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American Association of Geographers (AAG) GIS Specialty Group - online copies of their newsletter.
Able Software Co. sell R2V, a raster to vector conversion package for Windows.
Shane Murnion's Arc/Info Tutorial
An Arc/Info Course in 7 lessons by Jean Boivin (in french)
ARGUS Technologies Inc. produce a Census Mapping GIS for Windows. Product information and downloadable data are available.
The Association for Geographic Information, The national coordinating body for GIS activities in the United Kingdom
AUSLIG - Australia Survey and Land Information Group, Australia's National Mapping Agency; digital map info and etc.
Australian National University - Bioinformatics. Biodiversity, Bioinformation, Complex systems, and other material on complex systems research.
Australian National University - Landscape Ecology and Biogeography. Landscape and environments, Agriculture, GIS demonstrations, Information about Australia especially Tasmania.

Baltic Universities GIS (BUGIS) Project. Information resources and Data for the Baltic Countries.
BADGER: the (San Francisco) Bay Area Digital Geo-Resource is part of NASA's effort to promote public use of earth science data. Data includes Landsat, DRG, DLG and DOQ imagery, with more coming on-line all the time.
The Department of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and their Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory (GIAL).

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) provides an environmental data access facility for the U.S. State of California
Southern California Traffic Report. This Case study provides real-time mapping of the current traffic situation for commuters.
Cartographic Communication research: Making Maps Easy to Read.
Clyde Consultants are a commercial GIS/survey/remote sensing company based in Malaysia.
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) are a gatway to data and other information.

Delorme Mapping. Mapping demos (including sound!) and catalogues of mapping products.
Deutches Klimarechenzentrum (German Climatology Computer Centre). Climatic data and simulations.
Digital Land Systems Research (DLSR). Developer of an easy-to-use PC-based raster GIS called SAGE. WWW pages include introductory GIS info and access to demo software.

Edinburgh University, Geography Department. The home of this page and other GIS Resources such as the AGI Dictionary, the Digital Elevation Data Catalogue and research projects including the first Arc/Info WWW interface and the World-Wide Earthquake Locator.
Edinburgh University, Data Library, spatial meta-data research, UKBORDERS digital data and ESRC Research Publications Database (incl. some GIS research).
Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) in Australia. Holistic picture of the current Australian Environment. Data from many sciences including geography and ecology. ERIN also provide a interactive Distributed Spatial Data Library of Australian Mapping.
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). The vendors of Arc/Info and related GIS software and data. Includes ArcView V1.0 for free.
Archives of the ESRI-L Mail List which discusses ESRI products, including Arc/Info.
Eurimage - a major commercial course of remote sensing imagery
EUROGI - the European Umbrella Organisation for GIS
European Commission Joint Research Centre - Data Visualisation Group at Ispra; Italian Geographic Databases and Visualisation, Meteorology etc.
European Commission Centre for Earth Observation; information on the European Earth Observation System and European Space Agency, also the CEO Agriculture Project, which aims to provide consistent Agricultural statistics for Europe and on coastal zones in Europe.
European Science Foundation, GISDATA Programme includes specialist meetings, GISDATA directory, news / outputs.
European Union (EU) Information Market Europe Server, which includes information on GIS Standards, GIS Tenders and Projects, and GIS in Europe. A full index of relevent documents is available here

The U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee is responsible for coordinating the survey, mapping and spatial data activities of various federal agencies. and promoting the Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS). Includes links to all the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) sites.
National Land Survey of Finland (the Finnish National Mapping Agency), Geographic Information Centre includes details of their products and standards.
Friends of the Earth (UK) - Describes their use of GIS with examples. Of particular interest is their Chemical Release Inventory an example of interactive GIS on the web.

Genasys II Inc. - Information about their products.
Geodetic Survey of Canada Information about the organisation and the data products on offer.
Geographic Designs Inc. describes Geolineus, a metadata management system for ARC/INFO. Also technical papers about metadata and GIS data processing.
Geo Info Systems Magazine - extracts from the magazine are on-line.
Geomatics Canada, part the division of Natural Resources Canada which is responsible for GIS, Mapping and the National Atlas Information Service which provides NAISmap, an interactive WWW mapping utility.
GeoSoft Ltd. are the U.K. based suppliers of Map Server and Map Server which allow turnkey systems to be produced in Visual Basic.
GeoSearch are a US-based GIS employment agency
GeoSystems are a mapping company who provide information on map skills, an newsletter and a downloadable game.
The GeoWeb Project This project aims to examine the networking of spatial information. Further information (including the mailing list message archive) is available from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Geoweb A company, product and jobs database for the GIS industry
GIS-L Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Page which provides answers to many basic GIS questions.
GIS World, publishers of GIS World magazine and GIS Asia Pacific.
Includes GIS conferences, books and other information.
Global Land Information System (GLIS) Metadata and samples for many data products, such as AVHRR, TM, DEMs, Aerial Photographs, SLAR, World Ecosystems, and World Soil Series.
The Great Lakes Regional Environmental Information System (GLREIS) supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Great Lakes Information Management Resource (GLIMR) supported by Environment Canada.

University of Hannover, Institute for Regional Planning (ILR) also maintains a List of GIS WWW Resources
Harvard Design and Mapping Co. (HDM) provides GIS services (including application development), software and data worldwide. They specialise in ArcInfo, MapInfo and Intergraph.
Harvard's University, Graduate School of Design Geo-Data Archive for Boston and Massachusetts
Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Geography and their GIS Laboratory,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics.

The IDRISI Project home page.
An IDRISI WWW Tutorial from the IDRISI Resource Center
at the University of Salzburg.
ImageNet from Core Software Technology - Search and Preview geospatial data (sat. imagery, air photography, vector data). There is a European node at Eurimage in Italy.
Intergraph Corporation's Corporate Server and Bentley Systems MicroStation Server - nothing much specifically on GIS.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Bureau. Information on geological and water resources in Iowa, including their Natural Resources GIS (with 400 documented databases) and publications.
IntelliGIS Inc. provides the Energy Industry with GIS Software, including a data navigator for geoscience databases and a system for the protection of underground utilities.
Israel Ecological and Environmental Information System (HOLIT) provides environmental information, with many onward links.

Japan's Geographical Survey Institute Japan's National Mapping Agency - Topographic, Geodetic and GIS Resources
The Japan GIS/Mapping Sciences Resource Guide, which is a comprehensive reference for Japan's GIS, map and geospatial data products, activities and information sources.

Sol Katz's WWW Mapping/Metadata Resource List is the Definitive source of Information on GIS Meta-Data and WWW-GIS Interfaces, Internetworking GIS and interactive mapping over the internet.
Kingston University Centre for Geographical Information Systems. Includes details of the education, training and research carried out by the GIS unit at this U.K. University.

Laser-Scan Ltd. are a U.K. GIS systems vendor. Details on products, case-studies and technical papers.
Linnet Geomatics International Inc. are a service provider specialising in LIS. They act as a data distributor for Canadian Government Agencies (primarily in the Province of Manitoba).

The MAGNUM project, which aims to build an advanced GIS by examining GIS user interfaces, GIS algorithms and an extensible object-based DBMS architecture.
MapInfo Corporation, also a user-oriented MapInfo WWW Site which provides access to the FAQ, connections to the ftp site and mailing list.
MapInfo related products website. Run by a MapInfo reseller. Information on developers, resellers and other MapInfo resources.
Map Maker is a free user friendly GIS for Windows.
McGill University Department of Earth Sciences Some departmental information, together with an ftp server and a gopher server.
Michael McDermott's List of GIS Resources. Another substantial list of GIS resources with a North American bias.
Minnesota Legislative GIS Office. Information and mapping for Minnesota. Not much of great interest as yet.
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory Environmental Engineering, Applied Geophysics, Centre for Advanced Geophysical Computing, and GPS information.
Hal Mueller's GIS Resources and Satellite Image Resources Pages.

The Natural Area Coding (NAC) system which permits a unified global postal code system, an efficient address dispatching system and a unified grid and reference system for all maps at all scales and is an efficient storage structure. What more could you want?!
The U.S. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) - Projects, References, Reports and Bibliographies relating to a range of GIS themes and the NCGIA Core Curriculum. Also provides a central access point for the three NCGIA sites at:
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
University of Maine
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo


Natural History Museum (U.K.) - Not much on GIS as yet, but we suspect they are working on it.
The U.S. State of North Carolina's Center for Geographic Information and Analysis - Spatial data and information about the state GIS in North Carolina.
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center A major provider of environmental data (international data in addition to USA).
The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Department of Surveying and Mapping. Although much information is in Norwegian, there is a sizeable list of GIS resources in English.
NERC Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS) are involved in Remote Sensing and Environmental Modelling Research



Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.) Environmental Science Division, including their Fire Simulation Model (EMBYR)
Ohio State University - Center for Mapping
Ohio State University, Department of Geography provides a major GIS On-Line Bibliography.
Open GIS Consortium. Information on the OpenGIS Project, meetings, testbed and publications. OGIS also have pages at the University of California at Berkeley which include information on the public-domain GIS, GRASS.
The Ordnance Survey - the U.K. National Mapping Agency. Including a query interface to the Spatial Information Enquiry Service (SINES).

PCI produce software for Remote Sensing, GIS and Terrain Analysis, including EASI/PACE.
Planet Earth Home Page Connections to everywhere on every topic. Not particularly strong on GIS or RS.

Queens University Belfast - Geography. Introducing GIS, ARC/INFO WWW tutor, links to other GIS WWW pages. Also a GIS User Guide to Internet Tools

The U.K. Regional Research Laboratory Initiative: RRL Scotland Server includes information about RRL Scotland and links to the other RRLs.
Rutgers University (the State University of New Jersey), Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis - GRASS Clippings Newsletter and GRASS data on CD-ROM.

Scan/US, Inc., Vendors of Scan/US geomarket analysis software and related demographic data
Mike Scott's List of Commercial GIS WWW Servers, includes links to the vendor's WWW sites.
Sequoia 2000, Multi-Disciplinary Environmental Modelling Project at Univ. of California
Space Remote Sensing Centre (SRSC), Institute for Technology Development (US).
Strategic Mapping Inc., the vendors of Atlas*GIS.
Subway Navigator, An clever resource for navigating your way through the subway / underground systems of the world.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - GERMINAL Research Project, designing an Integrated Approach to Land Use Planning and Environmental Management.

Terratech Mapping Services Inc. - offer GIS and Image Processing software, together with consultancy and training services in British Columbia.
South-West Texas State University, Geography and Planning Department - includes a list of useful links; especially notable are their GIS/RS data links.
Texas General Land Office - Prototype interagency GIS database for Wetland Resources (funded by Environmental Protection Agency).
Technical University Vienna, Department of Geoinformation. Information about conferences and workshops in Vienna, especially COSIT (Conference on Spatial Information Theory).
Bill Thoen's GISnet MapInfo Pages which include the MAPINFO-L discussion list archives.
Bill Thoen's Online Resource List for Earth Scientists (ORES). A Substantial list of Internet Resources, although extending much more broadly than GIS, it is divided into convenient sections.
Thomas Bros. Maps of Irvine, California. Details on their PC GIS called GEOFINDER and their digital data.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Resource Information Database (GRID) at Arendal, Norway. Provide access to a number of environmental GIS databases and also links to other GRID centres around the world.
The Geography Department and Centre for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland).
The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas.
University of California at Berkeley AEGIS - GIS Laboratory in the College of Environmental Design and their Research Program in Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems (REGIS). Information is available on the San Francisco Bay/ Sacramento Area, also GRASSLinks - a WWW-GRASS interface.
University of California at Santa Barbara Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics, also Project Alexandria which aims to investigate Distributed Spatial Data Libraries.
University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois, Laboratory for Advanced Ecological and Spatial Analysis, a joint research facility with US Army - case study ecological assessments.
University of Karlsruhe Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Photogrammetric Information.
Spatial Data Distribution through KINDS - an interface to UK National Datasets at University of Manchester. Also other GIS links.
University of Minnesota Remote Sensing Laboratory for AML programs, general GIS/RS information, and GIS Jobs Clearinghouse.
University of Missouri provides 1990 Census Data for the State of Missouri and the U.S. nationally.
University of New South Wales, School of Geography, provides info on local facilities and satellite images.
Spatial Information Research Centre, University of Otago, NZ includes information on courses, publication and GISTutor 2,
WWW Interfaces for GIS (GRASS, Arc/Info) and spatial data distribution research from Purdue University, Indiana
University of Salzburg, Institute for Geography provide information which includes the UNIGIS German distance-learning diploma, and are an IDRISI Resource Center
(german language) which hosts an IDRISI WWW Tutorial in english
University of South Carolina, Department of Geography and GIS at the College of Liberal Arts
University of Southampton, GeoData Institute is a research organisation and contract agency which provides tutorials and training aids.
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Photogrammetry Image processing, GIS projects and interests, and a GIS bibliography.
The University of Texas hosts the Geographer's Craft Project, which aims to provide a complete curriculum

Queens University Belfast - Geography. Introducing GIS, ARC/INFO WWW tutor, links to other GIS WWW pages. Also a GIS User Guide to Internet Tools


The U.K. Regional Research Laboratory Initiative: RRL Scotland Server includes information about RRL Scotland and links to the other RRLs.

Rutgers University (the State University of New Jersey), Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis - GRASS Clippings Newsletter and GRASS data on CD-ROM.


Scan/US, Inc., Vendors of Scan/US geomarket analysis software and related demographic data

Mike Scott's List of Commercial GIS WWW Servers, includes links to the vendor's WWW sites.

Sequoia 2000, Multi-Disciplinary Environmental Modelling Project at Univ. of California

Space Remote Sensing Centre (SRSC), Institute for Technology Development (US).

Strategic Mapping Inc., the vendors of Atlas*GIS.

Subway Navigator, An clever resource for navigating your way through the subway / underground systems of the world.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - GERMINAL Research Project, designing an Integrated Approach to Land Use Planning and Environmental Management.


Terratech Mapping Services Inc. - offer GIS and Image Processing software, together with consultancy and training services in British Columbia.

South-West Texas State University, Geography and Planning Department - includes a list of useful links; especially notable are their GIS/RS data links.

Texas General Land Office - Prototype interagency GIS database for Wetland Resources (funded by Environmental Protection Agency).

Technical University Vienna, Department of Geoinformation. Information about conferences and workshops in Vienna, especially COSIT (Conference on Spatial Information Theory).

Bill Thoen's GISnet MapInfo Pages which include the MAPINFO-L discussion list archives.

Bill Thoen's Online Resource List for Earth Scientists (ORES). A Substantial list of Internet Resources, although extending much more broadly than GIS, it is divided into convenient sections.

Thomas Bros. Maps of Irvine, California. Details on their PC GIS called GEOFINDER and their digital data.


United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Resource Information Database (GRID) at Arendal, Norway. Provide access to a number of environmental GIS databases and also links to other GRID centres around the world.

The Geography Department and Centre for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland).

The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas.

University of California at Berkeley AEGIS - GIS Laboratory in the College of Environmental Design and their Research Program in Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems (REGIS). Information is available on the San Francisco Bay/ Sacramento Area, also GRASSLinks - a WWW-GRASS interface.

University of California at Santa Barbara Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics, also Project Alexandria which aims to investigate Distributed Spatial Data Libraries.

University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences

University of Illinois, Laboratory for Advanced Ecological and Spatial Analysis, a joint research facility with US Army - case study ecological assessments.

University of Karlsruhe Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Photogrammetric Information.

Spatial Data Distribution through KINDS - an interface to UK National Datasets at University of Manchester. Also other GIS links.

University of Minnesota Remote Sensing Laboratory for AML programs, general GIS/RS information, and GIS Jobs Clearinghouse.

University of Missouri provides 1990 Census Data for the State of Missouri and the U.S. nationally.

University of New South Wales, School of Geography, provides info on local facilities and satellite images.

Spatial Information Research Centre, University of Otago, NZ includes information on courses, publication and GISTutor 2,

WWW Interfaces for GIS (GRASS, Arc/Info) and spatial data distribution research from Purdue University, Indiana

University of Salzburg, Institute for Geography provide information which includes the UNIGIS German distance-learning diploma, and are an IDRISI Resource Center
(german language) which hosts an IDRISI WWW Tutorial in english

University of South Carolina, Department of Geography and GIS at the College of Liberal Arts

University of Southampton, GeoData Institute is a research organisation and contract agency which provides tutorials and training aids.

University of Stuttgart, Institute for Photogrammetry Image processing, GIS projects and interests, and a GIS bibliography.

The University of Texas hosts the Geographer's Craft Project, which aims to provide a complete curriculum in Geographical Techniques. Includes GIS and cartography resources.

University of Virginia, Social Sciences Data Center Virginia On-Line Atlas, Virginia Census Data

State University of Utrecht, Faculty of Geographical Sciences (The Netherlands) and their list of Nice Geography / GIS / RS Servers.

University of Zurich, Department of Geography.

U.S. Army - Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) The home of the GRASS public-domain GIS, the Open-GIS (OGIS) foundation, also spatial modelling information.

U.S. Bureau of the Census - General information and access TIGER census data and much other statistical information for the U.S.A.

U.S. Bureau Land Management - includes a GIS page with data and information relevant to land management.

U.S. Department of the Interior provides a gateway to all of the U.S. government agencies responsible for conservation and natural resource management.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency includes information on projects using GIS such as their National Estuary Program. Also some information on software and data.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service supports the U.S. National Wetlands Inventory which provides access to GIS data relating to US Wetlands in a number of different formats.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for general GIS information, application examples, digital data, Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products and lots more.

USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Center at Rolla, Missouri.

USGS node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, part of the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure. Meta-Data Catalogue for the vast USGS Spatial Data holdings (digital mapping and images).

U.S. National Parks Service, includes environmental datasets.

USGS Water Resources Division, GIS Resources and Distributed Spatial Data Library

USGS EROS Data Center - Major Data Archive for world data, satellite imagery and etc. Links to most other major data archives. Includes information on intelligence satellite photographs (1960 - 1972) recently (1995) declassified by the U.S. government.

U.S. National Biological Service Environmental Management Technical Center (EMTC) - GIS Data Browsing and Retrieval System for the Upper Mississippi River System.

Utah State University, Department of Geography and Earth Resources - Includes a Digital Atlas for Utah, bibliography and GIS tutorials.


Vanderbilt University Center for Transportation Operations and Research - Intelligent Mapping and CADD laboratory.

The VISION* Solutions all-relational spatial database from SHL Systemhouse Inc.

Vysor Integration Inc. - V-Image Remote Sensing Software for Windows and downloadable Satellite Imagery.


Oliver Weatherbee's GIS Software Listing which contains contact information and short overviews of the majority of major GIS software packages currently available.

Western Slope Research Inc. are a GIS data conversion, analysis and mapping company. The home of the AGIS-L (Atlas GIS Discussion List) FAQ. They also provide links to various data sources and to Strategic Mapping/Atlas GIS technical support.

Wooleysoft produce the Visual Explorer / Landscape Explorer visualisation software.


Xerox PARC Map Viewer - online digital data viewer with which you can roam around the WDBII data, or USGS 1:250K data within the US.


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