Geographic Information Systems


Research
March 31, 2008, 11:31 am
Filed under: Enviro Mapping Project

also in the group Kim and Madeline

i looked around the web and i got a few ideas

a source of ideas that we could look  at to create useful maps
a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps
some shape maps from the TRI that that could be apart of our maps
looks like a good source for maps that may be able to aid us in our project
US Geodata
many potential data source ideas and information that can help us create our own maps
PlanetHazard uses information from the EPA to map Top Ten Polluters, All Polluters,

List Pollutants


17-20
March 5, 2008, 3:40 pm
Filed under: Tutorial

Wow im done with the tutorial again tons of fun working with indian tiger conservation !



Delaware Data
March 3, 2008, 2:13 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

Annexations- help in locating and confirming boundaries Census-Block
Census-Block Group/ Census Tract -smaller areas to conduct census

Delaware_Address_Pts- used as a standard reference
Delaware_Buildings_ /Delaware_Buildings_2-the location of buildings commercial ect.. in county

Delaware_Cemeteries- the areas were cemerteries own land

Delaware_Farmlots-illustrates the boundaries of farm lots within the county

Delaware_GolfCourse- the location of gulfing activities

Delaware_Municipalities-identifying boundaries within county
Delaware_Parcels- assigning property appraisals

Delaware_Parks- idnetifies the location of all the parks in the county

Delaware_PostOffice- the sitte of all the postoffieces

Delaware_Schools- the location of the schools within the township
Delaware_Subdivisions-areas of were condos and other developmental housing located

Floodplains- divided into the 100 and 500 flood plains
Historical-Archeological- there was no metadata ?
Historical-Delaware- there was no metadata ?
Historical-National-there was no metadata ?

Hydro-detail- the major water ways within the county
Master-point- has all the address mapping and matching street address and get lattitude and longatitude

Natural Heritage ODNR- sites of historic value designation natural sites

OrthophotoAp2006- had trouble loading it it kept crashing when it loaded but i assume its the areal photos of the county
Precincts-a division used for voting

Public Land Survey System- areas that the township or the county own

Rail Road- lines running through Delaware
School-type of boundary designed by the township
Soils- individual boundary of the soil types
Topography- the elevation breakdown of the county

Townships_historical- the orginial 18 townships
Traffic-MORPSE- areas of traffic and roads

Watersheds-ODNR- water drainage basen

Wetlands-areas of saturated water

Woodland-ODNR-areas covered by tree canopy

Zip2004- a division of the county that is current

Zoning- a division within the county

 

 

 

some of these shape files are going to be very useful for the applying it to green spaces because some of the files fall under green spaces the wetlands, woodlands, watersheds, parks and other files will help seeingthedistrubution of green space at different levels within the county to see if there are any injustices occurring and others will have no application to my specific part of the project