Possiblilty to improve accessability

Would it by easier to create a seperate blog for each region?

Would this page be useful?

We want to increase accessability, would just adding these tabs do so? we could have studetns post under their Regional tab.

Data for Every State: Plan

We have all data for every state in a arcGIS file. we can import the data for each state into a separate excel file and post it on blackboard.

Question: What states will we need to do?

Result of the First Trial proceedure

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Project Trial 1 --proceedure

1) I tried to get demographic (income and employment 2003) information off of National Atlas, but had trouble opening the shape file because it is a zip file. I opened it with 7Zip, saved the folder to my desktop, and  then loaded it into arcGIS10.

• result: outline of all counties of all states
• double click on the file, go to symobology, pick the attribute you want displayed on the map
• Result: on my map: shows (# of jobs/persons per county)  for each county
• highlighted just NY counties: make a table just for NY
• **Use metadata: look under "attributes" to know  what the data is about

2) Open Table for the layer

3) select all
4) save table as a text document

5) import text document into Excel (different fields are delimited with commas.)

• result: completed table in Excel for NY

6) save as CSV (comma delimited) file

7) upload to Geocommons: (not geocoding) bea_fips to cntyidfp
8) Shape: quintile (choose attribute)

Good site

www.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/pdfs/earth/landfill.kmz 


open with google earth. We will load this onto Blackboard. Goal: separate each state and post it.

state, name, county of landfills

http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal/landfill/section3.pdf


counties are listed excepted for Alaska, New England (?), Alabama

students find 5 active ones


New York landfills....location, ownership,etc (this is not the best) http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/materials_minerals_pdf/indlist.pdf

CLASS BLOG

http://geographyofgarbage.blogspot.com/

Landfill Data

Pretty impossible to find online....I recommend calling a state office and asking for the information. If we find any helpful links, I will post them.

As for demographic data: not difficult to find (as I posted last time).

Data.gov notes

You cannot find locations of landfills here for each state. This is not a good site to find that information.

this is a good cite to find demographic information. Go to "Data"; "Raw Data Set," search "census, your state", then limit your search to topics or agencies that are most relevant. Make sure your search is limited to "CSV/text," that way, we can import it into excel and geocommons.