<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>GIS Lounge &#187; Data</title> <atom:link href="http://gislounge.com/category/data/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://gislounge.com</link> <description>Geographic Information Systems, Maps, GPS, and GIS Jobs</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:27:18 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Analysis Finds Three Times More Farmers’ Markets in Areas with the Lowest Obesity Rates</title><link>http://gislounge.com/study-finds-three-times-more-farmers-markets-in-areas-with-the-lowest-obesity-rates/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/study-finds-three-times-more-farmers-markets-in-areas-with-the-lowest-obesity-rates/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Gretchen Peterson</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[farmers' markets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obesity map]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obesity rates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PetersonGIS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=9204</guid> <description><![CDATA[An independent analysis conducted by mapping analytics firm PetersonGIS shows that locations with the highest obesity rates contain the fewest farmers’ markets. To produce the analysis, March 2011 data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on market locations throughout the United States were mapped and correlated with county-aggregated obesity statistics* from the Center for Disease Control [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/study-finds-three-times-more-farmers-markets-in-areas-with-the-lowest-obesity-rates/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>New Plant Hardiness Zone Map</title><link>http://gislounge.com/new-plant-hardiness-zone-map/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/new-plant-hardiness-zone-map/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:33:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHZM]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plant Hardiness Zone Map]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=9193</guid> <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM).  The map is the first updated in over twenty years and incorporates greater accuracy and detail since the last map from 1990.  The new map was developed by the USDA&#8217;s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Oregon State University&#8217;s (OSU) PRISM Climate Group and is available [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/new-plant-hardiness-zone-map/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Wind and GIS</title><link>http://gislounge.com/wind-and-gis/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/wind-and-gis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:23:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GIS wind data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[national ocean service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Renewable Energy Laboratory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[national weather]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NOAA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nrel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WeoGeo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wind]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wind mapping]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wind potential ranking map]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wind swaths]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/reference/link-library/wind-and-gis/</guid> <description><![CDATA[GIS  has many applications in wind mapping, analysis and modeling. Geographic data and modeling of wind performance can help site wind turbines.  Study of wind patterns also is used for assessing wind damage potential. The GIS staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory provides both national wind resource assessment of the United States and high-resolution wind data.  GIS data [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/wind-and-gis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Help Map Medical Locations in Libya</title><link>http://gislounge.com/help-map-medical-locations-in-libya/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/help-map-medical-locations-in-libya/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:12:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crowdsourcing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GISCorps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[openstreetmap]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=8873</guid> <description><![CDATA[With the help of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), GISCorps, and the Stand By Task Force (SBTF) (an online volunteer mapping community), the WHO has been trying to map out all the medical facilities within the embattled country of Libya.  The project is an ongoing effort and a call for help has gone out in a memo to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/help-map-medical-locations-in-libya/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>National Forest Map and GIS Data</title><link>http://gislounge.com/national-forest-map-and-gis-data/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/national-forest-map-and-gis-data/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:04:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[forestry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GIS in forestry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Forest Service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USGS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Woods Hole Research Center]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=8843</guid> <description><![CDATA[What areas of the United States contain the densest amount of woody biomass?  Showing the conterminous United States, the intensity of biomass (a measure of the amount of organic carbon—stored in the trunks, limbs, and leaves of trees) has been mapped out with a baseline year of 2000.  The darkest green areas are the locations with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/national-forest-map-and-gis-data/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Free GIS Datasets</title><link>http://gislounge.com/free-gis-datasets/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/free-gis-datasets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:09:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free GIS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free GIS data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robin Wilson]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=8823</guid> <description><![CDATA[Looking for free GIS data?  Robin Wilson, a PhD student at the University of Southampton, has a frequently updated list of free GIS datasets that he has found in the course of his research and based on recommendations from other GIS users. The list is broken down into broader categories covering Physical Geography, Human Geography, and individual countries. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/free-gis-datasets/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mapping Air Pollution</title><link>http://gislounge.com/mapping-air-pollution/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/mapping-air-pollution/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:42:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[air pollution mapping]]></category> <category><![CDATA[data visualization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mapping]]></category> <category><![CDATA[urban mapping]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=8787</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pulling real time data from the city government of Madrid, Into the Air is a project led by Nerea Calvillo (along with a team of architectural students, anthropologists, and designers) to map out air pollutants over the Spanish city.  The project was originally developed at Visualizar&#8217;08, an annual workshop/seminar that focused that year&#8217;s efforts on urban data visualization. The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/mapping-air-pollution/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>North Korea Mapping Oddities</title><link>http://gislounge.com/north-korea-mapping-oddities/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/north-korea-mapping-oddities/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:48:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GIS News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KMZ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nasa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[satellite imagery]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=8726</guid> <description><![CDATA[The recent death of &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221; Kim Jong Il, dictator of North Korea, has brought this isolationist country to the forefront of world news again.  Known in part for shunning most of the outside world, one of the ways information is gleaned about this country is through remote sensing and satellite imagery.  For example, Amnesty International [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/north-korea-mapping-oddities/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Crowdsourcing Historical GIS</title><link>http://gislounge.com/crowdsourcing-historical-gis/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/crowdsourcing-historical-gis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:10:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crowdsourcing gis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Google Maps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[historical GIS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pastmapper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/?p=8718</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pastmapper is an innovative project from Brad Thompson who is seeking to document online the geography of cities over time.  Thompson is seeking to answer the questions of &#8220;What was here?&#8221; and &#8220;Whatever happened to..?&#8221; by creating maps that look at the state of various cities historically by creating GIS layers that reflect how a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/crowdsourcing-historical-gis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Metadata</title><link>http://gislounge.com/metadata/</link> <comments>http://gislounge.com/metadata/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:12:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Caitlin Dempsey</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Learning GIS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spatial Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GIS 101]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gis data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GIS data documentation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[metadata]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://gislounge.com/reference/link-library/metadata/</guid> <description><![CDATA[What is metadata and why is it important to document GIS data?  Metadata is an important, but unfortunately oft overlooked component of GIS data.  Metadata is &#8216;data about the data&#8217; and it&#8217;s vital to understanding to source, currency, scale, and appropriateness of using GIS data. Metadata can be stored as an inherent part of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gislounge.com/metadata/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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