Popular Links
Map Links
- CNN SpatiaLogic Election Maps
- ESRI's U.S. Community Atlas is a project in which teachers and students across the country define the nature of "their community" and post descriptions and maps about it.
- Maps 101 - The basics
- Map Factory 1.1 - For Web developers: Media Mapping Solutions' Map Factory 1.1 is a Java labeling applet capable of turning your gif maps into interactive Geographic Information Systems.
- Maps.com — Find an Interactive Map of Afghanistan, Lessons learned from Afghanistan's topography, online aerial images, free directions and much more.
- Check out Mappa.Mundi's Map of the Market — A map of the stock market article by Martin Dodge, CASA.
Understanding the daily fluctuations in the stock market is a serious business for traders, analysts and investors. There is money to be made in those fluctuations and the Map of the Market is one of the best visualization tools around: it can show the changing stock prices of over 500 publicly-traded companies on a single screen.
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Perseus Atlas project is developing an extensive general-purpose geographic information system (GIS) for the study of classical Greece. (Technical information and metadata are gradually being added to this server.)
- The National Map Report -- Earlier in 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Associate Director for Geography chartered a study to determine how to "... put truly current information into the hands of our customers ... in a costeffective way". Their vision is that by the year 2010, working with partners, they will provide the Nation with current, accurate, and nationally consistent basic spatial data, including digital data and derived topographic
maps.
- Visit Mapmart , an online resource for the location and acquisition of quality digital data, free viewing software and much more.
- Quantum Weirdness May Improve GPS Accuracy, article in Space Daily, August 22, 2001
- The Concept Systems Incorporated Website - Everything you wanted to know about Concept Mapping
- GeoMapping.com
The Global Mapping Resource guide to travel maps, GIS information, historical information and GIS on the Internet.
- Atlapedia Online
contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Environment Links
- Vital Climate Graphics Africa - The title of the newly launched vital graphics package by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal. The package features 25 explanatory graphics onamong other issues water availability, biodiversity and ranges of infectious diseases.
- New report Environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002. Published by the Civil Society Promotion Center in Sarajevo, with assistance from the Heinrich Boell Stiftung, the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy of Central European University, the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy of CEU, and UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
- Find offshore GIS developers here.
- Seismic in oil and gas findings- from David Paige.
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Grid Arendal — Greenhouse Gas Emission Graphics — Emissions of GHG in Annex 1 countries
- UNEP/GRIDArendal — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers four reports for Climate Change 2001
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Maps -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -Porcupine Caribou Herd Calving Areas from 1983-1999 - Large Format
- GeoData Alliance -- Website for an invitation to become a founding member of the GeoData Alliance, Inc. -- a new, innovative nonprofit organization open to all individuals and institutions committed to using geographic information to improve the health of our communities, our economies, and the Earth.
- ESRI and FEMA-- Project Impact: Helping to Build Disaster ResistantCommunities
- EarthPulse is a global initiative launched by the National Geographic Society and Ford Motor Company to heighten awareness of conservation and environmental issues facing our planet. Check out EarthPulse's site for Virtual Worlds, Wild World Interactive Atlas and Environmental News Series
GPS Links
- The Official GPS Cache Hunt Site -- Geocaching is a new treasure hunting game. Armed with a GlobalPositioning System (GPS) device and coordinates, you can locate treasures that others have hidden in unusual places. Here you can find the latest caches inyour area, how to hide your own cache, and information on how to get started inthis fun and exciting sport. Check out recent updates and FAQs on this game.
- GPSTools.com
GPS updates
Job Links
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CareersCafe.com At CareersCafe You'll find the career opportunity that you are looking for, in the industry that you specialize in.
- URISA Salary Survey for 2000 -- Edited by Peter Croswell and Nina Savar - for IT/GIS professionals.
- Click here to find out what GIS professionals across the globe are making with the GISJobs GIS Salary Survey.
- Destination Lab -- Destination Lab's "Integrating Geospatial Technologies into 21st Century Management," an interactive training experience for those who plan to manage resources, cities, states and counties. Held May 6-9, 2001 in Celebration, Fla.
Software Links
- GinfoServer - a great place to link to GIS organizations, software, companies, research, etc.
- How To Get Started in GIS
UCLA SAS/GIS Version 6 Software tutorial
SAS/GIS Software: Usage and Reference, Version 6, First Edition
- How To GIS Pages at Quantitative Decisions - Load and viewArcView scripts, do useful things with a field calculator, fix a corruptedshapefile, acquire a DEM, resample data and much more.
- Pocket PC Passion A general catch all site for the Pocket PC format and its devices. Software and hardware reviews, technical tips and how-to projects.
- FreeGIS
Free GIS software and Geo-data
Print Links
- Oil and Gas Journal ,a weekly magazine of international petroleum news and technology.
- Global GIS
- The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS ) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geograp
hic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the f
orm of a DVD based world atlas.
- Land Development Today is a monthly online magazine developed for land development industry professionals and features articles on surveying, civil design, landscape and irrigation design, and current technology.
- Lessons from Practice - A Guidebook to Organizing and Sustaining Geodata Collaboratives is now available on-line (1.59MB).
- The Open Group - a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, has a vision of Boundaryless Information Flow achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner.
- Terra Forum - Terra Forum is a bi-monthly online journal highlighting the application of GIS to planning issues.
- The Global Gazeteer-The world on file
- Mark Gahegan, Associate Professor, Department of Geography at Penn State Website includes descriptions of research projects, publications, online course materials, and a very intriguing autobiography.
- Directions Magazine
Directions Magazine features news, articles, free data and tools as much more useful GIS information
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Expediton, Experiment & Fun Links
- GIS Day - is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of geographic information systems (GIS) users and vendors of opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications of this important technology.
- French Imaging Spacecraft Lofted into Polar Orbit by Ariane 4.
- In Darkness-- Africa Solar Eclipse - Zambia 2001
Site by John Walker detailing a total eclipse of the sun that darkened Africa on June 21, 2001. Links and graphics make this a worthwhile stop.
- Songs of Geology and other science related stuff -- Just for Fun.
- The World in A Box A video from the GITA Bookstore Catalog, published by GITA, is a one hour public television special that takes the viewer around the world to different state-of-the-art GIS installations and introduces the people who use them.
- Ice-Core Expedition 2001 - This spring and early summer,scientists from Natural Resources Canada will lead an expedition of world class researchers from Canada, the United States and Japan to uncover some clues toclimate change. The ice fields of the St. Elias Mountains, site of Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, contain a unique record of past climate changes forwestern North America, making the area vital to climate studies.
- Details of Indian Earthquake to be found here
- Megavision Technologies --The earthquake in Gujarat,India has left a trail of destruction killing tens of thousands and an even larger population is displaced and missing. It has been noted that the major flaw in the disaster management and relief work has been poor flow of information rather than short supply of relief
materials.
There are missing people looking for each other endlessly who were together just few minutes before the strike of Earthquake.
We have made a small attempt to help by putting up a website which can become the meeting place for lost loved ones, the people seeking help and agencies wanting to help.The website is www.megtech.com
The Information on site is "By the people", "For the people" and "Of the people"
- Into the White Continent - Follow the Students on Ice!
Follow 100 Canadian students, teachers and scientists on a 13-day Antarctica expedition. Visit For live satellite updates, audio feeds, slide shows and daily journals.
- WAFB online to hear and watch developments in the Antarctica Pathfinder Experiment
- The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) Scientific Balloon Experiment
Data Links
- English version / Russian version Unified Geo-information System - Development of the Territory and Real Estate of St. Petersburg, Russia
- Notes and Study Materials for GIS and the Geographer's Craft
- Vermont Geographic Information System
- U.S. Topography Data from Shuttle Mission - Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently announced the release of high-resolution topographic data of the continental United States gathered during the February 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
- Great GIS netsites!
- The GeoCommunicator - The GeoCommunicator is a land management and land records community-based portal of the Geography Network focused on communication, data, and activities of interest to anyone involved in or interested in the management of lands within the United States.
- Diffuse - geographic data exchange standards Provides information on standards used for interchange geographical and other spatially organized data.
- Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography and Remote Sensing by Philip Hoehn and Mary Lynette Larsgaard. Designed by John Creaser University of California at Berkeley Library
These maps show a high density calving area (dark green), and the extent of the calving area (middle green). The areas are based on locations of pregnant radio-collared cows. Collared cows were followed regularly during the calving season, and the first place a cow was seen with a calf was recorded as the calving location.
- U.S. Census American Factfinder -- Decennial census collects data every ten years about households, incomes, home ownership and much more. Local Census 2000 figures are now available here. Economy Census provides new data on our economy every five years. The American Community Survey (ACS) provides a census survey conducted every year profiling several American communities
- Oddens' Bookmarks -- contain links to current information on such topics as Polar Expedition Timelines, Polar Expeditions in print and microform in the University of Washington libraries, Northeast Africa, population displacement by border disputes; Northeast Africa ReliefWeb Map Centre; The Horn of Africa population density; Antarctica history, Greenland, Germany -- and much more.
Destination Lab is the product of an alliance between the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Stanford Research Institute, International (SRI). The Lab is a field-based, hands-on, interactive training retreat that actively involves each participant. In addition to interacting with some of the country's leading geospatial technologists and practitioners, the participants will be challenged to use GIS, GPS, remote sensing and communications technology in a project-based environment to solve real-world problems.
- GeoIndex--The Geo-Environmental Search Engine for the WWW -- GeoIndex is the only search engine dedicated to searching geo-environmental and geotechnical web sites across the whole of the internet.In using the search form below you are using GeoIndex to search the WWW. You will not be searching the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory.To search this Directory use the PROGRAMS-Search option in the left-hand menu.
- The Geography Network -- The Geography Network is a global community of data providers who are committed to making geographic content available. This content is published from many sites around the world, providing you immediate access to the latest maps, data, and related services. This portal to the Geography Network enables you to discover this content and share your own.
- OSRS--Open Source Remote Sensing Effort -- This site is dedicated to making Remote Sensing algorithms, code, and technology available to all interested parties. Resources are provided to facilitate communication and development of open source tools. It is hoped that this effort will attract participation from companies, students, professors, and agencies that are involved in remote sensing efforts. Through the combination of our collective efforts all parties will benefit through the development of new capabilities, tools, and advances in this field.
- Rowekamp Associates GIS site -- links to free state data
- Adding dimensions to GIS with VRML
by Bill Huber, Quantitative Decisions
- Java Location Services web site
- GIS Data Depot
Extensive free GIS data
- www.tenlinks.com
GIS information, Civil Engineer's Mega Bookmark, plus CAD and other topics
- www.gislounge.com
Caitlin Dempsey's GIS site covers numerous topics including crime mapping, Arc/Info, MapInfo, and offers discussion lists, free data and downloads.
- Center For Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST)
Guide to Indexes such as USGS index maps, hydrological units, flood zones, UTM grid zones
Guide to Mostly On-Line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data
- VerticalNet
Vertical Net Online communities such as government and science may provide some valuable resources for GIS professionals
- GovCon
Digital marketplace for the government industry
- Wisely's GIS Yellow Pages
Last updated in December of 1998, this site has some interesting listings but they may not be completely current
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