USGS poster on GIS: what it is etc here
Public Data Sets on atlas.geog.hawaii.edu via ftp
City and County of Honolulu GIS
AAG-GIS Newsletter http://www.cla.sc.edu/gis/aaggis/news198/index.html
The GIS & Remote Sensing Newsletter for Fiji and the South Pacific from SOPAC's web site: www.sopac.org.fj/Publi/GISRS-News/default.asp
The GIS FAQ is maintained at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/faq-index.html.
Duane Marble's GIS Bibliography Project is here .
Clark Labs IDRISI stuff.
AAG GIS Specialty Group homepage has links for announcements.
Nick Chrisman
Jeremy Crampton's cartographic references are
here .
U of Michigan Library clearing house is
here .
Curtin University's GIS Degree Web Site is
here
Includes some GIS papers on line, I beleive.
Tools to convert various data formats to ARC/view shapefile format
can be found
here.
Sol Katz (d 23 April 1999) but his web site of
data translators
lives on.
Links to free or low cost GIS on the AI-GEOSTATS Softfaq.
http://curie.ei.jrc.it/software/index.htm
UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science)
here
and email distribution lists:
John Snyder's updated map projection bibliography is
here .
Some more URLs for On-line datasets from
ESRI ,
USGS ,
EPA ,
here , and
here .
Some pointers to pointers to datasets are
here
and
STARTING THE HUNT: A Guide To On-line And Mostly Free
U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data
Some introductions to GIS on the web are
here,
which reputedly includes pointers to materials
such as:
A Brief Introduction to Geographic Information Systems,
the NCGIA CORE Curriculum for GIS,
Getting to Know Desktop GIS, and an
On-line Dictionary of GIS Terms.
Info on using GIS in groundwater modeling, compiled by Gil
Inouye, and
including a technical review of groundwater modelling using Arc/Info is
here .
"Bob's Slope Page".AMLs for LS-factor in RUSLE and the like.
Stuff from Paul B. Anderson about NIMA (nee DMA).
New version DTEDs available at:
URL: http://164.214.2.59/ .
Select "Geospatial Information" in the list box then click on
the "GOTO" button. It's the first item on the new page.
Paul reports "Lots of executables and source code for a number of
different graphic formats AND computer systems" at
http://www.nima.mil/DMAMUSE2/ and
that the DMAMUSE 2.0 site is UserID & Password protected. When
you fill out their access form though, you are immediately given
a UserID & Password to use.
GIS WORLD magazine has a site
here
with a job-mart and with software reviews
here.
Directions is a new
on-line magazine with information about the GIS data market.
Some information on File Formats & Copyright is available at
http://www.bentley.com/news/headline/baystate.htm.
And for the legal folks a copy of the court ruling is at:
http://www.bentley.com/news/headline/baystate.htm .
(from sonny
ESRI's shape file format whitepaper
as .pdf.
(there is a later 1998 verison around too.)
DLG format information can be downloaded from
ftp:\\www-nmd.usgs.gov\pub\ti\DLG
Two internet news groups of interest are:
This
contains a lot of data from the 1990 US Census,
according to Robert A. Belflower.
Information on the GeoTIFF specification can be found at:
http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/cartlab/geotiff/geotiff.html
I.E
here.
SDTS information. (FIPS 173: it's the law unless you are
exempted, have had your agency gutted, or notice that the
regulator was canned; even if you can not afford to buy
translators from the vendors to get at the data you already paid
to collect. [that's enough editorializing -ed] Mandatory
compliance date was in 1994. Seen any difference? [enough
already -ed]) Check out:
There is a site that does "Geography", run by The Mining Co.
here .
The OpenGIS Consortium Inc (OGC) would make a great subject for a paper.
(Who is it? What does it do? and Who does it benefit? are always
good questions to ask.)
Their site has information on open data
standards and software interoperability. See
here .
Brian Klinkenberg's GIS materials
w/
Java
Bibliography of scientific literature relating to coastal
and marine applications of GIS and related technologies.
http://www2.csc.noaa.gov/gisprojects/biblio/default.asp
Source code of map projections?
This site may be of some assistance.
http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/index.html
Archaeology - GIS and Remote Sensing
Archaeology on the Net - GIS and Remote Sensing
http://www.serve.com/archaeology/gis.html
Digital Chart of the World (DCW) links
http://ilm425.nlh.no/gis/dcw/
a site that supplies ascii format files:
http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html
inovaGIS has released the
version 1.1. of its freeware DLL component-based GIS widgets.
The files and some demos are available for download in the project url:
http://gasa.dcea.fct.unl.pt/inovaGIS/index.html
CIESIN has population counts and relative densities in a 5minute grid
for the world.
http://www.ciesin.org
Freeware convert SDTS to DEM or ArcInfo format. Try STDS2ARC.zip.
ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/sdts/dem/
Suggested as a cource of GIS overview articles.
With lots of links to other (more) useful GIS Sites.
http://giswww.kingston.ac.uk/
A NADCON extension for ArcView is available for download at:
http://www.primenet.com/~piersen/arcview/esoteric.htm
unix program "nad2nad" from the "proj" distribution to converts
SPCS to degrees.
http://kai.er.usgs.gov:80/ftp/PROJ.4/proj.html
This was Article 851 of comp.soft-sys.gis.esri:
From: ian.gillespie@cciw.ca*spamthis (ian gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.gis.esri
Subject: Re: Arc training on-line
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:57:37 GMT
Here's some sites you might find useful:
Enter a single keyword for some Avenue topic such as View, Table, or
Script (another Gary Greenberg offering):
search here
hope these help.
Ian Gillespie
Geomatics Unit
Atmospheric Environment Branch - Ontario Region
Environment Canada
(opinions expressed are mine)
Manifold offers a lot
of functionality for very little money. GIS for win32 with
an network analytic orientation. They have a lot of data on
their site as well, including DCW in their format.
Subject: Re: Interactive Web GIS - what is happening?
From: "Mark Cederholm"
Guillaume Criloux
Geoff Houck
Bill Thoen (bthoen@ctmap.com Sat Nov 21 13:27:40 HST 1998) wrote:
I've just updated our "GIS and Related Journals Online" web page at
here.
This is a list of all online sources I'm aware of that produce news
with a GIS or mapping focus.
I'm always looking for sources of news related to the GIS
industry, so I thought I'd make this resource list public in hopes that
people who see it will let me know if I've missed anyone. If you know of
additional resources or have suggestions, please let me know.
ian.gillespie@cciw.ca*spamthis(ian gillespie)
suggested the following to find fresh GIS news.
Directions
MiningCo
gislinx
Thoen's list
The inovaGIS toolkit is a project from the New University of Lisbon
(Portugal) and is free for all uses regarding that the copyrigth notice is
maintained. It is an ActiveX for dealing with Geographic Information.
There is free source code available for dealing directly from memory with
IDRISI images in DELPHI, VB5, Excel, VBScript and ASP.
homepage or
demo src .
NGDC coastal data series
Coastal Relief Model gridded data set and images
flyer.
A new organization: Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS)
For additional membership information contact Sandra Coveny at
sandrac@peak.org.
PC Week story with other links.
There is an ongoing debate about whether GIS professionals should be
certified, by whom, and by what criteria. Several organizations
have come to the fore in this debate. The links below will get
you started looking at the directions being pursued and their pros
and cons.
URISA has a number of resource
links and a
slide show on their position. In the Fall of 2001 there was
a poll on their site as well (on 14 Dec, with 20 respondents it
was running 75% for and 25% against certification.
The ASPRS
(American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) has been
fairly aggressive in pushing for certification. Look for the
"Certification and Recertification Guidelines for the ASPRS
Certification Program" on their web site. It is not at the
top-level of their homepage, but their search facility finds it.
(Dec 2001)
The
ACSM (American Congress on
Surveying and Mapping) also has material and a position.
Their web-site has
"Education and Certification"
in the top-level menu but it does not lead to much on GIS
certification. The
CaGIS (Cartography and Geographic Information Society)
member organization (ACSM is a group of five member
organizations) is small in comparison with the NSPS
(National Society of Professional Surveyors) member organization.
The surveyors already have ciertification and registration
programs in place. They have been working to require GIS
workers to have certification very much like that required
for surveyors. In fact some of the legislation that
they have worked for in a majority of the states has looked like
it would require one to be a certified surveyor to use GIS.
The
UCGIS
(University Consortium for Geographic Information
Science) has also staked out a position and put up a
web-site on certification, prepared by Dr. Karen Kemp
at the University of Redlands.
Certification might be useful for people seeking
job-credentialing and employee-screening, but I am wary of
'guilding' something as widely-based as the processing of
spatial data. I am not sure exactly what skills would be
certified and how these would match up with any one use of
GIS. In fact, I am not convinced that "the profession" has
an agreement on this, or on the meaning of "GIS" for that matter.
Blanket certification at this point is premature.
I also am concerned at the rather bald-faced turf-staking
apparent in the discussion. The concern seems more to be with
protecting the status of certifying bodies, and their members,
and with dividing the mapping business among them,
than with ensuring prospective employers that prospective
employees are genuinely competent. Would certification really
replace a resume and references in a job search?
ucgis-delegates@ra.cfm.ohio-state.edu (all delegates)
ucgis-board@ra.cfm.ohio-state.edu (officers and Board members).
comp.infosystems.gis and
sci.image.processing.
Some software help
U. South Carolina - GIS Short Courses
U. South Carolina - GIS Short Courses
ArcInfo Knowledge Base:
ArcInfo Knowledge Base
ArcView Knowledge Base:
ArcView Knowledge Base
AVENUE PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE (Gary Greenberg's Avenue Classes,
Requests, and Sample Scripts):
Avenue Programmer's Reference
From steve.slatcher@pobox.com Wed Sep 30 10:43:12 HST 1998
The most encouraging dvelopments I discovered were v3 of the
Demographic Data Viewer (a good Java UI) and TerraServer (e-commerce
meets mapping).
Demographic Data Viewer
GeoSearch - St Paul public works
Generator National Poll Demo
Terraserver
The Train Brain
J-Track 3D
--
Steve Slatcher
http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher
Some Popular Press on GIS
Certification
Some crude thoughts on certification...