{"id":2225,"date":"2008-01-31T19:04:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2008-01-31T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T00:04:39","slug":"census-atlas-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/census-atlas-of-the-united-states.html","title":{"rendered":"Census Atlas of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookstore.gpo.gov\/actions\/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-024-09058-9\">Census Atlas of the United States<\/a> is the first publication of a &#8220;comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.&#8221;  The maps are beautiful and easy to use, although I doubt that an atlas of 314 pages can be properly called &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; when it comes to mapping census data.   Oh&#8230; you noticed the price tag of $165.<\/p>\n<p>Well, why not try out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/www\/cen2000\/censusatlas\/\">free online edition<\/a>? You get all the maps, and you only need a decent download speed (the chapters range from 3 to 21 MB).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, what I would love to see is a full-blown Web 2.0 version of this resource.  Imagine picking out your criteria from drop menus, choosing the scale of maps (full country, state, county, or city), and generating a map on the fly within your browser.  I could think of quite a few maps that I would love to generate with that type of web site.<\/p>\n<p>For good examples of what style of mapping web sites I am talking about check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagocrime.org\/\">ChicagoCrime.org<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trulia.com\/\">Trulia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2008\/02\/01\/census-bureau-produces-first-comprehensive-atlas-in-more-than-80-years\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census Atlas of the United States is the first publication of a &#8220;comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.&#8221; The maps are beautiful and easy to use, although I doubt that an atlas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/census-atlas-of-the-united-states.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2935,2946,2962,2977],"tags":[3730,3731,3009,3021],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-maps","category-publishing","category-web-design","tag-bureau-of-the-census","tag-free-online-edition","tag-united-states","tag-usd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-zT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}