Hey Jeff,



This webpage is a great resource!  The geolytics disks have become an issue in recent years...having to reinstall the disks on newer machines, newer platforms, etc.  We had to move our map collection again and are now faced once more with finding a new home to install some of the disks.  It’s good to know I can point people to your webpage instead.



Thanks!



-Greg



Gregory H. March

Associate Professor

Map & Geospatial Data Librarian

University of Tennessee

236A Hodges Library

Knoxville, TN 37996

865-974-3878



From: Maps-L: Discussion Forum for Maps, Air Photo, Map Librarianship, GIS, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Essic

Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:27 PM

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Subject: Re: Social Explorer vs. Geolytics



Hey Greg,



I no longer recommend Geolytics products, and instead steer patrons to Social Explorer, NHGIS, and other options listed on http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data/cendata.html.  As far as I can tell, these two options provide everything except for normalized longitudinal data, for which I recommend the geodatabase built by UNC of LTDB from Brown U. (linked from the aforementioned webpage).



A researcher last spring wanted to use the NCDB to build upon earlier research that used it, so I found an old 32bit laptop to install it on.  That was the only time I've pulled out any geolytics cd's in the past year.





Jeff Essic

Data Services Librarian

North Carolina State University

D.H. Hill Library, Research & Information Services

Box 7111, Raleigh, NC  27695-7111

(919) 515-5698

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis