This repository contains several versions of a square kilometer fishnet clipped to the City of St. Louis's extent on its northern, western, and southern borders. On the eastern border, it is clipped to the Mississippi River shoreline. The three versions included are:
STL_BOUNDARY_Grids- all grid squares within the boundary described above (preview)STL_BOUNDARY_GridsClipped- all grid squares within the boundary described above, with several major parks clipped out; the resulting slivers remain part of their original features (preview)STL_BOUNDARY_GridsExploded- all grid squares within the boundary described above, with several major parks clipped out; the resulting slivers are rendered as separate polygon features (preview) g
Each of the three versions is included as .shp, .gpkg, and .geoJSON formats.
If you have found a typo, omission, or have a suggestion, please check the contribution guidelines guidelines before opening an issue. Please note that contributions to this project are governed by a Contributor Code of Conduct and, for Saint Louis University community members, our various University policies.
If you are interested in using our data, please note that it is released without warranty under a permissive license that does, however, require attribution. Citation information including a digital object identifier for the data, can be found via Zenodo. Please also see our policy on support for additional details.
The openGIS Project is a faculty-student collaboration at SLU organized by Christopher Prener, Ph.D.. The goal of the project is to produce publicly available spatial data about the St. Louis region.
The SLU Data Science Seminar (DSS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary group at Saint Louis University focused on building researchers’ data science skills using open source software. We currently host seminars focused on the programming language R. The SLU DSS is co-organized by Christina Gacia, Ph.D., Kelly Lovejoy, Ph.D., and Christopher Prener, Ph.D.. You can keep up with us here on GitHub, on our website, and on Twitter.
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