Geographic Information Systems

Links

 

GIS at Grinnell - Details tools, support, training and data available at Grinnell College, and includes a showcase of class projects with GIS.

 

Iowa Geographic Information Clearinghouse Metadata Explorer under Resources (Click on Data) - a comprehensive way to collect data about specific areas of the state or the whole state.

• Iowa GIS Clearinghouse- This is the test of the new website.
• Iowa Geographic Map Server
• Black Hawk County Real Estate Mapping Site
• Mahaska County Real Estate Data and GIS

 

Terraserver's Area51- Cool stuff with ortho and satellite photos. Check out the 3D flyovers!

American Factfinder: Thematic maps page- A direct link to the thematic maps page of the Census. A little difficult to navigate, but provides access to graded color maps of a number of data tables from the 2000 and 1990 Census.

 

Other links of interest:

 

Edward Tufte's Home Page - Featuring the work of Edward Tufte and Graphic Press.

 

Examples of Bad Graphs - from C. J. Schwarz, Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Articles

 

NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education articles - three articles about GIS in the liberal arts environment