New Geospatial Platform Website

"The federal governement and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplateform.gov, a prototype website providing an inital view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps." (See press release by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (11/09/2011)).

This platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest Internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package.  Users can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and application, as well as access data from Federal, State, Tribal, Regional and local government.

SABIN:School Attendance Boundary Information System

Monday, December 12, 2011

SABIN:School Attendance Boundary Information System

The College of William & Mary and the Minnesota Population Center have launched the new School Attendance Boundary Information System funded by the National Science Foundation to assemble, harmonize, and disseminate GIS data for grade-specific school attendance embedded with school districts throughout the United States. In addition to GIS data for school attendance boundaries, SABINS also provides:

• Census data tabulated for the school attendance boundaries
• Crosswalk tables that link school attendance boundaries to data from the U.S. Dept. of Education's Common core of Data.

Also the system allows:

• download Census data for multiple grade levels in one extract
• download GIS data fro multiple grade levels in one extract
• constrain or expand data searches by specifying any combination of topics or datasets.

Visit the website for more information: http://www.sabinsdata.org