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."
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.
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
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.
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
For general GIS resources - US Army Topographic Engineering Center http://www.tec.army.mil/gis/
http://software.geocomm.com/coordinates/
Richard E. Hoskins WA State Department of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov tel: (360) 236 - 4270 fax: (360) 236 - 4245
Hi Andy: I apologize for the unsolicited email but while surfing the web I came across your "The GeoMed/Epi Project Link Page: Spatial Epidemiology" page. I noticed that you have links to software similar to our Terrain Tools Freeware (see http://www.softree.com/betatest/ttools.htm ). We would greatly appreciate it if you would include a link to our site. URL: http://www.softree.com Description: Free Surveying and Mapping Software If you have any questions about our product please don't hesitate to contact me. Craig Speirs Softree http://www.softree.com ph. 604-519-6222
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 WallerJohn Snow at UCLA
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 STATEShttp://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 BashReply-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
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