Subject: ‘free’
| February 28, 2010Guide to Nonprofit MappingCommunityMapTogether, which focuses on providing GIS support to community and nonprofit organizations, has released a booklet called the ”Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping.” The 45-page PDF file reviews basic GIS concepts, provides examples of nonprofit mapping, free data sources, and provides an overview of the more commonly available low-cost and free web mapping and ... read more December 29, 2009World Database of Large Urban AreasDataNorpil has made available their layer of Large Urban Areas for downloading. Tabular data from the United Nation’s World Urbanization Prospects: The 2007 Revision Population Database was joined to the 2008 cities dataset that comes with ESRI’s Data & Maps sample data and other sources of data. The database is available for unrestricted download, under the Creative ... read more October 26, 2009Free Book with ESRI SurveyFree GISESRI is running a survey to see what U.S. users need an upgrade on their Desktop GIS software. The survey asks a series of data editing, storage, and analysis questions. U.S. residents can answer the questions and receive one of three free books for completing the survey. October 20, 2009ESRI Launches Free Mapping SiteFree GIS, Internet MappingA new press release from ESRI today announced the launch of their “Mapping for Everyone” site.: Make a Map—The Make a Map feature includes a simple interactive Web map showing seven different U.S. demographic layers. Visitors can zoom in to an area of interest, select a demographic layer, then embed the map into their own Web ... read more |


