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VMAP0 and VMAP1
MapAbility.com has a nice set of information about VMAP0 and VMAP1, data sets created by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (a branch of the US Government) to provide a basic world-level dataset. by gaige on 10/31 07:10pm - Story - 5,515 Hits
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Mapping Tornados with Cartographica
I was attempting to find some Climate Change data when I came across GeoData.gov ,which is a really excellent website for free GIS data. When I was attempting to find climate data I came across some very interesting data regarding tornados in the United States. The data included an entire ... by rjonesgtown on 07/17 11:01am - Story - 1,630 Hits
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Mapping U.S. Naval Bases and Ports
Recently a friend of mine received information in the mail about becoming a Naval Officer. In the packet of information was a brochure that included information about locations of U.S. Naval bases and ports throughout the world. The location information was simply a list of cities around the world where ... by rjonesgtown on 08/02 11:43am - Story - 1,483 Hits
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Zillow Labs makes neighborhood shapes available
Real estate web site Zillow has announced that they are making the shape files that they use to indicate neighborhoods across the US available under the Creative Commons license. That's right, a commercial data provider who is willing to make data available for free. As they'd say in New Zealand, ... by Admin on 01/23 08:22am - Story - 1,371 Hits
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Geodetic reference points available in shapefile format
The National Geodetic Survey has a web service for providing geodetic reference data in shapefile format, suitable for use in GIS software. For those unfamiliar with the US NGS, they are a part of NOAA (go figure, they're not part of the USGS) that "defines and manages the national coordinate ... by gaige on 10/26 10:19pm - Story - 1,351 Hits
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1m resolution data on National Map
Just in case all of this discussion about governmental censorship of maps has you down, you should take a look at this map of Champaign, Illinois. The national map has some data at resolutions of 1m per pixel, which is unbelievably detailed. by gaige on 10/26 09:48pm - Story - 1,260 Hits
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GNIS has your name written on it
OK, maybe it isn't your name, but it is the name of your town, and the names of millions of towns and places throughout the world. The USGS's Geonames (or GNIS) site contains downloadable datasets with names of cities, towns and other places. by Admin on 10/18 07:42am - Story - 1,242 Hits
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Maps that Lye
When browsing the OpenStreetMap Wiki, I ran across a page called Maps That Lye, which contains information about anti-copying provisions in maps. In particular, there are a number of locations on many maps that are intentionally wrong or misleading in an attempt to make it obvious (to the copyright holder) ... by gaige on 04/22 07:29am - Story - 1,219 Hits
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Do you get what you pay for?
Ed Parsons (CTO of Ordnance Survey in the UK, the premier provider of GIS data there) has an article in his blog commenting about a story in the Guardian about the price of data. by gaige on 03/09 08:34am - Story - 1,211 Hits
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Ed Parsons speaks out on the future of ...
Ed Parsons (CTO of Ordnance Survey in the UK) has the first of a series of articles on his personal site entitled "Building Ordnance Survey 2.0" that goes into his ideas about serving up OS data as more of a service model instead of a data sales (licensing) model. It ... by Admin on 05/30 01:50pm - Story - 1,205 Hits
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Open Source mapping coming to Manchester, UK
As part of the OpenStreetMap program, volunteers will be gathering in Manchester, UK on the 13th and 14th of May to try and generate map data for the city for use on OpenSteetMap. The site is a clearinghouse for open source geospatial data for public use. The gather, dubbed Mapchester ... by gaige on 04/22 07:24am - Story - 1,070 Hits
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What's the economic half-life of Geodata?
A good thought piece from Ed Parsons' blog today about the half-life of geodata. Using the announcement (thanks to All Points Blog) this weekend that 35-years of Landsat data would be available to the public on the web as an impetus for discussion, Ed muses about the useful life of ... by gaige on 08/04 07:55am - Story - 1,004 Hits
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Good Places to Find GIS Data!
Last week's House hearing on the state of Federal geospatial data management encouraged me to search out good places for both free and inexpensive GIS data. Basically, I wanted to create a brief overview about good places to find GIS data. I will mostly likely post several blog postings on ... by rjonesgtown on 07/29 01:01pm - Story - 969 Hits
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One Geology to make 1:1,000,000 data available
OneGeology is a new web site with the mission to "Make web-accessible the best available geological map data worldwide at a scale of about 1: 1 million, as a geological survey contribution to the International Year of Planet Earth." It's an exciting endeavor and one that might mean more data ... by gaige on 10/18 10:33am - Story - 966 Hits
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Home town makes good (data)
Some of you may already know that ClueTrust (the folks who run this site) has been located in the National Capital Area since 1989 (over 20 years now), and during that time, DC has gone through a lot of changes. The District's new mayor is nothing if not high tech, ... by gaige on 05/05 05:19am - Story - 731 Hits
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Haiti earthquake imagery now available
Google announced in a blog posting last night that they have a new imagery of Haiti taken within the last 24 hours by GeoEye showing some of the extensive damage that country has seen after the massive earthquake there on Tuesday. Relief efforts underway by the Red Cross, International Rescue ... by gaige on 01/14 05:27am - Story - 465 Hits
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PakResponse posts Pakistan data
For those interested in looking at information related to the floods in Pakistan or those who are helping the relief effort, PakResponse has posted some base maps, symbol sets and flood map information. Of particular interest to Cartographica users are the OHCR symbol sets that can be used with Cartographica's ... by gaige on 09/02 11:38am - Story - 8 Hits |
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