Join me in ETC 205 this afternoon from 1-2pm for a workshop on maps and mapping, working with some publicly-available local data via Metro/RLIS.
Below are some datasets for locally-relevant mapping. Take a look through the data and choose datasets that interest you. Click on the link and choose “download” (under Shapefile) to access the file.
Getting around + transportation
Natural features + greenspaces
- Major rivers (line, polygon)
- Streams (line, polygon)
- Parks etc (ORCA) (use for mapping, not analysis – see notes on data)
Places of interest
- Reed College campus
- Schools (points, polygon)
- Building footprints
Some assorted mappy links
- QGIS Map Showcase / Flickr
- xkcd: Heatmaps (beware this for choropleth maps, too!)
- Floating Sheep, home of church v. beer and other Twitter map classics
- beautiful satelitte imagery via NASA Earth Observatory Image of the day
- dropchop.io, online, data-first GIS from our friends up north (CUGOS)
- local data via RLIS discovery and a bunch of additional data sources
- ColorBrewer – “color advice for cartography”
- some thoughts from Tableau about color in data visualization