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GIS
Websites
General Information
- Geoscience
Information Society
- Access to GSIS Newsletter and the Proceedings of the annual
meetings; reference work on geologic field trip guidebooks
of North America
- Detailed
Info-GIS and GPS
- Geography basics including glossary, articles, world maps;
information on cultural geography, physical geography and
cartography.
- Interactive
Spatial Data Browser (UVa)
- United States Geological Survey Digital Line Graph data
set. Software available on the website allows to generate
maps of specific states and display specific features such
as National Forests, National Parks, Lakes and Rivers, Interstate
Highways, Historic Sites etc.
- National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
- National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
is an independent research consortium dedicated to basic research
and education in geographic information science. The Site
contains information about ongoing research on accuracy and
uncertainty in spatial data, cognition, modeling and representation..
- Federal Geographic
Data Committee
- Site contains information about current work of Federal
Geographic Committee on developing National Spatial Data Infrastructure
(NSDI), which would encompass policies, standards, and procedures
for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic
data.
National Data
- Topographical
Maps
- Digital topographic maps, aerial photographs, and related
mapping information.
- National
Atlas of the US
- National Atlas of the United States delivers easy to
use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural
landscapes. The new National Atlas includes products and
services designed to stimulate children and adults to
visualize and understand complex relationships between
environments, places, and people.
- NOAA
National Data Center
- Information about scientific stewardship, products and
services for geophysical data describing the solid earth,
marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as
earth observations from space.
- USGS
Global Land Information System
- U.S. Geological Survey - Federal source for science
about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural
hazards, and the environment.
- US
Bureau of the Census
- Census data including rankings and comparisons, special
reports, library of publications, maps and digital geographic
products, selected historical census data.
- US
Geospatial Data from the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
- Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) focuses
on research, technology transfer, data development, undergraduate
and graduate education, service to communities and local
governments, and professional training in GIS and related
technologies.
- LandSat
Photos (Spatial News)
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Image Gallery
- Terraserver
Satellite Photos
- TerraServer contains 3.3 tera-bytes of high resolution
USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps.
- TIGER
Mapping Service from Census
- Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
system (TIGER). The site contains: TIGER/Line Files, Census
Bureau Maps, Cartographic Boundary Files, Census Tract
Data, Urban/Rural Classification, Changes to Geography
for Census, Statistical Area Delineation.
- Oklahoma
Department of Transportation Country Maps
- Maps of Oklahoma’s roads by county.
- National
Water Information System
- The site provide access to water-resources data collected
at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- Geographic
Data from the United Nations Environmental Programme
- The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for
data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global
Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated
environment assessments. Its online database holds more
than 400 different variables, as national, subregional,
regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets
(maps).
Illinois
Data
- Illinois
State Dept of Transportation Maps
- Illinois Department of Transportation provides information
related to traveling in Illinois. Additionally, the site
provides official maps of Illinois Highways, Railroads,
district maps, bike route maps, special purpose maps etc.
- Maps
Of Indian Lands
- Presented on the site is detailed report “Energy
Consumption and Renewable Energy Development Potential
on Indian Lands” with various resource maps included.
- Illinois
Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- This site is a gateway to GIS data and imagery for Illinois.
Available data sets and documentation (metadata) include:
DRG files, DOQ data, geology, land use, political boundaries,
nature preserves, Public Land Survey, roads, water resources,
wildlife areas, year 2000 Orthoimagery for the Des Plaines
River Watershed, and Historical Aerial Photographs from
1936 to 1941.
- GIS
data for Chicago ( from University of Chicago)
- This page provides links to several ArcView shapefiles
for local political boundaries in the Chicago area. It
also contains a link to a 1980 tract boundary file for
Northeastern Illinois and Northwestern Indiana.
GIS
Education
GIS
Publications and documents
- Federal
Geographical Data Committee
- Federal Geographic Data Committee’s publications
and newsletters.
- Spatial
News (subscription)
- Original community, news, & information resource
for GIS, LBS, and geospatial industry professionals and
students including discussion lists and help resource
for the GIS Community.
- Directions
Magazine(subscription)
- Subscription to weekly newsletters, articles, Industrial
GIS resources, GIS Discussions, Map Gallery, Web Maps,
directories of resources, GEO Store.
- Spatial
News White Papers(subscription)
- Spatial news, Gis data, geoimaging, software, career,
geobids-reps, store, events.
Global
Positioning System (GPS)
- Global
Positioning System Overview
- Site contains detailed documentation for the Satellite
Navigation System and specifically Global Positioning
System that provides specially coded satellite signals
that can be processed by any GPS receiver.
- Trimble
Land Survey Products
- Trimble is a leading innovator of Global Positioning
System (GPS) technology. In addition to providing advanced
GPS components, Trimble augments GPS with other positioning
technologies as well as wireless communications and software.
Remote
Sensing Sites
- NASA/JPL
Imaging Radar Home Page
- Detailed information about imaging radars including
definitions, educational materials, reports, coverage
maps, images and animations.
- NASA-JSC
Digital Image Collection
- The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts
the best and most complete online collection of astronaut
photographs of the Earth from 1961 through the present.
- National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Home Page
- Information on Air quality, aviation, charts, climate,
coasts, diving, fisheries, floods, hurricanes, lightning,
solar and space, tornados, volcanoes, oceans, etc.
GIS
Tools
Organizations
and Job Opportunities
- URISA
- The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
is a non-profit association of professionals using Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and other information technologies
to solve challenges in all state and local government agencies
and departments.
- Geographic
Information Systems Data Integration and Data Base Design (GISDATA)
- Website contains publications of GISDATA, which was a four-year
scientific program of the European Science Foundation, which
ran from 1993 to 1997.
- GISnet
Job Resources On-line
- Articles for GIS job seekers, company career sites, resource
on jobs in GIS and related fields, GIS recruiters, relocation
services, career-related online publications, salary surveys,
general job-search services.
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