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  MAPPING NATURE:     FALL 2006  
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INTRODUCTION CASES APPLICATION LINKS & RESOURCES  
           
  The interet is swimming with resources for those interested in GIS. Here is a list-in-progress of some good sites...    
      ...for literature references, scroll down or click here

 
               
 

 

            
 

Catalogs and Blogs

   

Data Sources

 
  programable web     NOAA  
  lifehacker     usgs  
  urban cartography     Wind Power Maps  
  wayfaring     Historical Maps  
  GISUser     national atlas  
           
           
           
 

Planning Projects

       
  WPLP        
  Providence Plan    

Standards & Practices

 
        Open GeoSpatial Consortium  
        GIS Dictionary  
 

Mashups

        
           
  avian flu map     NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience  
  weatherbonk        
  disaster map    

Spatial Projects

 
        sensable city  
 

Open Source

       
  GPS Visualizer    

Software Providers

 
  image mapper     ESRI  
  GRASS – Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, open source: a complete GIS        
  MapServer – Web-based mapping server, developed by the University of Minnesota.        
  Chameleon – Environment for building applications with MapServer.        
  Geoserver — open-source portal for spatial data        
  GeoTools – Open source GIS toolkit written in Java, using Open Geospatial Consortium specifications.        
  gvSIG – Open source GIS written in Java.        
  JUMP GIS – Java Unified Mapping Platform. (See end of page for JUMP derivative projects, like Kosmo and OpenJUMP)        
  MapWindow GIS – Free, open source GIS desktop application and programming component.        
  OpenMap – Java Beans-based GIS desktop application and toolkit.        
  PostGIS – Spatial extensions for the open source        
  PostgreSQL database, allowing geospatial queries.        
  MsSqlSpatial – Spatial extensions for        
  Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database, allowing geospatial queries.        
  Quantum GIS        
  uDig        
  (the above links taken from wikipedia 12/20/2006)        
 

 

        
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Bibliography

        
         
MacEachren, Alan M. - How Maps Work 1995, The Guilford Press, NYC, NY        
Schuyler, E., Gibson, R., Walsh, J. - Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography, 2005, O'Reilly Media Inc.        
Pickles, John - A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World 2004, Routledge        
Friendly, Michael - Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization
October 24, 2006		        
David M. Mark, Nicholas Chrisman, Andrew U. Frank, Patrick H. McHaffie, John Pickles - The GIS History Project        
         
         
         
         
         
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