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Download Census 2007
Tiger/Line Shapefiles

Free Tiger files now available for download in ESRI shapefile format.

Indian & Federal Lands - Maps in shapfile format.

Reimagination - Alternative resources for Today and Tomorrow.

Climate Change Maps

GPS Global Positioning

Free World Regional Maps - high resolution JPG and PDF downloads

Free TOPO and
Terrain Maps

USGS Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) Topographic Maps, Satellite and more.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Maps

Google Earth & Maps Resources & Tools

GIS Maps of Africa

GIS Maps of Ecosystems

Environmental GIS Maps

Wireless Maps - cellular

Historical Maps

MrSid, JPEG2000 & TIFF

Health & GIS

GIS Tutorials

GIS Mapping Resources

Census Data & Maps

Digital Data & Maps

Toxic Release Maps

GIS Explained

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Home Based Recycling Business - Free resources and tools.

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.

Toxic Klamath River

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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.

Right to Know or Left to Wonder?

Shrubbed

Terrorspeak

Soaring Cancer Rates Blamed On Chemicals: Epidemic is Preventable. New report from CCPA.

21st Century Warfare

Hazardscapes - Toxic and Nuclear Risks in your backyard.

War & Environment

Worst Case Scenarios: Terrorism & industrial chemicals.

Redwood Ecotours: Explore California's Redwood North Coast.


progressive news view and books

poets against the war

World View of Global Warming

The Southern Poverty Law Center

Recycling today magazine

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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.

Free Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photos

Google Earth / Maps Tools & Resources

GIS News, Views and Updates - Google Street View, California threat to public access to GIS data, NOAA weather shapefiles ...

Download 2007 Tiger/Line Shapefiles - Census has made our jobs easier. Free Tiger files now available for download in shapefile format.

California Watersheds with Google Earth - Our first foray into the world of making maps for Google Earth - many more to come.

Toxic & Pollution Maps with Google Earth & Google Maps.

Global Warming & Climate Change with Google Earth & Google Maps.

Free High Resolution World Region Maps - JPG and PDF formats.

Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada

Climate Change Data

Climate change news, maps & related resources.

OF NOTE

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.

Maps of Iran - PDF and JPG maps of Iran.

Caribou Maps - Arctic National Wildlife Reserve Caribou Calving Maps.

Robert Redford video on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

About MapCruzin

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.

Chemical Pollution and Right-To-Know

We believe that each of us has the right to know about the quality of the environment where we live, work, play and raise our families. Armed with this information, families, developers, realtors, local, state, tribal and federal governments can work in partnership to build healthy and safe communities. Click here to learn more about us and to read our mission statement.

Right-To-Know Under Attack

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.

Services & Products

MapCruzin is a professional information and GIS consulting firm. We locate, analyze and interpret information for our clients as well as develop GIS projects. Contact us to learn more about how we may be of help to you. Below is a partial list of our services and products:

  • 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.

  • Pollution and toxics investigation.

  • Professional Maps for Books, Reports and the Internet. (download an example in PDF format (146K))

  • Relocation research and profiling including environmental, disaster, climate, crime, and demographic maps and analysis and more.

  • Digital data conversion. Paper to digital data conversion.

  • Cluster investigation, mapping and research.

  • Custom map layers and databases created to your specifications.

  • GIS project development including geocoding of addresses.

  • GIS education and training.

  • Environmental, political, sociological and demographic research.

  • Interactive Web Map project development. (examples)

  • GIS mapping of environmental and sociodemographic variables and trends.

  • Community mapping projects. (examples)

  • Digital toxic tours. (example)

  • Bridging the "digital divide" by helping you outreach to underserved members of the community.

  • Environmental and demographic trend analysis.

  • Environmental justice research. (examples)

  • Climate change research and mapping.

  • Landuse history and mapping. (examples)

  • Historical research and mapping.

  • Report writing and editing.

  • Field research and surveys. (examples)


Products: Learn2Map GIS Tutorial & Atlas, 2004 Toxic Release Inventory Maps, Federal Lands & Indian Reservations Maps


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.



Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Maps

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.


Federal Lands & Indian Reservations Maps.

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.

Please contact us for more information.

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Michael R. Meuser

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Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

The 11th Hour

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad

Battle for the Klamath

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Ethnographer's Toolkit: 7-volume paperback boxed set (Ethnographer's Toolkit , Vol 7)

GIS Tutorial Updated for ArcGIS 9.2: Workbook for Arc View 9, second edition

River of Renewal: Myth And History in the Klamath Basin

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning

Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The World Without Us

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It - Al Gore

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

GIS Investigations: Earth Science 9.1 Version with CD-ROM: Earth Science

Exploring Tropical Cyclones: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences, ArcGIS Edition

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