| Resource | Description/link |
|---|---|
| Dealing with common uploading errors | https://docs.mapbox.com/help/troubleshooting/uploads/ |
| All Mapbox Tutorials | https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/ |
| Suggest trying Choropleth tutorials 1 & 2 | https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/choropleth-studio-gl-pt-1/ https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/choropleth-studio-gl-pt-2/ |
| GL-JS Documentation | https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/ |
| How-to video library | https://www.mapbox.com/videos/ |
Online classes
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Penn State e-learning: [Introduction to GIS](http://- https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog453/node/637)
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Penn State e- learning: Web Mapping
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University of Oregon: Web Mapping
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UC Davis/Coursera: Introduction to GIS fundamentals
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Udemy: QGIS instruction Esri free resources (may need to sign up for an account, but these are free):
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https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/57660c89bb54adb30c94541c/get-started-with-arcmap/
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https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/5b733dab8659c25ea7013f8e/arcmap-fundamentals/
QGIS training materials:
- https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/training_manual/index.html
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxs7cfMwzgGZhtUuwhny4-Q
- Data Merger: https://funkeinteraktiv.github.io/geo-data-merger/
- Batch geocoding: https://geocode.localfocus.nl/
- Picking a color scale for scientific graphics: https://betterfigures.org/2015/06/23/picking-a-colour-scale-for-scientific-graphics/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
- Color advice for maps: http://colorbrewer2.org/
- Quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps: http://geojson.io/#map=2/20.0/0.0
- Image color picker: https://imagecolorpicker.com/
- Make a map style by dropping an image on the map with Cartogram: https://apps.mapbox.com/cartogram/#13.01/40.7251/-74.0051
Jeremy Singer-Vine from Buzzfeed has an ongoing list of datasets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk/edit#gid=0
Local/Regional
- Lots of cities have made their data available to the public (e.g. Oakland https://data.oaklandnet.com/, New York City https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/)
- California state data portal https://data.ca.gov/
- California public health data https://hillcrestadvisory.com/2019/01/20/california-data-sources/
- Cal Fire: https://frap.fire.ca.gov/mapping/gis-data/
Federal Government
- OpenData.gov https://www.data.gov/
- Spatial Data Repository http://spatialdata.dhsprogram.com/home/
- Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/data.html
- NASA https://data.nasa.gov/
- NOAA https://data.noaa.gov/datasetsearch/, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/
- USGS https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/#fq=dataType%3A(collection%20OR%20non-collection)&q=*%3A,* https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/national-geospatial-program/national-map, https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/data-and-tools-topics
- https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html
- GeoMac (USGS) https://www.geomac.gov/
- USAID DHS Data: https://dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm
- CDC: https://data.cdc.gov/
Other
- IPUMS Data (census data - US & international): https://usa.ipums.org/usa/data.shtml, https://international.ipums.org/international/
- WHO Data (this is free/public and they have a lot more than what is advertised on their data portal): https://www.who.int/gho/database/en/
- World Bank: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
- Harvard Geospatial Library http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/opengeoportal/
- Global Forest Watch http://data.globalforestwatch.org/