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Getting More from Your Maps: Interactive and Web-friendly Ways to Enhance your Visual Information. Juan Paulo 2 November 2009. It is all about data and its display.
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Getting More from Your Maps: Interactive and Web-friendly Ways to Enhance your Visual Information Juan Paulo 2 November 2009
It is all about data and its display • Georeferenced data is available free in the web. This includes human-made features (central pivots, roads, hospitals), land cover (satellite images), databases (demographics, energy, etc.) • And the GIS software? There are many freeware GIS software also available in the web. • Web services to display georeferenced data (i.e., Google Earth).
Let’s make a Map with the Location of Hospitals in Nebraska Dataset includes 65 features (i.e., schools, churches, hospitals, post offices).
Useful Resources • http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm