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Free US historical census data and shapefiles

From the Gis4Lib list:

Historical aggregate census data and associated boundary shapefiles files from 1790 to present are now online provided through the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota.

Quickly retrieve elevation from lat/long

A pointer to High Earth Orbit via Slashgeo:

EarthTools has a webservice that covers the US and Europe using the SRTM data. Given a latitude/longitude it returns the height above sea-level in feet and meters. (found from Quakr Viewr) Geonames offers two services using the SRTM data, and also the GTOPO30 from the USGS. Geonames [...]

Integration of GIS and concept mapping

From their website:

The project Ecocensus aims to integrate a state of the art Geographical Information System (uDig) with the Compendium concept mapping tool in order to assist the Makushi Amerindian tribespeople, who live in the Rupununi region of Guyana, to better negotiate, understand and discuss their natural resource conservation and livelihood improvement needs, by [...]