Strategies for Finding Geospatial Data
Joseph Kerski, Esri Education Manager, often discusses strategies for finding geospatial data …..so he created a reference document to help those on the search.
What are modern best strategies for finding geospatial data? Despite the increase in volume and variety of spatial data even in the 8 years since we have been writing this column, I still receive this question several times each week. And for good reason–(1) data needs are often very specialized, in theme, scale, region, attributes, and other characteristics, and often it is difficult to find a thread of a similar search by someone else online; (2) the ephemeral nature of the web makes it challenging to learn from others’ strategies (hence the reason for this blog). My advice is still specifically tailored to the data requester, but there are some elements that are common to many of my responses, which I share below in the hopes it will be helpful to others.
– Joseph Kerski
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