution Service/Instructional Television Fixed Service)

Microwave* | Paging | TV-NTSC | TV-Digital | TV Contours NTSC & Digital*

Note: Some of the layers marked with * will take time to load because of very high number of features

[FEMA] Hurricane Katrina Surge Inundation Limits (Added 04/21/06)
The KMZs were generated from shapefiles downloaded from the FEMA site. Please refer to this link for metadata and further information. The metadata files were downloaded along with the shapefiles from the above link.
St. Charles | Metadata || Tangipahoa | Metadata || St. John the Baptist | Metadata

Useful GIS Data Layers from the Louisiana GIS CD (Added 04/20/06)
The Google Earth format/KMZ files have been generated from shapefiles available in the Louisiana GIS CD (lagiscdv2). Please read the metadata file (obtained from Lousiana GIS CD) for each dataset for more information about the data and the source.

Download all the above files in a single zip file (~45 MB)