Archive for January, 2009

GIS @ Stanford - Where to start

The following links are from my presentation at the MAPSS seminar, which provided an overview of the resources to get started with GIS research in the Social Sciences.  Note that some pointers have relevance or are accessible for Stanford affiliates only.

Easy download of asdar datasets

If you are looking for an easy way to download all the example data used Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, this script was recently posted on the R-sig-Geo Mailing list by one of the book’s authors, Roger Bivand.