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GeoCommunicator: Find Land Description

Department:	Department of the Interior (DOI)
Agency:	Bureau of Land Management (http://www.blm.gov )
Sub Agency:	GeoCommunicator (http://www.blm.gov/nils/GeoComm/home_services.html )

Description:

GeoCommunicator (http://www.geocommunicator.gov ) is the publication website for the distribution of spatial data from the U.S. National Integrated Land System and the Bureau of Land Management’s Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000) System. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency in the Department of Interior, is responsible for cadastral survey, land and mineral use authorization, and resource management on public lands in the United States.

Find Land Description: Find LD provides the ability to pass a land description (state, meridian, township, range, section, aliquot) and have the latitude and longitude returned for the coordinates defining the boundary of the land description.

Help/Documentation:

http://www.blm.gov/nils/GeoComm/documents/NILS_GeoRSS.pdf, http://www.blm.gov/nils/GeoComm/home_services.html

WSDL/Data Location:

http://www.geocommunicator.gov/findld/findld.asmx?WSDL

Operations:

Operation Description
FindLD Returns latitude and longitude coordinates for the specified land description.
LDToGeoRSS Same as FindLD. However, response is in the form of a Geographic Really Simple Syndication (GeoRSS) XML string and not an object.

Support:	http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/contact.shtm
Example:	DOI_GeoComm

private void ExecuteFindLD()
{
    string LandDescription = "";
    gov.geocommunicator.www.FindLD.FindLD svc = new gov.geocommunicator.www.FindLD.FindLD();
    LandDescription = "NM 23 0270N 0120W SEC 1;";
    // LandDescription = "NM 23 0270N 0120W SEC 11 ALIQ NWSW, ALIQ NESW, ALIQ NWSE, ALIQ NESE";

    try
    {
        string response = "";

        // test CallFindLD
        DOI_GeoComm.gov.geocommunicator.www.FindLD.ePolygonFormat format = DOI_GeoComm.gov.geocommunicator.www.FindLD.ePolygonFormat.eGeoRSS;
        gov.geocommunicator.www.FindLD.Result result = svc.CallFindLD(LandDescription, format);
        MessageBox.Show("FindLD Response: \n" + result.Polygons[0].ToString());

        // test LDToGeoRSS
        response = "";
        response = svc.LDToGeoRSS(LandDescription);
        MessageBox.Show("LDToGeoRSS Response: \n" + response);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }

    svc.Dispose();
    svc = null;
}