LandView III

LandView^® III on CD-ROM

Introduction to LandView^® III

LandView III is a desktop mapping system that includes database extracts from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of the Census, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. These databases are presented in a geographic context on maps that show jurisdictional boundaries, detailed networks of roads, rivers, and railroads, census block group and tract polygons, schools, hospitals, churches, cemeteries, airports, dams, and other landmark features.

LandView III Software

The mapping software in LandView III is an adaptation of MARPLOT, part of the CAMEO system (Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations). MARPLOT was developed by the Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The database software LandView III was developed at the Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.

Minimum and Recommended Configurations

The minimum configuration required to run this CD-ROM:

PC with a 486-class processor, or Macintosh with a 68020 processor
8MB of RAM
10MB of free hard disk space
VGA color display
2X CD-ROM drive
Windows 3.1 (for PC), System 7.0 (for 68K Mac), System 7.1.2 (for Power Mac)

To maximize performance, the recommended configuration is:

PC with 586 or Pentium-class processor, or Macintosh with PowerPC processor,
16 MB RAM
SVGA color display
4X CD-ROM drive
Windows 95 or Windows NT (for PC), System 7.1.2 or higher (for Macintosh)

Software Documentation

LandView III comes with several documentation and tutorial files: LandView III Guided Tour (in PDF format), LandView III Help (in both PDF and Windows Help file formats), MARPLOT user manual and technical documentation (in PDF format), and MARPLOT Help (in Windows Help file format). The Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files is included on the CD.

What is LandView III?

LandView III is a geographic reference, like an atlas. It displays:

A detailed network of roads, rivers, and railroads based on TIGER/Line^® 1995 files.
NOTE - The TIGER/Line information is in MARPLOT format which is not readily exportable into other mapping software. Also, the U.S. Summary (Disc 11) only contains this information for the states of Delaware and the District of Columbia.
Jurisdictional and statistical boundaries - a set of generalized boundary files for states, congressional districts (105th), metropolitan areas (June 30, 1996), Native American Indian Areas, Alaska Native lands, counties, and minor civil divisions (for 20 selected states where minor civil divisions function as general purpose governmental units or constitute legal entities), census tracts and block groups.
NOTE - Detailed place and block group boundaries are shown only on the local discs; the U.S. Summary disc contains only place centroids and generalized block group boundaries.
EPA-regulated sites, a subset of the facilities, sites, and monitoring stations represented in five EPA data bases Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS), Biennial Reporting System (BRS), CERCLA Information System (CERCLIS), Permit Compliance System (PCS), and the Toxic Release Inventory System (TRI).
Selected demographic and economic information from the 1990 Census, and
Key geographic features of the United States provided by the United States Geological Survey and other Federal agencies.

LandView III enables you to:

Create customized street maps showing only those classes of map features of interest.
Create thematic maps a graphic display of geographic boundaries and Census bureau statistical data. Users can also create thematic maps from their own databases.
Easily determine the census tract and block group associated with a street address or point location on a map.
(Local discs only).
Calculate an estimate of the number of persons and other demographic characteristics within a radius from a given point.
Query the LandView III databases and MARPLOT map objects and export the search results to a separate file in dBASE, Lotus, Excel or fixed length text format. Users may also may link the geographic areas contained in the search results to the map.
Create a user defined map layer
Automatically match each record in a user file containing latitude and longitude coordinates to the census tract and block group level.

Enhancements to LandView II

Up-to-date EPA and map databases
Comes with a tutorial and more extensive help files
Improved thematic mapping and data querying capabilities
Now supports all printers supported by Windows
Now can directly save maps as bitmap (.bmp) files
Expanded street search capability
Improved import capabilities of user data files
Population radius calculation enhanced
Addition of selected STF3 data variables
Expansion of minor civil division layer from six states to twenty
Addition of other Federal Agency map layer data.

LandView III Product Options

LandView III is distributed on a set of 11 compact discs. There are 10 local discs with each containing a grouping of states. An 11th CD-ROM (the U.S. Summary) covers the entire US and includes all data except the detailed geography derived from TIGER/Line 1995 files (roads, rivers, railroads, place boundaries). Map showing state groupings on each local disc.

The U.S. Summary (Disc 11) is designed for those users whose primary interests are creating thematic maps or performing radius calculations that extend over a number of states.
Note - With the exceptions of Delaware, District of Columbia and Prince William County, VA, this disc does not show local roads contained in TIGER/Line 1995. For areas lacking local road information, users can not create detailed street maps or match street addresses to census tracts and block groups.

The local discs (Discs 1 - 10) contain the same information as the U.S. Summary disc for the grouping of states plus detailed networks of roads, rivers, and railroads based on the TIGER/Line 1995 files. The local discs are designed for users who need to: create maps containing a detailed network of roads, rivers and railroads, match streets and addresses accurately to census tract or block groups or see detailed place boundaries. Each local disc provides the same functions available on the national disc but only for the states contained on the local disc. For example, a population radius calculation performed from the District of Columbia on local disc 1 would not contain information for Virginia since Virginia is on local disc 2.
NOTE - The U.S. Highways, Railroads, and Water layers present on the MARPLOT map for the national LandView CD (#11) which are from the Department of Transportation and the United States Geological Survey are not present on CDs 1-10 because these CDs have the detailed network of roads, railroads, and water extracted from the TIGER/Line 1995 files.

Link to the Environmental Protection Agency, our LandView Program Partner

Last Revised: Tuesday, 05-Jun-2001 10:41:54 EDT

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LandView® III on CD-ROM

Introduction to LandView® III