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	<title>AnthroSpace &#187; Maps</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cities]]></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>
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		<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 &#8220;Historical maps in GIS, accuracy, RMS error&#8221; 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>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>
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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>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>
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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>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am intrigued about hand drawn maps as representations of space. The Hand Drawn Maps Association is an &#8220;ongoing archive of user submitted maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand&#8221;. 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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		<title>NYT Maps on the impact of rising gas prices</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/nyt-maps-on-the-impact-of-rising-gas-prices</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/nyt-maps-on-the-impact-of-rising-gas-prices#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noteworthy Bits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another example of NYT creative visualizations. A lot of questions can be asked and certainly a great vehicle for anyone trying to teach choropleth maps.

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		<title>First global land cover map at 300 m resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/first-global-land-cover-map-at-300-m-resolution</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/first-global-land-cover-map-at-300-m-resolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The POSTEL Service Centre has produced the first global land cover map at 300 m resolution, that discriminates the land surfaces in 22 classes representatives of the continental ecosystems.  Cover types include
croplands, wetlands, forests, artificial surfaces, water bodies and
permanent snow and ice. The freely available map is based on 20 Terabytes of imagery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIGER shapefiles released</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/tiger-shapefiles-released</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/tiger-shapefiles-released#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US Census Bureau recently published new 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles. They contain current geographic areas (boundaries of governmental units as of January 1, 2007) and Census 2000 vintage geography. Direkt donwload is here.
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		<title>Free ESRI shapefiles and grids</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/free-esri-shapefiles-and-grids</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/free-esri-shapefiles-and-grids#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Berkeley/Penn Urban &#38; Environmental Modeler&#8217;s Datakit is being made available as part of the URBAN &#38; ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT 2050 PROJECT at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at the University of California, Berkeley under a grant from the National Science Foundation.  It consists of a series of viewable and downloadable ESRI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Census Atlas published</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/us-census-atlas-published</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/us-census-atlas-published#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Census Bureau recently published a new Census Atlas with 2000 census data. I can be downloaded as PDF here. The 300 page publication contains over 700 maps. Granularity varies from state to census-tract level. Topics covered include migration, demographic information, and economic data. Data from earlier censuses are included, going as far back [...]]]></description>
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