Reimagination - Reimagining, exploring and celebrating the changes in infrastructure, politics and culture that will help us live in harmony with each other and the earth now and in the future.
Democracy at Risk: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's report Top To Bottom Review finds that electronic voting machines supplied by several vendors are subject to hacking and inaccuracies.
Climate Shift - The effects of climate shift on the future of planet earth and its inhabitants.
Climate Injustice - Differential impacts of climate change and global warming.
Abrupt Climate Change - New draft report released April 30, 2007 by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Grass GIS New Release - Just released version 6.3 is now windows ready. Previous versions worked with Unix based machines and Macs, but required an interpreter to work with Windows.
Wireless - Free FCC GIS shapefiles of antenna points and areas for cellular, TV (digital and NTSC) and more plus search capability to find out more information on particular antenna sites. Enter any address in the U.S. and map the location and ownership of antennas and towers.
Climate Change Maps - NOAA Spring 2007 Outlook Maps: Temperature, Flood Risk, Precipitation and Drought.
What is MapCruzin? Simply put, our mission is to provide the information, tools, resources and expertise to enhance personal growth and knowledge and empower you in your efforts towards improving environmental and social conditions. Click here for free GIS software and resources.
Industry-Standard ESRI Shapefiles
Users of MapInfo GIS, ESRI products such as ArcView, ArcGIS, ArcExplorer, Maptitude and most all GIS programs can take advantage of the resources we offer here. Data is available in industry-standard ESRI shapefile format. Click here for free GIS maps.
Public Participation GIS
We truly hope that the resources we continue to gather will help to encourage and facilitate public participation GIS worldwide.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
As of 12/07/01 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) took their Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) website offline. Once it was "sanitized" by the Bush administration, it was put back online for a brief period. The original website was very critical of any oil exploration, drilling or recovery in the ANWR. Their most recent version of this website tells a very different story as you will see. Below is one of the maps from the old ANWR website that shows that much of the Caribou calving area is at high risk.
Click here for our archived copy of the original FWS ANWR website and click here for the new FWS ANWR website. Also, check here for FWS's pro-oil take.
ACT NOW! Watch the video Oil On Ice and visit oilonice.org to find out what you can do to help prevent the opening of ANWR to oil drilling.
The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) provides the data that citizens can use to learn more about some of the toxic chemicals that are being released by U.S. facilities where they live, work, go to school and play. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently made significant changes to the rules so that in the future we will learn LESS about these releases rather than more. Click here to learn more about this threat to our right-to-know from OMB Watch.
Geocollaboration service - transforming complicated multi-layered GIS maps into easy to use Acrobat PDF files that anyone in your organization can use and share.
GPS fieldwork and mapping.
Maps and GIS layers derived from U.S. Census Tiger/Line files and population data for your exacting needs.
These are highlights of the various products that we offer. Click on the links in each description below for full details and ordering information.
Learn2Map GIS Tutorial & Atlas
We have just updated our Learn2Map GIS Tutorial and Atlas, adding many screenshots, more geodata and to help you learn to use the program and navigate the maps. We also have a free GIS tutorial that you may download - Click here for details.
Learn more about the potential risks that toxic chemical releases pose for your community.
We have taken this 2004 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data and created digital maps for your use. These environmental pollution maps are in shapefile format and will work with the free ArcExplorer® GIS viewer, ArcView® GIS, and many other GIS and mapping programs.
We have also included easy to follow instructions that show you how to add streets, highways, census tracts and much more to your maps. Use our free mapping tutorial with ArcExplorer® and learn even more ... Click Here for immediate access.
Shapefiles work with the free ArcExplorer® GIS viewer, ArcView® GIS, and many other GIS and mapping programs. Each layer includes easy to follow instructions that show you how to add streets, highways, census information and much more to your maps. Map layers include Indian lands (BIA), Forest Service Bureau, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and more ... Click Here for immediate access.
You can easily learn to make use of any of these maps with the help of our free Mapcruzin Map-Tutorial.
Enter any address in the U.S. and map the location and ownership of antennas and towers.
What is MapCruzin? Simply put, our mission is to provide the information, tools, resources and expertise to enhance personal growth and knowledge and empower you in your efforts towards improving environmental and social conditions. 
