GIS
for and Maps for Political Science
This page was constructed to make my searches for GIS material a little quicker. If it helps you, too, have at it. Suggestions welcome at olufs@plu.edu
Google Earth Blog has discussions of all
kinds of topics, and contacts for the two people that run it.
Google Earth Outreach
has several tutorials for importing GIS data into GoogleEarth.
When
in Google Earth, in the left hand column click on the GE Community, see what is
offered. Also, try searching for
Google Oceans.
Washington
State GIS info and data
á The Office of Financial Management has a GIS page that includes
2010 Census files. You can subscribe to their postings about
new data sources, analysis, forecasts.
á From
the Department of Ecology,
and a separate Data
Page
á From the Department
of Natural Resources
á
From the Department of
Transportation
á Department of Fish & Wildlife entry
page for GIS—they link several
mapping services for priority habitates &
species, hunting, etc.
á The Washington State Redistricting
Commission shows their existing maps onlineÉ.. too bad they do not share their
data sets.
á The Department of Revenue
has data on tax rates, incentive programs
á The Puget Sound Regional Council has a page of
GIS links, mostly what their partners do.
á Washington Geodata Archive [WAGDA] From UW library—they do data, not
maps.
á The State Geospatial Clearinghouse,
one stop shopping. Their search
engine is just GeoData.gov.
Many dead links.
Redistricting
á Redistricting
the Nation is a collection of illustrations and tutorials on constructing
legislative district boundaries. A
commercial firm supports it, Azavea.
á Maplight tries to
illustrate the connections between money and politics. Support comes from Sunlight Foundation
and OpenSecrets.org.
á The
Wikipedia page on
Gerrymandering is pretty good.
Other
Environmental Theme GIS Sites
á EPA has a searchable
database of GHG emissions, state by state
á NRDC has a GIS projects page, and
occasional reports based
on GIS
á The
Earth Observation and Geospatial Resources page
on Google Earth
á King
County (WA) has a good GIS
site, and a map
site . On their GIS site,
enter IMAP to see what all you can do.
á Pierce
County (WA) has a public
GIS site
á USGS runs a Western Geographic Science Center, and
a Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program
(check their links)
á The
National Snow and Ice Data
Center
Other
Things, Wanting Classification
The
David Rumsey Map Collection is a
must-see for lovers of paper maps, and their digital possibilities. Some of it is viewable via Google
Earth, and some via its own software.
StatsAmerica lets
you compare economic, other data in counties, cities, states.
The
GeoCommunityÕs GIS
Data Port , somewhat commercial.
Earth Exploration Toolbook emphasizes education GIS applications with
earth systems science data, with training available.
Catherine
ShreveÕs class, at Duke, used GIS sources. Here is her main
library sources page, which linked the previous page.
The
University
Consortium for Geographic Information Science [UCGIS]
The artist Sabine RŽthorŽ makes interesting maps and globes
The Harvard
Geospatial Library, about 8k layers, including old maps & historical
data
Udig claims to be user-friendly desktop, web-based GIS
software.
The
World Bank collects Lots of Data and
puts it on this page.
Copyright Sid Olufs, 2012.