Huge map of baghdad

Great collection of maps.

The war in Iraq has thrust GIS and Geospatial technologies into the limelight. Each day the public is presented with maps, imagery, and other spatial data products in an effort to provide a visual representation of the latest developments. The following directory provides some valuable pointers and descriptions of companies that are providing GIS-based solutions to help the public follow the war in Iraq. If you know of additional resources that are of interest please send us some details.

Includes beautiful images of the Hexamer Volumes from the 1850's. Not available for download.

Lists data from NACJD that can be used in GIS.

photo pool of GIS/Maps from Flickr

mapping of homicides in philadelphia - jan1 - sept 30th

To Drill down to a Raster:

Select the point layer file

Select the raster layer into which you want to drill

Enter a field name to store the drilldown values

Click "Compute Drilldown"

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Building Information Technology Skills (bITS) among North Philadelphia Youth is a project funded by the National Science Foundation, ITEST Program and sponsored by the Information Technology and Society Research Group of Temple University. It involves the participation of approximately ninety high school students per year over a three-year long program. bITS is carried out year round and includes five hours of instruction each week for twelve weeks each semester. In addition, students participate in a summer intensive workshop.

This is the home page of Jeremy Mennis, Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at  Temple University.  My interests are in the theory and application of geographic information systems and science.

Temple University offers a broad array of Geographic Information Science resources, including GIS and RS software, dedicated high-quality computing labs, and a range of courses.  Research activities address both theoretical and applied topics.

Environmental Justice
Case Study: Air Toxic Releases in New Jersey
(from Mennis, J. and Jordan, L., 2005. The distribution of environmental equity: exploring spatial nonstationarity in multivariate models of air toxic releases. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(2): 249-268)
Introduction
Geographic information systems (GIS) and multivariate regression are used to analyze socioeconomic inequity in the spatial distribution of New Jersey air toxic release facilities listed in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).

LeadDog creates and maintains GIS street and road maps for Iraq, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America.  We offer GIS and postcode maps for virtually every country in the world.

June 28, 2006
With a Cellphone as My Guide
By JOHN MARKOFF and MARTIN FACKLER

Think of it as a divining rod for the information age.

If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a historical monument, and with the press of a button the phone will display information from the Internet describing the object you are looking at.

Data Set Name	Description	Theme	Metadata
Digital Soils (Ontario County)	In-house digitized soils boundaries for 3/4 of Ontario County.	Boundaries Land Use/Land Cover Soils	n/a

 

Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics

The primary goal of the Automated Learning Group is to extend the state of the art in the field of data mining. Toward that end, we collaborate with researchers to invent new approaches and tools that wil

Like the NIS in Philadelphia, this site provides lots of information about New York at various levels of geographic specificity.

Shapefiles for three levels of political boundary in Spain.

Acme Mapper shows DOQ and Topo maps for the US and allows lots of other cool things.

The SALB dataset is a global digital dataset consisting of digital maps and codes that can be downloaded on a country by country basis. In order to insure consistency from one country to another, the database uses an international border standard developed in the context of the UN Geographic Database. This dataset is downloadable at no cost from this website. Due to the difference in the quality of the documents compiled, the digital maps part of the dataset are more adapted for thematic mapping than for precise location or modeling. It is therefore recommended not to use this data at a scale below 1:1 000 000.

The maps presented on this website are cartograms, otherwise known as density-equalising maps. The maps of the world you are used to seeing attempt to represent countries according to their land area. A cartogram re-sizes each country (or other geographical unit) according to some other variable - for example population, GDP, number of people with AIDS, etc. In the population example, densely-populated country such as the UK will appear much larger than it does on a standard map, and sparsely populated countries will appear smaller.

The 3D buildings OGLE'd from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) copying all of the roof polygons to floor polygons, we got the job done:

Measuring urban sprwal from space

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Through our member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and academia to create open and extensible software application programming interfaces for geographic information systems (GIS) and other mainstream technologies. Adopted specifications are available for the public's use at no cost.

Our world map is incrementally built by many submissions from various sources.

An issue devoted to GIS in higher ed, mostly from small liberal arts colleges.