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Esri Data & Maps StreetMap and Basemap Layers include U.S. and Canadian detailed street and basemap data as well as U.S. Census data from the 2010 Esri Data and Maps dataset. The data may be utilized for address matching, routing services, street and basemap display. Also included are map service layers of worldwide streets and satellite imagery.
Metadata for each individual dataset can be accessed by right-clicking on the dataset in ArcMap and going to Data > View Description. These layer files connect to a Harvard network server where the data is stored, and will not work as a stand-alone dataset unless connected to the network via PIN login.
The following downloads are available to Harvard Affiliates only. You will need login with your HUID here: Software Access page to get credentials for downloading any of the items below.
| Data Download Link | Size | Release Date (mm/dd/yy) |
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| Version 10.1: Esri Layer files 2012 | (225 KBzip) | 12/19/12 |
| Version 10.0: Esri Layer files 2011 | (225 KBzip) | 06/23/11 |
Bring a thumbdrive to an HMDC GIS lab and download it:
Version 2012 is in “T:\ArcGIS 101 Data & Maps 2012” folder. (updated 09/04/12)
These folders contains sub-folders for StreetMap North America, USA, Europe, and world. With questions contact the CGA .
Esri StreetMap for ArcLogistics Data for Europe based on Tele Atlas
Esri StreetMap for ArcLogistics Data for North America
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The following downloads are available to Harvard Affiliates only. You will need login credentials on the Software Access page in order to complete the downloads.
Links:
Download ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial Data 10.2
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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
December 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
CGA NEWS
Updates on CGA New Website
The CGA is launching a beta site: http://gis2.harvard.edu/. It will retain the main functions from the current site, but will feature substantial reorganization and a fresh look. We encourage users to submit feedback on the new website’s functionality, design, and aesthetics. Please submit your comments to contact@help.cga.harvard.edu
Neatline Instance @ Harvard
The CGA has recently set up an instance of Neatline at http://neatline.worldmap.harvard.edu/. Neatline http://neatline.org/ is a powerful mapping tool developed by the Scholar’s Lab at the University of Virginia. Neatline is a plugin to Omeka http://omeka.org/ which is an easy-to-use content management system. Currently the Neatline instance at Harvard allows users to create dynamic online maps, annotate them, add in layers from WorldMap, and associate one’s digital materials with timeline and map. We encourage members of the Harvard community who would like to try Neatline to contact us at contact@help.cga.harvard.edu for an account.
CGA Web Maps: Crossroads of Migration
This map visualizes the movement of migrants from origin to destination countries. It is based on standardized 2013 United Nations data, a compilation of demographic reports from 232 countries.
http://www.crossroadsofmigration.com/
Esri Business Analyst 2013 Now Available
The CGA now has the Business Analyst 2013 datasets available. This includes over 18.2 million U.S. business and shopping center locations with sales volume, number of employees, and several more attributes. Also included with this product are over 10,000 demographic and consumer market variables aggregated at the block group, tract, county, ZIP, and other geographies. For more information and to access this data please contact us.
GIS Site License Software Upgrade/Renewal: For Harvard Affiliates Only
WorldMap Collaborative – Every Mondays @ 5pm
During mid-winter break (December 16 - January 20, 214), the WorldMap Collaborative weekly meeting will be held ONLY online at https://harvard.bluejeans.com (Join as “Participant”, Meeting ID: 145901999)
More information about the WorldMap Collaborative can be found there:
http://gis2.harvard.edu/training/non-credit-training/worldmap-collaborative%E2%80%93spring-term-2014
January 2014 GIS Technical Training Workshops
CGA offers several non-credit technical training workshops relate to GIS (Free to Harvard affiliates but registration is required). The January workshop is:
More information about technical training workshops and registrations can be found here: http://gis2.harvard.edu/training/non-credit-training/technical-training-workshops
2014 Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS
The 2014 Fisher Prize for excellence in GIS is a $500 cash award, given to one graduate and one undergraduate student for the best entry. More details at http://gis2.harvard.edu/resources/awards/fisher-prize-award-competition-2014
Note: For these who already registered on the old site, you don’t have to register it again.
Bing Maps in ArcGIS Has Changed
This is the last reminder that complimentary use of Microsoft’s Bing Maps with ArcGIS will end on December 31, 2013. Read more about using Bing Maps with ArcGIS.
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make me a Map: Cartographic Visualizations of Relationships and Statistics
This Keynote event will be presented by Bonnie Burns, Librarian for GIS and Scott Walker, Cartographer, Harvard Map Collection on Friday, January 24th, 2014, 12:00pm -1:00pm, at Lamont Forum Room. For more information and to register, please click here.
China GeoExplorer
The Harvard Libraries now subscribes to the China GeoExplorer from the University of Michigan’s China Data Center. For those who are interested in China studies, China Geo-Explorer offers a web based spatial data service that allows easy access to a rich collection of unique, authoritative, and comprehensive information from government statistics, population and economic Census, and many other data sources in a spatially integrated system with many powerful functions for exploratory spatial data analysis. Unlike many other GIS systems, China Geo-Explorer is compatible with most web browsers and can be learned by everyone without GIS skills. With this spatial intelligence service, you’ll be able to make rapid, accurate spatial decisions with greater confidence for regional planning, business investment, population, housing, environmental assessment, public health and many other spatial applications.
The subscription is available to all current Harvard affiliates as part of our existing subscription to China Data Online (HUID and PIN are required): http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:chinadat
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT
2013 Esri International User Conference Technical Workshops
It offers over 200 workshops from Esri staff to show you GIS related techniques.
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
Embeds Return to New Google Maps
Web-based Crowd-Sourced Aeronautical Information
New Education Research Book: Teaching Science… with Geospatial Technology
New Book from the National Academies Press on Landsat: Landsat and Beyond
Editors of this issue are Fei Meng and Jeff Blossom.
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly.
For previously published issues please visit: http://gis2.harvard.edu/publications/newsletter
For the latest information, please visit our website http://gis2.harvard.edu
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The following data is available in the HMDC computer lab in CGIS Knafel K026 (T:\Esri_Data_2012). It may be copied to a local or network hard drive, or used in the lab, or mapped using the path \fas-depts.ad.fas.harvard.edu\cgis\arcgis (it requires the fas_domain account login):
The data is for educational use only, and is presented in file geodatabase format at all levels of geography (state, county, census tract, block group, place, and ZIP code), for the entire U.S., and can be used in ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Server, or other display/analysis software. read more
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James Nelson, Director of Planning Resources of Harvard Planning & Project Management, will present ideas from the recent “Advancing the Spatially Enabled Smart Campus” session hosted at UCSB. A discussion will follow about spatially enabled smart campuses, and how actions could be taken at Harvard.
Room K262, CGIS Knafel building.
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Where Harvard people are getting census data (as of 08/2009):
Steve Melly of HSPS reports good luck downloading Summary Files directly from the census ftp site: http://www2.census.gov/ and using the access templates to convert these to tables.
Sumeeta Srinivasan has had good luck getting data tables at the tract blockgroup and block level from American FactFinder. And hearing this, I did get it to work. Using “Custom Map -> Geo within Geo” you can dump put census data table by table. I find that it hangs a lot. One drawback of this is that you must download one table at a time (A table being more or less a report on the answers to a single question on the census form.) This is fine – especially if you know what you want, but can be a headache if your mission is more exploratory.
Guoping Huang points out that Factfinder will be overhauled for 2010, and so it may get better.
A few people are using geolytics. Pam Waterman and Jamie Hart of will actually extract data for people in their research cluster (I didn’t have the heart to ask if they would mind adding 500 GSD students to this cohort!) Scott Walker at the Map collection also uses it and finds it frustrating as I do. At the GSD, our library has bought a network site license for most of the geolytics products and I have mounted them on a shared volume and tried to make it so students can use the from their computers see www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/censuscd for details. But, as you can see by my docs, this is not the most straightforward thing in the world. Each of their products is a bit different, and they do not run on windows 64 bit, and to make these available on the net requires some hackery. In spite of this, I think I am going to continue to support this for use in our environment because geolytics is the easiest way to browse through all of the tables in a particular census year and pick and choose the data elements that you want into a single table.
Steve Melly points out that while Geolytics is somewhat easier than the official census sources, systematic errors in have been discovered in at least one geolytics field, and so for serious work, one should seriously consider doing the extra work to go with primary source material.
Jeff Blossom and Giovanni Zambotti at the Center For Geographic Analysis recommend the ArcGIS business analyst package which can be used in the CGA lab. This has advantages in that there are lots of non-census demographics (for example lots of market analysis stuff from Claritas) that can be easily obtained from there in addition to the most useful census stuff. I need to go check this out.
Guoping Huang also points out that the ESRI Maps and Data CDs have some of the most commonly requested census data. Census geometry can be downloaded from ESRI’s free data portal, and also from our own Harvard Geospatial Library.
Wendy Guan reports that CGA will be developing a FAQ about census data on their web site soon.
Last year Harvard Libraries purchased a license for Social Explorerhttp://www.socialexplorer.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu allows downloads of all sorts of data down to the blockgroup level, including a lot of historic census data and estimates that extrapolate from the last decennial census. This looks a lot like American Factfinder, actually, except that it seems not to hang as frequently. Too bad it does not go down to the block level.
So I guess the answer as to the best way to get census data is “It depends.” I think that my answer for GSD students may be to use the ESRI Maps and Data CDs and if they need more detail in the attributes they should try social explorer or American factfinder. I still think that geolytics is worth digging into if you want to pick and choose lots of data from lots of census tables just to do some exploratory data analysis – but perhaps it is best to go back to the original source (e.g. ftp.census or American FactFinder once you have figured out what it is that you need.
As for strategies for moving forward into 2010… I think that I may stick with the strategy as discussed in the paragraph above, and also add a few more Geolytics products to our site license. I presume that all of the other options will be updated and will be no worse than they are now. Perhaps the Bureau of Census may even surprise us. I tend to agree with Scott from the Map collection that it may be worth watching the progress of subscription based web products like the geolytics and simplymap to see if any of these will be better than Social Explorer going forward – and if so we might join forces and purchase a Harvard wide site license.
- This information was compiled by Paul Cote, GSD
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The Digital Globe Foundation provides satellite imagery grants to support research at academic institutions.
See examples of Digital Globe Products here.
Apply for an imagery grant here:
http://www.digitalglobefoundation.org/application-process
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