Brennan's GIS Resource List

This page contains links to 118 sites, and was last updated on 6/7/2000.



Arc/Info AML FTP site

Arizona Geographic Information Council
From the site - "The mission of the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC) is to coordinate the development and management of geographic information systems (GIS) and geographic data in Arizona. We seek to insure that Arizona's public decision-makers and other users have access to geographic information that is complete, timely, accurate, and reliable."

Argus Technologies
From the site - "The first geographic viewer for the Internet that allows you to interactively browse and explore the World Wide Web and link to information and sites on the Net using dynamic living maps with high quality vector graphics and unparalled performance! Interested?"

Boulder County Land Use Department GIS
From the site - "Our base layer is made up of 750 coverages, which were digitized from the original ink-on-mylar Assessor's Parcel Maps. Other layers include wetlands, natural landmarks and natural areas, floodplains, zoning, open space, wildlife habitats and migration corridors, and geologic hazards."

Buffalo Project [UB Department of Geography]
From the site - "Urban development patterns can now be visualised from new digital data sources such as land parcel and address point data. GIS can be used in both pragmatic and theoretical ways in identifying errors in this data and providing insights into the way cities grow and develop."

California State Lands Commission - Environmental GIS Data

Canada Centre for Mapping - Natural Resources Canada
From the site - "The Topographic Map Service provides topographic products and services that contribute to Canada's prosperity by helping our clients in areas of sustainable development, recreation and sovereignty."

Canadian Soil Information System
From the site - "CanSIS uses a GIS called ARC/INFO to maintain land resource data in the NSDB. These data describe the location of soil types in Canada, and include characteristics that are relevant to a soil's biological productivity, as well as landscape attributes such as slope, local surface form, and the presence of rock outcrops."

Cates GIS Consulting
From the site - "I provide implementation, application development, and spatial database design assistance to users of geographic data. At this time, I am focusing on application development for the desktop using ArcView, Avenue, and client / server rapid application development tools to access geographic and related attribute data."

Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies [University of Arkansas]
From the site - "The Center For Advanced Spatial Technologies is a part of the University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. It is dedicated to applications in GIS, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry and interoperability. CAST has been selected by the Intergraph Corporation as a Center For Excellence in Mapping Sciences and by the Trimble Corporation as a Center For Excellence in Navigation Sciences."

DeLorme Mapping
From the site - "DeLorme specializes in mapping software and databases for the consumer, education, business and government markets, and also publishes printed atlases of individual states."

Engineering and Land Systems
From the site - "Engineering & Land Systems, Inc. (ELS) is a digital mapping firm located in Winter Park, FL, USA providing Custom Mapping Services specializing in the planning, data conversion, application programming and training services to clients planning or operating Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Land Information Systems (LIS), or Automated Mapping & Facilities Management Systems (AM/FM)."

EPA (US) forest land distribution data

ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute
From the site - "Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), is dedicated to providing the leading geographic information system (GIS) technology and services for public, private, and educational organizations. Thousands of organizations around the world use ESRI software and services to create, access, and manage geographically referenced information."

Generic Mapping Tools software
FTP site. From the site - "Version 3.0 of GMT has recently been released. The preferred way to obtain the necessary files is to send mail to listserver@soest.hawaii.edu with the single message information gmtgroup"

Geodetic Survey Division - Division des Levés Géodésiques
From the site - "Everything you want to know about the Geodetic Survey Division PLUS * online information about GSD products and services and access to GSD online products including Canadian Active Control System products and the CGBBS."
Tout ce que vous voulez savoir sur la division des levés géodésiques ET informations en ligne sur les produits et services de la DLG et accès aux produits en ligne de la DLG tell que les produits du Système de Contrôle Actif Canadien et le CGBBS."

Geodyssey Limited
From the site - "Hipparchus (the ancient Greek) invented latitudes and longitudes and was the first to measure distances in terms of angles. Hipparchus, (our product) is an "Open GIS" toolkit that enables software developers to incorporate geography into their applications without the use of monolithic geographic information system (GIS) solutions."

Geographic Designs Inc.
From the site - "We know the best people in GIS, Remote Sensing, and Digital Cartography"

GIS and remote sensing links - Queen's University
From the site - "This is a top level list of GIS and Remote Sensing information sites which are available on the Internet through FTP, Telnet, Gopher and World Wide Web hypertext links."

GIS frequently asked questions - US Bureau of the Census

GIS Home Page

GIS Jobs Clearinghouse
From the site - "Welcome to the University of Minnesota- Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) Web server. This server and it's components are intended for use by the Internet GIS/IP community as a whole. This is also the primary access point for several RSL based Internet projects."

GIS utilities - USGS
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GIS World - Business Geographics
From the site - "GIS WORLD is the world1s first and leading magazine devoted to serving the GIS industry. It is dedicated to the understanding and application of GIS technology worldwide."

Global Land Information System - USGS EROS
From the site - "The Global Land Information System (GLIS) is an interactive computer system developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for scientists seeking sources of information about the Earth's land surfaces. GLIS contains metadata that is, descriptive information about data sets. Through GLIS, scientists can evaluate data sets, determine their availability, and place online requests for products. GLIS is more than a mere list of products. It offers online samples of earth science data that may be ordered through the system."

GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
From the site - "The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory's (USA-CERL) Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) was developed to provide these management tools to Army environmental planners and land managers. GRASS also has many applications for Civil Works project planning and design."

GRASS FTP site

IDRISI FTP site

Illinois Natural History Survey GIS
From the site - "The Geographic Information System (GIS) is an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information. This System allows users to perform very difficult, time consuming, or otherwise impractical spatial analyses."

ImageNet
From the site - "ImageNet(sm) is an on line archive, search and preview system for geospatial data, providing remote access to raster and vector data products. The ImageNet(sm) Service is provided by Core Software Technology."

Intergraph Online

Internet Resources for Geographic Information and GIS
From the site - "This list includes a variety of things on the internet, with links you can follow to find out more about them or use them directly."

Introduction to GPS Applications

From the site - "This document is an introdution to the NAVSTAR and GLONASS Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their uses."

Minnesota Legislative GIS Office

Montana Natural Resource Information System
From the site - "The Montana State Library is located at 1515 East Sixth Avenue. It is the principal library and information source for state government and for library services to the blind and physically handicapped. It is also a central information point for natural resource data, and a major source of information and assistance for all types of libraries--public, school, academic, institutional and special--throughout the state."

NAISMap - National Atlas Information Service Canada
From the site - "Welcome to NAISMap, the first WWW-based GIS (geographic information system). With NAISMap, you can view and manipulate National Atlas spatial data layers and construct your own map of Canada."

National Land Survey of Finland
From the site - "The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) is a leading expert in land-use and mapping services"

New Mexico GIS Advisory Council
From the site - "Welcome to the New Mexico Geographic Information Systems Advisory Council (GISAC) home page. The Council's role includes supporting New Mexico state agencies in the development of GIS and fostering a spirit and environment for sharing of resources. One mechanism for achieving those ends is to provide a central resource for the the dissemination and exchange of GIS-related information."

Norwegian Institute of Technology GIS links
From the site - "This page is situated at Department of Surveying and Mapping, The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), and can be used as startpoint to find various sites related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cartography."
"Denne sida er plassert ved institutt for kart og oppmåling, NTH, og er utgangspunkt for å finna fram til ulike kjelder på nettet som har tilknyting til Geografiske Informasjonssystem (GIS) og Kartografi. Her ligg det peikarar både til aktive program, demo-program, kartarkiv, arkiv for geografisk informasjon og anna aktuellt stoff som finns på internet. Dei ulike kjeldene har peikarar vidare til anna aktuellt stoff, så her skulle vera nok å ta fatt på."

Notes for GIS and the Geographer's Craft
(submitted by Chris Kochtitsky - csk3@atsdhs1.em.cdc.gov)


Open GIS Consortium
From the site - "The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a unique membership organization dedicated to open system approaches to geoprocessing. By means of its consensus building and technology development activities, OGC has had a significant impact on the geodata standards community, and has successfully promoted the vision of Open GIS as the vehicle for integration of geoprocessing with the distributed architectures positioned to define the emerging worldwide infrastructure for information management."

Ordnance Survey (UK)
From the site - "Ordnance Survey is the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain. For more than 200 years we have created what are acknowledged to be some of the world's finest maps. You can find out more from these Web pages about our products, both digital and paper, and services that we offer. There is also information about OS as an organisation and its history from the general information pages."

Pittsburgh Map Database - Scandal Project
From the site - "There are two interfaces to the Pittsburgh map: 1. A pure HTML version which should work with any browser that supports forms and gifs. 2. An X based version which works if you are running X windows and can xhost to our machine.

REGIS - Environmental Planning GIS at Berkeley
From the site - "Our research program is developing GIS tools and applying them in environmental planning, management, research, and teaching. REGIS supports open computing hardware architecture, public-domain GIS software, and open access to digital information on the environment and land use."

Spatial Archive and Interchange Format
From the site - "The Spatial Archive and Interchange Format (SAIF) was developed as a means of sharing spatial data and spatiotemporal data. SAIF is designed to facilitate interoperability, particularly in the context of data exchange. It also represents an efficient means of archiving data in a vendor neutral format. An overriding consideration with SAIF is to be able to treat geographic data as simply another kind of data; that is, the roots of SAIF are in information sciences."

Strategic Mapping, Inc.
From the site - "Strategic Mapping, Inc. (SMI) is the leading provider of fully integrated products which enable you to transform database information into visible solutions. Our solutions are a combination of powerful PC software , demographic, business, and industry-specific data as well as industry specific application expertise and training."

SOEST Generic Mappping Tool
From the site - "This public-domain software generates PostScript images. Requires the netCDF library, available via anonymous ftp from unidata.ucar.edu in /pub/netcdf . The first sample (124,605) is a reduced-resolution version of a GMT-generated combined perspective and color relief picture that became the cover of a recent issue of EOS. The second sample (189,499) is a black & white preduction of tsunami travel times between Oahu and locations all over the Pacific. Both courtesy of Paul Wessel one of the developers of GMT."

Texas GIS Planning Council

Thomas Brothers Maps
From the site - "Thomas Bros. Maps (TBM) has been updating and publishing detailed street maps since 1915 using manual cartographic processes of inking streets on Mylar® map bases, placing type and hand cutting windows for screened color areas."

TIGER Mapping Service - US Census]


USGS EROS DEM and DLG files

USGS EROS - US Earth Resources Observation Systems)

USGS GIS Tutorial

USGS Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products

VPFVIEW software - DND Canada
FTP site.

Western Australia Land Information System
From the site - "The Western Australian Government has for some years coordinated the land and geographic information management of its agencies. The mechanism for this coordination is the Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS). WALIS is a consortium of more than twenty agencies, each with an interest in managing land or geographic information."

World Wide Web Virtual Library - Cartography
Links to 20 Internet sites related to cartography.

Xerox FTP site (DLG, DEM, GBF-DIME, DTM and TIGER files)


Tri-Service CADD/GIS Technology Center - The Tri-Service CADD/GIS Technology Center at the Waterways Experiment Station (WES) in Vicksburg, Mississippi fosters and promulgates CADD/GIS technology to empower life-cycle facilities management of DoD property.

  • Official GIS New Zealand Tourism Database - A site developing a comprehensive directory/database of tourism-based businesses in New Zealand. Full Classified Listings supported by Display Features and What's On Articles. Maps Companies:Geographic Information Systems Languages:Java:Utilities Math and Science Education Universities:Japan People Government:States:Georgia Recreation:Outdoors:Fishing Science:Agriculture:Soil Science:Institutes Science:Biology:Botany Science:Biology:Entomology:Pest Management Science:Earth Sciences:Geology and Geophysics Science:Earth Sciences:Geology and Geophysics:Institutes Science:Earth Sciences:Geology and Geophysics:Remote Sensing Science:Geography Science:Geography:Geographic Information Systems Science:Geography:Geographic Information Systems:Conferences Science:Geography:Geographic Information Systems:Institutes Science:Geography:Institutes Science:Geography:Indices Society and Culture:Environment and Nature:Institutes