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GIS WWW Resource List
in the UK...it loads faster here.
However this page it hasn't been updated since
1996!
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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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