The 2008 tiger/Line Shapefiles

were posted on the Census Bureau Website. You can download at:
http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles/national-files. Or ftp them: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008

My Visited State Map

You can create your own map showing the states that you have visited. See where I have been:
visited 39 states (78%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project It's a fun tool.

GIS Day & Geography Awareness Week @Mason

Please join us as Mason celebrates this year GIS Day and Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 17-21. You can view specific presenations and event schedule at http://infoguides.gmu.edu/gisday. On Nov. 19, the GIS center of Fenwick Library will have Open House event from 11:00-2:00. The staff will demonstrate 3-D mapping anaysis using ArcScene and Google Earth/sketch, ArcMap Spatial analysis using RappFlow data, and much more. Hope to see many of you next Wednesday!

2008 Election Cartograms

See some 2008 Election Cartograms: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/?map

Mason Archival Repository Service

C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Digitized Map Collection is now searchable so please check it out! This collection compries 96 maps and 18 rare altales ranging from the 16th to 19th centuries and is housed in the Special Collections & Archives dept. The majority of the maps are of Virginia though.

GIS@Fenwick

resumes starting Sept. 10. Please check the workshop schedule to learn basics of GIS and how you can use this tool in your research.

What's New? ---Library's New Infoguide

Welcome to the fall semester, 2008! Please check our new infoguides that replace our existing library subject pages. I have created the infoguides on Geospatial Data and GIS services , geography, maps, and United States Government Publications. These guides offer various scholarly resources and library research techniques for the related subjects. Please take a look at them and give me your feedback. Thanks.

NARA AND USGS for preservation of EROS Data

See more on this, http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46481-1.html?topic=&CMP=OTC-RSS#
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the USGS have signed an agreement to ensure preservation of and access to Earth Imagery and geospatial data currently archived by USGS at its Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, SD. The records will remain at the EROS Center under the day-to-day control of USGS..." (source, govdoc-l)

USGS SPOT Images

Are you looking for SPOT Images? The full archive of historical Landsat 7 ETM+ data from the USGS, wherein users pay for on-demand processing to various parameters before , will be free to downloading. See more in detail at
http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/squares/USGS_Landsat_Imagery_Release.pdf

GeoRef and Google Maps

Another Google Project:
Elsevier’s Engineering Village Search Platform Combines The American Geological Institute’s GeoRef Database with Google Maps. See more on this at
http://www.resourceshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/georef.html

Viewing the wetlands layer of NSDI on Google Earth

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service maps of the National Wetland Inventory are now available for viewing using Google Earth.

Please visit: http://www.fws.gov/nwi/WetlandsData/GoogleEarth.htm
More information about National Wetland Inventory can be found at:
http://www.fws.gov/nwi/index.html

New Bibliography : Middle East

A comprehensive bibliography on the Middle East: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/middleeast08.htm

Census Atlas of the United States

The U.S. Census Bureau has recently published the first comprehensive Atlas of population and housing since the 1920s. Topics covered in the Atlas range from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population using data from decennial censuses. See the complete atlas. (Source: Resourceshelf)

GIS workshop @ Fenwick Library

Spring 2008 GIS workshop at Fenwick Library will be resumed on February 20. This drop-in workshop provides basic skills on how to use ArcView and ArcMap and library's data collection. Please see the schedule at http://library.gmu.edu/research/classes.html