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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..
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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]>
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> 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
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