GIS Activities
CommonCensus Map Project - Redrawing the US based on voting instead of state and county boundaries.
GIS in the News
ESRI ArcWatch - Your e-Magazine for GIS News, Views, and Insights.
Volunteer Geographic Information in the News, NYTimes, 17 November 2009 - "It is a huge shift," said Michael F. Goodchild, a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "This is putting mapping where it should be, which is the hands of local people who know an area well." more...
GIS and Education
ArcLessons - ArcLessons is a resource for you to share lessons for using GIS in the classroom. You can browse a list of lessons by category or use the search tools to find lessons in your area of interest. You also can contribute your Lessons or LessonPaks to ArcLessons for other educators to use.
ArcLessons Template: A Lesson Writing Framework - This template is designed to help persons wishing to write new ArcLessons packages.
Degree Confluence Project - includes pictures and stories from each latitude and longitude integer degree intersection in the world.
Find a GIS Program - An ESRI site that allows you to search for institutions that offer GIS courses.
SpaceWeather - News and Information about the sun-earth environment. SPACESHIP SIGHTINGS: The International Space Station and space shuttle Atlantis are docked together and putting on a good show in the night sky. Check the Simple Satellite Tracker for flybys of your home town.
GIS Organizations
GISuser Website - GISuser.com is an information rich news and technology resource for GIS professionals. All the latest news, articles, tools, event info, free job posting and much more is available. Also you'll find a 3x, a week industry newsletter.
GIS Resources
ArcGIS Online provides ArcGIS users with a set of foundation services that is deeply integrated with ArcGIS. As an ArcGIS user, you have immediate access to map services, task services, software developer kits (SDKs), and other content via the Web.
Geography Network - Share geographic data and services through a global network of publishers.
GIWIZ - Geospatial information network that includes finding employment, educational resources, industry data, and more.
Parts Geek - GIS Resources: history of GIS, how GIS works, GIS in the workforce, and types of software available
webGIS - extensive map coverage for technical applications.
University of Wyoming GIS Resources Links
Wyoming GIS Resources Links
ESRI GIS Resources Links
GPS Resources
GPS.gov - Links to sources of information about GPS for both civil and military users, including tutorials.
GPSFAQ.com - Links to reviews of GPS units and articles.
Interesting Online Mapping
Make a Map - Free Embeddable Map - interactive U.S. demographic map. Eembed it in your Web page. Select from seven different demographic layers such as median household income, population change, and unemployment. This is part of ESRI's new Mapping for Everyone Web site, which provides simple, step-by-step instructions for creating maps with free GIS tools.
TRF Policy Map - The latest mortgage statistics from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) for 2007, along with data for 2004, 2005, and 2006 are now available and mapped on PolicyMap.
U.S. Credit Conditions - The Federal Reserve considers the record rate of mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures and their impacts on communities an urgent problem. more...
Journals
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Remote Sensing Resources
ASPRS Online - Guide to Land Imaging Satellites.
Software
ESRI Developer Support Website - documentation, downloads, object models, etc.
Tips and Tricks
Decimal Degree Conversions - Different degree formats: Resolutions and conversions.
The Earth According to WGS84 - This table (20 KB) lists the lengths in feet of 1 minute, 1 second and ¹/1000 minute of latitude and longitude.
TypeBrewer - Online cartographic typography selection application.
Suggestions
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