Date of Award
Winter 3-23-2012
Document Type
Masters Capstone Project
Degree Name
M.S. in Geographic Information Science
Organizational Unit
College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Geography and the Environment
First Advisor
Frank Orr
Second Advisor
Steven R. Hick
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
Demographic mapping applications, United States census, MapUtopia
Abstract
The United States Census public data portal and other existing demographic mapping applications do a suboptimal job of serving two prime data user groups; the casual data user, and the GIS data user. The Census Bureau in particular has produced a user-unfriendly product with a steep learning curve. In response to the lack of an existing platform which could efficiently handle common user requests, the author has created MapUtopia.com. MapUtopia is an interactive census data mapping application which allows for quick user access to commonly requested demographic data, and allows for user download of that data in the commonly utilized KML format. MapUtopia is built on the principle of usability, and leverages the Google Maps API and open source software.
Copyright Date
2-20-2012
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Rights Holder
Daniel Trone
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
52 pgs
File Size
396 KB
Recommended Citation
Trone, Daniel, "MapUtopia: An Improvement over Existing Census Mapping Applications" (2012). Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones. 21.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/geog_ms_capstone/21