Cartography & GIS Links

Table of Contents

UWM

Organizations

Education

Support & Forums

General/Reference

Milwaukee

Shaded Relief Resources

Topographic Map Resources

Wisconsin

Employment Links

NOTE: No endorsement for any of these sites is implied. Donna Genzmer's links have been placed on this site for better searchability. [Please notify me of any broken links.]

UWM

• UWM campus map and interactive tour
• UWM campus map suitable for printing (.pdf file) UWM Campus 3D .dxf file is located at: ~gis/data/campus/uwm3d.zip
• UWM Cartography and Geographic Information Science Center
• UWM GIS Council
• UWM ESRI Site License
• GIS data requests from UWM students, faculty & staff should be sent to gisdata@uwm.edu

Organizations

• Association of American Geographers
  • Cartography Specialty Group
  • GIS Specialty Group
  • Worldwide Web Specialty Group
• ESRI
• EWUG (ESRI Wisconsin Users Group)
• International Cartographic Association
• National Geographic Society
• North American Cartographic Information Society
• Spatial Information and Analysis Consortium, UW–Madison
• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee GIS Council

Education

• Careers in Cartography & GIS (Cartography and Geographic Information Society)
• Degree Confluence Project "The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here."
• GIS Certification ESRI: Libraries and Museums
• ESRI: K-12
• ESRI: Higher Education
• ESRI: Virtual Campus
• The Geographer's Craft, direct link to its Map Projections section
• Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Learn ArcGIS: Resources for the UWM Community
• 2005 NCGE Outline Map Blackline Masters
• National Geographic Society, Map Machine
• RealEarth GlobeMap
• US Geological Survey Education Site

Support & Forums

• CartoBlog
• CartoTalk
• Directions Magazine & All Points Blog
• ESRI Knowledge Base Search Tool
• ESRI-L and ARCVIEW-L E-mail discussion lists
• ESRI Cartography Industry Discussion Conference
• GIS User & AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial (blog)
• Making Maps

General/Reference

• AmericaView (access to remote sensing data and products)
• The Applied Population Laboratory, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• batchgeocode free web based batch geocoding app. Provides zip code lookup, geographic coordinates, and plots to a web map. Results can be downloaded into GoogleEarth, save to a webpage, or transferred back to a spreadsheet.
• "Beyond Mapping: Meeting National Needs Through Enhanced Geographic
  Information Science" National Academies Press
• Bird's Eye images http://www.birdseyetourist.com/ provide a high-resolution, low-angle aerial view of a small area.
• Brewer, Cindy: (cartography, color) resources and archive of resources
• CartoTalk resource links
• CIESIN, Columbia University World Data
• Census Bureau, US
• Citations, how to cite maps, reference to Ohio Wesleyan University and the Chicago Manual of Style, by Alan Glennon
• ColorBrewer, Cartographic Color Selection Tool
• Color Oracle, tool for designing for color blindness, Mac only; contains links that include PC
• Jeremy Crampton's site at Georgia State University
• David Rumsey Map Collection "contains to date over 7,180 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials."
• DRG free downloads, Libre Map Project, or from the archive
• EarthSLOT, free collection of 3D GIS and terrain visualization applications
• EnviroMapper
• Public domain GIS data and Free GIS data repositories and clearinghouses http://gisdata.blogspot.com/
• G.Projector, NASA: FREE 'Java' App. explores a large collection (60 in this first version) of global map projections, allows you to project user supplied GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map images. A graticule and continental outlines may be drawn, and the resulting map images can be saved to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS format. A small library of compatible map images can be found here: http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/
• GeoCommunity (includes links to data)
• GeoGratis, A web and ftp site that distributes geospatial data of Canada for free data download.
• Geospatial One-Stop, GeoData.gov portal
• GIS Certification
• GIS Data Depot
• GIS Dictionary: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html
• GIS Inventory, Ramona Its primary purpose is to track the status of GIS in US state and local government to aid the planning and building of Spatial Data Infrastructures. from National States' Geographic Information Council (NSGIC)
• GIS Master Bibliography
• Geographic Names Information System(USGS)
• The Geography Network, "online resource to discover and access geographic content, including live maps and data, from many of the world's leading providers"
• Geologic Map Patterns, Dr. A. Plesch
• The Green Map Atlas
• GPS Visualizer, free online geocoding
• Historic Atlas and Map Valuation and Conservation References
• Historical census data, interactive maps & reports: SocialExplorer
• Historic Maps and Panoramas, for purchase: Universal Map
• Historic Maps from the Library of Congress Archives
• Historic Map Reproductions
• Imhof's "Positioning Names on Maps" courtesy of Alpine Mapping Guild
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, does include historical census data
• Library of Congress Online Catalog, see Geography and Map Division
• Map Mashup, good wiki entry
• Map Milwaukee, City of Milwaukee (Wisconsin) GIS site
• Map Projections, Paul B. Anderson
• Map Reading and Land Navigation, US Army field manual
• Maporama, geocode and map addresses (no batch function)
• Mapping Center, ESRI, "helps GIS users make better maps"
• MapShaper.com, experimental, online GIS generalization application
• MapTech, order a map
• The Maps & GIS INFOMINE Search Screen
• Milwaukee
  • choosemilwaukee.com, information/data on 7 southeastern WI counties, geared toward encouraging economic development and investment
  • Milwaukee County Interactive Mapping Service, Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) GIS site
  • Map Milwaukee, City of Milwaukee (Wisconsin) GIS site
  • Milwaukee Green Map Online
  • Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885-1992
  • MPROP, City of Milwaukee Parcel data in dbf III format, provided free of charge from the Non-Profit Center of Milwaukee
  • Milwaukee Map Data, City of Milwaukee site, click on [download map data]; ie voting wards, Aldermanic districts, street centerlines, parcel outlines
  • Milwaukee Urban Atlas, 2000 US Census data, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• National Atlas of the United States
• National Geographic Map Collection, order flat print-on-demand copies of just about all the old NGS map supplements from the 1890s through 1999
• National Geographic Map Store
• National Geographic, make your own map
• National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), historical data including historical county boundary shapes
• The National Map Viewer
• Natural Earth, world physical map at 1.24 km resolution (public domain)
• Natural Earth subset, North America 500 meter resolution shaded relief and landcover (public domain)
• North American Transportation Atlas Data (NORTAD)
• Oddens' Bookmarks, "The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping"
• Omni Map, retail
• Open Data Consortium
• Outline Maps, geography.about.com
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, including online map images
• Raisz Landform Maps
• Raven Maps
• Relief Shading
• Reproductions: Heritage Map Museum includes Birds' Eye Views
• Shaded Relief Resources
  • "Adv Cartographic Effects" (Barnes & Buckley), ESRI UC 2005, at is inside Cartographic Presentations PDF at http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.filteredGateway&dmid=3
  • ESRI How To: Use the ArcMap Buffer Wizard to create cartographic vignettes
  • http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=17492
  • ESRI Whitepaper (Barnes & Buckley) on vignettes http://downloads.esri.com/support/whitepapers/ao_/ CoastalVignettes_031505.pdf
  • Natural Earth, world physical map at 1.24 km resolution (public domain)
  • Natural Earth subset, North America 500 meter resolution shaded relief and landcover (public domain)
  • Relief Shading
  • Shaded Relief, Tom Patterson; absolutely awesome collection of resources plus downloads
  • other resources at: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.filteredGateway&dmid=3 and called "AdvancedCartographicEffects.pdf"
• Spatial News' List of GIS Discussion Lists
• Terraserver (Microsoft)
• Topographic Map Resources
  • http://www.raiszmaps.com/
  • http://www.raiszmaps.com/samplen.html excellent topography commonly used to teach landforms in geography courses
  • http://nationalatlas.gov/printable.html US maps you can print yourself
  • http://nationalatlas.gov/printable.html US maps you can make yourself online, print copies
  • http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection U of Texas-Austin; the scans are copyrighted but you may be able to use them for educational purposes
  • http://www.davidrumsey.com/ "The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented."
  • http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/us_links.html check copyright on these
  • http://birrell.org/andrew/reliefMaps/
  • http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm
  • http://topozone.com/default.asp?404;http://topozone.com/find.asp
  • http://www.ngmapstore.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=6 the National Geographic Map store
  • http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine National Geographic: make your own map
  • http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/usgs3.htm retail site
  • http://www.ravenmaps.com/
• TopoZone.com
• The Ultimate GIS Search Engine
• US Geological Survey On-Line Store
• US Geological Survey National Geologic Map Database
• The Visible Earth, imagery typically available only to the media and scientists is now more accessible to all. Most of the images have no copyright and are available for educational and other non-commercial purposes.
• MSN Virtual Earth
• Wisconsin
  • Wisclink (Wisconsin Land Information Clearinghouse)(includes links to data)
  • Wisconsin DNR Brownfields Site
  • Wisconsin Department of Administration, Geographic Information Office
  • Wisconsin Legislative Boundary Files
  • Wisconsin Mapping Bulletin ONLINE Index
  • Wisconsin, South Central, Historical County Plat Maps and Early Madison City Directories in the The State of Wisconsin Collection in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  • Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes
  • Wisconsin Public Land Survey System PLSSFinder
  • Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office (includes links to data)
  • WisconsinView (access to remote sensing data and products), see also: AmericaView
  • WisStat (online data server), The Applied Population Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• World Fact Book (CIA)
• Zip Code, US data TeamRedLine $5 monthly (updated monthly)
• Zip Code, US data Civic Space (may not be current)

Employment Links

• Nature Magazine, 22 January 2004, (pdf file) Mapping Opportunities
• The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) "is a national, non-profit organization that develops professionals for the environmental field through paid environmental internships that provide highly professional, on-the-job learning experiences for bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students and recent graduates."
• Geosearch http://www.geosearch.com
• Student Conservation Association http://www.sca-inc.org/
• Geojobs http://www.geojobs.org/
• Association of American Geographers http://www.aag.org/Jig/memberjig.html
• Google http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Geography/ Geographic_Information_Systems/Employment/ (GIS)
• About.com http://geography.miningco.com/msub41.htm
• Geospatial Industry Workforce Information System (GIWIS), industry-wide resources for educators, current and future geospatial/GIS&T workers, workforce development professionals, and employers
• ESRI careershttp://careers.esri.com/
• ESRI internship http://careers.esri.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=dsp&tmpl=internships.cfm &nav_id=7&parent_id=57
• http://www.hdm.com/jobs
• http://www.gisl.co.uk/jobs.htm
• Earthworks http://www.earthworks-jobs.com
• GIS Jobs Clearinghouse http://www.gjc.org
• Careers in Geospatial Technologies http://www.geospatialcareers.net/
• CartoTalk's List of Online Job Resources http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=92
• gis-jobs list http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/GIS/gis-jobs_list.html
• WI State Cartographer's Office Job listings http://www.sco.wisc.edu/jobs/jobs.php
• Dice "the career hub to tech insiders" http://www.dice.com
• GIS Gig http://gisgig.com

Other

• Book indexers