Listed below are links to rich geographic datasets available from Washington State Government. Most of these files are in zipped (compressed) .shp file sets. Download the .zip file to your desktop and extract the file to a folder on your desktop. To add elements to your depiction, choose "import from File" in the Add Content control and browse to the first file in the data folder that has the .shp extension.  When loading a file with state-wide data, Depiction has to go through the entire file to look for data that applies to the region you selected for your depiction. This may take some time so be patient.

County and City governments often have GIS data files available for downloading as well, and will generally work better in Depiction because a higher percentage of the data will pertain to the Depiction region chosen.

Washington State

• http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/geodatacatalog/default.htm
  Dept of Transportation GIS data files
• ftp://ftp.doh.wa.gov/geodata/layers
  Dept of Health: Mostly point data shape files in .zip format
• http://www.ofm.wa.gov/geographic/default.asp
  Office of Financial Management: Census data and links to other Washington State government geospatial data sources
• http://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/app1/dataweb/dmmatrix.html
  Dept of Natural Resources GIS data files
• http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/data/data.htm
  Dept of Ecology GIS data files and links to lots of other Pacific Northwest and national Geo data resources
• http://gis.ess.washington.edu/data/watiles/index.html
  10 meter resolution terrain (Data Elevation Model – DEM) data. After extracting DEM file of interest, change extension from .dem to .gtiff to read into Depiction

Here are sample .zip files of statewide data taken from the above websites. Except for the ferry routes file, the others are all point data .shp files and will be loaded by Depiction as Point of interest elements:

• Ferry routes (24 KB)
• Fire stations (127 KB)
• Fire locations and data (1.75 MB)
• Hospitals (37 KB)
• Nursing homes (41 KB)
• Pharmacies (66 KB)

A good place to start if looking for data in the other 49 states of the U.S.:

• http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos - the Geo Spatial One-Stop site