[Geowanking] US Universities Baselayer

[Scott Davis]

I will be geocoding the IPEDS data and post it to http:// 
www.mapmap.org as a CSV and shapefile later this week.

Thanks again, everyone, for your help tracking this down.

Cheers,
s

Scott Davis
scott at davisworld.org



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> From: "D'Amico, Aurora" <Aurora.DAmico at ed.gov>
> Date: October 2, 2006 9:03:30 AM MDT
> To: <scott at davisworld.org>
> Subject: RE: Postsecondary Data (Licensing?)
>
> Hello, Scott:
>
> Thank you for your interest in our data.  What do you mean by  
> "hd2004"?  The location data for the postsecondary institutions are  
> listed in the Institutional Characteristics (IC) component of  
> IPEDS.  It includes address, city, state, and zipcode.  The IPEDS  
> data are not restricted.
>
> Hope this helps! Aurora
> Aurora.DAmico at ed.gov
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott at davisworld.org [mailto:scott at davisworld.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:01 PM
> To: D'Amico, Aurora
> Subject: Postsecondary Data (Licensing?)
>
>
> Aurora D'Amico,
>
> This email was automatically sent through the Contact NCES  
> webmaster link
> on the NCES website based on the category area the user selected.  The
> topic area of the question is (Postsecondary Data) and as such can
> probably best be answered by you because of your expertise in this  
> area.
>
> From:  scott at davisworld.org
>
> Last Page:  http://nces.ed.gov/help/privacy.asp
>
> Message:  I downloaded the hd2004 file from
> http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/dct/download/index.asp? 
> Year=2004&Survey=1 . It
> didn't come with any license / fair usage information. Can you  
> provide me
> with a text file or a hyperlink?
>
> I noticed that it didn't contain latitude / longitude points,  
> although in
> other places on your website users are able to query for schools  
> within a
> certain radius of a specific zipcode. This leads me to believe that  
> there
> is spatial data being stored and used somewhere. Is this available for
> download (the file containing the spatial data)?
>
> Barring that, I would like to add latitude / longitude points from
> http://geocoder.us (US Census Bureau data) for use in an online  
> mapping
> website. The map would simply show all US Colleges and Universities  
> on a
> map. I would then like to repost the resulting data as a CSV file  
> and a
> shapefile at http://www.mapmap.org for anyone to download. If you  
> would
> like, I would be happy to send the data back to you to be hosted on  
> your
> site.
>
> Thanks for your help in this matter.
>
> Regards,
> Scott Davis
> scott at davisworld.org
>
>