Contains various map databases on topics including topography, biodiversity, water use, etc. Also contains links to other GIS data sources. A good starting point for searching for GIS data from the United States.
This geographic names data set provides a "mashup" of URLs for official city and county government web sites and city and county location data from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). GNIS data includes incorporated places, census designated areas, unincorporated places, counties, and populated places.
The U.S. Census Grids provide raster data sets that include not only population and housing counts, but a wide variety of socioeconomic characteristics. These gridded data sets transform irregularly shaped census block and block group boundaries into a regular surface – a raster grid – for faster and easier analysis.
250m True Marble global dataset. This is a low resolution version of the full 15m product. Two types of files are available for download: GeoTIFF and PNG.
We're pleased to be introducing our new TopoZone Pro service, adding shaded relief maps, high resolution aerial photography, street maps, and a whole lot more to TopoZone. We think TopoZone Pro makes TopoZone the complete source for Web maps of all kinds
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
Homepage for the National Land Cover Data set, providing a landcover classification to every 30x30m portion of the United States. Also provides tree canopy cover data for the United States.
Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available on-line from the US Geological Survey. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. topographic maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a printed copy from the USGS Store.
SEDAC’s mission is to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and earth science data and to serve as an “information gateway” between the earth sciences and social sciences.
Spatial Data Integrator is the first Open Source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) solution specialized in the manipulation of geographical information and supported by an editor.
A variety of tools for working with datasets. data visualization, mapping, blogs, data catalogs, R tutorial, web crawlers, data mashers, code, lists of projects, APIs, etc.
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS).
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much lik
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much lik
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS)
POLYMAP koppelt unterschiedliche Geo- und Fachinformationssysteme (GIS) und bringt deren Daten in den Web-Browser. POLYMAP ist vollständig in Java geschrieben und wird unter einer Open-Source-Lizenz entwickelt.
polymap.org bietet den Rahmen für Diskussion, Weiterentwicklung und Pflege des Basissystems und der Plugins. Plugins erweitern das System um praktisch beliebige Funktionen und bauen aufeinander auf. Plugins können von jedem entwickelt werden und sind nicht zwingend Open-Source
POLYMAP koppelt unterschiedliche Geo- und Fachinformationssysteme (GIS) und bringt deren Daten in den Web-Browser. POLYMAP ist vollständig in Java geschrieben und wird unter einer Open-Source-Lizenz entwickelt.polymap.org bietet den Rahmen für Diskussion, Weiterentwicklung und Pflege des Basissystems und der Plugins. Plugins erweitern das System um praktisch beliebige Funktionen und bauen aufeinander auf. Plugins können von jedem entwickelt werden und sind nicht zwingend Open-Source
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529--537(June 1996)Investigators of social differentials in health outcomes commonly augment incomplete microdata by appending socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas (such as median income in a zip code) to proxy for individual characteristics. But little empirical attention has been paid to how well this aggregate information serves as a proxy for the individual characteristics of interest. We build on recent work addressing the biases inherent in proxies and consider two health-related examples within a statistical framework that illuminates the nature and sources of biases. Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey are linked to census data. We assess the validity of using the aggregate census information as a proxy for individual information when estimating main effects and when controlling for potential confounding between socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors in measures of general health status and infant mortality. We find a general, but not universal, tendency for aggregate proxies to exaggerate the effects of micro-level variables and to do more poorly than micro-level variables at controlling for confounding. The magnitude and direction of these biases vary across samples, however. Our statistical framework and empirical findings suggest the difficulties in and limits to interpreting proxies derived from aggregate census data as if they were micro-level variables. The statistical framework that we outline for our study of health outcomes should be generally applicable to other situations where researchers have merged aggregate data with microdata samples..
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