About CityScope/MetroScope
The CityScope/MetroScope Area Indicators and Profiling System is designed to provide
statistical profiling, mapping, and database extraction services for sub-metropolitan areas of the
Kansas City metropolitan region. Coverage area for the system as a whole
(MetroScope) is constituted by the fifteen counties defined for the Kansas City MSA along with
selected peripheral counties in Missouri and Kansas. Services are designed to operate at two
distinct "scales:" local and regional. For local scale services we
preserve the original name of the program--CityScope--implemented back in 2002 in collaboration
with the cities of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. Regional scale services,
in collaboration with our partners in the
Community-Wide Information Network (CWIN),
are now designated as MetroScope. The CityScope redesign is scheduled to go live
on the CEI website in April, 2011. It will be followed by MetroScope in late summer or early fall.
"Local" geographic scale for CityScope is roughly defined as the
incorporated core of the region. For its April 2011 debut, this is
limited to coverage for the cities of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. In principle,
this coverage could be extended in the future to any or all of the cities lying within the
geographic extent of the incorporated core.
Area Profiling, Mapping, and Database Extraction Services
Both regional (
MetroScope) and local (
CityScope) scales provide statistical area
profiling, mapping, and database extraction services, but for different levels of geography.
The initial 2011 implementations of
MetroScope/CityScope will include services at the
following levels of geography:
We anticipate that future updates will include additional indicator data for current geographies,
as well as data summarized at additional geographic levels, including zip codes, city council
districts, voting districts, unified school districts, neigbhorhood school "catchment" areas,
police patrol divisions and "beats", etc.
Planned system enhancements include implementation of Weave
for exploratory spatial data analysis, and user-defined area profiling.
