No subject
Wed Jun 10 16:53:38 CDT 2009
>>forwarded message>>
NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD INDICATORS PARTNERSHIP
NNIP NEWS FLASH!
Issue No. 22
22 June 2001
TOPIC GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
=============================================
============================
HUD Healthy Communities Environmental Mapping
US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
June 2001
* location, type and performance of HUD-funded activities in
every neighborhood across the country; and
* select EPA information on brownfields, hazardous wastes,
air pollution and waste water discharges.
http//www.hud.gov/emaps/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
University of Virginia
June 2001
Geostat supports a wide range of academic and scholarly
activities through access to extensive collections of numeric
and geospatial data files; computing facilities and software for
data manipulation, research, and instruction; and a suite of
Internet-accessible data extraction tools.
http//fisher.lib.virginia.edu/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ESRI Virtual Campus
ESRI, Inc.
June 2001
Online GIS courses from ESRI.
http//campus.esri.com/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cartographic Modeling Lab
University of Pennsylvania
June 2001
The Cartographic Modeling Lab, a joint venture between the
Graduate School of Fine Arts and the School of Social Work
at the University of Pennsylvania, brings together faculty
members and students across disciplines to collaborate on
spatial research. The CML specializes in Geographic
Information System (GIS) projects, with an emphasis on data
integration, application development, and spatial analysis.
Current projects span a wide variety of topics including public
safety, social welfare, children and youth, housing,
homelessness, the environment, public education, public
health and political science.
http//apollo.gsfa.upenn.edu/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Web-Mapper.com
June 2001
"The First Online Resource Devoted to Internet-based GIS."
http//www.web-mapper.com/main.cfm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1998 TRI (Toxic Release Inventory) GIS Maps
MapCruzin.com
June 2001
I created these 1998 TRI GIS maps so that you could view and
query them with ArcView GIS or ArcExplorer.
http//www.mapcruzin.com/tri_1998/index.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arlington County Maps
Arlington County, VA
June 2001
Interactive mapping site for County. Data include Properties,
Zoning, Civic Assn., General Land Use Plan, Historic
Districts, Voter Precincts, Police Districts, Neighborhood
Conservation Areas, 1998 & 2000 Digital Orthophotographs of
entire County, Post Offices, Swimming Pools, and Recycling
Centers.
http//magellan.co.arlington.va.us/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
MapCiti
Syncline, Inc.
June 2001
Publishing maps on the web just got a whole lot easier!
MapCiti is the premiere automated web-based mapping
service. Our application allows you to create and edit your
own maps, maintain user access control over them, and
manage your data from anywhere in the world using your
favorite web browser.
http//www.mapciti.com/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Geographic Clearinghouses
Geography Network
June 2001
Geographic data has never been as available as it is today.
The emergence of Internet technologies in the past few years
has made it much easier for geographic data publishers to
distribute their data to GIS users. One of the best ways to
discover this data is through geographic clearinghouses and
other geographic data sites on the Web. Below is a collection
of links to some of the more useful sites offering data that
works with GIS software.
http//www.geographynetwork.com/data/clearinghouses.cfm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elementary School Attendance Areas
San Antonio Metro Health
June 2001
The health of the community encompasses the environment in
which people live and learn. We hope this system will provide
the information that will help rebuild communities. This
Community Information System was produced using MapInfo
6.0 GIS by The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District in
conjunction with the Community Revitalization Action Group
(CRAG) staff using Bexar Appraisal District 2000 data,
processed by Central Mapping of Public Works.
http//www.samhd.org/profiles/community/web5/index.htm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
MapCalc Learner
Red Hen Systems, Inc.
June 2001
MapCalc Learner is a comprehensive set of grid-based tools
for advanced analysis and display of spatial information. If
you're already using MapInfo, ArcView, or Surfer, MapCalc
Learner is the analysis and modeling package you need.
http//www.redhensystems.com/mapcalc/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ESRI ArcPad
ESRI, Inc.
June 2001
ArcPad software is an easy-to-use, lightweight, low-cost
solution for mobile mapping and geographic information
systems (GISs). ArcPad enhances portable touch screen
computers with intuitive mapping, GIS, and GPS functionality.
ArcPad makes field data collection fast and easy, improves
data accuracy, and provides immediate data availability and
validation.
http//www.esri.com/arcpad
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mapping Crime Principle and Practice
National Institute of Justice
December 1999
This NIJ Research Report introduces the science of crime
mapping to police officers, crime analysts, and other people
interested in visualizing crime data through the medium of
maps. Not a technical guide to software, Mapping Crime
Principle and Practice presents a broad approach and
addresses the kinds of questions crime mapping can answer
and how it can answer them. More than 110 colorful maps
illustrate how geographic information systems (GIS) are used
to analyze crime problems. The appendix lists 50 Internet
resources related to crime mapping, including Web sites
displaying crime maps, GIS and analysis software, hot spot
identification methods, sources of census data, and virtual
reality viewers.
http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/178919.htm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mapping and Crime Analysis by Community Organizations in
Hartford, CT
National Institute of Justice
April 2001
Although crime mapping has become increasingly popular
among law enforcement agencies, there have been few
attempts to make it available to community residents and
organizations. The National Institute of Justice sponsored an
assessment of one community's efforts to adapt crime
mapping technologies for community use, highlighted in this
Research in Brief (NCJ 185333). This technology-the
Neighborhood Problem Solving (NPS) system-was
implemented in 14 locations throughout Hartford. It was used
most often to confirm and quantify known problems, but also
revealed problems previously unknown to community
organizations and helped to measure the effects of
neighborhood initiatives. Analysis found that a key feature of
the program's success in Hartford was the extensive
infrastructure already in place to support the system, including
neighborhood-based problem-solving committees, veteran
community organizers, and a supportive environment in the
city government and police department.
http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/185333.htm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
GIS.com
ESRI, Inc.
June 2001
GIS.com is a portal to GIS information on the Web and was
created by ESRI, a GIS software developer. The site is
intended to educate anyone interested in geographic
technology on the value that technology brings to their day-to-
day activities. The site also provides GIS users with resources
to help them in their work.
http//www.gis.com/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Datums--Who Needs 'Em Anyway?
ArcUser
April 2001
When was the last time you thought about what datum the
data you were using was in? Perform analysis using data sets
created in different datums or even display them together and
you won't like the results. The same features in two street
centerline themes or coverages may appear offset by many
meters or feet. Fire hydrant points collected with GPS appear
located in parking lots or inside buildings instead of out by the
curb. GPS coordinates acquired by hikers show their position
half way up a very steep cliff instead of on the mapped trail
below. These are all very real examples caused, in large part,
by using data sets lacking a common datum.
http//www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0401/datum.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coming to Terms
ArcUser
April 2001
Glossary of terms on projections and datums.
http//www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0401/terms.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Locate Cell Towers in Your County
ArcUser
April 2001
An article in the April-June 2000 issue of ArcUser magazine
described how publicly available FCC data were used to locate
cell phone towers in Martin County, FL. In this article, the
author walks readers through the process of downloading and
massaging FCC data so that it can be imported and viewed in
ArcView GIS.
http//www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0401/files/celltower.pdf
[Adobe Acrobat File]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Address Content Standard
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
March 2001
The Address Content Standard (the Standard) will be an
FGDC data content standard. The Standard will provide
semantic definitions for components determined by the
participants to be integral to the creation, maintenance,
sharing, useability, and exchange of addresses and/or
address lists.
http//www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/sub2_4.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImageMap USA
i-cubed
June 2001
ImageMap USA is a series of seamless, digital mosaics of the
continental USA. Produced from nearly 450 recent Landsat 7
scenes, the ImageMap USA Mosaic is the most up-to-date,
highest resolution, country-wide, image of the US ever
produced. ImageMap USA can be instrumental in helping to
visualize the intrinsic geographic patterns that shape the
environments in which we live and work.
http//www.i3.com/products/imusa.htm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
GeoCommunity
GeoComm International, Corp
June 2001
The GeoCommunity is THE place for the Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), CAD, Mapping, and Location-
Based industry professionals, enthusiasts, and students to
gather.
http//www.geocomm.com/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Webmapping & State GIS Data Directory
GeoCommunity
June 2001
The GeoCommunity has researched a great number of state
GIS data and webmapping sources. This is a summary of
input from our website's visitors and lots of time surfing a
variety of websites. The list is in its infancy so please feel free
to contribute any resources that aren't currently listed.
http//www.spatialnews.com/datadirectory/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
GEO World
Adams Business Media
June 2001
GEO WORLD is the world's first and leading magazine
dedicated to the understanding and application of GIS and
related technologies worldwide. Editorial emphasis responds
to the main concerns of the GIS novice and professional alike
by covering new products; company news; GIS applications in
myriad disciplines; federal, state and local government;
associations; conferences and seminars; GIS in education;
contract notices; GIS outside the United States; GIS uses in
ancillary industries such as global positioning systems,
remote sensing, surveying, aerial photography and more.
http//www.geoplace.com/gw/
=============================================
============================
Copyright (c) 2001 National Neighborhood Indicators
Partnership
The Urban Institute
Washington, DC
More information about the Colist
mailing list