An easy-to-use contour tool, developed by GIS staff in Kentucky and modified slightly by NGCE for Gateway customer use, is being made available with each elevation bare earth Gateway order. The tool comes with a User’s Guide for installation and use of the tool. The user can draw their own area of interest (AOI) or use an existing area in a shapefile or feature class to define the AOI, and choose from different contour intervals (0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10). The tool creates accurate but smoothed, cartographically pleasing contours with numbered index contours that roughly mimic the look of a USGS topo map. To download the tool and supporting files and User’s Guide, click here.