The NEV (Núcleo de Estudos da Violência) provides a link to their collection of online maps here. These are static maps, mostly high-res jpegs, but it is an impressive and quite detailed repository of thematic maps for São Paulo, covering population statistics, crime, health, education and more, mainly from the 1991 and 2000 census.
Archive for October, 2007
YourStreet: Local news mapping
YourStreet indexes and mapps thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations down to the street level, by daily scanning thousands of newspaper sites and local blogs. The service builds on MetaCarta to assist in location identification.
Open source mapping tool for niche modelling
openModeller is a spatial distribution modelling tool for predicting species distribution (fundamental niche modelling). openModellerDesktop is a cross platform, user friendly interface to the openModeller library. An embedded mapping component in openModellerDesktop allows you to visualise the probability distribution map, and shows the original occurrence points overlaid on to of the map. Download here. (via [...]
