Map data and information sites


Pictures to look at

Stolen from NOAA National Geophysical Data Centre
(sadly, colours are not consistent from map to map)
Alabama ... Arkansas ... Arizona ... California ... Colorado ... Connecticut ... Delaware ... Florida ... Georgia ... Iowa ... Idaho ... Illinois ... Indiana ... Kansas ... Kentucky ... Louisiana ... Massachusetts ... Maryland ... Maine ... Michigan ... Minnesota ... Missouri ... Mississippi ... Montana ... North_Carolina ... North_Dakota ... Nebraska ... New_Hampshire ... New_Jersey ... New_Mexico ... Nevada ... Hell ... Ohio ... Oklahoma ... Oregon ... Pennsylvania ... Rhode_Island ... South_Carolina ... South_Dakota ... Tennessee ... Texas ... Utah ... Virginia ... Vermont ... Washington ... Wisconsin ... West_Virginia ... Wyoming

Whole World (556KB) ... Whole World (41KB) ... World in Outline (8KB)
Rotating Globe ... Another Rotating Globe

Sites to explore

www.nais.ccm.emr.ca (broken)
www.usgs.gov/atlas National Atlas of the U.S.
Interesting, but just snippets, go straight to "atlas views"
www.fdc.gov (broken)
tiger.census.gov TIGER maps of the whole country
+ TIGER technical info and sample files
www.census.gov Query the U.S. census database, tons of data.
edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/docs/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html INCORRECT URL
alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu Doesn't seem to have much going for it, but .../other-sites/ has some pictures to look at.
kayenta.geog.byu.edu/gisonline By the author of the book, has updated links to things
www.census.gov/geo/www/gis_gateway.html UNEXPLORED "the GIS gateway"
www.topo.com company sells USGS topographical maps on CD
164.214.2.59/geospatial/geospatial.html (to be explored)
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/seltopo.html (to be further explored) Supplies free topographic data in simple format, and jpegs
edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html (to be explored)
mapindex.nos.noaa.gov (to be explored)
www.bts.gov/programs/gis/ntatlas (to be explored)
govdoc.ucdavis.edu/tiger/tiger.html (to be explored)
spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map (to be explored)
magic.lib.uconn.edu (to be explored)
mapping.usgs.gov (to be explored)
www.nima.mil (to be explored)
www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_geodata.html (to be explored)
www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html (to be explored)
ilm425.nlh.no/gis/dcw/dcw.html (Norwegian) (to be explored)
library.berkeley.edu/UCBGIS/gisdata.html (to be explored)
earth1.epa.gov/oppe/spatial.html (to be explored)
www.esri.com/datahound (to be explored)
www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/linc/index.html (Canadian) (to be explored)
www.ordsvy.gov.uk (British Ordnance Survey) (to be explored)

(stolen from Brandon Plewe, Dept. of Geography, Brigham Young University, book: GIS on line, and others)