SVG US State Maps for GeoBrowsing

These files are Scalar Vector Graphics files that show zipcode regions for US states. They also contain an interesting feature that grew out of a research project that I worked on. In particular, these maps contain the density of both population and number of web sites that reference a particular zipcode. Thus it is possible to see that websites do not represent the population equally, but are in fact concetrated in areas that are "digitally hip" such as university towns. A good example is provided by the state of Georgia, where the zipcodes of Atlanta and Athens (location of the University of Georgia) have a heavy density of websites that reference it relative to the population of the zipcode. By contrast, rural areas of Georgia have relatively few websites per capita that reference them.

These files are fairly useful for other mapping purposes as well, since they consist mostly of a sequence of polygons that form the boundaries. The coordinate system is latitude and longitude, and each polygon has a group to list the name of the post office, the county, the population, and the host count from a crawl in 2001. Each file can be made to reference an external javascript file in which you can embed your own animation to manipulate the SVG.

Note: Mozilla 1.5 claims to have added SVG support, but I have not yet encountered an SVG file that it can properly render. Maybe someday...

Feel free to use these files in your own fun, but I would appreciate receiving credit for having created them. Enjoy...

Alabama	Alaska is not available.	Arizona
Arkansas	California	Colorado
Connecticut	Delaware	District of Columbia
Florida	Georgia	Hawaii is not available.
Idaho	Illinois	Indiana
Iowa	Kansas	Kentucky
Louisiana	Maine	Maryland
Massachusetts	Michigan	Minnesota
Mississippi	Missouri	Montana
Nebraska	Nevada	New Hampshire
New Jersey	New Mexico	New York
North Carolina	North Dakota	Ohio
Oklahoma	Oregon	Pennsylvania
Rhode Island	South Carolina	South Dakota
Tennessee	Texas	Utah
Vermont	Virginia	Washington
West Virginia	Wisconsin	Wyoming

There is also a simple map of the world, a map of the states, and finally a huge file of 48 states (13M zipped). This last file is probably too detailed to be useful.

Kevin McCurley created these.