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• To find geospatial data at Mason, use the catalogand search by keyword, type in your search term. For example: GIS (or geographic information systems) AND "fairfax county" (a place name)
• To find all of geospatial data collection at Mason, use the catalogand search by Keyword, type in your search terms.For example: GIS AND data, limit to Fenwick Documents-CD-ROM
• To find the Libraries available online data collection,access the Libraries Geospatial Web Server

Geospatial data comes from a variety of sources including federal, state, and local government agencies. The Libraries receive data from the Goverment Printing Office (GPO) as a federal depository library. The Libraries also collect data from commercial vendors such as ESRI(Environmental Systems Research Institute) and Geolytics. The majority of the collection is in CD-ROM/DVD format and located in the government documents unit on the 1st floor, C Wing of Fenwick Library.

Due to licensing restrictions, some data sets are only available for in library use ONLY. More local data sets are made available online through the Libraries Geospatial Web Server (accessible only on campus)

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• Arlington County GIS Data (2004)
• ArcUSA: A basemap for the world at a scale of 1:3 million. It contains data for 240 countries with 235,000 geographic features (i.e. political boundaries, roads and drainage etc) and attributes.
• Census CD and software by Geolytics (Software loaded on GIS Workstations): Mapping and data extraction tools for 2000 census data, estimates & projections, census blocks, 1990, 1980, and 1970 censuses
• >City of Alexandria GIS Data (2006)
• Digital Chart of the World: A basemap of the world at a scale of 1:1 million from the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency Operational Navigation Chart.
• ESRI Data & Maps and Street Map for ArcGIS 9.0 (2001-2004): 3 CD sets: World, Europe, Canada, Mexico, US (Street map), and Image data.
• Fairfax County GIS Data (2002 & 2007)
• >Global GIS Database: Digital Atlas of Central and South America, Asia, Europe, North America, and North Eurasia. 1:1 million scale
• Historical United States County Boundary Files (1999): County boundary files for the U.S. from 1790-1990 in shape file format. Includes county and state names as well as FIPS code.
• Inside ArcView: A data set for tutorial of ArcView software.
• LandView IV: EPA data for air, harzardous waste, superfund, and toxic release waste facilties and 1990 census data.
• Loundon County GIS Data (2003 & 2008)
• Neighborhood Change Database by Geolytics, 1970-2000 (software loaded on GIS workstations)
• National Transporation Atlases Database (2000): includes national highway, railway, and waterway networkes, and national transportation facilities.
• Prince William County GIS Data (2005)
• SPOT Imagery for Virginia (2004)
• >Washington D.C GIS Data (2005)
• Wessex Street 7.0 (2000): The Census Bureau's 1998 Tiger files in ArcView format.
• Wessex Profiler (2000): 1990 census data down to block group level (STF 1A, 3A. STF 3B) in ArcView format.
• Zip+4 2006 (2007)

• Geographic Information Books received within last 4 weeks.
• Census Watch (ESRI)