AnthroSpace

Jon Christensen, Associate Director of the Spatial History Project at Stanford has put together an Open Toolbox for Digital and Spatial Humanities. It is part of a collaboration between the Spatial History Project and the Stanford Computer Graphics Lab and is supported by the Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities.

This toolbox is a community effort and is constructed as a “wiki,” so that anyone can add links to tools, reviews of tools, suggestions and comments.

Getting R to speak to mysql is a breeze but setting up the DB and getting the table in requires a bit of fiddling. Here goes the story.  Hope that helps and I have no typos in there.
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The Landscape Analysis Tools Portal maintained by the USGS provides access to spatial data in connection with a wide-range of landscape analysis tools.