Monday, December 12, 2011
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.
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.
- 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.
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