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Horizon Mapping
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) seeks to build a community of adults and organizations that are
dedicated to reaching youth living in poverty and to building a sophisticated, long-term support
system that leads them to careers. T/MC uses GIS computer technology to guide volunteers, donors
and business partners to tutor/mentor locations around Chicago.
Horizon Mapping works with T/MC in support of mapping initiatives that include the following:
1000 Friends of Wisconsin
1000 Friends' transportation vision for Wisconsin is an affordable, reliable, and balanced transportation system that will benefit the economic health of communities, preserve and promote environmental quality and social equity, as well as meet the mobility of all Wisconsin’s residents.
In 2006, 1000 Friends contacted Horizon Mapping and discussed the possibility of creating a map that would combine the different public transportation services available in Wisconsin. This information existed in many different places on the web, but nowhere was it centralized in a single source. Putting together a map of routes and services would allow convenient access to these resources on line or distributed as hardcopy. Soon, people who are interested in, or restricted to public, non-automobile transportation will be able to use this publication to determine the best modes and routes to take to get where they are going.
FURARE

In order to save what is left of the world’s forests we need to find viable economic alternatives to
unrestrained timber harvest. In 2003, Horizon Mapping worked with the Fundación Rescate del Bosque
Tropical ( FURARE) on a project in
Ecuador that was designed to turn the destruction around.
By mimicking the natural forest plant
communities, the group hoped to create a sustainable and harvestable ecosystem. They realized that to
manage this agro-forestry system they would need to track the inventory of species being cultivated, the
nurseries where they were planted, and the plots to which they would be transplanted. They identified
Microsoft Access as the development environment and posted the database implementation project on the Idealist.Org volunteer site. Horizon Mapping provided remote development
support for the database and application .
Wildcliff Nature Preserve

South Africa has among the highest levels of biodiversity in the world, thanks in no small part
to the Cape Floral Kingdom. Wildcliff is a mountain wilderness
reserve in the Langeberg mountain range
of South Africa's Western Cape. Ian and Jennifer Giddy purchased the property in 2007 on behalf of the
Wild Cape Nature Trust. It will be maintained as a nature reserve in perpetuity for purposes of
conservation and research.
In 2007, Horizon Mapping began building a preliminary GIS for the preserve, based on the best
data already available. This ranged from 1:500,000 scale data from the SA Agriculture Geo-Referenced
Information System to topographic data at
1:50,000 scale from the SA Chief Directorate. A number of maps were produced that were assembled into an
online map gallery. .
Farmers' Voice

Krisoker Saar (Farmers' Voice) is a tiny Farmers' Research Institute in Bangladesh that has evolved
from the local community itself. One of their current initiatives involves inventorying the biodiverstiy
of the internationally known Sundarban Mangrove Forest in the aftermath of the category 4 Cyclone Sidr
in November, 2007.
In support of this effort, Horizon Mapping built a web presence for the organization that includes
a dynamic map gallery.
The maps tell the story of the disaster, the environment and the country, within
which Farmer's Voice works to overcome many obstacles.
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Census and Poverty

Population surveys are important indicators of our progress in regards to resolving many social issues. Measures of poverty levels are especially useful in understanding the effects of different policies, since the poorest citizens are more likely to suffer if inequalities exist.
The US Census has recognized this in recent surveys, putting emphasis on providing analyses of population data based on rigorous definitions of poverty. The most current survey in 2000 has resulted in several products along these lines, which have been released incrementally as compilation tasks are completed.
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Census 2000 - Poverty Status in 1999
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| Sample Demographic Profile |
May 7, 2002 - June 4, 2002 |
| Congressional District Sample Demographic Profile |
May 7, 2002 - June 4, 2002 |
Summary File 3 (SF 3)
Population Specifications
Technical Specifications
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August 6, 2002 - September 25, 2002 |
Summary File 4 (SF 4)
Population Specifications
Technical Specifications
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April 29, 2003 - July 30, 2003 |
| Sample Quick Tables |
August 6, 2002 - July 30, 2003 |
| Sample Geographic Comparison Tables |
August 6, 2002 - July 30, 2003 |
| Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics (PHC-2) |
March 13, 2003 - July 24, 2003 |
| Congressional District Data Summary File |
March 17, 2003 |
| Characteristics of American Indians and Alaska Natives by Tribe and Language |
December 31, 2003 |
| Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files |
For 1-percent sample:
April 23, 2003 - June 4, 2003
For 5-percent sample:
August 6, 2003 - September 24, 2003 |
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Horizon Mapping Publications
SWIS The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has been collecting data about the state's waterways for many years, usually including a locational reference. Up until recently, however, they have not been able to easily associate these measurements geographically with the rivers and streams and with each other. GIS tools provide methods to treat rivers as network systems and to place sampling sites as events along the collection of river reaches. Network analysis will eventually be able to discover relationships between geography and resources, which will greatly facilitate environmental management.
BCPLManaging today's public forests must meet many expectations, from production, preservation, recreation and regulation. The Board of Commissioners of Public Lands realized many years ago that in order to perform this mandate efficiently and effectively, it would need to implement all the tools available. This included information technology and in particular GIS.
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