Questions tagged [usa]
For questions related to the United States of America or regions within it.
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Seeking remote sensing dataset for fire perimeter by hour in California
If anyone has worked with Cal Fire Perimeter dataset, can you advise what will be a good data source to get hourly California Fire perimeter, by date and by location, from 2010s and later?
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Latest new updated for GIS or CAD or KML for Colorado Datasets?
In the past , I have asked for Colorado Ski Areas here: Colorado Ski Areas GIS dataset
There are very limited gis data that I am seeking to find more new information
I am looking for new GIS or CAD ...
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1918 Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data?
In 2008 User:NE2 on wikipedia added a bunch of train routes from 1918 to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%E2%80%93Kansas%E2%80%93Texas_Railroad#/media/File:Missouri,...
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Database of US Maine companies
I'm looking for a database of US Maine companies.
All I found is the page where you can search for companies from here. But I cannot find anywhere a place to download a list.
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train schedules for freight trains?
I've taken an interest to filming trains as they go over bridges. For commuter trains I can guestimate when they'll be over a bridge based on the times that they're going to be at the stop before the ...
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Where can I find geodata on residential building footprint in US (or Texas)?
Where can I find Texas residential building footprint data with information on building area and number of floors?
I came across National Structural Inventory github repo (https://github.com/...
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COVID level of lockdown by state by month or week?
Looking to compare my salespeople's sales to their ability to reach their customers due to lockdown measures. Where would I look to see each state's official response/level of lockdown by week or ...
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gps coordinates of train routes
I have a project wherein having train route information would be useful. Like if I could get GPS coordinates that form the routes themselves I could do maps like https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-...
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Data on Consumer Price Index (inflation rate) by state (USA)
I'm looking for a dataset that would contain historical CPI/inflation for each state of the US.
It seems that bls.gov should have this data, but it's either regional (South/North) or area (city/town) ...
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Local Accident Data
Is there somewhere I can get detailed information on real-time traffic accidents?
The data I need is accident location (zip code is best) and the names of the people involved.
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Statistically who gets higher **average** income, an employed engineer or an IT startup founder?
Starting your own startup is a great idea, you may become as rich as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. Wait... or may not. It of course depends on your skills and perspiration they ...
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Looking for Skills Taxonomy with Industry specific
Like O*NET database which have skills categorized on based on occupations defined by BLS Standard Occupations, is there any dataset similar that can provide skills categorized based on industries as ...
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What happens if federal statistical agencies and executive departments don't upload data regularly?
If federal statistical agencies in USA and executive departments of the US Gov don't upload unbiased data on open data platforms or in general don't release information on time, are they penalized? Is ...
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Unshareable Database in USA
Is there a specific list of data in the USA which includes what all is not to be shared on an open data platform to the public? If yes, where can it be found? It is popularly known as a 'negative list'...
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Administrative data system USA
I am conducting a research and I would like to know in detail what is the administrative data collection system in the USA, and are there any legal repercussions for state governments or executive ...
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State government data collection system
I want to know who collects all necessary administrative data in US state governments, is any particular office, or director responsible for handling, disseminating, and analyzing data? Also, are ...
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Free website for identifying influential or contentious US state and local court cases?
I am looking for free websites that contain (potentially partial) catalogs of state and local court cases in the United States, and allows me to filter and/or sort by any of the following:
The vote ...
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FEC API key form submit does nothing
I visit https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/ , fill out the form titled "Sign up for an API key", and press "Signup". The button briefly changes to "Loading...", then ...
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Road distance between all US cities
We are basically looking to find a database of road distances between all possible cities in the US, or maybe you can advise something we could do to calculate it ourselves.
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Seeking Green space layer for California
I'm looking for a data layer that can be used to display "green" spaces, which would ideally include parks (city, county, state, national), as well as golf courses and cemeteries.
Is there a ...
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Why would an inspection query data.dol.gov/get/inspection/... return a 200 with an empty response?
We are testing the use of the https://data.dol.gov/get/inspection/format/json/limit/100 service request and are seeing conditions where the response sometimes comes back with an empty response, but ...
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Where can someone find a public dataset on where/which USPS postal boxes and sorting machines have been removed?
The USPS is removing sorting machines and mail collection boxes from several locations. I've seen this mapped but cannot yet find this data.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/internal-usps-documents-...
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Would anyone know the 1993 zip code for Irvine CA
I need the zip code for 1993 Irvine, CA. Would anyone know this?
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From where do I get shapefiles for all the states in USA at Census Tract level with "population" or "population density" data too?
I scoured the US Census site for any data like the population at Census Tract level, for the year 2019 or 2018, but I am unable to find it.
I can get plain shapefiles that do not contain any ...
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Datasets of labor union metadata and membership in the United States
I'm looking broadly for datasets that offer insight into labor union membership, participation and behavior in the U.S.
So far there's some good stuff in the Office of Labor Management and Standards ...
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Where can I find Political Party Affiliation Data?
I would like to make a heat map based on political party membership density in (e.g., California 60% democrat, Kentucky 70% Republican, etc.), preferably at the county level.
Does anyone know of a ...
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Number of Hospitals in the US with emergency departments
How many US hospitals have emergency departments?
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How to get male/female split for particular household income range in the United States
Where is the best resource to get the most recent Male / Female split of household incomes above $80K+ (or similar) in the United States?
This U.S. Census table has "Female persons, percent" but I'm ...
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From where can I obtain 2018 LiDAR Digital Surface Model for Texas?
I am looking for a 2018 Lidar DSM (not DEM) for Texas, US. Do you know any source from which I can obtain the data?
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Seeking data that shows stay at home orders by United States county for COVID-19 crisis
I'm looking for GIS data that shows which US counties are issuing "Stay at Home" orders all across the US. It would also be helpful if the data included which types of businesses were allowed to be ...
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How to read *_LOW_HN / *_HIGH_HN fields in NY Street Centerline Data?
I've been looking at the NYC Street Centerline (CSCL), in particular number ranges for individual street segments.
Quite a few look like this:
ST_NAME L_LOW_HN L_HIGH_HN R_LOW_HN ...
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Looking for weekly death data by State/County/City
I'm looking for up to date weekly death rates in first the US (ideally EU and East Asia sources would be great too) that is tracked at a city/county level (implying state level as well). Something ...
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Looking for average economic impact of all Farmlands per acre in Florida or U.S
I am researching on road alignment optimization. The research goal is to find least cost road alignment between two given points, considering highway codes. One of major factors which I want to ...
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Where can I find major appliance failure data?
I am looking for data which gives details about when a major appliance like refrigerator, dishwasher, washing machine, TV failed and what was the cause. Further, details like
When the product was ...
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Identifying State Parks in the PAD-US dataset (Protected Areas Database)
I'm looking to map "State Parks," and I found this phenomenal, but complex database. Has anyone ever worked with the PAD datasets before? (or know any easier way to map State Parks?)
In the PAD ...
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US Wifi Hotspots
Looking for US Wifi open geospatial data; I read through all of the wifi tagged questions including database of wifi hotspots but feels like this is unique enough and could use some refreshing.
Here's ...
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Performance data by school district (or by High School) in the US?
I am ideally looking for data that would give me performance by public school district (or by high school) in the united states, for example:
Average SAT / ACT Scores
Other national test scores (e.g. ...
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Seeking US Border Patrol Sectors shapefile
I am trying to find a shapefile containing the boundaries of the different border patrol sectors as shown here.
I have searched the US BP website and other sources/databases extensively. There are ...
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National Congressional Districts vector tileset
Is there a vector tile set available online somewhere of US national congressional districts? I have been downloading shapefiles from the US Census bureau's shapefile repository, converting these to ...
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1940 US Census - indexed data?
I read a fascinating article about the census in the US, and especially the 1940 census, which is available online (since the 72 year period has elapsed).
I was able to search based on address (and ...
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Where can i get an API of all oil & gas wells in America?
I am looking for an API for oil and gas wells, including their name and location. I know each state has has this data for download but is there an API out there?
I know of some but they are at least $...
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Where can I find dislocated worker program participation data by US county?
Where can I find U.S. displaced worker data, particularly during the Great Recession? I found sets from 1995 to 2008 and 2015 to recent. However, I'm having trouble finding data for 2008-2014, ...
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How do I access articles from the National Library of Medicine that have not been digitized?
I want to read a certain article in a scientific journal which I believe is stored at the National Library of Medicine, among other places. It does have a PMID. I looked at the instructions for ...
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County-level data on religious affiliation and church attendance in US 1940-1960
Is there any county-level (or similar) data on religious affiliation and church attendance in the United States from 1940s-1960s?
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Mobile Home Parks
I would like to create a list of all mobile home parks in the US, including address, owner records, and number of pads. How can I find a list of all mobile home parks by State and sorted by number of ...
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Seeking comprehensive open source for building shapefiles in USA
I am currently looking for a comprehensive source for Building Shapefiles in the USA, particularly New Jersey. I have come across a few websites e.g. geofabrik (http://download.geofabrik.de/north-...
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Does anyone have better maps for the east coast of the USA, or the entire USA to use with XASTIR directly?
I have a fresh install of XASTIR running on a Pi 3, but the maps are pretty poor at showing details. Does anyone have any mapps they can share with me for my XASTIR system, that are better than what ...
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Query regarding download of CNDDB data for the State of California
I would like to inquire about online resources from I could download CNDDB (California Natural Diversity Database) data for the State of California. The CNDDB is basically a repository of California's ...
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looking for database with companies and its SIC codes
I am building model to predict that is something similar to SICCODE.com, in search if I give "apple inc" as input, it gives me all related to apple with its sic codes and location.
apple inc ...
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Seeking shapefiles for mapping innovation districts
The Brookings Institution has been promoting Innovation Districts as a useful geographical concept since 2014 (for example here and here). I should think that mapping Innovation Districts precisely ...