fakeisthenewreal + archive 136
County Adjacency File
october 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
this will be great
"Every county has itself listed as a neighboring county"
gis
archive
usa
census
"Every county has itself listed as a neighboring county"
october 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
USGS TNM 2.0 Viewer
july 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Really quite slick, except for the part where they email you the download link.
gis
archive
usa
data
land
july 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Tales From the Database - Mile High Comics, Chuck Rozanski
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Column by Mile High founder, ran 01-08.
comics
writing
archive
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
NounProject
january 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
public domain vector icons,
design
graphics
icon
archive
january 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Catalogue: City of Vancouver Open Data Catalogue
september 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
extensive gis resource. dwg, kml, shp, etc
vancouver
gis
archive
canada
september 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Natural Earth
august 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
"Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software."
gis
archive
mapping
geography
usa
august 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Data Basin
april 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
GIS collection focused on environmental/ecological data.
"Data Basin is an innovative, online system that connects users with spatial datasets, tools, and expertise. Individuals and organization can explore and download a vast library of datasets, upload their own data, create and publish projects, form working groups, and produce customized maps that can be easily shared."
gis
archive
environment
ecology
"Data Basin is an innovative, online system that connects users with spatial datasets, tools, and expertise. Individuals and organization can explore and download a vast library of datasets, upload their own data, create and publish projects, form working groups, and produce customized maps that can be easily shared."
april 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Welcome to NHGIS — National Historical Geographic Information System
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Sometimes I am surprised by what I find: "The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000. NHGIS offers the following options to obtain data:"
census
gis
data
archive
population
demography
history
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
National Transit Database
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
datasets and yearbooks for US transit. Get that juicy cost per passenger mile and revenue mile data!
transport
transit
usa
archive
data
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Many Eyes
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
IBM brings you data sets and onilne viz tools
visualization
archive
data
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Natural Connections: Green Infrastructure in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
GIS clearinghouse in area of 'natural resource protection and land preservation' for Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. "Partnership between the Center for Neighborhood Technology and Openlands. Funding for this project was generously provided by The Joyce Foundation."
gis
geodata
archive
landscape
environment
chicago
illinois
wisconsin
india
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
GIS Inventory
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
State GIS clearinghouse clearinghouse. "primary purpose is to track the status of GIS in US state and local government to aid the planning and building of Spatial Data Infrastructures. Ramona is designed to work in concert with Geospatial One Stop (www.geodata.gov). "
gis
mapping
archive
usa
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
NYC Data Mine
october 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
"his catalog supplies many sets of public data produced by City agencies." Mostly csv format, some geodata.
geodata
gis
archive
nyc
data
october 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
PASDA Home Page
october 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Pennsylvania has a great public GIS library.
pennsylvania
gis
data
geodata
archive
october 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
AggData | AggData
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
another free data library.
archive
data
list
reference
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
E*vue: Emergent Vegetation of the Urban Ecosystem
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Peter Del Tredici's plant site: "We vilify as weeds those organisms that flourish in the urban environment without our approval or assistance. It is these plants-the spontaneous vegetation of the urban environment-that are the subject of this website."
landscape
ecology
weeds
archive
vegetation
environment
urban
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
NREL: Dynamic Maps, GIS Data, and Analysis Tools - Data and Analysis Tools
august 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
geodata on renewable energy
gis
energy
usa
archive
august 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Gamme de produits - IGN.FR - Professionnels
april 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
geodata available from the french geographic institute.
mapping
geography
archive
france
april 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
arbori
april 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
gena's new collection of tree photographs.
tree
archive
known
photography
april 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
International Architecture Database / Archinform
march 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
stronger on european buildings. Addresses included.
architecture
archive
march 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
rediscovered. excellent international data and visualizations.
world
archive
visualization
graph
development
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
EUROPA - Eurostat - GISCO Introduction
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
EU-wide geodata. Transport, administrative units, land cover, ecology
gis
europe
archive
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
GeoCommons - Visual Analytics through Maps
january 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
sharing geodata in SHP, KML and CSV. excellent
via:christiammarcschmidt
gis
world
archive
january 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Skout™ • resources + for designers + by designers
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
meta list of font, photo, etc resources
design
list
archive
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
collection of high res. images from U of California. Includes wealth of Muybridge stereoscopes.
photography
archive
california
history
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Infochimps.org: Free Redistributable Data Sets of Every Kind
october 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
"assembling ... the world's best repository for raw data -- a sort of giant free allmanac, with tables on everything you can put in a table. Built by data nerds, used by data nerds" see also swivel
data
archive
reference
social
october 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Old Newark Maps
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
good collection of historical maps of Newark NJ
newark
map
archive
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
SPPD: Exhibits: Southern California : Everyday Life as a Microcosm of the World
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Martin Krieger, physcist planner and photographer. "The city is an archive of its past." Cross-sectional documents of storefront churches, nail parlors, power substations, auto body shops in LA.
photography
la
planning
archive
urban
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Census 2000 Gazetteer Files
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
ASCII lists of tracts, places, counties, etc
census
usa
archive
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
CNN.com Election 2004 Exit Polls
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
2004 presidential race exit polls
presidential
archive
usa
history->demography
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Boston's neighborhood newspapers | The Alliance for Community Journalism
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
utterly non-exhaustive list of local papers in the Boston area
media
news
archive
boston
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
MassINC
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
MA public affairs research
archive
statistics
journalism
massachusetts
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Massachusetts Land Records
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
mass registry of deeds
property
archive
massachusetts
real_estate
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Seamless Data Distribution System
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
USGS Seamless. GIS data and etc.
archive
gis
usa
geography
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
WNYC - New Sounds Archives
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
the reason to look forward to the last hour of the day.
radio
archive
music
nyc
awesome
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
:: urban squares - list of all the squares ::
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"research initiative about language of the city–town–urban squares as a nucleus and a hearth of any neighborhood."
urban
design
architecture
space
world
archive
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
AAAARG » library
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
AAAARG is the new AAARG. (duh). Nice library of articles on arch/poli sci/theory/etc. Discussion boards. WP-powered, registration required.
architecture
library
archive
vialauren_cornell
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Economist.com - Cities Guide
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
old nugget, steadily expanding
world
urban
archive
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Folkstreams » The Best of American Folklore Films
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures"
music
video
blues
archive
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Collection: Design Patterns
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
sets of screenshots of ui design for analagous interactions from websites (including calendars)
design
flickr
archive
web
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
SkyscraperCity
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
lists of skyscrapers. broken right now.
architecture
archive
reference
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
World Gazetteer: download
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"The downloadable file contains a list of all towns, administrative divisions and agglomerations with their current population, their English name (if not equal to the international name) and parent country." 12 MB unzipped
population
world
geography
archive
via:ian.crowther
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Document Archive of Presidential Communication
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Presidential Documents (1789-present)
presidential
archive
usa
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
NYU Libraries | Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Rumor is that these collections are open to everyone, but they're careful not to be explicit about that on the site.
labor
nyc
history
library
archive
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Countries of the World - 18 years of CIA World Fact Books
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Archived world fact book
archive
international
world
statistics
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
BP Global - Reports and publications - Statistical Review of World Energy 2006
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Thanks for all that energy, BP!
energy
world
archive
oil
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
SEDAC U.S. Census Grids: Map Gallery
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Collection of good little maps on 30-sec arc grids. Data available, too.
map
mapping
archive
usa
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
JSTOR: Transcript of Laurie Anderson's United States of America (part 1)
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"You might become famous overnight. Or, you might get run over by a truck and your picture could get in the paper that way. Becuase you're free and anything might happen. So, Happy Birthday"
performance
art
usa
archive
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
World Metro List - Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
With nice sortable list of metro systems by length, num stations, etc. (Systems to scale currently has 19 of the top 25 by length, 16 of the top 25 by # of stations—except Mumbai is under construction, so can I trust this?)
subway
archive
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
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