Geographic Information Systems
- The Berkeley/Penn Urban and Environmental Modeler’s Datakit
This web site consists of a series of viewable and downloadable ESRI shapefiles and grids describing
many of the physical, administrative, transportation, demographic, economic, land use and land cover,
and environmental characteristics of the 48 contiguous United States. These data are provided free of
charge to all interested parties. The data were obtained from a variety of federal public domain sources,
including the U.S. Geologic Survey, the Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency, and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/research/footprint/
- City of Milwaukee Map Data (ESRI Shapefiles)
This site makes available a variety of shapefiles with city of Milwaukee data, including aldermanic
districts, the city of Milwaukee corporate boundary, Milwaukee neighborhoods, parcel boundaries,
streets and voting wards.
http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/display/router.asp?docid=3497
- Digital Watershed
The digital watershed website is designed to provide both a centralized information repository
and an online computing center for watersheds in the United States. This site is based on the
comprehensive database of 8-digit watersheds for the whole continent of the United States,
which is included in the EPA BASINS system. The database contains all regulated facilities,
river network, DEM, state soil and other data layers.
http://www.iwr.msu.edu/dw/
- Global Distribution of Poverty
This site hosts the Global Poverty Mapping Project, which "seeks to enhance current understanding
of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where
the poor live." Provides data in a variety of ways that will appeal to an array of learners and
researchers interested in obtaining and using information about poverty, food security, and inequality.
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/
- Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
This site provides access to Illinois GIS data sets and documentation (metadata) for ArcIMS
Interactive Map Services, USGS digital topographic maps, aerial photography, orthoimagery,
orthophotography, geology, land use, natural resources, and infrastructure. Illinois data sets
and map data layers are available for download free of charge.
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/index.html
- Maps and GIS Resources: United States, by State
Maintained by the University of Oregon libraries, this site features links to federal and state
GIS resources and includes a section of GIS resources for Wisconsin.
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/map_section/map_Statedatasets.html
- Seamless Data Distribution System
This site is run by the U. S. Geological Survey and offers free data downloads, user
defined datasets, acquisition of data from different hosts, elevation point and profile
tools and a tutorial.
http://seamless.usgs.gov/
- Soil Data Mart
A U.S. Department of Agriculture site that allows users to determine where soil tabular and
spatial data is available, download data for one soil survey area at a time and download a
template Microsoft Access database for working with downloaded data.
http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/
- WISCLINC
A clearinghouse effort in Wisconsin maintained by the Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office.
The site pulls together records of geospatial data, land records websites and statewide land
information inventory survey.
http://www.sco.wisc.edu/wisclinc/
- Wisconsin Redistricting Geographic Shapefiles
This site supplies Wisconsin district shapefiles for congressional districts, senate districts,
assembly districts, blocks, wards, MCDS, and counties.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ltsb/redistricting/gis_shapefiles.htm
- Compass
An interactive map of Milwaukee showing crime and other community data. Funded by the United States government.
http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/compass/
- geodata.gov: Geospatial One-Stop
Geospatial One-Stop is a presidential initiative to coordinate government-produced geospatial
data; its online portal, geodata.gov, is designed to act as a clearinghouse of local, federal,
and state online resources. It lists, describes, and links to a variety of agencies'/services'
Web sites, online tools and applications, documents, and datasets.
http://gos2.geodata.gov
- Library of Congress American Memory Map Collections
Map Collections is organized according to seven major categories: general maps, cities and
towns, conservation and environment, discovery and exploration, cultural landscapes, military
battles and campaigns and transportation and communication.
hhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
- Photosynth
Software developed by Microsoft that takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them
for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. Features include viewing images
from any angle, zooming in and out, search capability for finding similar images and the ability to send image
views to other people.
http://photosynth.net/
- ShowUSA
Show/USA is a free Web site that generates cartograms that give various states prominence based on thematic characteristics rather than geography or physical size. For example, Show/USA uses graphics to grow and shrink state sizes to represent the states with the most immigrants, greatest oil reserves, or highest cheese production. A helpful classroom tool for illustrating concepts and demonstrating uses of data.
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/
- Google Mars
Similar to the Google Moon project, this web site lets you view a variety of topographical
Martian features and has links to information about specific landforms like mountains
and valleys.
http://www.google.com/mars/
- Google Moon
An extension of Google Maps and Google Earth (courtesy of NASA imagery) that allows
users to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo
astronauts made their landings.
http://moon.google.com/
