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A. HOTLISTS & GENERAL MAP-RELATED LINKS

1. AGI list of GIS Resources on the WWW (U. of Edinburgh)

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html

Extensive alphabetized list of geography, cartography and GIS links

2. Excite Travel

http://www.city.net/

Citynet's worldwide travel center with clickable world map

3. GISLinx Categorized List of GIS Sites

http://www.gislinx.com/

Links to more than 800 GIS resource sites

4. Virtual Tourist

http://www.vtourist.com/webmap/

Map interface linking to travel info and country statistics worldwide

5. WWW Virtual Library: Geography

http://www.ic.gov/94fact/fb94toc/fb94toc.html

Links to map viewers, databases, educational institutions

6. WWW Virtual Library: Commercial Cartography and GIS Resources

http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/maps/cartogrefs.html

Many links, connected to vast catalogs for hundreds of subject areas

7. WWW Virtual Library: Noncommercial Cartography and GIS Resources

http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/maps/cart2.html

from the same source as above; many other pages to choose from

8. Links2Go: Geographic Information Systems

http://www.links2go.com/topic/Geographic_Information_Systems

More one-stop shopping in many categories

9. MetaData and WWW Mapping Home Page

http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html

Well-annotated NSDI-type links by Sol Katz

10. Guide To Mostly On-line And Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data

http://cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html

Useful links to servers for downloading map data

11. Harvard Design and Mapping Inc.

http://www.hdm.com/gis3.htm

Another fine hotlist with links to agencies, jobs, data, pubs, etc.

12. Roelof Oddens's Bookmarks

http://kartoserver.geog.uu.nl/HTML/staff/oddens/oddens.htm

6,300+ links for GIS/RS/carto from U. of Utrecht

13. Bill Thoen's inventory of GIS-related discussion lists and newsgroups

http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet/notebook/gis_list.htm

More than 100 discusions, most of which anyone can join.

B. REFERENCE MATERIAL, TUTORIALS & THESES

1. Geohistory Inc. -- Electronic Atlas of historical geography

http://www.geohistory.com/

Images, maps, text served in a book format (free samples)

2. Project GeoSim -- Interactive Geography s/w from Virginia Tech

http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/

S/W for Mac, DOS, Win32, Xwin covering 5 geography topics

3. GIL -- GeoSim Interface Library code and reference manuals

http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/gil.html

API for the GeoSim project, for Win32, Mac and Xwin platforms

4. CIA World Factbook 1997

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Maps & stats for every country from the Central Intelligence Agency

5. Generalization of Road Network Maps

http://www.jarno.demon.nl/thesis.htm

1997 MSc Thesis and Java Applet -- Utrecht U.

6. Hunter College (NYC) Map Projection Home Page

http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/

Fun facts and examples about projection

7. U Texas Austin -- Coordinate Systems Overview

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/coordsys/coordsys.html

A tutorial about map coordinate systems, projections, geodesy, GPS

8. Working Through The Scales: A Hierarchical Coordinate System for Digital Map Data

http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~dutton/diss/

Summary of Geoffrey Dutton's Ph.D. Thesis describing use of triangular quadtree for map generalization, with appendices

9. GIS Literature Database (including some full text papers)

http://wwwsgi.ursus.maine.edu/gisweb/home.html

Citation index for URISA/GIS/LIS/AutoCarto and other conferences

C. MAP & IMAGE SERVERS (some also serve data)

1. An Atlas of Cyberspace

http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html

Totally fascinating graphic representations of the internet and www

2. Astrodienst Atlas Database

http://www.astro.ch/atlas/

Astrology firm ... but has a great interactive gazeteer of 256,536 places

3. CIA World Factbook 1997

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Maps and statistics for every country from the Central Intelligence Agency

4. Coastline Extractor -- coastline, river, and boundary vector data in 4 formats

http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html

USGS service packages 1:5M, 1:2M, 1:250K, 1:70K data by lat-lon windows

5. Subway Navigator

http://metro.ratp.fr:10001/bin/cities/english

Route instructions and maps for about 100 subway systems worldwide (also in French)

6. Frank Hoffman's Virtual Atlas

http://ewse.ceo.org/anonymous/construct/build.pl/661785

Consultant's pages from Dresden (under construction: click on the lat-lon link)

7. Gemeindekarten

http://www.ktzh.ch/statistik/daten/karten/JavaMap.html

Java client thematic map of Kanton Zurich by Adrian Herzog

8. Mapquest Virtual Atlas and Routefinder

http://www.mapquest.com/

Street Atlas for U.S., Europe and perhaps elsewhere, most comprehensive on web for U.S.

9. Maps On Us

http://www2.MapsOnUs.com

A (U.S.) mapping, route-finding & directory service (registration required)

10. MIT & MassGIS Digital Orthophoto Project

http://ortho.mit.edu/

Browser for orthophoto quads covering state of Massachusetts USA

11. Microsoft Terraserver

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/

1.04 TBytes of semi-seamless clickable aerial imagery for certain countries

12. Swiss Institute of Cartography -- Interactive Atlas of Switzerland

http://www.geod.ethz.ch/karto/atlas/

Prototype in progress containing maps and imagery (Deutsch)

D. SOURCES FOR SPATIAL DATA

1. U.S. EPA -- GIS Spatial Data Sites

http://www.epa.gov/docs/oppe/spatial.html

Links to geospatial servers, mostly US Government

2. USGS -- US Geo Data (entry to ftp site)

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html

Central source for 1:25K-1:1M DLGs, DEMs and Land Use/Land Cover data; most DLGs are in SDTS format

3. USGS -- Water Resource Data

http://waisqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/data.html

Water division water quality and flow data, some base data

4. FGDC -- Clearinghouse for Geospatial Data

http://www.fgdc.gov/data/data.html

Entry to digital map archives across the US, Australia & elsewhere

5. USGS -- Global Land Information System (GLIS)

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/webglis

Web repository for metadata and data for carto and RS data/map products

6. Coastline Extractor -- coastline, river, and boundary vector data

http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html

scales: 1:5M, 1:2M, 1:250K, 1:70K, by lat-lon in 4 formats

7. Digital Elevation Catalogue by Bruce Gittings (U. Edinburgh)

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/ded.html

No data here, but a huge list of where to find it worldwide

8. NIMA -- 30 Arc Second Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)

http://164.214.2.59/geospatial/products/DTED/dted.html

Jukebox of world-wide elevation grids, easy to browse and download

9. CIESIN -- Archive of Census Related Products

http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/cenguide.html

Demographic files from recent US Census plus derived data

10. Canadian Government Information on the Internet

http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/dsp-psd/Reference/cgii_index-e.html

Catalogs of data from ministries and provinces

11. Canada -- Digital Maps from the National Atlas of Canada

http://atlas.gc.ca/english/digital.html

Small-scale maps of Canadian territory; views are free, data are not

12. Clary-Meuser & Associates - Download digital GIS maps

http://www.mapcruzin.com/download_mapcruz.htm

Base maps and environmental quality data plus links to other data sites

13. Manifold -- free download of major spatial databases

http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps_set.html

Descriptions of and access to TIGER, DCW and more data in Manifold format

14. ESMI -- European Spatial Metadata Infrastructure

http://www.geodan.nl/esmidev/uk/over.html

1998 EU initiative to provide searchable clearinghouse for EC geospatial data, similar to FGDC effort

15. The GIS Data Depot

http://www.gisdatadepot.com/

Free DLG, DCW and other GIS data (mostly E00 format)

E. GLOBAL MODELING & PLANETARY DATA

1. International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme mirror site

http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr:8000/igbp/

Global and local geo-datasets, project descriptions and related links

2. Terra Cognita Project-- Oregon State University

http://bufo.geo.orst.edu/tc/

Spatial analysis and visualization pages, including Global Grid research

3. Views of the Solar System

http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/eng/homepage.htm

Stunning images of planets and moons, by Calvin J. Hamilton

4. WWW Virtual Library -- Meterology

http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/WWW_Virtual_Library/

Climate and weather information resources of all types

F. JAVA DEMOS AND RESOURCES

1. GISLinx Categorized List of spatial Java tools

http://www.gislinx.com/java.html#Java/GIS:Software

Several dozen links to Java products, demos and tutorials

2. Dave Watson's Software

http://www.iinet.com.au/~watson/software.html

Delaunay, Voronoi, interpolation, contouring software from a master

3. Terrain Reconstruction Demo

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/snoeyink/terrain/Demo.html

Java Applet that progressively transmits TIN data in 3D views

4. OpenMap -- GTE/BBN Javabeans www mapping toolkit

http://openmap.bbn.com/

pub. dom. Java tools for displaying interactive maps of SDTS and other vector and image geodata; roll your own apps with Swing GUIs.

5. The Java Tutorial -- Trailmap

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/trailmap.html

Overview of Sun's comprehensive Java tutorial

6. Mapmaster.com -- Digital Matrix Services Java Apps

http://www.mapmaster.com/web.htm

Various scalable Java Solutions from vendor of InfoCad

G. TERRAIN MODELLING & VISUALIZATION

1. You can build a mountain

http://www.campus.bt.com/CampusWorld/pub/OS/MapNews/Spring96/vistap.html

Description of Vistapro, 3D display of Ordnance Survey DTM data

2. Terrain Reconstruction Demo

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/snoeyink/terrain/Demo.html

Java Applet that progressively transmits TIN data in 3D views

3. ICA Working Group on Visualization

http://www.geog.psu.edu/ica/icavis/ICAvis_working(1).html

Collection of papers and initiatives at Penn State U

4. U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center: Multimedia Gallery

http://www.epa.gov/vislab/svc/visgallery/index2.html

Diverse examples of dynamic and static visualization studies

5. POV -- 3D rendering tools

http://www.povray.org/

High-powered open source multi-platform Ray Tracing package

H. NATIONAL MAPPING AGENCIES

1. British Ornance Survey

http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/

Mapseller to the nation

2. Budesamt für Landestopographie, Schweiz

http://www.swisstopo.ch/

Swiss topographic and other maps and digital map data

3. National Resources Canada -- National Atlas of Canada

http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/

Base maps, thematic maps, place names for Canada and North America

4. Institut National Geographique

http://www.ign.fr

French National Mapping Agency maps, research and data

5. U.S. Geological Survey

http://www.usgs.gov/

Pages for all purposes that just keep on going and going...

I. CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATIONS & PUBS

1. International Cartographic Association (ICA)

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ica/

General information about many aspects of mapping

2. ICA Working Group on Map Generalization

http://www.geo.unizh.ch/ICA-bin/index.html

Links to cartographic generalization resources and research

3. Map News Magazine

http://www.maptrade.org/newsnews.html

Cartographic news from all over

4. Spatial News

http://www.coastnet.com/~letham/ spatialnews.html

Monthly digest from Glenn Latham, Vancouver, B.C.

5. Directions Magazine

http://www.directionsmag.com/default.asp

Mapping and demographic news source

J. PUBLIC DOMAIN/SHAREWARE GIS & CARTO SOFTWARE

1. Dave Watson's Software

http://www.iinet.com.au/~watson/software.html

Delaunay, Voronoi, interpolation, contouring software from a master

2. GMT -- The Generic Mapping Tools

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soest/gmt.html

Public domain map display package for Unix by P. Wessel and W. Smith

3. GIL -- GeoSim Interface Library code and reference manuals

http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/gil.html

API for the GeoSim project, available for Win32, Mac and Xwin platforms

4. POV &endash; 3D rendering tools

http://www.povray.org/

High-powered open source multi-platform Ray Tracing package

K. INTERESTING COMMERCIAL GIS & CARTO SOFTWARE

1. Avenza Global Technologies Corporation

http://www.avenza.com/main.html

Useful software for cartography -- Adobe Illustrator plug-ins

2. Geocart Map Projection Software and Databases

http://terradata.com/

Macintosh package with 150 projections and many datasets

3. Geodyssey Hipparchus Open GIS

http://www.geodyssey.com/

Global spatial indexing (spherical Voronoi) API for building Wintel GISs

4. GRASSLAND Home Page

http://www.las.com/grassland/index.html

GRASS for Win95 and NT with OGDI API (Commercial, ed. discounts)

5. LAS Open Geospatial Datastore Interface

http://www.las.com/ogdi/

Canadian company that offers public domain API for interoperable GIS

6. Manifold -- GIS and Base data at an unbeatable price

http://www.manifold.net/

A full featured GIS plus gigs of data for $99- (Wintel only)

7. MapPoint -- MS Office suite desktop mapping application

http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/

$109 app to be released 2Q99, with US & world data files

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