Resources for Ducky's Info Vis Project

Libraries / APIs

• GD library
• Shapefile C library
  • .shp API
  • .dbf API
  • shapelib utilities

• GMaps API
• C++ String lib or here
• C++ STL

Data

• HowToUseCensusBureauData
• description of characteristic iteration codes
• interesting stuff: google search on sf1 stfid
• more on TIGER
• TIGER/Line format doc
• 2000 census terms and concepts
• description of DB3 fields
• that class project that talked about using census bureau files

Maybe useful

• simple JS to load points from a remote file
• annotated gmap howto

Probably not useful

• VML (not sure exactly what use this is for -- maybe undocumented?)
• Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
• various GIS data, including e.g. place names
• microdem
• geodas sw from natl geophysical data center
• gistoolkit
• opensourcegis
• GRASS GIS source
• pointer to code I might want...
• Example code:
  • http://www.terralib.org/cvs/viewcvs.cgi/src/terralib/functions/TeSTEFunctionsSHP.cpp?rev=1.3
• TIGER database
• Florida shapefiles
• Tutorial for Community Viewer
• Prox geocoder
• ESRI Tiger shapefiles
• Shapelib python binding
• easily available demographic data

• Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = DuckySherwood