Downloadable data files have been created to accompany the web-based USA Counties. Now users can download directly more than 5,900 data items from the Web site for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and all 3,141 counties and county equivalents. Information in USA Counties covers topics such as: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade. See http://www.census.gov/support/USACdata.html
Archives for March 28, 2008
New Census data – USA Counties data files
Downloadable data files have been created to accompany the web-based USA Counties. Now users can download directly more than 5,900 data items from the Web site for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and all 3,141 counties and county equivalents. Information in USA Counties covers topics such as: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade. See http://www.census.gov/support/USACdata.html
Yahoo? dev net’s Mcalister jumps ship to join The Guardian
Interesting to see that The Guardian, you know, that cool UK newspaper, has stolen Matt Mcalister away from Yahoo!’s developer network. Matt will be joining the Guardian crew in London to help develop a new developer program. Definitely a testament as to how serious the new/online media is and how some cool, new opportunities are waiting the developer. See also http://www.guardian.co.uk
Event of interest – FEMA Risk Map Industry Day
The purpose of the event is for interested contractors to hear from the Federal government on how current business is handled within the Risk Analysis Division and plans for the future of Risk MAP. The Industry day will be held on:
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, Beginning at 1:00 Pm and ending at 4:00 PM.
Location: Crystal City Marriott at Reagan National Airport
1999 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202
Proposed Agenda:
1:00 Welcome
1:05 Introductions
1:10 Overview of Map Modernization
1:25 Branch Overviews – How we currently do business
MIP/MSCs
RMCs/IDIQs
HAZUS/CTPs
Governance
2:10 Bucket Overviews – How we plan to do business
Program Management
Customer and Data Services
Production and Technical Services
2:40 Break
3:30 Answer Session
4:00 Close
Info – Pre-Registration is not required. Please limit the participation of your firm and all business units of your firm to 5 personnel or less. See also here
ArcDigita Aggegates GIS updates from the web
This comes my way via GISuser reader Ken, he’s developed a news aggregation tool for neogegraphers and everything GIS at ArcDigita.com… this from Ken – “I’ve developed ArcDigita out of a passion for geography and everything GIS and geospatial technology. I am especially encouraged by the new movement of ‘neogeography’ that has been made possible by great tools such as the Google Maps API and programming languages like AJAX, to name 2 of many, many examples.
There are a lot of great stories out there, and it’s my hope that ArcDigita can aggregate the most interesting ones in a meaningful manner. The editors of the site are it’s users, and they’ll decide what gets posted, and what stays posted through an advanced voting system. Users can even comment on the news and have productive discussions on it’s merits.” Users register and can contribute their news updates (somewhat reminicent of BlinkGeo when it first started)
He’s running a small contest through April where a user can win a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com – ArcDigita.com