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2008 JANUARY–FEBRUARY No. 360
February 22, 2008 [posted]

NLM® Resource Update — TOXMAP: New Health Data, Roads

[Editor's Note: This Technical Note is a reprint of an announcement published on NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L, an e-mail announcement list available from the NLM Division of Specialized Information Services. To subscribe to this list, please see the NLM-TOX-ENVIRO-HEALTH-L Join, Leave, or Change Options page.]

TOXMAP now contains updated cancer and other mortality data. TOXMAP also now shows more detailed roads at a variety of map scales. (Roads and other reference data can be hidden from maps via the "Other Data" subtab.)

Other recent changes include:

TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund Program.

NLM® Resource Update — TOXMAP: New Health Data, Roads. NLM Tech Bull. 2008 Jan-Feb; (360):e10.

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