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Geographic
Information
Systems (GIS)

Virginia Library Association Public Documents Forum Meeting
June 4, 1999

GIS and Mapping Resources

Stuart Frazer
Social Sciences Reference Librarian
Perry Library, Old Dominion University

View Presentation

Guides to Maps & GIS Resources on the Web

GISLinx Categorized List of GIS Sites
Infomine Maps & GIS

Collections of Digital Maps on the Web

These sites provide electronic versions of print maps. They are not interactive and do not allow for any manipulation of data.

CIA World Factbook
Foreign country maps with excellent statistics and narrative information

Library of Congress American Memory Map Collections 1544-1996
Resources are classified by broad subject areas and are also searchable. United States locations only.

National Geographic Map Machine
Simple US state and foreign country maps along with basic facts and statistics

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Collection contains about 2400 non-copyrighted, public domain digital maps for all regions of the world.

Web-based Interactive Mapping Sites
These sites provide examples of web-based GIS systems that allow for the interactive manipulation of data and display functions.

American Factfinder
Interactive mapping and data from the US Census Bureau

City of Sacramento, California
Municipal information including mapping for themes related to property and law enforcement.

EPA Enviromapper
"EnviroMapper maps several types of environmental information, including drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste, water discharge permits, and Superfund sites."

ESRI ArcData Online
"…Contains a wide assortment of geographic information that users can access to create map images and download data."

Georgia Interactive Map Server
"The Interactive Map Server presents a collection of themes (layers) for the State of  Georgia."

Massachusetts Electronic Atlas
"…Choose a geographic area, select data layers to appear on the maps, turn layers on and off, zoom in, zoom out or pan, and download the maps and associated numeric datasets."

The National Atlas of the United States Map Browser
Includes social and environmental data themes for the United States.

National Geographic Map Machine
Dynamic maps and geographic data organized by themes, such as political, cultural, physical, and weather

Realtor.com
Interactive GIS for real estate information.

U.S. Census Bureau Tiger Mapping Service
"…Public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data."

GIS Software Providers

ESRI
Makers of ArcView & ArcInfo

Intergraph
Makers of Geomedia

MapInfo

More About GIS in Libraries

ARL/GIS Project Participant Roster
Links to libraries participating in the Association of Research Libraries GIS literacy project

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 21 (Winter 1999)
Several articles dealing with GIS services in libraries

Soete, George J. "Geographic Information Systems (GIS)" Transforming Libraries 2 (February/March 1997)

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