The GSD Collection of Place-Based Information Resources
The GSD is an information processing engine. We attempt to collect some of the data that passes through our studio in order to reuse it. You can find this collection in your home directory on the network under the folder L:\public\geo.
Some of these data came with documentation that explains who, why, where and when they were compiled, and what some of the different layers, files and attributes are supposed to represent. Most often the data have come into our possession without any documentation. In any case, the best thing to do is simply to browse these directories and look for files named readme.txt ot metadata.htm or simply open up the datasets in ArcGIS and just take a look. Much of what is in here is more or less self-exsplanitory. If not, then what you see is what we have!.
In some we have gone to sume effort to compile map documents that present views of data for a specific area. In this case, you may find a n ArcMap map document named something like Compilation.mxd. In some cases this sort of information may be in a folder named GSD. You will find these particularly in the Boston_Metro folder and its subfolder, Concord.
Please think of future generations when you collect detailed data, and get documentation for it, and place it in this archive so that others after you can take advantage of your good work! Click here for guidelines for contributing your data to the GSD data collection.
Directory Listing of L:\public\geo
September 12 2007
Beijing Buenos Aires DUBAI INFO London New_Orleans Pomona Quito Seoul_GIS barcelona belfast boston_metro (look in here for data from agencies from around the Boston area) budapest census chicago chuouku_gis class (edited datasets prepared for courses overe the years) ctpp esridata_9 (Lots of very good general data for almost everywhere!) etopo30 everett gsd (edited datasets prepared for courses overe the years) hague havana honolulu houston istanbul la lasvegas los_angeles lost+found manual mass metadata metro monterey new_bedford nyc pcensus petersham pitt_gis providence saltlake sanfrancisco santamonica shanghai st_helena tokyo_gis util (there are a lot of miscelaneous tools, documents and other stuff in here.) venezia-ctr washington_dc wellesley