gCensus / Google Earth mashup

… and since we’re talking about GIS today, and as noted this week at our sister site The Race Equity Project, you can have some really quick and easy mapping fun with the beta mashup of gCensus. It’s a way spiffy, if rough-at-the-edges, and easy-to-use mashup of basic Census 2000 SF1 (summary file 1) data and Google Earth. Download and install the free version of Google Earth. Then start playing with gCensus. Just click the obvious and in seconds you have your map ready for viewing in Google Earth. Zoom, baby, zoom! Awesome fun!