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Vols 24-26, 2001-2003




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 AGI GIS Dictionary

This is a collaborative of by the Association for Geographic Information (http://www.agi.org.uk/)and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography.(http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/geoghome.html)

Alexandria Digital Library Project

The project began in 1995 with the development of the Alexandria Digital Library, a working digital library with collections of geographically referenced materials and services for accessing those collections. The Alexandria Digital Library Project is headquartered on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

American Flag Wallpaper

Get patriotic on your computer with one of these U.S. flag wallpapers. Select from various images, including the well- known photo of the flag being raised at ground zero.

Animated US State Boundaries

Animated boundary of US States by year (well, the first 48, anyway). Produced by student Ed Stephan.

Antarctic Meteorology Research Center AMRC

The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) is a research group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center. The AMRC offices at the Crary Science and Engineering Center at McMurdo Station, and offices at the University of Wisconsin, collect and archive various satellite and weather data. This data is available upon request, free of charge, to the world's scientific community. AMRC provides users at McMurdo Station access to weather and remote sensing data in near real time via the "Man computer Interactive Data Access System" [McIDAS] software package.

The Arkansas Interactive Mapper is a Web-based program which allows any user to generate maps of any area in Arkansas. This project is sponsored by NASA

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 Berkely GIS Site

Extensive, annotated list of pointers, broken down into subject areas. Also has information on GIS education, research and facilities at UC Berkeley

Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. The map room houses well over one million sheet maps and 20,000 atlases are available to readers of this site. A must have in your favorites folder.

Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections

Located at Stamford University, the branner Earth Sciences Library provides a wealth of information on Earth Sciences and mapping. The link above brings you to the main link and search page. Good source of information – check it out.

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 California Rivers Assessment Interactive Web Database

The California Rivers Assessment (CARA) is a computerized data management system designed to give resource managers, policy makers, landowners, scientists and interested citizens rapid access to essential information and tools with which to make sound decisions about the conservation and use of California's rivers.

Cartagis

Spatial analysis software for the Apple Macintosh. Cartagis could become a major new software package for spatial analysis, developed specifically for the Apple Macintosh. It will offer a range of powerful, yet user friendly features for your geographic information system and remote sensing projects. It is designed for the Apple Power Macintosh running a recent version of MacOS or MacOS X and will be more affordable than the average GIS product, or so says the company.

Cattle Grazing and GIS

Believe it or not, there are serious scientists using GIS to track the cattle as they graze across the wideÐopenÐspaces. At this site you will get to read a dissertation on the subject. It is entitled: ÒModeling the Potential Spatial Distribution of Beef Cattle Grazing Using a Geographic Information System Ó by Timothy G. Wade, Bradley W. Schultz, James D. Wickham and David F. Bradford

Census TIGER ® 1995 Data

ArcData Online users can now select and download U.S. Bureau of the Census TIGER/Line¨ 1995 Data from the Web at no charge!

Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies

The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) is an organization within the University of Arkansas that has brought together researchers dealing with the fields of gis, gps, archeology, geoscienses, etc – to develop and maintain information for the scientific community.

The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies ColorBrewer!

ColorBrewer is an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics. It is free to use, although we'd appreciate it if you could cite us if you decide to use one of our color schemes.

Colorado DOT

The Colorado DOT makes all its data available online. The CDOT data have decent water as well as transportation, and lots of other line, poly and point files. Datasets are available statewide and on a county by county basis.

County Codes

This site presents a list of the names of countries or areas in alphabetical order, three-digit numerical codes used for statistical processing purposes by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Secretariat and three-digit alphabetical codes assigned by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

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DDViewer lets you create maps and calculate statistics for 220 demographic variables from the 1990 U.S.Census

Digital Atlas of the Moon In the immortal words of Ralph Cramden (played by Jackie Gleason),“One of these days, Alice, pow - straight to the moon.” Yesterday’s humorist may be today’s abuser, but still, if Alice did go to the moon, this is site would be a great help.

Digital Wisdom

Looking for a new source of on-line mapping products. Check out the folks at digital wisdom. They publish original titles, including relief maps, globe views, outline maps, and clip-art mapping images.

DIVA GIS

DIVA-GIS is a free geographic information system software product. You can use it to make maps of species distribution data, and analyze these data using grids.

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 Earth From Space

Astronauts view of the home planet The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 375,000 images is a national treasure. It may be government work, but in NASA's case they know how to get it done.

Enron: Why it Fell

The demise of energy giant Enron is the biggest bankruptcy in American history. Cnn.com and chron.com (Houston Chronicle) do an excellent job explaining the Enron bankruptcy. Even their logo is crooked! For more on Enron see http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/enron/index.html

ESRI

More than just another vendor site. Sure you’ll find everything you need to know about their suite of ARC/XXX products, but you’ll also get a GIS education

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 FAOSTAT

FAOSTAT: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Statistics site. Great site to find out who is keeping these kind of world wide agricultural statistics.

FBI'S Top-20 Internet Vunerability List

The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and the System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute have a list of the top-20 Internet security threats. Although the list doesn't focus on specific viruses or worms, it defines the general vulnerabilities, describes how to determine if your system is at risk, and tells what to do to protect against the hazards.

FEMA's Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative, whose vision “to maintain a living atlas of hazards data and map services for advisory purposes supplied from a network of hazard and base map providers.”

FirstGOV Looking for something about or from the US Federal or your State’s government? Start here - it is a great resource.

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 GeoIndex

A Geo-environmental search engine. GeoIndex is a powerful Search Engine developed, owned and maintained by Datasurge Company to specifically fill a need for the Geo-Environmental professional. The areas covered by this search Engine are:

  1. GEOTECHNICAL
  2. ENVIRONMENTAL
  3. HYDROGEOLOGY
  4. GEOLOGY
  5. MINING
  6. PETROLEUM

Geography Network

An ESRI sponsored site, it is a framework for building and launching a commercial data distribution mechanism over the Internet. Built using ArcIMS, ESRI’ s Internet mapping software for publishing geographic content, the Geography Network is an open environment for hosting and viewing geographic data, maps, and services. It is an Internet marketplace where users can search and preview information and includes a commerce engine that manages subscription access.


Geogratis

GeoGratis is a web and file transfer protocol (ftp) site that distributes geospatial data of Canada. Data is available for download, without charge.

GeoHistory Americas Map Folio (http://www.geoamericas.com/)

Here is a complete historical review of the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. According to the web site "There are 300 separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America, Central America and South America history." Check it out for your own use, or for helping your kids pick up a grade or two.

GeoJava Corner

Curious about how to use Java in your Web-based GIS applications? Go to the GeoJava Center.


GeoPlan

GeoPlan’s UK Postal Codes. Produce digitized postal code boundary data with polygons and centroids that can be used for georeferencing postal codes.

GeoPoint

Quova provides GeoPoint, a geolocation service that can tell you where your online traffic is coming from - what country, what state, what region, what city.

GeoSpatial Services

GeoSpatial Services, a division of the Department of Resource Analysis at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota provides a wide variety of GIS consulting and development services.

GeoTiff

Looking for more information about GeoTiffs? Look no more. TIFF is a format for storage, transfer, display, and printing of raster images, such as clipart, logotypes, scanned documents. This site as just about everything you need to know about the subject.

GeoTools

Looking for a free GIS Web app? GeoTools is a free Java based mapping toolkit that allows maps to be viewed web browsers, interactively.

GIS Dictionary

Courtesy of the folks at The Association for Geographic Information

GIS Discussion Lists

Directions Magazine's site now monitors GIS discussion lists. Gives statistics and access to discussions

GIS for Civil War Battlefield Preservation

TThis Web site addresses the application of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to the preservation of Civil War battlefields.

GIS FAQ

This is the index of frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) along with answers to these questions.

GIS Formats

The GIS Data Depot has brief text for major GIS formats

GIS-related Videos

This site features the GIS videos produced by A M PRODUCTIONS INC. They have been actively producing and distributing GIS-related videos for educational institutions, government agencies and the private sector. Endorsed by the ASPRS, ACSM, and ISPRS, these video tapes provide an invaluable information resource. The videotaped sessions were selected by Michael F. Goodchild and Karen K. Kemp, of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the University of California Santa Barbara, Bernard J. Niemann, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (URISA), and Brian Klinkenberg, of the University of British Columbia. The criterion used was “sessions appropriate for use by educational institutions as well as the private sector.”

GIS and Cartography Software for the Macintosh Platform

Since the Macintosh is rarely acknowledged as a viable platform in the world of GIS Keene Haywood (keene@texas.net) wanted to post this information about available software packages. Despite its limited embrace by the GIS world, the Mac platform is ideal for cartography and spatial analysis. With the release of Mac OS X and its UNIX underpinnings, hopefully the GIS community will embrace the Mac more wholeheartedly.



GIS White Papers

Listing of IT white papers on GIS. requires registration (free). Small but useful selection of GIS papers, lots of other quality discussions of IT topics

Global Geomatics

A GIS company offering OGDI technology. OGDI (Open Geospatial Datastore Interface), which is technology for accessing, distributing and interacting with complex, heterogeneous, spatially referenced data.

GlobeXplorer

Founded in 1999, GlobeXplorer provides satellite images and aerial photography via the Internet. They claim to maintain the world's largest commercial collection of aerial images.

Government Largesse (http://www.komando.com/kool_show.asp?showID=223627)

The U.S. Government offers lots of products and services. Kim Komando shows you the top 10 things you can get from your government on the Internet.

GPS Satellite Orbits

Look! Up in the sky …! Find out more about the orbit of your favorite GPS satellite.

Government Largesse ( http://www.umich.edu/~vgl/ )

An excellent tutorial on GPS, provided by Trimble.

Gravity Anomaly Maps

Even if you have no idea, or no interest in the mean sea surface and gravity anomaly maps, this is a terrific site if you enjoy map displays. The mean sea surface and gravity anomaly maps of the oceans were computed from a combined solution of satellite altimeter data gathered by a number of satellites: GEOSAT, ERS-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon. The data was merged into one dataset, orbit error was eliminated using crossover minimisation. A paper giving more information on the applied procedure is listed in the references on the site.


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HandMap

HandMap is a vector-based map viewer for handheld computers (PalmPilots and Windows CE devices). With suitable map modules it transforms your handheld into a fully functional street atlas. You can search for streets or landmarks, plan routes, create custom markers and more.

Happy Birthday

It will be up to you to decide whether this site offers convenience or is just an invasion of privacy. You can search for the birthdays of over 135 million people obtained from Public Records.

The Harvard Map Collection is the oldest map collection in America. The collection has grown to include 400,000 maps, over 6,000 atlases, and several thousand reference books.

HazardMaps.gov

This site allows you to check-out various hazards in your neighborhood. Among other things, you can check for floods, landslides and hail storms. The map allows you to check your state or your Zip Code. You can even check by Congressional district. Do you suppose they put that in because Congress funded the site? Naaaaaah! Thanks to Jim Aylward at Harvard Mapping

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

This site contains links to GIS related activities at the University.

Hubble Space Station

Space. The final frontier for GIS? Check out these unbelievable photos taken by the Hubble Space Station. Friends, we are not alone!


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 Intergraph

Intergraph’ s site has plenty to choose from. Since they do more than just GIS, you’ ll have to pick your way through carefully. This site is worth visiting even if you do not use Intergraph software.

Institute of Earth Sciences Library

The Institute of Earth Sciences Library at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was created by the merger of the former Geology and the former Atmospheric Sciences libraries. The collection numbers some 60,000 physical volumes. In addition to books and serials, there are small collections of aerial photographs, geological maps, slides, and reprints

Investigative Phychology On-Line (Used by Crime Mappers)

From the site: “Here you can find out exactly what IP is about, who is associated with it, how you can study it, it's role in the investigation of crime and much more.”

ISP Speed Performance Test

Here is a quick, and free way to determine the actual download speeds your are getting from your ISP.


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KanView, Can You?

A product of the University of Kansas. The Interactive Maps are true interactive mapping applications with various tools for map navigation, feature identification, and printing. New Interactive Maps are always being added! The Image Viewer allows the viewing of Digital Orthophotos and Digital Raster Graphics (scanned USGS Topo maps) tiled by county. The Static Maps are static images that allow users to drill down to pre-defined extents for basic information and do not have advanced options.


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Lat/Long Converter

Lat/Lon Converter is a very simple program that allows the user to convert latitude and longitude between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, seconds. This program is freeware.

Leica Geosystems

Maybe you just remember the name “Leica” from your surveying days, or your first 35mm camera. If you did not know they were in the GIS business, check out their site.

Locus Technology

Lotus Technologies released the first version of a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) for its award-winning LocusFocus suite of Internet technologies. The system allows users to see a map of a site, click on a well on the map, and obtain chemical and water level information for that well, including a log, if one exists. Data can be displayed in tables or graphs, posted on the map, or downloaded. Such capabilities and features represent only a starting point. Locus also intends to expand capabilities into contouring, animation, and 3D visualization. What is exciting about this new development is that it is entirely based on a new Web graphics format and XML-based language called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Space Instrumentation and System Engineering NIS-4 is a design-to-completion science and engineering group that develops and produces sensors, instruments, and systems for applications requiring advanced monitoring, detection, and evaluation technology.

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 MAGERT

The Map and Geography Round Table Education Committe (MAGERT) provides an excellent resource for the basics of GIS.

MACRES: Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing

MACRES's objective is to develop space remote sensing and related technologies and to operationalise their applications for resource and environmental management as well as strategic planning of the country.

Maine Office of GIS

Maine, state government is implementing a statewide geographic information system (GIS) coordinated by the Office of GIS (MEGIS). MEGIS coordinates GIS activities and provides services to encourage and guide the development of GIS in Maine to serve both public and private sector applications.

MapInfo

Site of the little GIS company that kept going and growing and going and growing.

MapInfo Tips and Tricks

This page provides tips and tricks for MapInfo® TargetPro® v4.0 — the first analytical customer relationship management (CRM) solution that enables organizations to tightly link location analysis to CRM systems and other databases.

Mapping Jokes

Yes, there really is a site filled with mapping humor. For example:

Q. What do you get when you cross a cowboy with a mapmaker?

A. A cow-tographer.

Map Projections

Have you ever had to explain the meaning of, or the difference between map projections? go to this site, and you will have access to a PDF drawing of just about any projection you would want. This is a great site for teachers, and GIS educators.

MapProjector

Here is another great mapping program for the Mac. MapProjector 4.0.1 is a graphics program that can be used to view, alter and process images of global maps. Some of the primary functions of the program include the ability to recenter images, extract specific regions, and convert images to different projections (mollweide, orthographic, stereographic). Functions are also available to annotate images with features such as scalebars, latitude and longitude grid lines and continental overlays. Global maps are assumed to be rectilinear when they are first read in and users are asked to assign the latitude and longitude coordinates of their map when opening the image for the first time. The map coordinates are subsequently embedded within the image file after they are saved in MapProjector’s native format.

Maporama

This is the world equivilant of MapQuest and similar US-based directional mapping services. While it could not quite find our World Headquwarters (it got close), they do have maps of the rest of the world, and what is left of the four roads in Afghanistan.

Map Projections

Hunter College in New York City has a great web site all about map projections. Whether you are a student or a seasoned veteran, this site is well worth a look

MapPublisher Awards

Avenza Systems Inc., the producers of MAPublisher, posted the results fo ther 2001 MAPublisher Map Competition Awards. They received several dozen submissions in 8 categories. The overall "Best Map" prize of a Palm Vx went to The Louisiana Geological Survey for its submission, “Official Map of Louisiana 2000.”

MAPS 101 (http://www.maps101.com/101main.html)

Maps101 is an online resource that which translates directly into classroom use and provides subscribers with direct access to thousands of map collections, current events, teaching tools and student activities. Maps101 Plus is available for an annual subscription price of $549 per school. A 30-day free trial is available.

MapTech

View, Print, E-mail Images - The Largest Off-Road Mapping Resource Now Available to Other Web Sites for Free

Martin County GIS Website

Terrific site put up by the Martin County, Florida GIS team. Brief intro about GIS for the GIS-challenged, links to maps, other Florida GIS sites, and more.

Metadata Tools

Great site for … guess what? Metadata!

Michigan Electronic Library

Michigan resource library, with great references for other GIS and map sites.

Microsoft's Terra Server

Microsoft’s web site full of useful and interesting maps and satellite images.

Mount Olympus Meet the Gods, Goddess’s, Creatures, Heroes and Nymphs of Mount Olympus in this Ancient Greek Mythology Theme. Includes animated cursers, extra icons, webviews, startup/ wait/ shutdownscreens and MPEG Layer 3 sounds. BONUS: Includes "Gods of Olympus" Screensaver.

MTA

Selected as MapInfo’s e-government site of the month, State of New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) created a terrific service. It provides quick and easy access to fares, schedules, station locations, driving directions and more. Choose a station from the list and scroll down to “Get Driving Directions” to see MapInfo technology at work. Presently, the areas for Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad provide this level of information.

multiMap.com Great source of maps and aerial photos of Britain

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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) This site offers access to historic documents. Among the treasures available are the cornerstone documents of the US Government --

    • the Declaration of Independence,
    • the Constitution of the United States,
    • the Bill of Rights

National Geographic for Kids Why just bring your kids to work one day of the year? Link them up to this site and let them play in your backyard all day long. There is lots of kid type entertainment here, and because it is sponsored by National Geographic, there's lots of that geography stuff here too!

NASA Earth Science Enterprise

This is the new site for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Application Directorate

NASA's View of Earth

We should all be familiar with the planet we live on. NASA has compiled all of the most amazing images of Earth from space and put them on this website. Explore your world from above!

National Elevation Dataset

The National Elevation Dataset (NED) is a new raster product assembled by the U.S. Geological Survey. NED is designed to provide National elevation data in a seamless form with a consistent datum, elevation unit, and projection. Data corrections were made in the NED assembly process to minimize artifacts, perform edge matching, and fill sliver areas of missing data. NED has a resolution of one arc-second (approximately 30 meters) for the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and a resolution of two arc-seconds for Alaska.

National Map (http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/)

According to their web site, “The National Map will provide data about the United States and its territories that others can extend, enhance, and reference as they concentrate on maintaining other data that are unique to their needs. The National Map will promote cost effectiveness by minimizing the need to find, develop, integrate, and maintain geographic base data each time they are needed. …The National Map will provide data and operational capabilities that include the following:

  • High-resolution digital orthorectified imagery that will provide some of the feature information content now symbolized on topographic maps.

  • High-resolution surface elevation data, including bathymetry, to derive contours for primary series topographic maps and to support production of accurate orthorectified imagery.

  • Vector feature data for hydrography, transportation (roads, railways, and waterways), structures, government unit boundaries, and publicly owned lands boundaries.

  • Geographic names for physical and cultural features to support the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and other names, such as those for highways and streets.

  • Land cover data that classify the land surface into categories such as open water and high-density residential.”

New South Wales EPA Map Page

An extensive listing of maps produced by the New South Wales EPS. If you are interested in this part of the Globe, start here.

NOAA's Global Climate Perspectives System (GCPS) Climatological Products

The interactive on-line climatological products are produced by the Global Climate Perspectives System (GCPS) using the Grid Analysis and Display System (GRADS) developed at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Maryland.

NOAA - Office of Coast Survey

Nautical charts, current and historical. Great site for boaters.

Northern Ohio Data and Information Service http://nodisnet1.csuohio.edu/nodis/index.html The NODIS Data Connection is a guide to on-line demographic and economic data for northeast Ohio, especially post-1990 data tables and area profiles. Site by Cleveland State University and Levin College of Urban affairs

NSGIC

NSGIC is particularly concerned with creation of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The technology behind the NSDI helps to create intelligent maps and databases that enable public and private decision makers to make better informed and more timely decisions in a wide array of governmental areas. This site includes a valuable list of state GIS coordinators.

Nuclear Waste Routes.  The US Senate could vote soon on allowing nuclear waste shipments Travel through major US cities. Check to see if you're near a proposed route. Talk about a "Catch-22" - we want to safely dispose of our nuclear waste, but how do you get it from point A to point B? The MapScience.org "Nuclear Waste Route Maps" Web site is a project of Environmental Working Group and EWG Action Fund. According to a note I found on their web site, ESRI was instrumental in helping them with the development of the mapping portion of the site. You will be pleased to note that world HQ for your favorite GIS newsletter is 85.9 miles from the nearest nuclear waste route. Ironically, the ESRI HQ building is a mere .3 miles from the nearest nuclear waste route.

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 On-line Digital Democracy

Over the past 5 years the School of Geography at the University of Leeds (UK) has been at the forefront of developing web-based Geographical Information Systems for Public Participation in environmental decision making. This site provides case studies, software and additional resources.

On-Line GIS Dictionary

This on-line dictionary of GIS terms is brought to you by the Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography. The dictionary includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams.


Open Channel Foundation

Open Channel Software (OCS) entered into an agreement with the Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia, whereby it will market the NASA software collection. “NTTC is the distributor of more than 500 software programs created by NASA developers,” said Joseph Allen, president of NTTC. OCS now has access to these programs, as well as those from other Federal agencies.


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Palm Boulevard

Palm Boulevard A site to warm the heart of just about any Palm PDA user. It has info, apps, reports, and more.

PAMAGIC: http://www.pamagic.org/

Pennsylvania Mapping and Geographic Information Consortium. A collection of useful GIS information about the state, and other white papers, metadata, etc.


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Red Hen Systems Inc

Red Hen Systems, Inc., is a provider of precision agriculture navigation equipment and management software. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, Red Hen Systems offers information and assistance to farmers and consultants implementing site-specific technology or any type of on-farm computer information system.

Road and Map Geek Index

Interesting collection of maps, geography trivia and other weird GIS stuff. Clearly, this site is a labor of love.


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 SANDAG

Digital Boundary Files and Layers of the San Diego Region are available in Arc/Info e00 format for no charge.

SmartCertify Direct (http://www.smartcertify.com/default.asp?article=ekk)

SmartCertify Direct gives you classroom-quality IT training at a fraction of the cost of traditional courses. You'll get 24-hour online mentoring from certified advisors, hands-on interactive exercises, the popular Test Prep exams and more.

SpaceFlightNow ( http://spaceflightnow.com)

This is a great site to get all the news about the various space flights and programs. For example, if you go directly to http://spaceflightnow.com/rockot/grace/ You will find a comprehensive article on gravity mapping and how it will impact our GIS lives on earth.

Spatial Data Standard for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDSFIE) (http://tsc.wes.army.mil/products/TSSDS-TSFMS/tssds/html/). One of the major initiatives assigned to The Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD)/Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment has been the development of the Spatial Data Standard (SDSFIE) for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment.

Stanford University GPS Lab

The GPS Laboratory is in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and has approximately 30 people including Professors, Research Associates, and students.

State Government Information Links

State Information.com Your Source for State Government Information Links.

Statistics Canada

Everything you have ever wanted to know about Canada, and more. Statistics Canada produces statistics about Canada - its population, resources, economy, society and culture. Providing statistics in Canada is a federal responsibility. As Canada’s central statistical agency, Statistics Canada is legislated to serve this function for the whole of Canada and each of the provinces.

Streets of London

This is a great site if you are looking for streets in London. They even have on-line aerial photos of some areas. You can search by London Street, Post Code, UK Place, OS grid (enter as x,y), Landranger grid, Lat/Long, or Tel Code.

SUNY Geosciences Collection

The Geosciences Collection is located in the Melville Library. It shares the North Reading Room in that building with the Engineering Collection, the Map Collection, the Biology Collection, and the general science collection. The primary purpose of the Geosciences Collection is to serve the research and teaching needs of the Geosciences Department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.


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TOPO! 2.1

A product of National Geographic, TOPO! provides high-quality scans of the 1:24,000 scale USGS topographic maps - the most detailed maps available for outdoor enthusiasts, hobbyists, and professionals. Powerful yet easy-to-use tools provide instant elevation profiles, real-time coordinates for GPS users, and extended capabilities for exploring, customizing, and printing seamless topographic maps.

Tribute to President Bush

A series of inspirational messages based on acts of faith, honesty and loyalty by President George Bush.


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UC Berkeley GIS Site

Extensive, annotated list of pointers, broken down into subject areas. Also has information on GIS education, research and facilities at UC Berkeley

Univ of California at Santa Cruz - GIS/ISC Lab

Good site for regional GIS facilities, projects, and data resources.

UK Ordnance Survey

From traditional leisure maps to adaptable digital data, Ordnance Survey products link people and businesses to Britain's diverse landscape. Great collection of maps and mapping products put out by one of the finest mapping agencies in the world.

UN Environment Programme

This site contains links to various maps and GIS databases produced by the UN Environment Programme.

University of Stuttgart - Institut fžr Photogrammetrie

Good source for current research information in the field, and for academic papers.

University of Texas (Austin) On-Line Maps

You want maps? They got maps! Lots and lots of maps.



URISA market place

URISA -Urban Regional Information Systems publishes this ezine with GIS job listings

US Army Terrain Visualization Center

The Terrain Visualization Center provides the Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) subject matter expertise for Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S). Develops concepts, doctrine, and experiments for geospatial information visualization. Includes links to related issues

US Census State & County QuickFacts http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ Just as the name implies - a great place to start when you are trying to learn about or teach about places in the U.S.

USGS EarthExplorer MapFinder

A quick and easy way to find and order USGS 7.5 minute printed paper maps. The 7.5-minute map series (1:24,000 scale) is one of several standard series maps produced by the US Geological Survey (USGS). One inch on a 7.5 minute map represents 2000 feet on the ground. Paper prints of this series, which are approximately 22 x 27 inches, can be ordered from this site. There are two ways you can use Map Finder.

    1. You can simply search for the paper map that you need, make a copy of the screen that shows the ordering information and contact your nearest map dealer who may have the map you want. Prices from map dealers may vary.

    2. You can search for the paper map that you need and place your order through the Map Finder interface. The USGS price is $4 per map; a handling fee of $5.00 is also charged for each order regardless of the number of items.

USGS 1:24,000 scale index maps

Courtesy of Omini Resources These 50 (state) index maps can be used as a quick reference guide to choosing your 1:24,000 scale color USGS topographic 7.5 minute quadrangle from OMNI Resources. These files are in PKZIP format and are quite large. Typically they range from 4 to 8 megabytes.

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Virtual Geoscience Library The VGL is a network-based electronic library developed for geoscientists at the University of Michigan. It focuses on the research and professional interests of faculty in the Department of Geological Sciences.

Volcano Watch More from the USGS. Most people go to Hawaii for a vacation and a tan. The USGS brings you there to get the latest on volcanoes. Fun site.

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Web Stuff (Non-GIS, But Fun)

101 Useful Sites

Yahoo! Internet Life brings you their fourth annual roundup of useful Web sites. There are sites for just about everyone wanting to do just about anything.

Bob’s Rock Shop

Need a last minute gift for that someone special? Head on over to Bob’s Rock Shop. Just tell her you learned everything you could about gems and special rocks, but fell in love with a hunk of quartz that you just had to get her.

Boot Disks

If something goes wrong with Windows or whatever operating system you use, it can be very difficult to get things running smoothly again. Visit this site for free downloads of boot disks programs for all operating systems.

HotBar (browser skins)

At this very moment, you are probably looking at this article from a web browser. But why have the same old look? Now you can change the interface with the creepy sounding GUI called a "skin." There are lots of sites that provide skins, but Hotbar is a great place to start, and it is "Out of this World Scenery" group is almost related to GIS.

CD Copyright Problems

Universal has launched a Web site solely dedicated to problems and questions about its copyright protection policies.

Windows Drivers

One set of critical Windows files that many people ignore are the drivers for much of your hardware, peripherals and sometimes, even software. These files need to be updated on a regular basis, especially if you're the type who upgrades your OS with each new release or likes to add/remove new peripherals on a regular basis. WinDrivers is a great place to log in, compare your system's current drivers to those available for download right from the site, and update as necessary

Help Desk Technician From Hell

This web site is a collection of helpdesk tickets gleaned from the support database of “George S.'s” previous job. nty months, and during that time I had the misfortune of encountering an individual whom I will call George.

How Stuff Works

You are slaving over a hot GIS program all day. You go home, and your kid says, "Why do mosquitoes bite?" You do not want to look like an idiot, so you say "because that’s their job, honey." You’d look a lot better of you went to How Stuff Works and found out why they really do bite. (I’ll bet you didn’t know that there are over 2,700 species in the world). Ouch!

From NT to 2000: Is it worth the pain?

Supposedly, the migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 is the easiest Microsoft server upgrade ever.

The Invisible Web

You may not realize it, but when you use a search engine on the Web, you don’t really search all the contents of the web. You search HTMl pages. But what if you want other information, such as databases and other hidden material? You need a different type of search engine. Search engines, such as Direct Search may be what you need.

Jim Kalb's Collection of Palindromes and Anagrams

Palindromes, those words and phrases that spelled the same backward and forward, are lots of fun. Racecar, pullup and civic are a few words, and Was it a cat I saw? Step on no pets. Oh, cameras are macho,are a few examples. If you want Palindromes on steroids, wait until you see what Jim Kalb has in store for you. Aha! Want more? go to http://www.mockok.com and http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/9365/pumpkins.html. Now go tell your Mom and Pop about these sites. Do it this eve!

License to Drive

We all have some idea of how to drive like a "moron," but the makers of this site have defined exactly what it takes to be an idiot motorist.

Need drivers?

One set of critical Windows files that many people ignore are the drivers for much of your hardware, peripherals and sometimes, even software. These files need to be updated on a regular basis, especially if you're the type who upgrades your OS with each new release or likes to add/remove new peripherals on a regular basis. WinDrivers is a great place to log in, compare your system's current drivers to those available for download right from the site, and update as necessary

Recovery Tips and Tools for Corrupt Microsoft Files

Few things strike more fear into an end user's heart than a corrupt Microsoft Office file. Here are a few tips and tools to help you recover seemingly lost documents and make you someone's hero.

Snopes

Have you ever fallen for one of those too-good-to-be-true urban legends? The murders of the 11th have created quite a few. Did you see the photograph showing an unlucky tourist posing on the observation deck of a World Trade Center as one of the hijacked plane was about to hit the tower? Let's see, somehow the guy in the picture dies, but the photgraph survived. Snopes is the place to go to sort out the truth from the legends.

The Straight Dope

If you want to know what is truly happening around you, you need this site. For example, find out why cheddar cheese is orange, who was the stupidest president, and if insects can get fat. Now who doesn’ t need that kind of information?

World-Wide Earthquake Locator This site is guaranteed to shake you up.

Zip Burst

No, ZipBurst is not what happens after Thanksgiving Day Dinner! ZipBurst CGI Lite and ZipBurst CGI Pro are two powerful web database search engines that can be used with WebSTAR, MacOS Personal Web Sharing or any CGI compliant MacOS web server. They can be used alone or easily integrated with other web-based applications and CGIs. The Pro version currently supports location-based searching in The United States and Canada and you can search by ZIP Code, Canadian Postal Code, city, state, or area code.

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 White Paper: AM/FM vs GIS: Which Is Right for You?

This is a white paper created by Byers Engineering Company. AM/FM is a subset of GIS that differs from other GIS applications. Rather than storing specific features and polygons as topological features as is common in some GIS databases, an AM/FM builds a linear network model that uses database intelligence to analyze and run applications across linear features such as pipes or cables. This includes traces and load analysis. This network, or graph theory, approach provides much better performance than can be achieved through a topological model, and provides a more logical and simpler way to build and maintain linear type features. Site login required.

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ZIP Code Look Up from USPS

Here is a handy web site provided by the US Post Office. Great for finding ZIPS and ZIP+4, and even a list of all cities within a particular ZIP Code. For example, here at 35244, we co-zip with Birmingham, Hoover, Bluff Park and Inverness. All can use their actual names, or use Birmingham as the default. Although we use Birmingham in our address, for example, we are located in the city of Hoover, Alabama.




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