GIS LINKS AND
RESOURCES
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Students: Please let me know if you found any helpful web sites - I will add them to this page.
GIS DATA AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
GEOGRAPHY
Contact the Department’s College Lab Technician Amy Jeu ajeu@hunter.cuny.edu for information about our digital data collection.
GIS EDUCATION, DEVELOPERS,
AND ON-LINE TUTORIALS
NCGIA (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis)
Clark Labs Home page (Idrisi GIS)
CRITICAL
CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS
A useful Critical GIS reading list compiled by Matthew Wilson can be found at http://criticalgis.blogspot.com/p/critical-gis-bibliography.html.
The following journals publish the relevant articles: (also see Library Journals):
- Annals of the AAG
- The Professional Geographer
- Cartography and GIS
- International journal of GIS
- Cartographica
- Environment and planning A
- Environment and planning D
GIS and Critical Geographic
Research (A One Day Conference)
25 February, 2001, New York, NY 10021
MAPPING,
VIEWING, AND DOWNLOADING DATA ON THE WEB
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http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en American Fact Finder is the US Bureau of Census on-line
service that provides access to source for population, housing, economic, and
geographic data. It includes data from or provides links to decennial
population census data, economic census, American community survey,
population estimates, and other information. It also provides interactive
internet-based mapping facility. |
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GIS data depot (links to various GIS data sources).
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2000 US Census data
Official site of the US Bureau of Census |
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http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/
The Economic Census of the US Census Bureau provides a
detailed portrait of the Nation's economy once every five years, from the
national to the local level. It covers all domestic non-farm business
establishments, other than those operated by governments. Most reports are
confined to businesses with paid employees. |
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ICPSR-Census 2000, Access to census data files with explanation of their content. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CENSUS2000/index.html |
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) census data downloads IPUMS-USA is a coherent national census database from 1850 to current. UMS-International collects and distributes census data from around the world. |
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http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/datasets/pums/pums-home.html PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLES (PUMS) from Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. |
Environmental Protection Agency maintains Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) public database. It contains information on toxic chemical releases
and other waste management activities. |
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CAST
(Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies). Guide to Mostly On-Line and
Mostly Free |
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UNEP/GRID
Global population data sets (public United Nations datasets) |
ESRI
data browser and downloads (public and commercial, look for public
data only). |
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USGS (United States
Geological Survey) - major provider of the |
GDT (commercial). |
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NOAA (National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration). Satellite imagery, navigation charts,
etc. |
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New
York
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NYC Department of
City Planning - Bytes of the Big Apple. Some datsets
are available for free download. |
New York State
Government Information Locator Service. Follow the link to NYS Geographic
Information System Clearinghouse - The Clearinghouse was established to
disseminate information about |
California
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