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	<title>AnthroSpace &#187; All Things Spatial</title>
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		<title>Download Global Administrative Areas as RData files</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/download-global-administrative-areas-as-rdata-files</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/download-global-administrative-areas-as-rdata-files#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[administrative boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shapefiles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Global Administrative Areas (GADM) is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas. Files are provided as Google Earth KMZ, shapefiles (.shp), ESRI geodatabase and as I was exited to see: as .RData files.

Download or load directly from the website.
This will create an object called gadm:
PLAIN TEXT
R:




library&#40;sp&#41;


# let's take a small country...


con [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project &#8211; Online Map</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/metropolitan-philadelphia-indicators-project-online-map</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/metropolitan-philadelphia-indicators-project-online-map#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project released an online map, MetroPhilaMapper which allows to easily map over 300 indicators for the region, including land use patterns, population characteristics, school district spending and performance, income and wage data, and crime patterns.
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		<title>Discussion on MapHist: Georeferencing of Historical maps in GIS</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/discussion-on-maphist-georeferenging-of-historical-maps-in-gis</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/discussion-on-maphist-georeferenging-of-historical-maps-in-gis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion about referencing and bringing historical maps into a GIS recently took place on the MapHist Mailing list. The thread on "Historical maps in GIS, accuracy, RMS error" starts here . It ranges from evaluations of different transformation algorithms to the question of why would we want to georeference historical maps at all and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIS @ Stanford &#8211; Where to start</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/gis-stanford-where-to-start</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/gis-stanford-where-to-start#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.

Software:
ArcGIS -  http://esri.com
ArcGIS is an integrated collection of commercial GIS software products that provides a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy download of asdar datasets</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/easy-download-of-asdar-datasets</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/easy-download-of-asdar-datasets#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.

#! /bin/bash
export ASDAR="http://www.asdar-book.org/"
export ASDAR_BUNDLES="${ASDAR}bundles"
CHAPTERS="hello cm vis die cm2 csdacm sppa geos lat1 lat2 dismap"
for ch in $CHAPTERS; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batch convert DMS to DD</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/batch-convert-dms-to-dd</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/batch-convert-dms-to-dd#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are instructions for Mac.

From http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:frameworks install the PROJ framework.
In your home directory create or edit a file called .bash_login
Add the line:
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Programs:$PATH
Have your lat long in a file, for example dms_file like this:

121d13'52.432"W 37d28'57.767"N
2d20'55"E48d51'12"N
etc..

(one point per line)
Use this command to convert all into Decimals Degrees and save them in a file called, for example [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Download OpenStreet maps as shapefiles</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/download-openstreet-maps-as-shapefiles</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/download-openstreet-maps-as-shapefiles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are now two sites that offer download of from OpenStreet in varying formats, including shapefiles and GPS: CloudMade and Geofabrik (for Europe).
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		<title>A Pitch for Public Geodata</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/a-pitch-for-public-geodata</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/a-pitch-for-public-geodata#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Schuyler's Lightning Talk on public access to geodata given at the FOSS4G conference in Cape Town. For your viewing pleasure. And here is a summary of the events.
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		<title>AfricaMap</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/africamap</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/africamap#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The AfricaMap project out of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard aims to address an increasingly relevant problem of social science and humanities spatial research: how to build an infrastructure to manage the spatial data.&#160; 
From the website:
Despite the existence of excellent public maps for Africa, to date there is no common source that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand drawn maps</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/hand-drawn-maps</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/hand-drawn-maps#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethno Toolkit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am intrigued about hand drawn maps as representations of space. The Hand Drawn Maps Association is an "ongoing archive of user submitted maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand". Here is another collection.
Below is a map which was given to a friend of mine this summer, and which we used to find possibly [...]]]></description>
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