Julia Lindau
GIS: DHP 207
Assignment 5: Data Sources Search Results and Documentation
March 5, 2013
1. Settlement Points (villages, towns, cities) in Iraq
2. The dataset contains information on all settlements in Iraq by governorate and district.
3. United States National Imagery Mapping Agency (NIMA) Gazetteer, UNOPS Mine
Action Program, UNOPS IDP project
4. Iraq Common Operational Datasets: http://www.iauiraq.org/cod.asp.
5. March 2004
6. Given the situation in Iraq at the time, I assume this information is accurate as of 2003. I
assume that village names and locations have not changed substantially in the last several
years.
7. Vector Data (points)
8. No scale provided
9. This data set contains detailed information about inhabited areas across Iraq. It not only
has Governorate and District names, which are relatively easily to find, but also the
names and longitude and latitudes of every village within each district in the country. As
I am hoping to gather more data on localized conflict throughout the country, such
specific information is hugely helpful for my final project.
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Julia Lindau
GIS: DHP 207
Assignment 5: Data Sources Search Results and Documentation
March 5, 2013
1. Global Oil Pipelines
2. The data set maps oil pipelines around the world and was developed for the “Oil and the
Contemporary Globe” workshop in 2009
3. The Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University. Jeff Blossom is listed as the
contact person for this dataset.
4. I retrieved this information from the Geodata Tufts portal.
5. August 2009
6. 2009. It is possible that new pipelines have been built or that existing ones are currently
out of use since this dataset was created.
7. Vector data (lines)
8. Information not available
9. Combined with data on oil extraction points in Iraq, this dataset will useful in mapping
natural resource allocation across the country. This said, the file itself does not have
much useful information not obvious when looking at the map itself.
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Julia Lindau
GIS: DHP 207
Assignment 5: Data Sources Search Results and Documentation
March 5, 2013
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) 1991-2011
This Dataset chronicles terrorist attacks around the world by country and includes
information such as the type of attack and resulting damage. It was created as part of a
combined effort between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of
Maryland to maintain information on and better understand terrorism.
The GTD is maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and
Responses to Terrorism
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/contact/2011 (you must fill out a form before being
allowed to download the data)
2012
1991-2011. This type of data is obviously extremely time sensitive, so it would be helpful
to have information for 2012 as well.
This data is currently in Excel tabular format; location is city-specific.
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This detailed dataset is extremely useful because it includes the city in which the attack
occurred, the year, the type of attack, the target of the attack (government, civilian,
religious, etc.) and even detailed descriptions about how the event occurred. At this point
I know location by city will be helpful, but as I hone my research focus I can weed out
information and narrow down by time period, type of attack, etc. as necessary.
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Julia Lindau
GIS: DHP 207
Assignment 5: Data Sources Search Results and Documentation
March 5, 2013
Geo-referencing of Ethnic Groups (GREG)
This dataset maps ethnic groups across the globe.
The Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich, maintains the GREG
project. The 2010 dataset is attributed to Jan Ketil Rod and Lars-Erik Cederman.
http://www.icr.ethz.ch/data/other/greg
2010
This dataset reflects the ethnic breakdown as of 2010. With regards to Iraq, the major
population movements that have transpired since 2010 and that are thus not included in
this map concern Iraqi refugees returning home as well as Syrian refugees spilling over
the border. I assume however that these populations are negligible in size when compared
to the total population of Iraq (tens of thousands compared to over 30 million, according
to the CIA website)
Raster data (polygons)
Metadata reports “The scale of the ANM maps ranges from 1:4 000 000 up to 1:15 000
000”, (found here: http://www.icr.ethz.ch/data/other/greg/Appendix.pdf ), although I do
not understand how a map’s scale can range?
This dataset includes geospatial information about ethnicities across Iraq. This includes,
in addition to Iraqi Arabs and Kurds (the two main ethnicities by which the country is
usually demarcated): Turkmens, Assyrians, Syrian Arabs, Yemeni Arabs, Circassians,
Persians, and Saudi Arabian Arabs. Critically however, this data set does NOT include
information about religion and sect (of main interest here is: Sunni, Shia, and Christian).
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GIS: DHP 207
Assignment 5: Data Sources Search Results and Documentation
March 5, 2013
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