The GeoMed/Epi Project Link Page:

Spatial Epidemiology

Here are links to some of the web resources that we have found to be useful or interesting. All links worked as of 9/3/99.

We've organized most of these links within our web course.

You might also examine them by module. Otherwise, here they are, in no particular order!

Web Beginner Central
National Center for Health Statistics GIS and Public Health page.
a pre-release version of Edzers gstat 2.0i (Geostatistics software: February 1999) for Win32 to http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/gstat20i.zip This release fixes a problem with the map2gif functionality (well, it was not working at all in previous versions).
Dr. Jim Koopman's course in Compartmental Model Analysis of Epidemiologic Processes.
Demographic Data Viewer 3.0 This is about the best of the web-based applications I've seen: it's a java applet, which shows demographics for the US. You choose where (down to counties or so), and what (e.g. population, income, etc.), then submit the job. It produces and displays maps.
China Data Center - University of Michigan Course ran in the winter of 98: SNRE 639: Advanced Seminar in Natural Ecology. Their home page contains links to the postscript files they used in lecture.
Resources for Creating Web Pages, GIS & Cartography Courses, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia One of the best resources was at this site (klink).
ARC/INFO tutorial Home Page The guy spent a good deal of time describing how to get a project (and a complicated and interesting one) into Arc/Info, how to do the analysis, etc. Good job!
NCGIA Home Page, which referenced Other WWW Sites of Interest, and Instructor Resources from NCGIA. The last, frame-based, contains references to some of the other resources listed here, including that to UBC.
CSCAR at the University of Michigan is the group that should be giving us a hand in preparing this course.
Researchers in France have begun a program of Disease surveillance on a national level. Includes animations and map and data queries.
A student in New Zealand has undertaken an evaluation of map techniques (some animated gifs).
web stat projects available on line from GASP (Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures initiative, designed to make statistical routines easily available via the WWW).
New Grass site (Baylor U), referenced from the friendly folks at CERL, and from the GRASS 4.2.1 Main page at Hannover, Germany; also the GRASS 4.2.1 Linux binary page at Hannover. The PC version of grass is commercial (Blackland GRASS).
Echos of the San Diego conference Geoff attended (ATSDR - Geographic Information Systems - GIS in Public Health Conference Announcement, San Diego, California, August 1998), including the outline of Kulldorf's talk.
A couple of sites giving lists of software/vendors: Univ. of Texas Dept. of Geography Resources: Software and Commercial Vendors, and Great GIS Net Sites! GIS Software Companies, from hdm.
CIESIN Home Page, with links to interactive demos/tools such as the ddviewer (Demographic Data Viewer 3.0) mentioned above, and ddcarto, which "provides digital coverages of U.S. Census demographics to GIS users. Atlas GIS, ARC/INFO, and MapInfo formats are supported. The data are provided freely for research and instructional use only. © 1996, 1997 CIESIN All Rights Reserved
Our GIS files are stored in Atlas GIS export (.bna) format. You can retrieve these in just minutes. We batch process format conversion jobs after work hours when our loads are lower, so converting to Arc/Info (.e00) or MapInfo (.mid .mif) format is an overnight process. You will be notified by email where and how to ftp the converted coverage you order."
Barbara Tempalski's homepage: she's the one who did the Benin Guinea Worm study. See also WHO Division of Control of Tropical Diseases - Dracunculiasis Eradication, and WHO Division of Control of Tropical Diseases - Health Map for interactive mapping ability. The latter can be frustrating, because if you "overspecify" the map you simply get an error (i.e., if an overlay doesn't exist but you specify it, no map is returned). So it could be better. I chose Benin, Villages reinfected by Guinea Worm, region, and the roads layer for 1997 - that works, at least.
Not Just Another Medical Geography Page, this site has links to many other interesting sites and historical info, including Virtual Museum of Anesthesiology Portrait: John Snow, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and the Black Death ( The Plague example: an excellent presentation of the geography of infectious disease).
WHO's publication The Weekly Epidemiological Record.
Medical Geography Digest
Dartmouth Medical allows one to find the nearest health care facility, based on zip code. Creates (or shows) maps down to the street level.
Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health - or is it just hypertext comic books? Power point presentations, with the text of the lectures that accompanied them, plus occasional links. Not bad, but not a model for us either. Might be a good idea for Geoff to provide some actually, as it will serve as a little publicity for the company, and he can show screenshots of software, etc.
Epidemiology for the Uninitiated has basic epi info on-line, provided by the British Medical Journal which seems to have lots of neat services, such as eBMJ -- Statistics at Square One, or advice on how to read a paper. Here's their Guide to the Internet.
Here's a Dictionary of Epidemiology, and a server to a Multilingual Glossary of medical terms.
Directory of oak.oakland.edu/pub/, a site which has lots of good software (including c++, c, and other programming courses). On a similar note, try to LEARN C/C++ TODAY.
AI-geostats: the central information server for Spatial Statistics and Geostatistics on the Internet
A collection of courses from around the web.
Vet classes, among the best of any I've seen.
Richard "Dick" Walters is involved Distance Learning, and is the developer of in Remote Technical Assistance: : Using Technology to Enhance Distance (and Other) Learning. The Remote Technical Assistance (Remote TA, or RTA) is a multidisciplinary effort to improve the quality of interaction between students and instructional staff. RTA provides a seamless, platform-independent mechanism for on-line interaction among students and between students and instructors or teaching assistants (a "TA"), using Internet as the communications medium. RTA operates in three modes:
Synchronous Interaction: Students and instructional staff can engage in live two-way or group discussions involving multilingual text dialogues, attachment of replayable sound messages or other files, "whiteboarding" using shared images (or a blank screen "whiteboard") brought up by any participant and annotated in different colors by each, or invoking a Netscape session on all screens with content appropriate to the dialogue. Users can also work in collaboration on jointly authored texts using a "textpad" that can be saved and retrieved for later editing.
Enhanced messaging: A student can send a request for assistance, attach a snapshot of her computer screen or relevant window, and attach a file containing word, image or voice material pertinent to the question. The TA can annotate and return the message, including annotation of images, and screen snapshots.
A link to "Content:" course materials of any type, stored anywhere on the Web and accessible directly through RTA. This component is open-ended, and can be linked to other packages developed for creation and maintenance of such materials.
The principal investigator of RTA is Dick Walters, a professor in the Department of Computer Science. Working with him are faculty in several language departments as well as the UC Davis Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, and members of the UC Davis Information Technology Laboratory Management group. For further information, send email to walters@cs.ucdavis.edu.
USA, a project of Daniel Griffith of Syracuse University.
Survey on spatial statistics courses offered in all areas.
Animation of a man-made man.
The origin of Information Frames. On a similar vein, play with a brain!
This Web site has some interesting info, it is "an index of World-Wide Web (WWW) servers which are likely to be of interest to the GIScommunity":
This site also has some links to check out, including a GIS FAQ.
Please find registration details for the spatial statistics course to be offered (NZ), as well as a PDF version of brochure on our web site.
This site has a section on data ("metadata") sources, particularly one on census and health.
Download epi-info and epi-map
I invite you to submit your best web pages or other resources in the area of medical geography, epidemiology, public health, GIS, interactive web mapping or health data visualization.
If you don't want to submit resource entries, stop by for a visit anyhow. I'm certain the resulting page will be very interesting!
(I reserve the right to edit the submissions, but only for good reason, and hopefully not at all. If you leave your email address, I'll email you if I plan to modify anything you've submitted.)
Margie
Census CD is a good product, but first check out CIESIN's two free on-line resources. They more than likely make available the sort of data you are looking for, including 225 variables from the US Census. One resource is DDViewer and the other DDCarto.
The former will allow you to create an on-line thematic map of census tracts or blocks (version 3 uses tracts, version 2 uses blocks), and the data will be displayed in tabular form, under "statistic information". You can cut and paste the data this way, if you need only a small number of tracts. If you want a lot of counties, or states, you should use DDCarto, which processes jobs overnight.
Also, Geocorr, another on-line service, allows you to correspond different levels of geography, such as tracts with zip codes.
Schlosser Geographic (MapInfo), including their page what is geocoding?

Here are some links (unverified) provided by Pia MacDonald, evidently supplied originally by Wayne Hall:

Now somewhat dated, but still very useful, the Canadian International Development Research Centre has an online document _GIS for Health and the Environment_ http://www.idrc.ca/books/focus/766/766.html
More recently, Gerard Rushton at the University of Iowa has produced a guide to the use of GIS in health research: http://www.uiowa.edu/~geog/health/
Map Maker is a low-cost and easy to use, map making program and GIS for Windows. Its product literature states that within hours a non-expert can start to produce useful maps, and was originally designed for projects in developing countries where low-cost and ease of use are essential.
PopMap was developed by the University of Hanoi for the United Nations Development Program. The program is freeware and "provides maps and graphics database support for planning and administration of population activities with important geographical or logistical context, or for facilitating geographical or graphical expression of population indicators and related data."
IDRISI is a low-cost, well-supported GIS package produced and supported by the Department of Geography at Clark University.
In addition to support and tutorial programs bundled with the software packages listed above, there are a number of online tutorials available; I haven't reviewed these all but a woman in my office just recently completed the ArcView tutorial listed here and had high praise for it: http://www.hku.hk/cupem/hkugis/gistutor.html#gis
Portraits of Statisticians This fascinating site includes portraits (i.e. photos and/or paintings) of many famous statisticians. Most of the statisticians featured are historical (i.e. dead), but many contemporary statisticians are featured as well. If you've always wondered what Rev. Bayes or Sir R. A. Fisher looked like, here's your chance to find out!
CAMERA: "The main goal of the CAMERA (Cellular Approach for Malaria Eco-epidemiological Risk Assessment) project is to assess how changing environmental and socio-economic factors have an impact on the risk of vector-borne diseases." The CAMERA team
A guide to resources on Geography, Mapping, and Imaging in Africa
Dataplot
"LOTS of sites that may spur ideas on visualization." Geoffrey M. Jacquez
"...more maps/GIS links than you could possibly want. Look over the list carefully - there is a lot there." Richard Hoskins
DRG Exchange: "This site exists to allow the free exchange of USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG's). On this site, you will find DRG's that I have purchased and ones contributed by others."
ArcView tutorials for those who need to practice more outside of class. This looks really good, including sample data and full instructions!
Federal Geographic Data Committee clearinghouse site. "The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 80 spatial data servers. These data collections can be searched through the following interfaces based on their descriptions or "metadata." These metadata include descriptions of the data set and information on how to acquire or download the information across the Internet through hypertext links in the metadata."
A good resource for GIS news. A related site with some nice data access.
"Here's a HUGE glossary of GIS and computer terms from IBM - they have a whole IBM GIS section.
EPA Cumulative Exposure Project, including info on accessing the data.
Environmental Justice: TRI Sites and Subsidized Housing ArcView Internet Map server project. See how ArcView is being used across the web (thanks Luc Anselin, for this site).
The EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) available in dBase Format for the US is available from this site.
Have a look at Africa maps, provided by the African Data Dissemination Service (ADDS).
MALSAT - Environmental Information Systems for Malaria. From their web page: "The MALSAT team consists of a small group of researchers who are investigating the 'Eco-epidemiology' of vector-borne diseases using Geographical Information Systems and applications of local remote sensing techniques. Research has recently been extended to include meningococcal meningitis in Africa.
Recent advances in the availability of real-time environmental satellite information which can be captured and processed locally, within a GIS, has meant that resource managers are able to obtain timely information on variables such as: rainfall, temperature, vegetation state, surface water, soil moisture, flooding, etc. for large, often remote areas. Such information has been shown to be useful to local decision makers in the agricultural, veterinary, forestry and pest control sectors. "
I made a start at describing "Pathogenic Paths", space-time trails of subjects and their diseases.
A study of severe infection from bacterial water contamination on the web. This is a nice module for self-study, which could be used as an assignment.
Free maps, including for example Superfund sites, volcanos, etc. Pointed to the National Atlas, which contains info on many geographical data sets for the US. Also to the ESRI Tiger data download site.
Emerging infectious disease on-line lectures. These are very nice!
Some dainties picked up around the internet, including a MATLAB econometrics toolbox.
EPA's GIS Bibliography.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
- Bonferroni
The MathServ Calculus Toolkit, and SciLab, "...a scientific software package for numerical computations in a user-friendly environment."
A nice explanation of spatial autocorrelation, along with some free software (Rooks Case) for calculating basic spatial statistics. Rooks Case is an "extension" to Excel.
Environmental Inequality: Silicon Valley Toxics and Demographics.
Current US population estimates, from the census bureau.
Commercial satellite images, from Landsat. Hepatitis A data, US, by county.
Outbreak: to keep you apprised of emerging diseases. This site contains a lot of useful information (e.g. disease specs; disease images; interviews with specialists; video clips of Ebola victims and doctors in spacesuits; etc.).
All manner of maps: state maps, terrain maps, Maps in the News, etc.
U.S. Mortality data. Originally published in the Atlas of United States Mortality. Includes Meta Data.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission GIS data at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/ Lots of data on broadcast zones, trade areas, etc. Might be useful for those of you involved in emergency management in the U.S. Richard Hoskins
Check out the Scout report: "The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. However, everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML). Subscription instructions are included at the end of each report. "
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html
Has a variety public health items or discussions that relate indirectly to public health Richard Hoskins
Color Space demonstration. Very interesting way to understand many aspects of color (hue, saturation, etc.) and color mixing.
SVTC Eco-Maps, showing toxic chemical point sources, contaminated groundwater, etc. in Santa Clara, County, CA.
Mathematics of Cartography
Public Health Research Laboratories "is strengthening the public health system by providing domestic and international support in public health research, training, education, and technical assistance. PHRL specializes in statistical and epidemiologic consultation, and in training public health workers in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)."
Geographic Information Systems and Public Health in Public Health Reports (NCI).
USGS's Most Popular Maps Now Available Online - press release.
An on-line GIS Project, by UNESCO.
Africa Data Sampler
FREE GIS resources. **Also has the link to GEOTRANS - The GPS Geographic Translator; excellent software with source.
For general GIS resources - US Army Topographic Engineering Center http://www.tec.army.mil/gis/
Disaster Data
Papers on Rural/Urban classification, etc.
The outline of Art Getis's course in spatial analysis and epidemiology.
Human dimensions of global change, from the American Association of Geographers.
An on-line book on GIS/Remote Sensing and public health issues.
I picked this up on another listserve, its about how to convert from one coordinate system to another. It appeared serendipitously as I wanted to go from State plane to long/lat.
http://software.geocomm.com/coordinates/
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A Disease glossary from the CDC.
"Cancer incidence in North America http://www.naaccr.org/cinap/index.htm Richard E. Hoskins"

Dear WAPHGISers:

For fans of the history of mapping and disease, here are
two recent and interesting articles on John Snow's cholera maps:

McLeod, K.S. (2000) Our sense of Snow: the myth of John Snow in
  medical geography.  Social Science and Medicine. 50, 923-935.

Brody, H., Rip, M.R., Vinten-Johansen, P., Paneth, N., and Rachman, S.
(2000). Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street:  the London
cholera epidemic, 1854.  Lancet, 356, 64-68.

Lance Waller

John Snow at UCLA

GIS primer: http://www.innovativegis.com/education/primer/primer.html
And this one too for GIS terms, acronyms http://lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html
Richard E. Hoskins

For US members check out. LAND COVER DIGITAL DATA DIRECTORY FOR THE UNITED STATES

http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/landcover/lulcmap.html Richard E. Hoskins WA State Department of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov

For freeware GIS tools and format converters and more check out

http://www.grime.net/gistools/a-z.htm

Richard E. Hoskins
WA State Department of Health
1102 Quince Street
Olympia, WA 98504-7812
richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov

ArcView scripts for free.

Check out http://www.commenspace.org/av_script.htm

Some good stuff in here - it all seems to work

Richard E. Hoskins

ArcView tutorial for free
http://castafiore.uni-muenster.de/vorlesungen/av_tutor_e/index.html#index

Richard E. Hoskins

Remote sensing tutorial

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/eduref/tutorial/tutore.html

Richard E. Hoskins

For US members and those interested in demographic data for the US:
check out http://www.ameristat.org/index.html

Richard E. Hoskins

Statistics instruction site:  Lots of good material here. A time series
course among other things

http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/stat-data/opre330.htm

Richard E. Hoskins


For US members, free TIGER 1995 data opn the ESRI site
http://www.esri.com/data/online/tiger/index.html

These can be easily converted for Maptitude and Mapinfo users.

Richard E. Hoskins

Subject: RE: WAPHGIS: Free TIGER file data

FYI  If you want TIGER 1999, it is readily downloaded from the Census site.
It is in thier format however.

Curtis Mack
MackCE@dshs.wa.gov

From: Jim Bash 
Reply-To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
To: WAPHGIS 
Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: Free TIGER file data


Tiger Line 99 is available for download from the Census Bureau:
    http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html
In my area (Chicago) there were tremendous improvements in address ranges
between TL95 and Tl98. Note however that TL98 and TL99 on the above site
are in the original TL format. Arc/Info can covert this but ArcView can't.
I think that is why ESRI put TL95 up for free as shapefiles :-)

MapInfo Professional: An Easy Guide, a
training document which I developed for use here in the Map
Room, was published in the March 2000 (vol 31, no 2) issue
of the Western Association of Map Libraries Information
Bulletin.  This guide has now been revised and re-written
and is available online at
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/

Nigel James

Spatial stat sites, integration with GRASS

For R / S:

http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~adrian/spatstat.html

http://www-stat.sci.uni-klu.ac.at/~agebhard/ERSA-98-D8-427/index.html

GRASS & R

Richard E. Hoskins

Some sites on spatial autocorrelation:

http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/argus/ICA/J.Dykes/4.2.html

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geographie/lpcweb/sections1/sa/ppframe.htm

http://www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/landscape/inventory/wulder/mvstats/spatial.html

http://xerxes.sph.umich.edu:2000/cgi-bin/cgi-tcl-examples/generic/SA/SA.cgi
a game

http://www.csfnet.org/image/solsc297.html

Richard Hoskins

Interactive statistics on the Internet. If you know of others please let us know.

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/statistics/

An interactive course in statistics.
http://www.katho.be/statist/
On-line course in STATISTICS and PROBABILITY. Author : Dr. Erik Blomme, The
Netherlands

These are for school kids (but I think some of them are very good for big
folks ... do you really understand the difference between type I and type II
error? type III error? (that's when you pretend you know what type II error
is ...)

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/stat/stat.html

Form Finland  http://www.helsinki.fi/~jpuranen/links.html  statistics
educational links

SURFSTAT Australia
http://www.anu.edu.au/nceph/surfstat/surfstat-home/surfstat.html

Journal of Stat education  http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/


The Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures initiative is designed to
make statistical routines easily available via the WWW.

http://www.stat.sc.edu/rsrch/gasp/

>From Rice university  http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html

Electronic Statistics Textbook (very cool)
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

CAST (computer assisted stat training) on line course for free - my favorite
http://cast.massey.ac.nz/


Applied Spatial Statistics
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/~st733_info/oldindex.html

SAS oriented


Richard Hoskins

Source of free map data:
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/NonProfitBlvd/free_world_maps/

Free World Map Data Project
earth_africa.jpg (15861 bytes)

Welcome!  The Free World map data project provides free maps and other
cartographic data using the GNU "copyleft" General Public License (GPL).
We believe in modern times that it is not possible for free people to
freely participate in democracies unless they may also freely utilize
digital maps.   Our objective is to provide maps that are free of
restrictions on usage so that free people worldwide, as well as those
people who yearn to be free, may participate in the seemingly infinite
ways geography influences our civilization.

Richard Hoskins

For public health practitioners and their GIS friends,

Check out http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/gis/web.html#State  for GIS
data by state

Specifically for WA  State one possibility is:
http://metadata.gis.washington.edu/

Richard E. Hoskins

I got this independent of the listserve, so I have removed the signature,
but check out:

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

I learned something on the first mouse click. (BTW, thanks to somebody in
NY)

Richard E. Hoskins

Someone inquired: Toxic sites in the US

EnviroMapper at
http://map3.epa.gov/enviromapper/index.html and EnviroFacts Queries, Maps,
and Reports at http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/qmr.html

Richard Hoskins

Here is a web site where you can find I guess all of the vendors for web
mapping products.

http://www.geoplace.com/gw/1999/1199/webmapsites.asp

Richard Hoskins

Remote sensing tutorial:
http://tutorial.core.ipp.pt/mirrors/Tutorial/TofC/toc1.html

Richard Hoskins

I think I left off the url for the topo map site:
http://www.topozone.com/

also:  http://www.tec.army.mil/

USGS  http://mapping.usgs.gov/
and their more friendly portal http://ask.usgs.gov/

Richard Hoskins

I am pleased to announce the arrival of Census Watch on the ESRI web site
(www.esri.com/censuswatch).  Census Watch is a portal to information about
Census 2000 and its related activities.  It is designed to provide access to
up-to-date information about Census data resources, redistricting, online
mapping, and education/training opportunities.

The Census Watch site provides access to TIGER/Line 2000 data in shapefile
format, available for free download from the Geography Network
(www.geographynetwork.com).  NOTE:  Data is not yet available for all
states; more data will be added as it becomes available.  Also available
through Census Watch are Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Data Sets, American
Fact Finder Data Sets, and TIGER/Line 1995 shapefiles.

Please feel free to contact me with questions about the Census Watch site.

Angela Lee
ESRI Schools and Libraries Program
1305 Corporate Center Dr, Suite 250

A nice site on Exploratory Data Analysis.

You can now download the Tiger 2000 data (various geographic and
political boundaries, streets, highways, etc.) from ESRI for free in
ArcView shapefile format (works with free ArcExplorer as well).  I've
provided a link at:

  http://www.mapcruzin.com/download_demographics.htm

Mike

+++++++++++++++++++++
Michael R. Meuser,
meuser@mapcruzin.com

Census data centers nationwide. Check out http://www.census.gov/sdc/www/

For WA State folks, I would not hesitate to call up some of the resources
listed for WA if you need more than population data. All of the people I
have called are very friendly.

Likely the same for other states too.

Richard Hoskins

Some free GIS data at Directions magazine. Some cool stuff. I like the Mt
Everest DEM for Vertical Mapper/MapInfo.

http://www.directionsmag.com/datacenter/

Richard Hoskins

Practical geostat book
http://uk.geocities.com/drisobelclark/practica.html for free

Richard Hoskins

Check out http://campus.esri.com/campus/library/bibliography/
for a GIS bibliography.

Also if you are using ESRI software, the ESRI on-line courses are far
cheaper than taking their in-person training, and I think far better and
a lot cheaper.

For those of you who are academically affiliated, your institution may
have these available to you for no charge.

Richard Hoskins

A particularly comprehensive search engine for GIS

 http://search.geocomm.com/

  The Ultimate GIS Search Engine

A Comprehensive Search Engine Retrieving content from more than 100,000
pages on the GeoCommunity website and from thousands of hand-picked GIS,
Geo-Spatial, Remote Sensing, CAD, and Location-Based Industry Websites.

Richard Hoskins

http://www.gpswaypoints.co.za/

Has GPS (geographic positioning systems) info (Southern Africa). Fun
site. A tutorial, FAQs about GPS

Link to a collection of African maps.

Richard Hoskins

Atlas of prenatal care utilization in CA.  A pdf
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/pcfh/mchb/pdfs/PrenatalCareUtilization-1998.pdf

Richard Hoskins


For a free GIS viewer check out http://www2.erdas.com/msx/

MapSheets Express is the FREE viewing and mapping tool from ERDAS, for
working with imagery and vector map data.

JUST RELEASED!
MapSheets Express 1.3
Now supports MrSID Imagery!

Richard Hoskins

Map Projections

http://mac.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.html

Richard Hoskins

Here's a link to a short piece from Federal Computer World (FCW.com) on EPA's
Window to My Environment
on-line GIS function:

http://fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0326/cov-side2-03-26-01.asp

George Yocher

Free GIS software, some other items that connects various free packages
to ArcView.  http://www.phrl.org/free_software.htm

Richard Hoskins

Some interesting health maps items


National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Cardiovascular Health

http://gis.cdc.gov/cvd/

Richard Hoskins

There is a New Addition to Global Environmental RiskMap Network

PollutionWatch was launched today (04/09/01). It is a twin sister to
 the U.S. based Chemical Scorecard and uses Canadian NPRI
data. It offers all the same features as the Chemical Scorecard
including health effects, chemical information, a mapping system,
etc.  The site was developed by the Canadian Institute for
Environmental Law and Policy, Canadian Environmental Law
Association, the Canadian Environmental Defence Fund and
Environmental Defense.

I've added it to the Global Environmental RiskMap Network at:

  http://www.mapcruzin.com/mapinatl.htm

Mike

Check out http://infomine.ucr.edu/search/mapssearch.phtml

InfoMine site for GIS bibliography and sites.

Also  http://www.gisportal.com/

a GIS portal web site

Richard Hoskins

GIS resource list  http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html

The USGS  has CD roms for sale with various GIS datasets, many non-USA.

http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/cdrom/cdlist.html

Richard Hoskins

Greetings,
those of you interested in tracking down Landsat and other
RS data might be interested in a feature article I just
released at
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/landsat7viewer/

The article explains in detail the Landsat 7 online Viewing
tool developed by the USGS and introduces a comparable
product in development by the CCRS in Canada

Any feedback or additional input relating to the topic is
appreciated

Regards
Glenn

From: Michael R. Meuser [mailto:meuser@mapcruzin.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:46 AM
To: waphgis@u.washington.edu; WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu
Subject: census 2000, tiger

Hi - I think that someone posted a link to tiger 2000 downloads (not
esri) but I can't find it.  Could you repost?

Also, wondering if anyone has found a census 2000 download page
similar to the 1990 CD lookup at:

http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup
 or
http://www2.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/census90/house11/housdesc.htm

thnx

mike

From: "Rarig, Alice" 
Reply-To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" 
Subject: RE: census 2000, tiger

The detailed age, sex and race info will not be out until mid-summer, and
the "long form" data won't be out until next year so there will not be
comparable data to look up for a while.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/c2kproducts.html

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:38:09 -0400
From: Hall.Loren@epamail.epa.gov
Reply-To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: census 2000, tiger

...

You can find another source of TIGER data at:
http://www.proximityone.com/maps2000.htm.

Their web site also presents some explanatory info on Census 2000 data
products at:  http://www.proximityone.com/cen2000.htm  The same company has
created a utility to process the plain-text Census PL94-171 files (which
are available at a Census Bureau ftp server at
http://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/) into dbf format.  You can
find out more about this utility at:
http://www.proximityone.com/asc2dbf.htm  The company recently released an
new utility which allows generating a single table with 40 items instead of
only all 288 items in three tables containing the full PL-94-171 data.
There's an additional utility which combines the 40 item attribute data
with Census 2000 geographic data (at block, block group or tract levels
currently) to produce a combination geography/attribute shape file.  More
info on this is at:  http://www.proximityone.com/cen2shp.htm

[disclaimer:  mention of these products does not constitute endorsement by
my employer.]

>Also, wondering if anyone has found a census 2000 download page
>similar to the 1990 CD lookup at:

>http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup or
>http://www2.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/census90/house11/housdesc.htm

The Census Bureau is releasing the Census 2000 data online via its new
American Factfinder interactive site.  The PL94-171 demographic data is
available at:  http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/pldata.html
After first choosing a state, the site displays one of the "quick tables"
of summary data.  Changing the selection using the drop down menu choices
allows a user to specify a state/county combination to retrieve tabular
data down to tract level.

If you choose "detailed tables" you can specify output geography down to
block level. It should allow you to iteratively select multiple geographic
areas, although I have not tried large retrievals such as all the blocks in
a county yet.

Loren Hall
US EPA Office of Civil Rights


http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/education/distance_edu/ 

This URL gives discussion to distance learning opportunities in GIS.

Richard Hoskins

You can find some of the [powerline] converage with in the Digital Chart of the
World.  A convenient way to access it is through the Penn State maproom
at http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

Just select the state and the download the Utilities E00 files and
convert to SHPs.  If I remember correctly, the utilities file includes
major electrical, water, and gas lines.

Elio Spinello
RPM Consulting

Resources for Creating Public Health Maps
some free info, some links

http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/EIhlgeog.htm

Richard Hoskins

For those of you interested in FREE GIS data, viewers, programs
and mapservers that almost anyone can use to put interactive
maps on the web check under the heading "Break the ESRI Grip"
at:

  http://www.mapcruzin.com/free_gis.htm

The tools on the above page should also be of interest to those
who wish to be innovators and create map projects on the web that
others can replicate, that don't increase the "digital divide" and that
contribute as little as possible to computer obsolesence (what's
better than a recycled or manufacturer-taken-back computer? One
that you can still use!).

Mike

Check out http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html
for lots of map and GIS links, especially for MapInfo users.

Richard E. Hoskins

Satellite images one can find on the Internet
(no implication that they are al free ...)

http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~tbenja1/freedata.html

Richard Hoskins

Subject: Census 2000 Demographic Profiles


The Census Bureau has started releasing demographic profiles for States that
compare 1990 and 2000 Census data.  The data include household and housing
characteristics not previously released for Census 2000.

The profiles for most States are already available and the rest are
scheduled to be released this week.  To see the release schedule and access
the data for individual States, go to:

    http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/demoprofile.html

The data can also be accessed through American Factfinder:

    http://factfinder.census.gov

and can be downloaded from the Census FTP site:

    http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/demographic_profile/

The Census has also recently released a Census 2000 Brief on the Hispanic
population:

    http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-81.html

For previous Census 2000 Briefs:

    http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs.html

We public health people are likely a little deficient ion our knowledge
of geodesy, so check out

http://einstein.gge.unb.ca/tutorial/tutorial.htm

Usually we let the GIS technicians and geographers worry about these
issues for us, but I think we ought to read a little about the science of
measuring the earth if no other reason than to have heard or read the
terminology one time.

Richard Hoskins

Free epidemiology software.  http://www.myatt.demon.co.uk/

A link to R on that same page:

A brief introduction to using the R environment for analyzing epidemiological data in Rich Text (.RTF) and Acrobat v4.xx (.PDF) formats.

Also  
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods

  for free materials
oriented towards social science.

Richard Hoskins

http://www.freegis.org/

Free GIS - anyone had experience with any of these? It would be an
interesting experiment to see how complete your GIS lab could become
using just free software. It is certainly to possible to do it for a
modest investment with Maptitude (www.caliper.com) and Manifold
(www.manifold.net). For a raster GIS, IDRISI is more expensive, but
cheaper for education and developing nations
http://www.clarklabs.org/01home.htm

Richard Hoskins

  You might want to check out this site if you are interested in geographic
education for kids. I found it pretty good for me.

Dick Hoskins

http://www.worldwatcher.nwu.edu/

Accessing Spatial Data Over the Internet
http://www.uwin.siu.edu/ucowr/updates/99/bennett.html

Cartography and the Internet: Implications for Modern Cartography
http://maps.unomaha.edu/NACIS/paper.html

Serving GIS Data Through the World Wide Web
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/SANTA_FE_CD-ROM/sf_papers/engel_bernard/engel.html

Optimizing Web Access to Geospatial Data: The Cornell University Geospatial
Information Repository (CUGIR)
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-winter/article2.html

Directions magazine links to major internet-based mapping discussion lists.
http://lists.directionsmag.com/discussion/

Web GIS and Interactive Mapping Sites
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GIS/intergis.html

Open GIS Consortium
http://www.opengis.org/

Web Mapper.com
http://www.web-mapper.com/main.cfm

GeoCommunity Web Mapping links
http://www.geocomm.com/channel/webmap/

Generalisation, Web Mapping and Data Delivery over the Internet
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/laserscan1/

GeoWorld Article on Web Mapping Issues
http://www.geoplace.com/gw/2001/0201/0201wm.asp

Dick Hoskins

USGS launches new website for nation's water data
------------------------------------------------------------------
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), this week, launched
its new, online National Water Information System (NWISWeb) and in
so doing opened the doors to the public to much more of the 100
years of water data collected by the federal earth science agency.
The new website, found at http://water.usgs.gov/nwis/ allows users
to access several hundred million pieces of archival and real-time
data, all from their home or office computers.

"Our users can now gain easy access to over 100 years of water
information, all with the click of a mouse," said Robert Hirsch,
USGS Associate Director for Water. "This not only saves them time,
money, and effort for the user, but also allows our hydrologists
and technicians to concentrate on collecting data and processing
the information derived from it. NWISWeb is an integral part of
the USGS mission to disseminate important water-quality and
quantity data to the public.

This is not a new publication (July 2000), but a nice summary of data
sources relevant for public health.

http://www.astho.org/access/documents/PublicHealthDataSources.htm

he Washington DOH website on using Rural Urban Classification Systems in
Public Health Assessment has just been posted.  In addition to the
guidelines the site has  links to most recent internet resources on rural
urban classification systems.

This site was developed in conjunction with Juliet VanEnwyck Washington DOH
Non-infectious Epidemiologist and Jim Vanderslice Washington DOH
Environmental Health.
Much of background work drew heavily on 1998 Definitions of Rural:  A
Guidebook for Researchers and Health Planners by Ricketts et. al. at the UNC
Sheps Center

To view it go to...

http://www.doh.wa.gov/Data/guidelines/RuralUrban.htm


"Working to Protect and Improve the health of the People in Washington
State"

Vince Schueler
Health Care Access Analyst
Office of Community and Rural Health
Department of Health
2725 NW Harrison Ave. Suite 500
PO BOX 47834
Olympia, Washington 98504-7834

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the availability
of the following new publication on its Web site:

        National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic
        Citation.  Supplement: Internet Formats

        at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf

An HTML version will be available shortly.

Like the original Formats publication, this Supplement is based on
guidelines provided by the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) and the International Standards Organization (ISO), and it provides
many sample citations illustrating the recommendations.  The Supplement
also includes an appendix updating the list of abbreviations for journal
title words that appeared in the earlier publication.

We welcome your comments and suggestions on this new publication.

The original Formats publication is still available in hard copy from
NTIS at http://www.ntis.gov:

Patrias, Karen. National Library of Medicine recommended formats for
bibliographic citation. Bethesda (MD): The Library; 1991 Apr. Available
from: NTIS, Springfield, VA; PB91-182030.

It contains citation formats for 12 categories of published material:
journals, books, conference publications, technical reports,
dissertations and theses, bibliographies, patents, newspaper articles,
maps, legal materials, audiovisuals, and electronic formats such as
online and CD-ROM.  Unpublished material such as "in press" items and
personal communications are covered as well.

USA members may need national park boundary data

http://www.nps.gov/gis/national_data.htm

Dick Hoskins

For USA members, managed areas GIS data

                             Managed Areas Database


http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/sb/mad/mad.html

Key words: protected areas

The earth's biota is disappearing at an alarming rate across the globe,
and protected areas play a critical role in preserving plant and animal
species from extinction. As concern over ecosystem degradation increases,
so does the need for accurate, up-to-date information on the spatial
location and aerial extent of currently managed and protected areas. This
need represents the fundamental motivation for creation of this Managed
Areas Database (MAD).

Dick Hoskins

USER RESPONSE:
I used this database a couple of years ago when I had a consulting client
that needed to know how many loans (they were a bank) had been made on
American Indian Reservations.  The MAD database was one of the best ones I
found that contained fairly up-to-date boundaries compared to the TIGER
files.

Elio Spinello

See the attached URL. Remote sensing tutorial

http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/education/gis/opening.html

Dick Hoskins

    For some of you who are developing GIS applications, this site might be
                                     useful

              http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib/index.html

                                ArcView Shapelib

Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ArcView Shapefiles. It
is available in source form, with no licensing restrictions.

Dick Hoskins

For an article on social epidemiology check out

 http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/10/693
Not directly a GIS issue, but much of the mapping for some investigators
reflects social epidemiology issues.

Dick Hoskins

A source of state health data (not directly GIS but a very nice site, I
thought):
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/

Anita Makri

The issue is whether selective availability, SA , is maintained during
the current US terrorist crisis. I think that if there is a military
offensive that SA will be turned on.

If you are using GPS currently for public health work  you need to be
aware of the SA status or your measurements could be degraded
significantly if SA is turned back on. All the GPS satellites are
maintained by the US Defense Department.

Check out http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/default.htm for GPS status.


Horizontal positioning error at
http://web-kn-nl.kn.op.dlr.de/main_GNSS_Monitoring/monitor_hori.html

also see http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gps_datafiles.html

A tutorial on GPS
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html

Dick Hoskins

Free public health software

http://www.myatt.demon.co.uk/

Dick Hoskins

The attached link points to a free 10 week HTML course. I have taken a few
of the lessons so far, they are pretty good. At some point I have always
know I would have to learn HTML - this is very painless.

 http://html.about.com/library/beginning/bl_htmlclass.htm?PM=59_0892_T

Look around at other links on that site for other web development tutorials,
most free.

There is a new GIS web authoring language being developed, but I did not see
this covered or am I sure quite where to look.

Also about.com has some  GIS links at http://gis.about.com/
They are mostly geography now, but still useful information.


Dick Hoskins
Spatial Epidemiology

GIS uses in health

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/health/index.htm

Dick Hoskins

Check out  http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/

A major contribution to GIS & public health information for US
investigators.

"The Dartmouth Atlas project brings together researchers in diverse
disciplines - including epidemiology, economics, and statistics - and
focuses on the accurate description of how medical resources are
distributed and used in the United States. "

Dick Hoskins

There is an excellent article on cartographic principles

Charlie Frye, "Making Maps that Communicate", ArcUser, October-December
2001, published by ESRI, p 38.

It is definitely an excellent tutorial in making good looking and effective
maps. It may be on www.esri.com but I couldn't find it.

Dick Hoskins

Postscript:
This article can be found at can be found at
http://www.tenlinks.com/MapGIS/articles/features/current_features.htm

Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:24:44 +0800
From: Basil_LOH@env.gov.sg
Reply-To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
Subject: RE: WAPHGIS: examples of using GIS in  pubic health


Hi everyone,

We are applying GIS to dengue control in Singapore:
http://app2.internet.gov.sg/scripts/bimst/gis.asp

Warmest regards!
Basil

A GIS needs assessment (How To Do It) document at
http://adjuntas.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia/sara/volumei.pdf

if you are trying to build a GIS unit in your division  or agency, you might
want to check this out.

Dick Hoskins

Links to free GIS data

http://mapping.usgs.gov/
http://www.grida.no/db/maps/prod/level0/
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/MANUAL/gisres.htm#II.
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/
http://www.mapcruzin.com/
http://www.directionsmag.com/datacenter/
http://www.gisdatadepot.com/
http://www.lib.utk.edu/~tngic/price.html

If you have others, please let us know.

Richard Hoskins

My free gis layers:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/free_gis.htm

If you have a toxic related project or know of one, let me now and
I'll link it here:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/global_toxmaps.htm

ArcExplorer and other free GIS stuff if you don't want to bother with
the tutorial right away:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/download_mapcruz.htm

Our original Santa Cruz TRI (I'm two years behind on updating it,
but you get the idea).
http://www.mapcruzin.com/scruztri/scruztri.html

Some projects we've done:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/projects/

Free 1998 TRI map layers:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/tri_1998/

I hope that some of this encourages you to do some mapping of
your community.  If it does, let me know.  I'd love to hear about it.

best,

Mike

+++++++++++++++++++++
Michael R. Meuser

At the request of our users and the general public, ESRI has prepared the
2000 Urban Areas as downloadable shapefiles from the Geography Network,
http://www.geographynetwork.com.

If you are an existing user of the TIGER 2000 shapefile download service
http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/index.html, simply login
and choose a U.S. state.  Y ou will find "Urban Areas 2000" as an
additional layer in the "Select by Layer" dropdown list.

If you are not familiar with the TIGER 2000 shapefile download service
and would like to become a user, simply navigate your Web browser to
http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_register.cfm
 and
register.  ESRI has prepared a helpful procedures document on how to use
this FREE service.  This document can be found at
http://www.censuswatch.com/census2000_download2.pdf

We hope you find this service to be helpful in your community planning
efforts.  If you have any questions regarding this notice, please feel
free to contact us at censuswatch@esri.com.

Best Regards,
Census Watch Support Team

Back to the Spatial Epidemiology home page

Website maintained by Andy Long. Comments appreciated.

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