Land Use USGS

[JGravelin]

http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ds240/

Files for all US (?)

[JGravelin]

DEFINITELY USE THIS FOR NOW!!!

http://osmdata.thinkgeo.com/openstreetmap-data/north-america/us/

All states available. Seems to be most accurate in dense areas and less in rural / suburbs. Although most data is at a moderate level of granularity.

Work on these categories:

Administration Areas(Boundaries):
Level 02 = National
Level 06 = County
Level 08 = Town

Coastline

Water, Waterways

Buildings (these seem more accurate in dense urban areas, many missing pieces in rural areas)

Roads, Railways, railway stations,

Powerlines: point file marks location of many telephone wire poles and creates an electric wire flow across the state.

There isn't a great tree cover map here we will need to add that from somewhere else. Some data is patchy but it should provide us with a decent amount of site specific data.

[abresee]

@JGravelin
Hey look I mentioned you in a comment.

If you can assemble a list of data types for land use data (population, housing units, etc) that are important, I can focus on integrating those first 👯

[JGravelin]

Depository of world maps

http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/

US Land Cover: http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=2819&AA_SiteLanguageID=1

US Forest Cover: http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/results.php

US Forest and Land Cover: http://landcover.usgs.gov/landcoverdata.php#na

US Urban Areas: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/

US Hazards: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/chrr/research/hotspots/coredata.html

US Animal Data: http://www.natureserve.org/getData/animalData.jsp