Selected Web Resources for Geography
- Cartographic and Spatial Data on the Internet (University of Chicago Library)
- Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information
Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
- GeoCommunicator
- From the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest
Service (USFS), GeoCommunicator acts as a portal to the Geography Network's
resources related to land management and land records.
- GeoData Information Sources
- Compiled by Mark MacLennan University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Modern Language Association Language Map
- Drawing on information from the United States Census 2000 long form, this interactive map allows users to see
where the speakers of thirty-seven languages reside throughout the country.
- National Climatic Data Center
- Downloadable data and publications.
- Internet Resources for Geographers (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- PCL Map Collection
- Texas Geographic Information Council
- Coordinates geographic information for Texas state agencies. Includes the 2004 draft
Texas Base Map Plan [PDF].
- U.S. Gazetteer
- This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census
Lookup server.
- Women in Geography
- Organizations, Bibliographies, grant information and more, from UNC's SWIG Chapter
- Alexandria Digital Library
- Resources include links to various topics in geography, such as Holy Land Maps
- Latitude: The Art and Science of
Fifteenth-Century Navigation
Selected Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Sites
Dictionary of Abbreviations and acronyms in geographic
information systems, cartography, and remote sensing.
By Philip Hoehn (David Rumsey Collection) and Mary Lynette Larsgaard (Map & Imagery Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara Library). Designed by John Creaser (Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California, Berkeley).
GIS Data Depot
The NCSU Libraries GIS pages
Includes extensive documentation on accessing and using GIS data sets.
EPA Basins
Analysis tool for use by regional,
state, and local agencies in performing watershed and water-quality based studies.
ESRI
Geographic Names Information System
Guide to Mostly Online and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and
Attribute Data (University of Arkansas Libraries)
NationalAtlas.gov
National Highway System Maps [PDF]
National Climatic Data Center
TNRIS (Texas Natural Resources Information System)
The mission of TNRIS is to provide a "centralized information system incorporating all Texas natural resource data, socioeconomic data related to natural resources, and indexes related to that data that are collected by state agencies or other entities".
University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
USGS Geographic Data Download
U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Services and Information
Social, Demographic, and Economic Information.
USGS Earth Explorer
Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.
