National Register of Historic Places Geocoded

by mschwar99 on January 9, 2011

The National Park Service website offers a dataset containing a list of all of the 85,000 entries of the National Register of Historic Places along with geopoint information for most all of the entries.  As is frequently the case with (…)

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UTMy: Converting UTM Geodata to Latitude / Longitude

by mschwar99 on January 7, 2011

UTM, or Universal Transverse Mercator, encoded geodata seems to be very common in some of the datasets I am playing around with from data.gov.  In order to make that data useful to me and play well with the other data (…)

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