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How to get census GIS data - ArcGIS Pro Tutorial
From the course: Real-World GIS
How to get census GIS data
- [Instructor] So we need census GIS data. Now, most countries have a national census by law, and here in the United States, we have a census every 10 years since 1790. Census bureaus today have an almost embarrassment of data richness, so it's very easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of data on these sites. Here on census.gov, we want to download our GIS data. Now, typically, I find among all the data sites where I download GIS data, this site changes the most in between visits. So if it looks slightly different than what you see on the video, what you're most interested to find is the category "Geography." Here, I can find that under Topics and Geography. On the Geography page is where you'll find your GIS data layers. If we scroll down, we can find mapping files, and here they are. In this case, we have TIGER/Line Shapefiles, Cartographic Boundary Files, which are KML layers, and TIGER/Line Geodatabases. TIGER…
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Where is the GIS data?43s
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How to consider the scale of GIS data2m 35s
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What spatial data are already in ArcGIS?4m 55s
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How to get local and state GIS data2m 54s
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How to get the USA national map data3m 47s
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How to get census GIS data4m 55s
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How to get Earth Explorer data14m 4s
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How to bring hosted GIS data into ArcGIS2m 15s
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Challenge: Get GIS data for a specific geography25s
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Solution: Get GIS data for a specific geography1m 10s
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