June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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CHAPTER TWO
Mapping Your Neighborhood
Hacks 14–21
Stand in the place where you live
(Now face north)
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven’t before
—REM, “Stand”
Beyond the scope of our own lives, we find the past, present, and future of
the places we inhabit and the other people that inhabit them. Maps offer the
chance to tell new narratives about familiar places. From health code viola-
tions to campaign contributions, from demographic models to elevation
models, our immediate environment is awash in geographic detail, waiting
to be shown on a map and its stories told to the world. In this chapter, we
explore the dimensions that “Mapping Your Neighborhood” can take on.
HACK
#14
Make Free Maps of the United States Online Hack #14
The U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER Map Server isn’t fast or fancy, but the maps
it makes are free and entirely hackable.
Although the maps made by MapQuest, map24.com, and other commercial
mapping services are nice looking, fast, and reasonably effective, their use is
severely limited by their licensing terms. What’s more, you can’t easily map
your own data on top of the digital maps these services produce. However,
in the United States, we enjoy a remarkable plethora of public-domain geo-
graphic data, much of it in the form of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line
data set, which the Bureau uses as the basis for the TIGER Map Server,a
free web-based mapping service, covering ...
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