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GISCorps Posted on June 17, 2004 GISCorps started life in October 2003 and it is still an
organization in the making. GISCorps is a URISA initiative and operates entirely
on a volunteer basis under URISA
Spatial Hydrology Posted on May 26, 2004 Spatial Hydrology is an established online resource for GIS users involved in hydrologic modeling and related disciplines. Its a fine example of a community-based resource.
WMS Viewer Posted on May 20, 2004
The Intergraph WMS Viewer (wmsviewer.com) facilitates collaboration of geospatial information stored in WMS sources. The thin-client Web-based application enables users to view one or more WMS servers accessed through Web sites that conform to the WMS interface standards defined by the OGC.
askTheSpider.com is the brand new service offered by IONIC Software to empower geographic information discovery and interoperability. This service will soon be part of your life and seamlessly link all the actors of the geo-Internet together.
The Land Survey Information System or LSIS is the official government Web site for the distribution of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) of the United States. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cadastral survey program is responsible for the official boundary surveys for all federal agencies in the U.S. that together manage over 700 million acres.
Developed by the UK Ordnance Survey, the MapZone offers young visitors homework help (in English and Welsh) as well as a teacher zone and parent zone. Users will find games, tutorials, teacher resources, competitions, trivia, and geography/GIS facts.
The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey's Education Program is to educate and inform data users in the use and application of USGS products and services. Use this valuable resource to locate tutorials, news, edu resources, and much more.
The CITI website provides detailed maps of properties in New York City and includes information on land use, zoning, ownership, transportation and more. A fine example of Community-based mapping!
The Community Information Technology Initiative (CITI) is a project of the Municipal Art Society, in collaboration with NYPIRG's Community Mapping Assistance Project, Space Track and ESRI.
The CITI website provides detailed maps of properties in New York City and includes information on land use, zoning, ownership, transportation and more. Community and City generated planning proposals and recommendations are also displayed. Participating community boards have the opportunity to create their own data about their districts and add it to the system. Users of the system can create maps, add comments and email or print them out to be sent to community board offices, elected officials or city agencies.
1 km resolution global land cover characteristics data base for use in a wide range of environmental research and modeling applications. The land cover characterization effort is part of the NASA Earth Observing System Pathfinder Program and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme-Data and Information System focus 1 activity. The data set is derived from 1-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data spanning a 12-month period (April 1992-March 1993) and is based on a flexible data base structure and seasonal land cover regions concepts. Seasonal land cover regions provide a framework for presenting the temporal and spatial patterns of vegetation in the database. The regions are composed of relatively homogeneous land cover associations (for example, similar floristic and physiognomic characteristics) which exhibit distinctive phenology (that is, onset, peak, and seasonal duration of greenness), and have common levels of primary production.
This Canadian magazine provides readers with some interesting maps developed by serching for "curious" place names. My favorite.. "The National Beer Map of Canada"... aka. The Final Draft!
So how are the maps made? Melissa Edwards, a self-proclaimed Map Geek employed by Geist searches out the Geonames website (geonames.nrcan.gc.ca) and locates 200-300 interesting place names that share a common theme. The end result is a new map with a "funky" theme and title.
The maps are posted online as static PDF's, however, they are a fine example of what a little bit of creativity, some original thought, and alot of fun can accomplish by using a simple mapping program and a place name database. Some noteworthy maps include:
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GISCorps started life in October 2003 and it is still an
organization in the making. GISCorps is a URISA initiative and operates entirely
on a volunteer basis under URISA
Spatial Hydrology is an established online resource for GIS users involved in hydrologic modeling and related disciplines. Its a fine example of a community-based resource.
The Land Survey Information System or LSIS is the official government Web site for the distribution of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) of the United States. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cadastral survey program is responsible for the official boundary surveys for all federal agencies in the U.S. that together manage over 700 million acres. 
The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey's Education Program is to educate and inform data users in the use and application of USGS products and services. Use this valuable resource to locate tutorials, news, edu resources, and much more.
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