Webdogs 3.0 » gis http://webdogs.org site sentient since 2006 Tue, 15 May 2012 00:10:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The best GIS map. Ever. http://webdogs.org/2010/12/16/the-best-gis-map-ever/ http://webdogs.org/2010/12/16/the-best-gis-map-ever/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:48:41 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=2063

You’ve got to see this to believe it. The New York Times has pushed its Mapping America project to a whole new level with Mapping America: Every City, Every Block. Pop in an address, zip code or city and you get visualizations of race, ethnicity, income, housing and education census data from 2005-2009, for every census tract in the United States.

The debut of this latest GIS mapping project from the Times is a companion piece to Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities, detailing more recent migration patterns of immigrant families in the United States.

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Want to get a feel for how GIS mapping is being used effectively as a tool in the progressive community? Then read this: The Revolution Will Be Mapped, a recent article published by Miller-McCune Online Magazine. The article highlights the well regarded work of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities. And here’s a plug for the home team: The article also quotes Eric Schultheis, former GIS honcho at LSNC’s Race Equity Project, the gravitational center of LSNC’s ongoing GIS mapping projects.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2010/01/30/gis-mapping-what-discrimination-looks-like/feed/ 0 Mapping, the essential tool http://webdogs.org/2009/10/08/mapping-the-essential-tool/ http://webdogs.org/2009/10/08/mapping-the-essential-tool/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:57:14 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=592

This is a cross post from a LSNC sister site, but a well worthy share at this site: Mapping Out Success, an article from the current issue of California Lawyer, features Legal Services of Northern California as an example how California lawyers are increasingly relying on mapping to better analyze data, to get the job done. “One example is when LSNC in 2007 began using maps to show how a proposed gas-storage area in Sacramento would place a ‘disproportionate environmental burden’ on a densely populated minority neighborhood. … Similarly, LSNC has targeted its foreclosure-outreach program by mapping foreclosure data.”

The examples cited in the article are both products of LSNC’s Race Equity Project. For more information about mapping, visit the LSNC GIS Mapping Resources page.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2009/10/08/mapping-the-essential-tool/feed/ 0 Visually analyzing immigration patterns and student diversity http://webdogs.org/2009/03/15/visually-analyzing-immigration-patterns-and-student-diversity/ http://webdogs.org/2009/03/15/visually-analyzing-immigration-patterns-and-student-diversity/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:28 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=530 This is a cross-post from the LSNC Advocate Feed but it is worth noting here as well: Today’s New York Times features Immigration Explorer, an interactive GIS map based on census data revealing settlement patterns for 20+ foreign-born groups between 1880 and 2000. The Immigration Explorer map is simply a companion piece to the NYT’s “Remade in America,” with today’s feature article about Diversity in the Classroom, which itself has a separate interactive statistical graph illustrating how student demographics break out by state and county and school district. For example, the Grant Joint Union High school district in Sacramento County, California.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2009/03/15/visually-analyzing-immigration-patterns-and-student-diversity/feed/ 0 GIS makes the cover of Clearinghouse Review http://webdogs.org/2009/02/17/gis-makes-the-cover-of-clearinghouse-review/ http://webdogs.org/2009/02/17/gis-makes-the-cover-of-clearinghouse-review/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:30:17 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=437 You know GIS is at the heart of poverty law advocacy when it makes the cover of Clearinghouse Review, which it did in the current issue. The feature article is: The Use of Geographic Information Systems in Poverty Advocacy, by Jason Reece, a senior researcher at the Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and my two-doors-down compadre Eric Schultheis, who oversees all the great GIS work published at the Race Equity Project. Great stuff, all.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2009/02/17/gis-makes-the-cover-of-clearinghouse-review/feed/ 0 Major refresh of LSNC GIS mapping page http://webdogs.org/2008/11/21/major-refresh-of-lsnc-gis-mapping-page/ http://webdogs.org/2008/11/21/major-refresh-of-lsnc-gis-mapping-page/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:51:08 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=389 Here at Webdogs 2.0, there have been periodic postings on GIS. But there is vastly more GIS information available at LSNC’s GIS Mapping Resources page.

This morning LSNC — with considerable help from Eric Schultheis at the Race Equity Project, reigning GIS guru at LSNC — completed a major update, minor reorganization and full-on link refresh of that page.

Among new additions are links to GISTools Freeware, an especially effective tool for extracting census data; Websites for Digital GIS Data, a comprehensive listing of GIS resources available on the web, courtesy of Stanford University; the Free Geocoding, Address Processing and GIS Data Capture web-based application created by the GIS geekmeisters over at the University of Southern California; and a handy dandy compilation of links to the growing collection of Race Equity Project GIS Tutorials.

Worth a revist, if you haven’t been over there for a while.

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