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Thanks for Help and Inspiration

  • Directions Magazine is a great source for news and information on maps and GIS.
  • Global Mapper software makes GIS data format and spatial reference conversion easy and cheap - especially for images!
  • Bill Huber has been a great source of GIS information and wisdom.
  • Edit Tools for Arcview is indispensable for cleaning, generalizing, densifying and otherwise sprucing up vector data to cartographic standards.
  • The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is a great group of people making great maps.
  • Tom Patterson: A great source of inspiration and know-how.
  • The Geographer's Craft project is geography, cartography, maps, GIS 101 online - an excellent site where I learned much.
  • Ms Brewer's Color Brewer and writings on cartographic color have been a great help to me.
  • The Global Land Cover Facility at the University of Maryland is a great resource for free satellite data. Thanks!

Polaris Cartography
114 White Pine Ln
Burnsville, NC 28714
Phone: (828) 675-5357
Email: mail@polarismaps.com