Geospatial Toolkit / Readings
Links to resources and suggested readings:
Open Refine
See our Task Force experiments with using OpenRefine to transform spatial data using GeoNames Web Services API:
https://sites.google.com/site/mwdlgeospatial/home/openrefine
Open Refine Tutorials:
Using OpenRefine to geocode your data with Google and OpenStreetMap API
Cheat sheet: Regular Expressions; Google Refine Expression Language.
Reconciliation
Geo Tools
Geographic Controlled Vocabulary Databases
GeoNames: http://www.geonames.org/
Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geonames
GeoNames Forum: http://forum.geonames.org/
Thesaurus of Geographic Names: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ® (TGN), the Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), the Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), and the Cultural Objects Name Authority ® (CONA) (in development) are structured vocabularies that can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and material culture.
Geographic Databases
Open Geoportal: http://opengeoportal.org
The Open Geoportal is an open source, multi-institutional, collaboratively-developed, geospatial data discovery platform and community.
Coordinate Conversion Tools
FCC's Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions : http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html
GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library: http://www.gdal.org/
Geospatial Data Stewardship
Geospatial Stewardship : Key Online Resources, an NDSA Report: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_Geo-stewardship-key-resources_final030414.pdf
National Atlas
Boundaries of the United States
Census.gov
Google Fusion Tables
USA: State, County and Congressional District boundaries
Digital Public Library of America
Digital Public Library of America Maps
Map Visualization Examples
Mapbox: http://www.mapbox.com/blog/
Linked Data
W3C Linked Data Incubator Group: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/
Linked GeoData: http://linkedgeodata.org
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.