Saturday - November 07, 2009

South Florida and the Everglades

Digital Data, Imagery and Maps (Current and Historical)

 

Digital Data and Imagery

 
Search Florida data collected and held by Maps & Imagery User Services (MIUS). Collection includes extensive collection of County datasets including political boundaries, facilities, land cover, land use, hydrology and vegetation etc.
 
Navigate the map, double click it to get local point-data, easily geo-query vast databases. This is a public service of Florida International University sponsored by NSF and by NASA, USGS, and IBM.
 
Data and Maps Download for DRG’s DOQ’s LandSAT Imagery and unique FCE datasets. Includes an interactive Everglades Mapping tool.
 
Although a data clearinghouse for data for all of Florida, a majority of datasets include data specifically related to South Florida and the Everglades.
 
Includes downloadable LIDAR Data for Miami Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
 
A collection of downloadable aerial photography taken between 1930 and 2000.
 
GIS Layer Library
Vast array of shapefiles for South Florida includes both current and retrospective datasets. Data ranges from demographics to physical features such as soils and land use.
 
Includes both historical and current data primarily for the Everglades, and Broward and Dade counties.
 

Digital Data and Imagery – County Resources

 
Includes current downloadable datasets including administrative data as well as maps in .pdf format.
 
Includes downloadable shapefiles as well as current maps in .pdf format.
 
 
Miami Dade County’s GIS department offers access to a number of interactive web mapping tools including:
 
            Allows users to search by reef name and reef site.
 
Provides users with information on code violations, crime incidents, land use, sales information, sexual offender predator, flood zones and transportation improvement data.
 
Layers include demographic, cultural, health statistics education, development and planning and more. Users can conduct simple queries of the data as well as print and save maps.
 
 

Maps of South Florida and Everglades

 
Includes a large number of current administrative maps in .pdf format
 
Includes a large number of current and some historical maps in .pdf format.
 
A collection of links for Palm Beach County maps online as well as Florida State Maps.
 
Both current and historical maps for Florida from the University of Texas.
 
 

Historical Maps of South Florida

 
From the PALMM World Map Collections. Includes additional links for Historical Maps of Florida online.
 
Library of Congress. American Memory
An excellent collection of downloadable high resolution historical maps. Downloadable in JPEG2000 formats. Collections specifically including maps of Florida are: