Washington, DC
June 3, 2005
USDA's National Agricultural
Statistics Service (NASS) released today a new interactive
mapping application for the 2002 Census of Agriculture
Statistical Highlights. This application provides users the
benefit of scaling the maps in order to create regionalized
views of the mapped data. It also includes downloadable XML and
CSV files of the user's queries.
The application is designed to allow users to query published
data from the 2002 Census of Agriculture and displays the data
by range across state and county level maps of the United States
. This application is generated through the emerging Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) format created by Adobe and approved as a
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for displaying
interactive graphics on the Internet.
Interactive mapping is currently only available for the 2002
Census of Agriculture “Table 1: Area Summary Highlights” data.
The application can be found at
http://www.nass.usda.gov/SVG/.
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