Map Links

General Geography/Cartography References/Indices

The Geographer's Craft Project - Main Page

I am self-taught in cartography and this site was an important early resource for me.

TEC Web Site

US Army Topographic Engineering Center. Variety of products and info - incl. Survey of Terrain Visualization Software

About.com>Science>Geography

Web mine

Internet Cartography Resources

Dept. of Geography and Earth Science at George Mason Univeristy. Part of WWW virtual library. Extensive list of links with descriptions of coverage, functionality, and data source.

GIS Landbase Information & Data Links

Info on State Plane Coordinate Systems

CU Dept. of Geography - Geography Resource Center

Yahoo! Science:Geography:Cartography

Virtual Geography Department Project

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Map Collections

The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection

At UT Austin. Very nice. Jpg and Gif images.

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Extensive. SID Images.

LOC Map Collections

Another link into this extensive collection.

Maps and Clickable Maps

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Map Data

Vendors

US Digital Atlas 1999 in MapInfo and Arcview Formats

My personal choice for enhanced Tiger+. Dave's approach is sensible and economical - best bang for the buck in my view and a very workable product overall.

The GIS Data Depot

Distributes public data for a reasonable fee. Serves up a LOT of downloadable data!

Map Mart - Digital Mapping and Aerial Photography

raster, vector, aerial, DEM, paper map vendor

Rocky Mountain Digital Peeks

Sells images. Earth Science, Space Images, Astronomy, National Parks, Landscape (DEM) Rendering.

ADCi Maps for ESRI

enhanced Tiger, DLG data

TIGER Vendor List ----

Lot's of people clean up, add to and re-sell US Census Tiger data. Here's a list.

Maptech

resells raster graphics from USGS and NOAA with a browser

WESSEX Mapping & Demographic Data

enhanced Tiger

Cross Streets - Digital Maps and Data

enhanced Tiger

GEOWAREHOUSE

data distributor

Datametrix Products

Transportation network data

weathergraphics.

resells DCW - somewhat arcane, but useable and cheap!

Real Estate Property Data for Maryland - GIS Online

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General Indices to Map Data

Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - Federal Geographic Data Committee

The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 100 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for se in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), image processing systems, and other modelling software. These data collections can be searched through a single interface based on their descriptions, or "metadata."

UT Dept. of Geography Resources: Geo-Spatial Datasets

Oddens's Bookmarks

The renowned...

WWW Virtual Library Cartography Resources

web mine

Guide to Online Data

Kath Stynes, Project Argus

CATALOGUE OF DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA

CATALOGUE OF DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA LAST UPDATED: 23-JAN-1997
(c) Bruce M. Gittings, 1996.

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University

CIESIN Center for International Earth Science Information Network

At Columbia University. Demographic, environmental and other data resources. Extensive.

Space Science and Engineering Center

At the University of Wisoncisin, Madison.
Real time weather satellite imagery.

NW Digital Geologic Data Clearinghouse

Portland State Univeristy. Geology data sets (NW CONUS).

Geographic Information Center

Univeristy of Virginia Library. Data for 49 states derived from DLG. ESRI e00 format.

The Electronic Map Library

Dept. of Geography, California State University, Northbridge. LOTs of thematic maps (GIFs, EPS, TIFF)

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

At Johns-Hopkins. Shaded relief maps, AVHRR satellite images and a scanned 1895 Rand McNally Atlas.

Ocean Remote Sensing Group Home Page

Johns Hopkins. Radar altimetry, magenetics, ocenography, weather.

US

US GOV

Census/Tiger

U.S. Census Bureau - TIGER/LineŽ

US Census Bureau Home Page

Cartographic Boundary Files - U.S. Census Bureau

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DOT

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, US DOT

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NPS

Blue Ridge Parkway Region - Data Sources

Available Digital Geospatial Data and Metadata

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USGS

U.S. Geological Survey - Home Page

WebGlis

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

The National Atlas of the United States

USGS Hydrologic Units Maps

USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Home Page

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EPA

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Home Page

BASINS Metadata

STORET Modernization

RF3 Technical Reference

hard to find!

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NOAA

Nighttime Lights of the Continental USA

Satellite Active Archive - Search

CDC Map Room

a mix of short-term operational weather roducts available from the National Centers for environmental Predicition (NCEP) (e.g., via Unidata) and long-term research-oriented climate products produced from a variety of in-house data sets.

Live Access to Derived Data Sets

* National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) *

NGDC/WDCA MGG-5Minute Gridded Elevation Data Search

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Defense and DCW

Digital Chart of the World and Data Quality Project

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NASA

MODIS Airborne Simulator: Earth Scene Mosaics

SIR-C/X-SAR Images

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State/local Gov

NC

Spatial Data and GIS in Western North Carolina

NCGS Products and Services

NCDOT GIS UNIT HOMEPAGE

GIS for DENR staff

North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NC CGIA)

NCGS Home Page

North Carolina Geodetic Survey

Office of State Planning

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Other States

Real Estate Property Data for Maryland - GIS Online

Georgia GIS Data Clearinghouse - Data Discovery

The New York State GIS Clearinghouse Home Page

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World

Delft Institue for Earth Oriented Space ResearchDEOS

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Extra Terrestrial

Topography from Stereo Imagery Project: The Moon

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Cartography

Cartographic Communication

More from "The Geographers Craft" project.

Color Theory

From Laurie A. B. Gara, Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte

Exemplary Map Design

Making Maps Easy to Read

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Associations and Journals

Society of Cartographers

A great group. I've been a lurker and occasional participant in the email list for years.

Spatial Odyssey

Spatial Odyssey provides access to the tables of contents of many GIS conference proceedings and collections of articles published since 1991.

Highpointers Club

These folks try to visit all the high points in the 50 states.

UT Dept. of Geography Resources: Journals on the Web

America's Roof Guide to the Highest Points

Guide to the Highest Places in the U.S. and the World

Directions Magazine - Your Mapping & Demographics News Source

Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia

Australian Map Circle Inc.; AMC

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Colleagues - other folks in the same business

Favorites

Companies that produce maps I especially like.

Hardlines, Illustration, Design and Cartography Studio

Hardlines can provide a broad range of cartography services - from atlases for primary schools to complex maps for leading motoring organisations.

Portolan Geomatics

Bartholomew Mapping Services

Bartholomew has been in the business of map production for over 150 years and has a world wide reputation for the quality of its products and for innovation in cartography.

Eureka Cartography

Check out their Benchmark Maps product.

Simply Maps

Nearby in Asheville, NC

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More Mapmakers

Yahoo! Business and Economy:Business to Business:Navigation:Maps:Custom Cartography

Welcome To GEOWARE

Virtual Image Map - wall map suitable for framing. The VIM story is a nice intro to making shaded color terrain images.

Jay's WEB presence

Serious amateur? Terrain renderings among other interesting things. Impressive.

Spatial Solutions

GIS and GPS Solutions GIS Software Sales and Support Custom Mapping Database Development GPS Data Collection and Mapping Custom GIS Application Development ESRI Internet Map Server (IMS) Development ESRI MapObjects Application Program Development ArcCAD and AutoCAD Database and Mapping Applications

Mapping The World By Heart Home Page

Curriculum, instructional programs, training, consulting. Web site has fairly extensive links.

George F. Cram Company

Globes!

Sample maps from NC WRP

Sentinel USA, Inc.

Sentinel USA specializes in automated mapping, facilities management and geographic information system services

Maps Unlimited

Lovell Johns Cartographic Services

Lovell Johns offers cartographic production as well as digital mapping and spatial information services for your GIS and mapping data solutions.

Galaxy Maps

Maps, wall maps, globes, antique maps, travel maps, atlases, guide books, satellite images, U.S. & international maps, topo maps, computer mapping software, business and marketing maps, custom mapping, binoculars

WorldSat International

WorldSat International - consumer products derived from satellite imagery.

VESTRA Resources

GIS consulting. Good maps.

Poitra Visual Communications - www.poitra.com

Digital Interactive Web Space

3D Panoramas

Viewscape3D Ltd. - Samples

Visual Simulations Group

Spatial Dynamics -

Spatial Dynamics is a privately owned company, dedicated to providing professional services in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to public and private sector clients. The company was founded in February 1996 in Boise, Idaho.

Ken Fairhurst, Resource Design Inc.

RESOURCE ANALYSIS - 3D Visualisation

Resource Design Inc Main Page

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Web Map Servers

John Walker's Earth and Moon Viewer

View the earth or moon from any location overhead or from your choice of satellites. Also shows the earth with current weather satellite overlays - +more! John Walker was involved in starting autodesk and now seems comfortably retired in Switzerland but keeps on writing great code.

Xerox PARC Map Viewer: world 0.00N 0.00E (1.0X)

An older web based viewer. From CIA world data bank and from 1:2M USGS DLG.

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Mapping Software

Public

NEED TO AD TO THIS LISTPolaris Cartography
1142 Lower Doe Bag Creek Road
Green Mountain NC 28740
Phone: (828) 675-5357
Email: mail@polarismaps.com

USGS Mapping Information: Mapping Science Software

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Vendors/Developers

Manifold GIS System Start Page

Spatial Online

Spatial Online: Provides ArcView users with ArcView extensions and applications.

Spatial Solutions - GIS tools

Spatial Solutions Inc. produces software products to clean GIS data and build polygon topology.

How to Create Clickable Maps

FreeHand for Cartographers

IDRISI WWW Tutorial - Home

World Construction Set mailing list archives.

World Construction Set mailing list archives.

World Construction Set Home Page

Mapthematics

Mapthematics develops, and supports Geocart, the map projections
program for the Macintosh

Carto Index

software to produce a map index from DTP vector files

MapText, Inc.

Automated Cartographic Text Placement

SWEGIS

ArcView Analysis Extension

Andrews ArcView Page

theEngine - AV extension

heEngine transforms ArcView into a powerful GIS engine including the following functionality:
Georeferencing, 3D Extrude, Mesh, & Profiles,Translation, Scaling, & Rotation, Topology , Connect Attributes, Cookie Cutting Multiple Themes, Buffering by any Classification, One Click Table Editing & AutoCreate Database, Head Up Digitizing, Graphics Conversion, and Plot or Report on Graphics.

GIS Tools

GIS utilities

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Online Handy Reference Maps

Large Area Code Map

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