These websites are "kid friendly" which means that these links are appropriate for minors and that they contain information in which usually kids might be interested in about their city.
www.monstermoving.monster.com/Find_a_Place/Compare2Cities/
Monstermoving.com helps you compare two cities, in terms of why you would want to move there. If applied to our project, then the significance is the moving statistics and information, such as real estate, land value, etc.
www.pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp
Pollen.com has a pollen forecast so you can compare the pollen levels of your city to others; all you have to do is know the name. Information from this site was important because the pollen could affect sales and what trees the city would plant in the future.
www.2chambers.com
If you want to know the names of the members of your chamber or commerce members, 2chambers.com is perfect. You could use this information to send letters to the people in the chamber of commerce asking for information vital to the study.
www.bestplaces.net/html/citycomare.asp
Bestplaces.net compares cities in certain categories, such as population, county, and the number of starbucks they have, which can be information to use in your study.
www.hazardmaps.net/atlas.php
Hazardmaps.com helps you find hazardous areas in your city. You can compare how many hazards your city has to the amount of hazardous sites in others.
www.ada.com
The American Dental Association shows you how many dentist are in a community, so comparing the number of dentists becomes simple, and you can determine the overall health of the teeth in that community.
www.heavens-above.com
Heavens-above.com shows the number of satellites above your city, although this may not be of vital importance to OUR study it might be an interesting category to use in other studies.
www.goes.noaa.gov www.terraserver.com
Both of these websites provide photos of your city from space. These could be used as graphics for decoration or they could be used for attaining a different perspective of a particular city.
www.wunderground.com
Wunderground.com gives you a daily weather report for any city, this can be used to compare the climate of your city and another, the climate is important because it determines the housing style of the community.
www.meseumstuff.com
Museunstuff.com allows you to find museums in your city. This could affect a community both educationally and attract more tourism.
www.timezoneconverter.com
Timezoneconverter.com helps you find the time zone of a given city, which can determine vaguely where it is located.
www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm
Zipinfo.com is an easy website to use once you find your city's zip code. After it is attained simply enter it in, then you can get longitude and latitude, area code, and the time zone.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/
This is the nation's register of historic places, so you can see if a city has any historical landmarks, which can affect tourism and money available in the budget.
www.sexualpredators.com www.prevent-abuse-now.com/register.htm
These two sites provide the number of sexual offenders in a community which is useful information because if a city has too many, then it's obviously not as safe as the ones with a low sexual offenders number.
www.rebuz.com/Maps/EnvironMapper.htm
EnvironMapper.com helps you find all the environmental hazards in your city all you have to do is fill in where your city is.
www.rebuz.com/Maps/Flood%20Maps.htm
This section of rebuz.com provides online hazards maps to find earthquakes, weather related problems, and floods both past and present.
www.areaguide.net
This website provides information regarding restaurants, real estate, business, airline tickets, hotels, travel plans, recreational offerings, medical centers and much more for both the United States, AND Canada.