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>Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 11:51 AM
>Subject: Census Announces Availability of LandView III with Census and
>EPA Data
 
 
>UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWS
>
>Economic & Statistics Administration
>
>Public Information Office                                 CB98-20
>301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax)
>301-457-4067 (TDD)
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>Paul Manka
>301-457-1128
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>          Joint Census Bureau, EPA Venture to Yield New
>              Electronic View of the United States
>
> The Commerce Department's Census Bureau and the Environmental
Protection
>Agency (EPA)  today announced a new upgraded version of a
jointly-produced
>geographic information system that permits users to draw a circle
around
>any location in the nation and, within seconds, generate a
demographic and
>environmental profile of the area in the circle.
>
> The product, LandView III, combines Census Bureau information on
>population, housing and the nation's geography (roads, rivers,
railroad
>lines, political and statistical boundaries from the 1995 TIGER/Line
>Files) with EPA databases on things like hazardous waste.
>
> "Planners at all levels of government, concerned citizens and the
like
>can use it to better understand, access and manipulate interagency
>government-provided spatial data. It will enable them to have a
better
>grasp of the environments in which we live," said U.S. Geological
Survey
>computer scientist Jerry McFaul.
>
> The demographic data are extracts from the 1990 Census of Population
 and
>Housing data files.  They cover topics such as income, poverty
status,
>educational attainment, age, race and Hispanic origin, whether the
>householder was living in the same house they occupied in 1985, land
and
>water area, housing costs and year housing units were built before
1940.
>
> The geographic data also include landmarks and related features,
such as
>schools, hospitals, cemeteries, dams, airports, nuclear sites,
religious
>buildings and lakes (derived primarily from U.S. Geological Survey
>databases).
>
> The information from the five EPA databases gives the location of
>hazardous waste and other sites regulated by the EPA, kinds and
amounts of
>chemical emissions, and other data.
>
> Users can generate thematic maps that display demographic data on a
map,
>with various colors or patterns representing numerical values, and
create
>customized street maps which display boundaries and landmarks. They
also
>can search for map objects that fit specific criteria (e.g., all
>neighborhoods, or census tracts, in a city in which non-Hispanic
Whites
>are a minority) and generate statistical profiles on them.
Additionally,
>users trying to pinpoint a neighborhood or address can determine the
>census tract or block group in which they are located.
>
> Windows-based LandView III is an upgrade of DOS-based LandView II
>released in 1995. It contains updated street and landmark
information,
>improved street-search, thematic-mapping and data-querying techniques
and
>a much greater volume of demographic data than in the previous
versions.
>
> The mapping software in LandView III is an adaptation of MARPLOT,
>developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
>Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division. The database
>management software in LandView III was developed at the EPA's
Chemical
>Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office.
>
> LandView III comes on a set of 11 compact discs. Ten of the disks
contain
>the full array of small-area geographic data, allowing users to
generate
>thematic and street maps for counties, places, census tracts and
block
>groups within a state. The 11th disc has limited street information
but
>contains both geographic boundary and census data for the entire
country,
>allowing users to display data thematically on a map of the entire
country
>or, for example, within a region made up of several states.
>
> The discs cost $99 each or $549 for the entire set and may be
ordered
>from the Census Bureau's Customer Services Branch (301-457-4100).
>
>                              -X-
>
>The Census Bureau pre-eminent collector and provider of timely,
relevant
>and quality data about the people and economy of the United States.
In
>more than 100 surveys annually and 20 censuses a decade, evolving
from the
>first census in 1790, the Census Bureau provides official information
>about America's people, businesses, industries and institutions.
>
>
>Thomas M. Palmerlee
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>Washington, DC 20003-2002
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