Open-Source Geography » academic http://opensourcegeography.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Visualization of Geographically Referenced Economic Data http://opensourcegeography.org/2008/07/23/visualization-of-geographically-referenced-economic-data/ http://opensourcegeography.org/2008/07/23/visualization-of-geographically-referenced-economic-data/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:50:06 +0000 Kevin http://www.30secondwords.com/?p=64 So some GIS Specialist at Yale has figured out how to produce standardized areal units based on the geographic, latitude/longitude grid and how to produce it on a global scale.   It is GIS of a sort.  Definitely not an ESRI product, but could be converted.

The site is called G-CON, Geographically Based Economic Data.  Note the release of their data for you use and visualization.  Creating a grid in ArcGIS to thier specifications is a relatively simple process.  They also provide fully detailed documentation.

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