User:Ceyockey

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I am a contributor to Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimapia (hope that link works) and WeRelate. I have the same username in each of these environments. By training, I am a biological scientist; by trade, I am a software development project manager, business analyst and informatics scientist.

I made a forum statement in November 2008 that articulates why I work on Wikimapia:

I contribute to make things available that are not otherwise exposed to the general public in any systematic way. For instance, the railroad crossing indexing system in Delaware; the last couple of business residences for a particular site; the outlines of a residential subdivision extracted from a publicly accessible but arcane and largely unknown government run database. My driver is not completeness, but exposure of things that aren't included on maps built by others.

last edit to user page: Ceyockey 01:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Watchlist coordinates

Typically 5 square kilometer tiles with NorthWest corner at coordinates shown below:

• lat=39.8184254&lon=-75.6103134 (~5 sq km)
• lat=39.7379503&lon=-75.5653381 (~5 sq km)
• lat=39.7797828&lon=-75.5613899 (~5 sq km)
• lat=39.5794303&lon=-75.6868744 (~5 sq km)
• lat=39.6002654&lon=-75.6297112 (~5 sq km)
• lat=39.7007153&lon=-75.7787132 (~5 sq km)
• lat=39.9660695&lon=-89.1025543 (~827 sq km)

updated --ceyockey 18:39, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] To find coordinates of a watchlist corner

Go into watchlist square edit mode, grab the map outside the watched area as near as possible to a corner and drag to the center cross; cancel the edit and re-enter edit mode to confirm that the cross-hairs are blocked by a corner of the watchlist area (you will probably need to retreat one notch of magnification before re-entering edit mode). Then copy the coordinates from the URL. --ceyockey 02:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Resources I have found useful

• http://nationalmap.gov/ (specifically http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm)
• http://nationalmap.gov/gnis.html (specifically http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/)
• http://www.bts.gov/programs/geographic_information_services/ (ERIS shapefile datasets which can be downloaded)
• http://www.esri.com/arcexplorer (downloadable Java ARCExplorer 9.3 - which can be used to view ERIS shapefile datasets)

[edit] Subpages

• User:Ceyockey/Census and recommended revisions
• User:Ceyockey/Citable sources
• User:Ceyockey/DMV Project