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Obtain Philadelphia Land Use

  1. Go to OpenDataPhily and search for “land use”.





  2. Once you click on Land Use you will be able to see a list of meta data on about the data set.





  3. Download the Land Use (SHP) file. Click on Explore -> Go to resource.





  4. Once clicked, you will be downloading the SHP file of the Land Use data.





  5. After you have download the zip file. Unzip it. You can either use 7-Zip or any other software.





  6. After unzipping. You will be able to see 5 files in the Land_Use folder. You must always keep these files together in a folder for the SHP file to work.