Open JGravelin opened 11 years ago
DEFINITELY USE THIS FOR NOW!!!
http://osmdata.thinkgeo.com/openstreetmap-data/north-america/us/
All states available. Seems to be most accurate in dense areas and less in rural / suburbs. Although most data is at a moderate level of granularity.
Work on these categories:
Administration Areas(Boundaries): Level 02 = National Level 06 = County Level 08 = Town
Coastline
Water, Waterways
Buildings (these seem more accurate in dense urban areas, many missing pieces in rural areas)
Roads, Railways, railway stations,
Powerlines: point file marks location of many telephone wire poles and creates an electric wire flow across the state.
There isn't a great tree cover map here we will need to add that from somewhere else. Some data is patchy but it should provide us with a decent amount of site specific data.
@JGravelin Hey look I mentioned you in a comment.
If you can assemble a list of data types for land use data (population, housing units, etc) that are important, I can focus on integrating those first :dancers:
Depository of world maps
http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/
US Land Cover: http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=2819&AA_SiteLanguageID=1
US Forest Cover: http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/results.php
US Forest and Land Cover: http://landcover.usgs.gov/landcoverdata.php#na
US Urban Areas: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/
US Hazards: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/chrr/research/hotspots/coredata.html
US Animal Data: http://www.natureserve.org/getData/animalData.jsp
http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ds240/
Files for all US (?)