Table 3 Datasets and sources used in this paper.

From: Social media reveal ecoregional variation in how weather influences visitor behavior in U.S. National Park Service units

Data

Type of data

Source

Citation

NPS spatial boundaries

Polygons

NPS

48

NPS unit centroids

Table (turned into points from lat/long)

NPS

49

Main visitor center for each NPS unit

Table (turned into points from lat/long)

Manually compiled via Google Maps and NPS unit websites

Dataset made available at41

Acreage of NPS units

Table

NPS

50

Visitation at NPS units

Table

NPS

51

Ecoregions levels I and II

Polygons

EPA

11

Geotagged Flickr posts (2006–2018)

Points

Flickr API (via Python code)

52

Daily temperature and precipitation (2006–2018)

Raster (1 km resolution)

Daymet

R package: daymetr

53

R package:54

Elevation

Raster (1/3 arcsec resolution)

USGS

R package: elevatr

55

R package:56

Roads

Linesa

OpenStreetMap

R package: osmdata

57

R package:58

Parking areas

Polygons and multipolygons

Bodies of water

Polygons, multipolygons, and lines

Buildings

Polygons and multipolygons

  1. aThese data also include raw polygon files (representing loop roads) that were converted to line features.