Data Acquisition

John J Czaplewski - University of Wisconsin Geoscience Dept.
@johnjcz

Follow along

http://www.johnjcz.com/presentations/maptime-data-acquisition

Data...?

A set of attributes matched to a representation of the physical world

Data -> Information -> Knowledge

Why should I care?

Tools

Portals

www.naturalearthdata.com

ftp://dnrftp01.wi.gov/geodata/

www.geoplatform.gov

http://www.geoplatform.gov/node/243/da81a095-09be-4627-8594-e16b1a760d5e

Tables

Tallest buildings in the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

Website scraping

www.teamusa.org/athletes

Other options

Open records request

Geocoding

CartoDB Example

Warning: geocoding is hard

Attribute Joins

Admin 0 - Countries

Be nice

Thanks!