Datamob: environment

Notices from the London Gazette

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:36 -0500

All notices published in the London Gazette, the UK government’s official journal and newspaper of record, in XML from February 2007 to May 2008.

url: http://www.londongazette.co.uk/mashup/gazettesdata.htm

UK Neighbourhood Statistics API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:59:37 -0500

SOAP-based API from the UK Office of National Statistics for accessing data about UK neighborhoods. Includes data on the 2001 Census, Access to Services, Community Well-Being/Social Environment, Crime and Safety, Economic Deprivation, Education, Skills and Training, Health and Care, Housing, Indicators, Indices of Deprivation, People and Society, Physical Environment and Work Deprivation.

Read more about the data here.

url: http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Info.do?page=nde.htm

Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0500

Geophysically scaled economic dataset, containing economic activity for each 1x1 degree latitude-by-longitude cell on the globe. By Professor William Nordhaus of Yale University. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://gecon.yale.edu/

AMEE API

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:27:36 -0500

Query the AMEE ("Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine") database of CO2 data and measure the carbon footprint of anything.

url: http://trac.co2.dgen.net/wiki/AmeeApi

Open Street Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:23:38 -0500

Free editable map of the earth, exportable in XML. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.

url: http://openstreetmap.org/

USGS Earthquake Data

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:23 -0500

Latest earthquake data, available in CSV, XML, KML and Cube formats.

url: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/

National Climatic Data Center Data Directory

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:30:36 -0500

World's largest active archive of weather data. Not all the data is free if you're not in school, in the military or working for the government. ASCII text.

url: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html

Temperature Data Archive

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:14:47 -0500

Daily average temperatures for 157 U.S. and 167 international cities in ASCII text format.

url: http://www.engr.udayton.edu/weather/

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:19 -0500

The U.S. Census Bureau's comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Many tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

USGS Mineral Resources Data

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:16 -0500

Collection of downloadable datasets on mineral resources in the U.S.

url: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/

UNEP Global Environment Outlook Data Portal

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:03 -0500

Datasets used by United Nations Environment Programme and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report, covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Data can be displayed as maps, graphs or tables and downloaded in various formats.

url: http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

Climate Data Archives

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:30:42 -0500

url: http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/html_pages/download.html

San Francisco Walkability Map

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:59 -0500

Detailed map of the most walkable sections of San Francisco, CA, using data from Walk Score. Created with Processing. Scraping code available for download. By Lee Byron.

url: http://leebyron.com/how/2008/07/13/mapping-walkability-san-francisco/

Walk Score

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:21 -0500

Ranks U.S. addresses by walkability by means of Walk Scores. By Front Seat civic software.

url: http://www.walkscore.com/

The UK Carbon Footprint Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:36:18 -0500

Platform for calculating, reducing and mapping the carbon footprint of U.K. citizens. A project from Google.

url: http://www.google.co.uk/carbonfootprint/index.html

Worldmapper

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:28:43 -0500

A collection of cartograms, maps in which territories are resized according to measures like population, poverty, religion.

url: http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

ExxonSecrets

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:40:21 -0500

Greenpeace research project which uses the TheyRule mapping interface to explore how climate change skeptics receive funding from ExxonMobil.

url: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/maps.php