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Introduction

• Digital Maps: An Essential Part of Every Citizen's Interface to the NII
• Trimble - All About GPS

Samples

• Draft NY-NJ Trail Conference maps © 1999-2005 NY-NJ Trail Conference restricted to viewing only

Data

Maps

• Adirondack Park Agency
  • GIS Data
• America's Roof USGS Topographical Map Room 
• Census Bureau
• Color Landform Atlas of the US
• Connecticut Map and Geographic Information Center - Magic
• Cornell GIS map server    CUGIR
• DeLorme Road maps - TIGER database
• Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs) Topographic Map Exchange
• Digital Wisdom (map products)
• EPA Geospatial Data
• EPA Region2 GIS Data
• ESRI's Internet Mapping and Data Site
  • Downloadable Data
  • Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
  • Geography Network
• Fairly recent land cover data
• FGDC Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Activity
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• GIRAS/LULC Landuse Atlas of the United States...
• GIS Data Depot
• GIS - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Historic USGS Maps of New Hampshire and NE, NY
• Horizons Technology, Inc. Sure!Maps 
• JEBMap
• Magellan Geographix Maps.com
• MapArt
• Map Resources
• Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com
• Map-NY
• Maptech NOAA Marine Navigation,USGS Topo(Topographic)Maps TopoScout
• MicroPath (DEM and DRG data - USGS but cheaper and faster)
• National GAP Analysis
  • NY GAP
• National Goedetic Survey
  • Benchmark Lookup
  • CORS DGPS correction
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • Soil Survey
• NJ DEP GIS data
• NJ Spatial Data Clearinghouse
• NJDEP - i-MapNJ
• NYS Data Sharing Cooperative
• NYS GIS Clearinghouse
• NPS Digital Maps Home Page
• Relief Maps of the United States
• www.tomharrisonmaps.com
• TopoGrafix Home
• Topoguide
• TOPO! Interactive Maps Wildflower Productions
• Topo West
• TopoZone
• Trails Illustrated
• USFWS Refuge Boundary page
• USGS
  • Earth Resources Observation Systems
  • Geodata download
  • NJ
  • NY
• USGS DRG map swaps
• Wilderness Press Online

GPS

• GPS resource list - updated semi-weekly - very complete, the entries below are mostly a selection from it.
• GPS Mapping Comes of Age
• Remote Sensing
• Spectra Precision Terrasat
• Navtech GPS
• GPStoday.com
• FAA WAAS
• Sam Wormley's pages
• The Truckers Report
• GPS Receiver Information, Software, and Hardware Reviews of Garmin, Lowrance, and Magellan Mehaffey Jack Yeazel
• Waypoint (GPS and DGPS software)
• Garmin
• Trimble  
• Magellan
• Topcon
• Corvallis Microtechnology, Inc (We own one)
• Point Research Corp Dead Reckoning
• GeoFocus, Inc. - GIS & GPS Software, Hardware, Consulting & Applications
• GPS World - Home Page
• The Global Positioning System
• USCG Navigation Center GPS PAGE
• U.S. DoC - NOAA - NOS - National Geodetic Survey
• Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB)

Metadata

• NYS GIS Clearinghouse - Metadata Repository
• NSGIC Metadata Primer
• Federal Geographic Data Committee

GIS

• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• ESRI  ArcView, ArcInfo
• MapInfo
• Clark Labs - IDRISI
• Official GRASS GIS Web Site
• ERDAS, Inc. - Geographic Imaging Made Simple
• Core Software Technology
• Bentley Engineering, Design, and CAD Software MicroStation
• Research Systems, Inc.
• USGS 1997 Survey of GIS program producers
• Blue Marble Geographics
• ESRI - ArcView, ArcInfo
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• GISLinx's Categorized List of GIS Sites
• Map Division NY Public Library - GIS system available by appointment
• USGS 1997 Survey of GIS program producers
• ODF State Forests GIS Data - Xtools.avx makes Arc/Info stuff available to Arc/View
• Manifold GIS System
• Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Digital Quads of Arkansas
• The New Jersey Non-Profit GIS Communtiy
• Scientific Software Group
• OpenGIS.org
• Digital Earth Explorer
• Edinburgh GIS information
• GeoFocus, Inc. - GIS & GPS Software, Hardware, Consulting & Applications
• NewCyber3DFull Source Code CDs for 3D Graphics, GIS-RS, Volume Visualization,Visual Simulation, Image Processing, Data Visualization & Virtual Reality
• Minnesota DNR - ArcView Extensions

Cartography

• Society of Cartographers
• Corel Draw/Paint/Trace
• Adobe Illustrator/Streamline
• Freehand
• Versamap Digital Mapping - Cartography and Outline Maps
• MicroCAM for Windows
• MapPublisher - JamBuddy aka pdfPLUS
• ESRI - ArcView, ArcInfo
• OCAD Home Page
• Pat Dunlavey Cartographics Home
• Hiking Maps examples from Pat Dunlavey
• Digital Cartographics Custom Mapping Home Page
• Compass Brook
• 3D rendering
  • Golden Software Suffer 6 contour mapping program
  • Landform
  • Bryce3D
  • VistaPro
  • World Construction Set

Publishing

Web

• Autodesk - Autodesk MapGuide
• Internet Mapping   ESRI
• Examples of ESRI Internet Mapping Server
• JShape Home Page
• Formida Software - Tools to Visualize Data
• ArcExplorer
• Object/FX - Visual Software Solutions
• GeoMedia Web Map   Intergraph
• GIS Online Website
• EarthKey Internet GIS
• Blue Marble Geographics - Beyond Geographic Software
• Global Geomatics
• Michael R. Meuser - Clary-Meuser and Associates - Projects
• Caliper® Corporation Home Page
• KINDS - www.kinds.ac.uk
• Bentley Engineering, Design, and CAD Software, MicroStation
• Examples:
  • Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC)
  • Mt. Tamalpias 3D VRML Hike Trail Guide

Printers

Resources

Organisations

• URISA
• GISMO - New York, NY
• NYCARC User Group Home Page
• Regional Plan Association
• Conservation GIS Home Page

Mailing Lists/Newsgroups

• GIS-L
  send email To: listserver@geoint.com. In the BODY, type: SUBSCRIBE GIS-L
• GISNY-L
• SpatialNews - GIS news by Spatial Graphics
• MAPINFO-L
• comp.infosystems.gis (news group)
• comp.soft-sys.gis.esri (news group)
• sci.geo.satellite-nav (news group)

Training

• Rutgers University Professional Certificate Program in Geomatics
• ESRI

Other links

• Trail Conference Digital Mapping Project  old startup material