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Minnesota Interactive Internet Mapping Project (MIIM)

Data Sources
There are many online data sources; we have chosen a small sample to show what types of information is available.  See the list below for examples of other easily accessible data sources.  It is also easy to add your own geographic data that is stored in a shapefile or non-spatial data from a database or Excel spreadsheet.

Data currently available on MIIM

Transportation
  Airports
  Arterial roads
  Highways
  Interstates
  Major roads
  Railroads
  Runways
  Streets

Aerial Photographs
  1991, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006
Natural Features/Land Use
  Cemeteries
  Cities
  Counties
  Elevation contours
  Institutions
  Intermittent streams
  Golf courses
  MPCA WQ stations
  Parks
  Streams
  Wetlands
  Water bodies




Data categories from MetroGIS DataFinder


Administrative and Political Boundaries
Land Ownership
Planning and Development
Demographics
Business and Economics
Social, Justice and Emergency Services
Recreation and Tourism
Agriculture and Farming
Biology and Ecology
Environmental Monitoring and Modeling
Water Resources
Geology and Geophysics
Elevation
Land Cover
Imagery and Photographs
Base Maps, Scanned Maps and Charts
Facilities, Buildings and Structures
Transportation
Utilities and Communication


You can put any of this data into MIIM!

Go to http://www.datafinder.org/catalog
for a compete list



More data available from HEGIS

See hegis.umn.edu/data.htm#Resources


 
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