Digital Spatial Data

Business

Overview

This page contains information on business location data resources that the AGSL has. The business location data came from two different types of sources; from a local government (WI Dept. of Administration) and private companies. Quality of data varies due to many reasons (data collection methods, purposes, etc.) Aggregated business and labor statistics are also available from the Census Bureau, i.e. decennial census data files and Economic Censuses.)

Wisconsin SNAP

SNAP (Standard Name and Address Program) files were created by Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Bureau of Workforce Information, and distributed by WI Department of Administration as part of the WI DOA GIS dataset. This data layer is a point shapefile of the Standard Name and Address Program (SNAP) in Wisconsin as of December 2001. It contains the names and addresses of all employers covered by Wisconsin's Unemployment Insurance Law, the primary source of ES-202 covered employment and wages data. This data layer is for use in generalized mapping applications, and is intended for use with GIS software. The level of accuracy does not support detailed local analysis. (Particular attention should be paid to data in the fields "N_MCODE" and "N_LCODE" which indicates the level of accuracy to which each point was address matched.)

Spatial coverage: Wisconsin
Temporal coverage: 1997 & 2001
Scale: N/A 
Format: Shapefiles
Coordinate System: WTM 83/91
Access Constraints: None (available from AGSL)

ArcView Business Analyst - 1.1

ArcView Business Analyst 1.1 (published 1999) comes with U.S. private and public company ifnroatmion supplied by Dun & Bradstreet (http://www.dnb.com), one of the top business data providers in the U.S. Dun & Bradstreet collects information on more than 10 million private and public U.S.companies. Individual businesses are located by address geocoding - not all will have an exact location. Businesses can be retrieved by their SIC (Standard Classification Code) and their location. Information included is: company name, trade name, address, city, state, zip code, phone, line of business, sales key code (annual sales revenue by range), status indicator code, employees here key code, franchise code, geocoding accuracy level code.

Spatial coverage: U.S.
Temporal coverage: 1999 (current to the second quarter 1999 update)
Scale: N/A 
Format: shapefiles 
Coordinate System: Geographic, decimal degrees projection (NAD 1983)
Access Constraints: UW-Milwaukee educational use only. Available at the AGSL.

ReferenceUSA (web - in library access only)

ReferenceUSA is an Internet-based reference service from the Library Division of infoUSA which is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services and Internet marketing solutions. Reference USA contains basic information for over 12 million U.S. businesses, including publicly-traded companies, private companies and branches of these companies. The database also includes other types of entities, such as nonprofit organizations and government agencies. To access Reference USA from the UWM Libraries' home page, click on Find Articles: Databases A-Z, click on “R” and then on Reference USA. Here is an instructional document from the UWM Libraries, http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ris/guides/refusa171.htm.

Spatial coverage: U.S.
Temporal coverage: current
Scale: N/A 
Format: text (downloadable as ascii format)  
Coordinate System: none (data can be geocoded using address information - GIS required)
Access Constraints: Access available in the UWM Library (Golda Meir Library) building.

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