MARS FreeView viewing application for LiDAR available

Merrick & Company today announced the free download availability of
MARS® FreeView™, an intuitive, easy-to-use viewing application for LiDAR, high-resolution imagery and GIS datasets. About the app -- Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS®) software is a stand-alone, Windows-based application specifically designed for processing, analyzing and managing terrain data. MARS® provides unparalleled application and visualization performance for massive LIDAR datasets and includes a modular tool suite that is used to manage field collection, data analysis, quality assurance, production, and client deliverable workflows. To download MARS® FreeView™, please visit the following website:
http://www.merrick.com/servicelines/gis/mars/FreeView/MarsFreeViewSetup.exe

MARS FreeView viewing application for LiDAR available

TIGOR - 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line in ESRI Shapefile format!

Hey, its not free but its pretty cheap and may be of interest to you. Product details - TIGOR is an integrated data product that gives you all the layers of the 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line® in ESRI® Shapefile format! TIGOR is based on Census Bureau TIGER/Line® files; TIGER/Line® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Census Bureau. - See http://www.nextractor.com
Of note, beware of free Tiger data that may be for sale dirt cheap on commercial sites (like the data depot, etc...) as it likely may not be reformated and is freely available via ftp download from the US Census Bureau. If its not publicized as being in SHP format then you'll likely simply get native TIGER files which require much effort to use in your GIS

TIGOR - 2006 First Edition TIGER/Line in ESRI Shapefile format!

USGS Data update re. National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2001)

The U.S. Geological Survey, on behalf of the interagency Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC), is pleased to announce the availability of NLCD 2001 products for the conterminous United States. These products are web enabled for download from the MRLC website at www.mrlc.gov. NLCD 2001 products include 21 classes of land cover, percent tree canopy and percent urban imperviousness at 30 m resolution derived from Landsat imagery. NLCD 2001 will support a wide variety of users, institutional sectors and local- to national-scale applications with this updated land-cover data. Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico will be completed by December of 2007, which will then represent the first compilation of nationwide land cover ever produced at 30-meter resolution.

USGS Data update re. National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2001)

Free USGS DRG data downloads from Libre and the Internet archive... download away!

Remember the USGS DRG map ransom project that "freed" the data, making these data freely available for public download? Well, its been some time and it seems that the data are indeed freely available for all. I surfed around a bit this AM and wanted to remind any of you GIS techs and managers that are STILL paying for these free data to consult this fine resource as an alternative. Data are available from a coulpe of locations and served up via http or ftp download. You can browse by State from the following locations:
http://libremap.org/data/ - the libre map project UI
or
http://www.archive.org/details/maps_usgs - the Internet archive

Free USGS DRG data downloads from Libre and the Internet archive... download away!

Coming Soon, a new free data product from the USGS, EROS, and NASA... TerraLook

TerraLook consists of a collection of JPEG images created from ASTER images from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center and Landsat Orthorectified images from the USGS EROS archive. images are user-selected, geo-registered, simulated natural color bundled with footprints of the images and standards-compliant
metadata that describe the collection. Each collection will be delivered as a single zipped file. TerraLook products will be available at no charge, and may be selected and ordered through the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVIS), See http://glovis.usgs.gov/.

Coming Soon, a new free data product from the USGS, EROS, and NASA... TerraLook

GeoIQ data center

The GeoIQ data center provides developers with loads of links to free datasets intended for use with their API to generate heat maps and other mashups. Data available include:
Demographics
Offshore Crude Pipelines
Gas Storage Facilities
Offshore Well Production
Simulated Hurricane Path
Electric Demand
Power Plants
Railways
Crude Pipelines Affected by Hurricane
Waterways
Highways
Earthquakes
Past Hurricane Tracks
Offshore Crude Oil pipelines
See http://www.geoiq.com/datacenter.html

GeoIQ data center