-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Japanese GIS data Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:04:07 -0600 From: Chieko Maene <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> I explored the Japanese government GIS website hosted by the Statistics Bureau of Japan. (I am Japanese, so I was curious about the site) The site is great! though, the data I downloaded does include Japanese in the string (character) fields, which is not too good for people who don't read Japanese. Much information is numeric, so this language problem shouldn't bother international users too much, I hope. Anyhow, I found the answer to Mr. Winters's question on its FAQ page. According to the site, question 13, "How can I download nation/state/province wide data at once?" - there seems to be no easy way.. "We are very sorry, but the GIS plaza site users can download data at city/borough/town/village level only. (here comes another apologetic sentence in Japanese) We are sorry, but, if you need to download data for a larger area, please download one dataset at a time at the city/borough/town/village level, or purchase data from private vendors." http://gisplaza.stat.go.jp/GISPlaza/faq.html Chieko.. -- Chieko Maene Map Librarian Government Documents, Maps and Microforms Department Richard J. Daley Library University of Illinois at Chicago 801 S. Morgan, M/C 234 Chicago, Illinois 60607 USA (312) 996-2738 Angie Cope, AGSL wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Japanese GIS data > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:38:49 -0600 (CST) > From: Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]> > To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum > <[log in to unmask]> > References: <[log in to unmask]> > > > I would be very grateful for up-to-date information about the acquisition > of census-tract-level boundary files and census data for Japan. > > You can download data for each tract individually at > > http://gisplaza.stat.go.jp/GISPlaza/index.html > > Does anyone know where one can get data for more than one tract at a time? > > Many thanks. > > Chris Winters > University of Chicago Library