Land Use Inventory for Northeast Illinois, 2005

GIS dataset depicting land use in northeast Illinois broken out to 49 categories. It was created using color orthorectificed aerial photography that was captured in April, 2005; this photography, in addition to other digital sources cited in this document, were used to compare with the previous (2001) Inventory to identify areas of change. The minimum land use classification area size was 1 acre or 2.5 acres (within the City of Chicago 0.5 acre or 1 acre), depending on the type of land use being classified. Land use categories define homogeneous areas and represent features as they appear on the earth's surface. They are not generalized to any other geography.

Data and Resources

2005 Land Use Inventory Shapefile.shp
Shapefile (.shp) of land use in northeast Illinois, 2005. 31MB (zipped), 63MB...
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2005 Land Use Inventory: Metadata.html
Land Use Inventory metadata in HTML format
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2005 Land Use Inventory: Classification Scheme.pdf
Fuller description of 2005 Land Use Inventory categories.
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Source	http://www.cmap.illinois.gov
Author	Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Maintainer	David Clark
Version	2005
Last Updated	January 6, 2015, 14:34
Created	July 29, 2014, 23:28
Update Frequency	Final Product