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If you choose to download the tutorial data from the source websites and practice finding and obtaining data from online sources, follow these instructions:
HGAC
The COHGIS (City of Houston GIS) Open Data Portal website provides over 100 data sets including administrative boundaries, amenity locations, transportation routes, crime, and flooding. For this tutorial, we will download population and housing data from the 2010 census, which has been aggregated to super neighborhood boundaries.
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H-GAC GIS
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Census Data
The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is the 13-county Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Houston region. Federal legislation requires that an MPO be designated for each urbanized area with a population greater than 50,000 people (as established by the U.S. Census Bureau) in order to conduct long-range metropolitan transportation planning and be eligible for Federal funding for transportation projects. Their mission to carry out metropolitan transportation planning means that MPOs are a great source of data on topics such as demographics, employment, land use, transportation, and environmental conditions and most of these topics are well-suited towards GIS analysis.
Most of the data provided on the H-GAC portal is not originally created by the H-GAC, but rather is either aggregated from multiple municipalities up to the 13-country region, or clipped from the country or state down to the 13-county region. For this tutorial, we will download population and housing data from the 2010 census, which has been aggregated to census tract boundaries.
- Using a web browser, search for "hgac gis census data" and select the result as shown below or or go directly to: https://www.h-gac.com/census-data.
ADD SCREENSHOT ON MAC (ARJUN) - Select "Download Boundary files" under the "Ethnicity" subheading.
ADD SCREENSHOT ON MAC (ARJUN)
In this case, we are looking for census data by census tract. - Select "Download" from the top bar. We note that the data we are looking for is by census tract and can be seen under the list of files within the Census2010_Redistricting_Data_Shapefiles.zip we are downloading.
H-GAC GIS Datasets
- Using a web browser, search for "h-gac gis" and select the result as shown below or go directly to: http://www.h-gac.com/gis-applications-and-data/datasets.aspx
- Under the Dataset Categories section, click the Transportation button to filter the results by subject.
- Under the Datasets section, click Major Roads.
- Click Download Dataset.
- Click the blue Download button.
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The COHGIS (City of Houston GIS) Open Data Portal website provides over 100 data sets including administrative boundaries, amenity locations, transportation routes, crime, and flooding and is available at: https://cohgis-mycity.opendata.arcgis.com/. (Whenever you see a URL that ends in opendata.arcgis.com, you will know that you are visiting a standard ArcGIS Open Data portal.)
OPTION 2: Accessing tutorial data from Fondren Library using the gistrain profile
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The COHGIS (City of Houston GIS) Open Data Portal website provides over 100 data sets including administrative boundaries, amenity locations, transportation routes, crime, and flooding. For this tutorial, we will download population and housing data from the 2010 census, which has been aggregated to super neighborhood boundaries.
The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is the 13-county Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Houston region. Federal legislation requires that an MPO be designated for each urbanized area with a population greater than 50,000 people (as established by the U.S. Census Bureau) in order to conduct long-range metropolitan transportation planning and be eligible for Federal funding for transportation projects. Their mission to carry out metropolitan transportation planning means that MPOs are a great source of data on topics such as demographics, employment, land use, transportation, and environmental conditions and most of these topics are well-suited towards GIS analysis.
Most of the data provided on the H-GAC portal is not originally created by the H-GAC, but rather is either aggregated from multiple municipalities up to the 13-country region, or clipped from the country or state down to the 13-county region.