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Introduction to Digital Mapping at SciWri2019

• The slides
• The map

Resources

Mapbox Resources

Resource	Description/link
Dealing with common uploading errors	https://docs.mapbox.com/help/troubleshooting/uploads/
All Mapbox Tutorials	https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/
Suggest trying Choropleth tutorials 1 & 2	https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/choropleth-studio-gl-pt-1/ https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/choropleth-studio-gl-pt-2/
GL-JS Documentation	https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/
How-to video library	https://www.mapbox.com/videos/

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Introduction to GIS/Web Mapping

Online classes

• Penn State e-learning: [Introduction to GIS](http://- https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog453/node/637)

• Penn State e- learning: Web Mapping

• University of Oregon: Web Mapping

• UC Davis/Coursera: Introduction to GIS fundamentals

• Udemy: QGIS instruction Esri free resources (may need to sign up for an account, but these are free):

• https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/57660c89bb54adb30c94541c/get-started-with-arcmap/

• https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/5b733dab8659c25ea7013f8e/arcmap-fundamentals/

QGIS training materials:

• https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/training_manual/index.html
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxs7cfMwzgGZhtUuwhny4-Q

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Other Useful Tools

• Data Merger: https://funkeinteraktiv.github.io/geo-data-merger/
• Batch geocoding: https://geocode.localfocus.nl/
• Picking a color scale for scientific graphics: https://betterfigures.org/2015/06/23/picking-a-colour-scale-for-scientific-graphics/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
• Color advice for maps: http://colorbrewer2.org/
• Quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps: http://geojson.io/#map=2/20.0/0.0
• Image color picker: https://imagecolorpicker.com/
• Make a map style by dropping an image on the map with Cartogram: https://apps.mapbox.com/cartogram/#13.01/40.7251/-74.0051

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Where to find data?

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Jeremy Singer-Vine from Buzzfeed has an ongoing list of datasets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk/edit#gid=0

Local/Regional

• Lots of cities have made their data available to the public (e.g. Oakland https://data.oaklandnet.com/, New York City https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/)
• California state data portal https://data.ca.gov/
• California public health data https://hillcrestadvisory.com/2019/01/20/california-data-sources/
• Cal Fire: https://frap.fire.ca.gov/mapping/gis-data/

Federal Government

• OpenData.gov https://www.data.gov/
• Spatial Data Repository http://spatialdata.dhsprogram.com/home/
• Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/data.html
• NASA https://data.nasa.gov/
• NOAA https://data.noaa.gov/datasetsearch/, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/
• USGS https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/#fq=dataType%3A(collection%20OR%20non-collection)&q=*%3A,* https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/national-geospatial-program/national-map, https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/data-and-tools-topics
• https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html
• GeoMac (USGS) https://www.geomac.gov/
• USAID DHS Data: https://dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm
• CDC: https://data.cdc.gov/

Other

• IPUMS Data (census data - US & international): https://usa.ipums.org/usa/data.shtml, https://international.ipums.org/international/
• WHO Data (this is free/public and they have a lot more than what is advertised on their data portal): https://www.who.int/gho/database/en/
• World Bank: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
• Harvard Geospatial Library http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/opengeoportal/
• Global Forest Watch http://data.globalforestwatch.org/