Online Spatial Database
Access, Operations, Data Origins and Data Directory

September   2000



Access

The data stored on this disk is available for the education and research needs of students and staff in the Geography Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. This data may not be used for commercial purposes. This data may not be copied, used, and/or accessed by anyone outside the department without permission from the Geography system administrator. This data is available to the rest of the University community through the OIT Site License office, in the CSS building. For further information, please contact the department:

Geography Department
University of Maryland, College Park
2181 Lefrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-4050
www.geog.umd.edu



Operations

These data sets are maintained by the UMCP Geography Department technical staff. Queries may be directed to the main office or to the department system administrator. These data are maintained in as close to original format as possible. Occasional extra files have been generated within data sets to assist in cohesion.



Data Origins

Most contents of the /amlwb, /arcatlas, /arcdata, /arcscene, /arcusa, /arcworld, /avdata, /dcmsa, dcw, /esridata, /gtkav, /maplewood, and /maryland directories are copyright to the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands CA (www.esri.com). The /maryutm directory contains the same materials as the /maryland directory with additional projection transformation, and is also ultimately derived from ESRI's ArcUSA product.

The contents of the /dem and /national_atlas directories are derived from programs at the USGS (www.usgs.gov).

Contents of the /soils directory are derived from sources at the USDA's NRCS (www.nrcs.usda.gov)

Materials in the /tiger directory are taken from the US Bureau of the Census (www.census.gov)

The /umcp directory contains materials created at the University of Maryland (www.umd.edu).

The /landcover/lcumd and /poland directories contain data generated at the University of Maryland, Department of Geography (www.geog.umd.edu).



Data Directory
 
Collection
Description
Projection
Date
Format
/amlwb ESRI tutorial data set to accompany the Arc Macro Language workbook various 1994 A/I covs
/arcatlas ESRI data collection of global reference layers geographic 1996 A/I covs
/arcdata ESRI software tutorial data, for main, Grid, TIN and Network modules various 1999 A/I covs
/arcscene ESRI collection of world and US satellite images various 1994 BIL images
/arcusa ESRI 1:2million scale reference & socio-economic layers for the US 48 Albers 1992 A/I covs
/arcworld ESRI 1:3million scale reference & socio-economic layers for the world geographic 1996 A/I covs
/avdata ESRI software tutorial data for 3D, Network and Spatial modules various 1999 AV shapefiles
/dcmsa subset of /arcusa for the Washington DC metropolitan area UTM 18 1992 A/I covs
/dcw Digital Chart of the World global vector data at 1:1million scale geographic 1993 A/I covs
/elevation USGS DEM and GTOPO30 data for the DC MSA and Maryland  various var A/I grids
/esridata ESRI demographic vector collection, including detailed roads, block groups, zip codes and hydro for US states, plus similar data for Canada, Mexico, Europe and less detailed for the World. geographic 1999 AV shapefiles
/gtkav ESRI tutorial data to use with Getting to Know ArcView text various 1998 AV shapefiles
/landcover /lcumd contains UMCP Geography 1km global land cover grid 
/lulc90 contains 1990 Maryland land cover for DC MSA
/lulcepa contains EPA land cover for DC MSA
/mrlc contains USGS MRLC landcover for DC MSA
various var A/I grids, covs
/maplewood ESRI detailed neighborhood tutorial data collection geographic 1991 A/I covs
/maryland Maryland subset of /arcusa layers Albers 1992 A/I covs
/maryutm UTM conversion of the /maryland collection UTM 18 1992 A/I covs
/national_atlas USGS collection of federal spatial data; mostly environmental geographic 2000 AV ,A/I,Geotiff
/poland Tutorial data set created within the dept to help teach cartographic labeling various 1997 A/I covs
/soils USDA NRCS STATSGO state-wide soil polygons  UTM 18 1996 A/I covs
/tiger US Census derived TIGER Line roads for the DC MSA UTM 18 1996 A/I covs
/umcp UMCP campus buildings, roads, parking lots, sidewalks various 1998 A/I covs


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