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Fatality Analysis Reporting System
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a database of fatal crashes called Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS One can download each years data going ...
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Optimal Data Format(s) for Open GIS Data Repositories?
What format(s) would/should be provided/included with a gis dataset repository?
I know that there is no correct answer, i'd like as many different answers/opinions as possible to make the best ...
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A Python guide for open data file formats
If you are an open data researcher you will need to handle a lot of different file formats from datasets. Sadly, most of the time, you don’t have the opportunity to choose which file format is the ...
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What are the most useful formats in which to release geospatial data?
In the past, I have released data as zipped Shapefiles (for the professional GIS crowd) and KML/KMZ (viewable by anyone using Google Earth). Are there other formats that would be especially helpful?
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