What is GIS

GIS Workshop • Computerized Two components

mapping software • Software
• Formal definition – ArcGIS (Most popular
Basic 1 : Data & Concept A computerized
p
software in higher education )
– MapInfo
database – GeoMedia
Chieko Maene management system – Google Earth (not analytical)
c‐maene@northwestern.edu
Maps and State Documents Librarian for capture, storage,
• Data (information)
Government  and Geographic Information and Data Services retrieval, manipulation,
University Library (Evanston) – Any data with
Northwestern University analysis and display of spatial/geographic info
spatial (i.e. locationally
defined) data

ArcGIS (Quick) History of GIS

• There are many general 1960 • In the mid 1960s: the fist GIS, the
purpose GIS products on the Canada Geographic Information System,
market, ArcGIS, MapInfo, 1970 was created by Roger Tomlinson
GeoMedia, etc. • Around that time US Census Bureau
• ArcGIS was developed by ESRI 1980 developed digital street referencing
(Environmental Systems system, called DIME
Research institute, Inc.) based 1990 • 1982, ESRI released ARC/INFO
in Redlands, California • BUT, until about 1990, most maps were
• Probably the most popular GIS 2000 printed from handmade drawings or
software engravings – thus, it is hard to find pre
• Current version is ArcGIS 10 1990 GIS data!

Why GIS ? Pre GIS maps

• Charles Booth’s maps of poverty

• Add new analytical dimension
(space!) to your research Booth, a Victorian
sociologist, conducted a
– Things may appear differently in space surveyy of working
g class life
in London between 1886
– “90% of data are geographic in nature” - and 1903. His work was
also published in a form of
Profiting from a Geographic Information maps, visualizing the level
of poverty by location.
System, p.109.
Sources:
http://booth.lse.ac.uk

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 Pre GIS maps (cont.) Pre GIS maps (cont.)

• Hull-house maps and papers (1895) • Hull-House maps - nationality

A Hull-house resident, Florence Kelly two sets
of maps, similar to Booth’s poverty map (but Each property was colored to reflect the
with more details), based on a survey for the birth place of the head of the household
federal government,
government Dept of Labor.
Labor Kelly – in instance of multiple
p households in a
believed that visual evidence would convey property, the color was allocated
social problems that they identified from the spatially in proportion to the number of
survey. household heads.
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STATE ST

W. 12TH ST

Pre GIS maps (cont.) Pre GIS maps (cont.)

• Hull-House maps – wage group • W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro (1896)
Each property was colored to reflect the 1896 study about “Negro Problem” in Five color coded classes

household wage – in instance of multiple Philadelphia, commissioned by the (No color) Non-black
households in a property, the color was Philadelphia branch of the College residents
allocated
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th Settlement Association
(Red) Grade 1: The
number of households. “Middle Classes” and
those above

(Green) Grade 2: The

Working People, Fair to
Comfortable

(Blue) Grade 3: The Poor

(Black) Grade 4: Vicious

and Criminal Classes

Image from a book, Placing History (2008) Anne Kelly Knowles, ed.

Pre GIS maps (cont.) GIS Data Making Process

Find information
Input the info in a
database
Number of Poles
Nationality
Excel tableof Voters – Chicago Daily News Almanac for
1889
Tip: “Slice” existing data

(Left – above)
Create map data
John Snow, Map of cholera cases
in London, 1854
(polygons, in this
(Middle)
case)
Chicago Health Dept, Map of influenza Combine the data
cases, 1918
table and graphic
(Right)
Chicago Health Dept, Map of death cases
data
under 2 years old caused from diarrhoeal
diseases, 1913

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 Darwin, Voyage of the HMS Beagle 1831-36 • GIS to KML/KMZ

– Step 1
– Step 2
– Step 3

• KML/KMZ to GIS
– Doesn't work
• or
– Often with extra work

Popular GIS Maps/Methods Business – Mapping business locations

Typically used in Social Science

• Patterns
– Location: what & where things are located
• Association/correlation
– Visual representation
– Measuring spatial significance statistically
• Modeling
– Spatial & temporal
– Prediction & Prevention (Regression analysis)
Source : Reference USA

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 Business locations Mapping Community Assets
• Reference USA
http://turing.library.northwestern.edu/lo
gin?url=http://reference.infousa.com/ • Mapping
– Electronic database that the library – How things are closely
subscribes to located?
– By one of the largest business – Communityy assets &
directory companies, InfoUSA landmarks
– Search by location, name and • Schools
industrial codes (SIC & NAICS) • Parks
• Housing projects
• Example • Hospitals
– Financial transactions, processing • Community
businesses (like, Western Union) organizations
– NAICS code: 522320 • Churches
– Over Hispanic 2000 population

Census Analysis Census Analysis

Demographic change Demographic change
1980 2000

WHITE
73 63
% %

21 22
% BLACK %

6
HISPANIC %
6
2 %
ASIAN
3

Policy Analysis Sex Offender Residential Restrictions

1,000
500 feet
feet
Policy Implications
– Current Illinois Law Note:
“It is unlawful for a child sex offender to reside within 500 feet of a school, This map doesn’t
playground, or any facility providing programs or services exclusively include locations of
directed toward people under age 18**, unless they owned the property day care centers yet!
prior
i tto July
J l 7,
7 2000.”
2000 ” ** IIncludes
l d parks,
k d day-care centers
t andd public
bli
school bus stops Area would be more
limited if we add day
– Trend – impact of the Adam Walsh Child Protection care centers as
and Safety Act of 2006? another layer..
Increase of the safety zone – what if Illinois/Chicago change the restriction
from 500 feet to 1,000 feet, or even higher?
• Iowa = 2,000 feet
• Florida = 1,000 feet, Palm Beach County (FL) = 2,500 feet!

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 Registered Sex Offenders
By the way… Geocoded and
Aggregated by
Do you know 3,050 registered Community Area
sex offenders live in
Chicago? (as of 6/17/08) Top 10 communities with
most offenders
1. Austin – 177
2. West Englewood – 116
3. New City – 103
“Welcome to the Illinois Sex 4. Roseland – 102
Offenders Registration 5. Englewood – 96
Information Website” 6. Auburn Gresham – 91
7. West Pullman – 88
http://www.isp.state.il.us/sor/
8. South Shore – 84
9. Chicago Lawn – 83
10.Humboldt Park - 77

Value Interpolation Hot Spots – Density analysis

(like a weather map)
Gasoline price map – Hot spot analysis
which area sells • Visual approach
cheapter gas ? (calculate density)
– Turns crime cases
1 Use gas price sample
1. (dots) into a continuous
data – gas station surface (a pixel table)
address, & gas price – Each pixel (i.e. cell) has
2. Map (geocode) the gas a density value, which
station locations can be visualized, from
3. Interpolate (i.e. fill in the high (i.e. hot) to low (i.e.
gaps) the sample gas cold) values
price in GIS

Source: GasPriceWatch.com (Reqular gasoline price survey data, 6/8/07-6/9-07)

Exploring Space to find

Chicago Prostitution Arrests Data
Associations
Updated by Chicago Police
Department

Information included:
More than
80 percent • D t
Date
of homes
built • Patrons name
before
1978 • Patrons home address
contain
lead paint • Patrons arrest address
• Patron sex and age
• Crime committed
• (Patron race – guessed)

% families below poverty Crime hotspots Child lead poisoning April-May 2008, total 192 cases

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 Some Patron Statistics.. What about their travel patterns..
Mean age: 36 (youngest: 18 yrs old and oldest: 76 yrs old)
Correlation between..
1. Age and Distance?
2. Race and Distance?

Race

African
White
Hispanic
Asian
+ Patron Home American

+ Arrest Location
Raster Analysis
North &
North & Ashland
Pulaski
• How many people would be affected by big Tsunami
Median travel distance Madison &
16th &
waves in Mediterranean?
Kilbourn
Ashland
(direct line)
49th &
1. Populated area
Halstead • Each cell contains #
51st &
of pop
population
lation
Race N Distance Cicero
55th &
Calumet
Asian 1 25.7 miles 2. High risk area
• Elevation up to10m
Afro-American 89 3.5 miles and adjacent to
coast area
Hispanic 51 1.3 miles

White 51 4.6 miles 3. Mid high risk area

• Elevation up to 50m
and adjacent to
coast area

What is Geographic Information ? Vector and Raster Small creeks

Large river
as a polygon (area) as lines

• Any information that contains geographic or • Two types of Geospatial Data

spatial information
– Vector data represents the real world
• However, in GIS the information must be using three types of geometry
readable to computers
p in order to use it • Points
• Lines
• Often called (inter-changeably) • Polygons / Areas
Populated areas
– Geographical information (or data) – Raster data is a cell table as points

– Geospatial data • Columns (Y) x Rows (X)

– Spatial data • Each cell contains a numeric value
– Either integer or floating points

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 The same features can be represented as
both vector and raster
Vector: Shapefiles
• Shapefiles are the common geospatial data
format for storing both geometry (shape) and
But, vector can represent space & features more in detail… attribute (table) information of geographic
features
• Almost an industry standard…

Raster is great for
With Spatial Analyst extension, they can be converted to each other

Vector: Shapefiles (cont.)

• Why is it called “shapefiles”??
– Because they consist of three or more files Examples of Shapefiles
extension Type
.shp The main file that stores the feature geometry
Required!

.shx The index file that stores the index of the feature geometry (or vector data in general..)
.dbf The dBASE table that stores the attribute information

.sbn & .sbx The files that store the spatial index of the features

.prj The file that stores the coordinate system information

.xml Metadata for ArcGIS that stores information about the

shapefiles

Parcels Topography -
Contours

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 Soil Depth to the
Water Bedrock
USDA SSURGO
(Soil Survey
Geographic Database)

Environmental Floodplain
Corridors
FEMA

Zoning Land Use

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 Businesses Vector: Coverage
derived from the WI • Outdated georelational data
Employment model used in ArcInfo
Insurance (ES202) module
data • Vector coverageg looks jjust
like shapefiles
• Requires multiple files (too
many!) and thus hard to
manage
• Easily get corrupted

Vector: CAD drawing

• CAD (Computer Aided Design)
– AutoCAD
• .DXF – ascii/text file
• .DWG – binary file
– Intergraph Microstation
• .DGN – binary file
• CADs are graphic drawing tools
• Used mainly by engineers, surveyors
and architects
• Limited analysis & database
capabilities
• ArcGIS can view CAD files but with
limited editing capability

Raster: Grid Raster: continuous surface

• Raster consists of a matrix of cells (or pixels) • Rasters are well suited for representing that
organized into rows and columns where each changes continuously across a landscape
cell contains a value representing information (surface.)
• When representing space, rasters store the • Examples:
p
l
location
ti and d characteristics
h t i ti on each h cells
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– Elevation
– Temperature
– Population density

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 Raster: Discrete data DEM

• Rasters can also represent discrete (or

thematic, or categorized) maps, such as:
– Landcover & Landuse
– Vegetation types

Original (USGS) Watersheds over DEM

Web source: http://seamless.usgs.gov (downloadable data)

Milwaukee Metro Area Urban Sprawl Really Old Aerial Photos

Historical Aerial Photos, 1963-2000
• New York (NY Evening Post, April 15,
1922)

1980––
2000
1990
1970 – New
New Berlin,
Berlin, Waukesha
Waukesha Co,
Co, WI
WI
1963 – New
New Berlin,
Berlin, Waukesha
Waukesha Co,
Co, WI
WI

Source: http://maps.waukeshacounty.gov/GISWeb/WaukCo/waukco.asp

Commercial Satellite Imagery

Satellite Imagery (expensive!)
SPOT
SPOT -- Panchromatic
IKONOS Multispectral
Multispectral
Baghdad (circa 2000) (spatialresolution
(spatial
(spatial resolution4m)
resolution 10m)
20m)

Landsat image (left) & CIA map (right)

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 DRG 24K New: Geodatabase
DEM 30m
• Both vector and raster data can be stored in a spatially-
DEM 10m enabled relational database management system
(DBMS), called geodatabase
NAIP
• Easier to contain and maintain geospatial data
High
Hi hRReso. Ph
Photo
t • Two types
2006
– Corporate (large DBMS)
Landcover 1992 • Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL
– Personal
Landcover 2001
• Microsoft Access database
Composite

http://http//seamless.usgs.gov/

Vector/Raster: Geodatabase (cont.) Metadata

• However, it is not suitable for sharing the • Data about data - metadata are data (or documentation)
information (interoperability problem) files that describe the contents of other data files.
– Readme.txt
• In my opinion, any way…
– xxxxx.met (metadata text file)
• ArcGIS geodatabase is probably read by ArcGIS
– xxxxx.html
ht l (metadata
( t d t HTML/web
HTML/ b file)fil )
software only
– xxxxx.xml (metadata XML file – ArcGIS uses this)
• Isn’t stable yet (in my opinion..) • Metadata files help you determine if the data are likely to
meet your needs.
• So, we are going to stick with more conventional
data types… NO geodatabase until very end of
this workshop

FGDC metadata standards Exercise 1 : ArcCatalog

• FGDC: Federal Geographic Data Committee • ArcCatalog is used to
• The most popular metadata standard for geospatial data – Organize your GIS
• Users need to know how to read files… contents
– Manage standards-
based metadata
7 elements Main entries – Manage geodatabase
Identification Title, coverage, keywords, purpose, abstract, restrictions scheme
Data Quality Accuracy assessment, completeness and lineage – Search for and add
Spatial Data Organization Data types (vector/raster), ink to location
content to ArcGIS
applications
Spatial Reference Coordinate system, map projection
– Document your
Entity & Attribute Definitions of attributes of the dataset
contents
Distribution Information about distributor, such as file format, media type,
links
– Manage GIS servers
Metadata Reference Who, when and how the metadata was created

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 Exercise 2 : ArcMap Exercise 3 : Download & Add Data

• About GIS (geospatial/spatial) data

– Who produces GIS Data
– Are data available?
– About GIS data
– Data sources

Who produces GIS data ? Are GIS data available to us?

• Answer: Government !! (generally…) • Data accessibility mostly depends on the
government's data access policies & laws

• Most geospatial data (maps, aerial photos, • U.S.

satellite imagery & GIS data) were produced by – Federal government
• Data created by federal agencies are in the public
various
i llevels
l off governmental
t l agencies
i tto domain with a few exceptions (i.e. security & privacy
support their missions reasons)
– State & local government
• Such as: • Data access policies vary
– Administrative decisions • Reasons: cost recovery, reliabilities (or hesitation -
– Management they don’t want to be sued for providing data)
– Policy making
– Taxation • Other countries
– Vary – though, data access is often limited

About GIS data About GIS data (cont.)

• Principles
– Geospatial data is expensive to produce • How do we know what kind of
restrictions are imposed?
• Most data producers consider their data as
commodities – Always look for and read
– Cost recovery documents accompanied
• Do not assume free access and free usage with data
data, such as “read
read me”
me
– Exception: the U.S. federal government data files, “metadata”, “license”,
– Data can be copyrighted – you can use data but your use is “disclaimer”, “warrantee”,
limited
– Data can be licensed – license terms specify who can
etc.
access/use and what can be done with the data – If not finding information that
– Data MUST be treated with care you need, ask data
• Must know the data usage restrictions before providers first, and then data
using it producers
Source: metadata – ESRI Data & Maps, Canada, area codes

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 ESRI Data and Maps
Library-owned Datasets

POPULAR DATASETS

A il bl :
Available
• By ESRI
– Annual sets of map data bundled with ArcGIS software
In the Library or Library Subscription products
Databases – We have: 2002 – 2010 (version 10, 2010)
– Installed on GovInfo PCs – in D:\ESRI\Data_Maps folder
• Global data sets
http://www.esri.com/data/data-maps/index.html
– Includes US geocoding data/tool, StreetMap USA
– Some files are licensed – pay attention to metadata,
user/access restrictions

Global GIS Database GeoLytics CensusCDs

• Collaborative effort among USGS & http://www.geolytics.com/
private GIS companies • Easier to extract data and export as shapefiles
• 7 CD sets • Licensed data: in-library use only
– Organized geographically • GeoLytics Census Products:
• Central-South America – CensusCD 1960 (down to tracts)
• North America – CensusCD 1970 (down to tracts)
• North Eurasia – CensusCD 1980 (down to block groups)
• Europe – C
CensusCD
CD Blocks
Bl k (1990) (bl
(blocks
k only)
l )
• Africa – CensusCD + Maps (1990) (down to block groups)
• South Asia – CensusCD 2000 Short Form (down to block groups)
• South Pacific
– CensusCD 2000 Short Form Blocks (blocks only)
– CensusCD 2000 Long Form (down to block groups)
• Contains base maps – CensusCD 2000 Redistricting (earliest & simplest data – down to blocks)
– Dataset description – CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) 1970-2000 (tracts only)
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/index.ht – Estimates, Projections, Consumer Expenditures and Profiles (down to block groups)
ml • Estimates & Projections – limited variables only (I don’t recommend the estimates..)
• Boundaries • Consumer Expenditures – based on BLS survey on “how people spend money, and on
• Natural resources what”. Broken down by small geographic levels
• Political & population data

Census Data China Census CDs & Databases

Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) • China Historical Census CDs

1970 – 2000 Tract Level Historical Data – by All China Marketing Research
1970 1980 1990 2000 – Historical Chinese census
population datasets
• 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990
• 2000

• China Data Online

http://chinadataonline.org/

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 Databases (can be used in GIS)
Online / Web - International

• Reference USA
http://turing.library.northwestern.edu/logi
NAICS = 522320 Businesses
Over POPULAR DATASETS
Hispanic
n?url=http://reference.infousa.com/ Population
– Electronic database that we 2000
subscribe to
– By one of the largest business
directory companies,
companies InfoUSA
– Search for businesses by location,
F
From my favorite
f it – find
fi d more ffrom:
name or industrial codes (SIC &
NAICS)
http://geospatial.edublogs.org/category
• Example /best-general-gis-data-sites/best-world/
– Locations of financial transactions &
processing businesses (like Western
Union)
• NAICS code : 522320
– Tip for data downloading
• Select CSV (comma delimited) and also
Detailed data type

Geospatial Data Report ICGSM: Global Mapping

• http://geospatial.e http://www.iscgm.org/
dublogs.org/
Resources Organized By Category/Topics & Geography

• My favorite source for

international country
• M
My GIS data
d t base maps
• Registration is required
directory (free)
• Useful data • Collaborative project
sources organized – Not all countries
participate in the project
by geography & – But, the number of
participating countries is
topic (categories) growing!

FAO Relational World Database OpenStreetMap

• http://www.fao.org/geonetwork • http://openstreetmap.org/
• (type "RWDB" in What? • Open source "street" dataset,
Search box) collected and created by
"contributors" ((i.e. volunteers))
• Quite
Q it comprehensive,
h i d
detailed
t il d using GPS
(in comparison to the other • Data can be downloaded as
datasets) shapefiles & geodatabases from
• World coverage! – GEOFABRIK
http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html
– CLOUD MADE
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/

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 USDA Geospatial Data Gateway
Online / Web – U.S.

POPULAR DATASETS • http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

• Download data by state or county
• Data available are:
– Aerial photos (some historical)
From my favorite – find more from: – DEM
– DRG
http://geospatial.edublogs.org/category/best-
– Hydrologic data
general-gis-data-sites/best-united-states/
– Land cover & cropland data
– Soils
– … etc.

National Map National Atlas

• http://nationalmap.gov/viewers • http://www.nationalatlas.gov/at
.html lasftp.html
– Check also USGS Seamless
Server http://seamless.usgs.gov/ • Good place to download
• Download data by user
user- various US
US, nation-wide
specified boundaries datasets
– i.e. draw polygon to specify area
• Data categories
• Data available are:
– Agriculture; Biology; Boundaries;
– DEM
Climate; Environment; Geology;
– Basemaps (roads, boundaries)
History; Map Reference; People;
– Topical data (such as biology,
geology, hydrography) Transportation; Water

National Historical GIS Social Explorer

NHGIS:
• http://www.nhgis.org • http://www.socialexplorer.com
% Afri-
• Another source for historical
• Until recently, historical census American
Population census data:
data were available only from print 1934 – By CUNY Queens College, by a group
sources or ICPSR archive of academic sociologists
• Hisotrical ata source: NHGIS
• New source for historical census
• Also, provides post-
data: decennial census annual
– By Univ. of Minnesota, Minnesota estimates at census tract
Population Center level
– Download both historical census data • No shapefiles download, just
& shapefiles attribute data

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 Chicago GIS Transportation
• http://www.cityofchicago.org • ESRI Data & Maps
– StreetMap, North America dataset
/gis http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.
3/index.cfm?TopicName=An_overview_o
• The GIS data source for Chicago f_StreetMap

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics

– NTAD – source for highway and public
transportation networks, etc.
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transpor
tation_atlas_database/

• Census TIGER lines

– See the census boundary files sources (slide 26)

• Other related data

– CTPP – Census Transportation Planning
Package
• Commuting and employment patterns FARS :
– FARS – Fatality Analysis Reporting System pedalcyle
fatal Collisions
2001-07
over bikeroutes

Business locations Housing

• Reference USA NAICS = 522320 Businesses • Decennial censuses Foreclosures per 1,000
http://turing.library.northwestern.edu/logi Over
– Survey on housing conditions Mortgageable Properties
Hispanic
n?url=http://reference.infousa.com/ Population • Assisted housings 2007
– Electronic database that we 2000 – HUD: A picture of subsidized households
subscribe to http://www.huduser.org/datasets/assthsg.html
– By one of the largest business • Property values
directory companies,
companies InfoUSA
– Local tax assessors’ office (usually, access one
– Search for businesses by location, property at a time)
name or industrial codes (SIC &
NAICS) • Mortgage
– HMDA: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (monitors
• Example banks’ lendering practices) http://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/
– Locations of financial transactions & – Tract level data available
processing businesses (like Western • Foreclosures
Union)
– Main source: local court (usually county court)
• NAICS code : 522320
– The NU Library has Chicago data by Woodstock
– Tip for data downloading Institute, Chicago area community lending fact book
• Select CSV (comma delimited) and also • Tract level data available, 1999-2004
Detailed data type

Crimes Education
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Chicago Public
http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/ • National Center for Education High Schools
– Municipality summary data Statistics % Drop-out
2006
• Crime incidents http://nces.ed.gov/
– Check a local police department – School locations – geocode!
– Warning: hard to access & collect – Enrollment statistics,
statistics etc.
etc
• Ex. Chicago Police ClearMap
http://gis.chicagopolice.org/
– Small area (i.e. community areas) data at a time
• Milwaukee COMPASS query & download
• Chicago Public Schools, Office
http://isdweb1.ci.mil.wi.us/compass/disclaimerQuery. of Research
html
– Small area data at a time http://acct.multi1.cps.k12.il.us/cps/
• Other crime related data sources accountweb/
– Sex Offenders Registry (IL) – Drop-out rate by school
http://www.isp.state.il.us/sor/ – Performance – goal achievement
Crime hotspots,
– Chicago Prostitution patron arrests Feb 2005- Feb 2006 rate
http://www.chicagopolice.org/ps/

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 Public Health Other Topical Datasets
EPA Superfund sites (worst
• Healthcare facilities
– Locations - ESRI data & map, or ReferenceUSA
hazardous wastes sites) • Elections  Environment
over
– Services – county level, U.S. HRSA, Area Resource File Illinois Counties Pediatric – 2000 presidential GIS data  EPA hazardous sites
(http://www.arfsys.com/) - NUL has 2001-2007 on CDs Cancer Rates – 2004 presidential GIS data  http://www.epa.gov/enviro/g
(per 100,000) eo_data.html
• Mostly available at county level – Other historical election results – CQ
Voting and Elections Collection  And more …
– Note: access to individual level public health data
is limited – yyou need a legitimate
g research http://turing.library.northwestern.edu
g y  Floodplains
objective /login?url=http://library.cqpress.com/  http://www.fema.gov/hazard/
htt // f /h d/
– County level data elections (Use "Export/Download")  And more …
• IPLAN (IL) http://app.idph.state.il.us/  Watersheds
• Cancer registry (IL)  http://nhd.usgs.gov/
http://www.idph.state.il.us/cancer/statistics.htm • Communications  And more …
• More statistics and reports by type (IL)
http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/statshome.htm – FCC – Federal Communications  Wetlands
– Municipalities level Commission  http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/
• Cook County suburbs data reports http://wireless.fcc.gov/geographic/ data/
http://www.cookcountypublichealth.org/programs-
services/community-epidemiology-health-planning/community-  Mostly wireless  Renewable energy
profiles
• Chicago data reports: http://www.cchsd.org/cahealthprof.html
telecommunications license  http://www.nrel.gov/gis/data_
related data analysis.html
 … etc. etc.

Physical Geography If you need State-level Data…

• General resources – easy to use, recommended! • Find a State GIS Data Clearinghouse!
– Seamless USGS http://seamless.usgs.gov/
• Ortho-imagery, elevation, landcover & landuse, satellite imagery – http://www.gisinventory.net/summaries/
scanned topographic map images, highway lines – Select a state – on the state summary PDF file, find
– USDA, Geospatial Data Gateway http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ question 19 “URL link for your state GIS Clearinghouse
• Ortho
Ortho-imagery
imagery, agriculture
agriculture, elevation
elevation, topo maps,
maps hydrography,
hydrography node
node”
soils

• Specific resources • In Illinois…..

– Hydrography – Illinois State Geological Survey - Natural Resources
• National Hydrography Dataset http://nhd.usgs.gov/ http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/
– Soils
• USDA Soil Geography • A variety of downloadable data
http://www.soils.usda.gov/survey/geography/ – Historical aerial photographs
– Geology/minerals – Base map files
• USGS mineral resources spatial data incluidng geological,
geochemical & geophysical data, http://mrdata.usgs.gov/

Web Map Services Exercise 4 : New Shapefiles

• Also known as: Basemaps, Online maps • Create a point and a polygon

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