Related GI & GIS Web Sites

Table of Contents

Introduction to GI

Metadata Sites

  1. European sites
  2. American sites
  3. Other metadata sites

Standards concerning GI and GIS

GI/GIS and Internet

  1. Web Mapping
  2. Technical Standards
  3. VRML
  4. Java

Projects in Europe

Projects in America

European GI/GIS Organisations

Resource lists


A GIS Dictionnary

A GIS Bibliography (maintained by Ohio State University)

Introduction to GIS by the University of York

GIS-L FAQ A page which may provides answers to many basic GIS questions

Accéder à l'information géographique par le web (en français)


Metadata Sites

European sites

SPIDI (Spatial Information Directory) (mostly in Dutch) from GIS-Flanders, Flemish Region of Belgium

Syndicat français des professionnels de la Géomatique , France

GDDD, Megrin

SINES, Ordonance Survey, Great Britain

CNIG, France

SNIG, Portugal

Geographic Information Retrieval, SSC Swedish space corporation

Nationaal Clearinghouse Geo-Informatie (Idefix Prototype)

Joint Use of geographic Information MMH (Finland)

WELL-GIS digital Data Inventory

The European Space Agency (ESA) Prototype International Directory (PID)

American sites

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

Master Environmental Library

USGS node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

MassGIS digital orthophoto Project

NYS Spatial Data

The Global Change Master Directory

The NOAA Data set catalog

National Environmental Data Referral Service

Global Land Information System

EOSDIS Version(0) Information Management System (IMS)

IEEE metadata

Klamath Meta Data dictionary

GRASSLinks Metadata (Regis System)

The CIESIN gateway WWW interface

CIESIN and NASA Metadata

Ocean Network Information Center (OCEANIC)

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)

Inventory of the American metadata sites


Other metadata sites

Bibliography about metadata at http://bordeaux.uwaterloo.ca/metadata.html...(Limited access !)

UNEP Meta-Data directory

Australia New-Zealand Land Information Council

The National Development Agency of Japan Directory (NASDADIR)
The NASDADIR is one of three coordinating nodes of the International Directory Network (IDN), sponsored by the Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS). This is a telnet link; users should login as NASDADIR

The Global Change Network (GCNet) (Canada)
GCNet provide access to directory-level metadata for environmental datasets in Canada. It is a cooperating node of the International Directory Network (IDN), sponsored by the Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS). This is a telnet link; users should login as GCNET

East African Biodiversity metadatabase from the world conservation Monitoring centre ( WCMC )

The commitee on Earth Observation satellites International Directory network (CEOS-IDN)


CEN/TC 287 (ftp)

ISO/TC211

The FGDC Standard - An image map

The FGDC on-line metadata discussion

Spatial Archive and Interchange format (SAIF) Home Page

http://www.ru/gisa/english/cssitr/format/index.htm ....for a list of formats and standards for spatial data transfer compiled by the Russian GIS (....broken link) association.

The Canadian General Standard Board on Geomatics

The GeoTIFF format specification


GI/GIS and Internet

Web Mapping

Commercial,off the shelf solutions for GIS-WWW interfacing, Sindre Langaas

Database Query and Map Generation via the WWW : Online Resources and Examples

Technical Standards

Z39.50 messaging system.

Z39.50 maintenance agency homepage

Isite Information System (Free downloadable Integrated Internet publishing software package which includes a text indexer/search system (Isearch) and Z39.50 communication tools to access databases).

VRML ( Virtual Reality Modelling language-3D)

VRML and the distributed access to Geospatial Information

A pointer to interactive VRML enhanced Maps

Java

A pointer to interactive java enhanced Maps

For information on some national GI/GIS projects in Europe, see on this site National GIS Projects

For a list of the many projects funded by EU Institutions, see the site sponsored by DG III on JRC's server


Projects in America

NCGIA

Aegis project ( Applied environmental GIS)

Regis project ( Environmental Planning GIS at U.C Berkeley)

Sequoia 2000 schema development

The GIS specialty group of the Association of American Geographers

The Alexandria Digital library

CIESIN

Geoweb . Group of researchers studying methods and approaches to making digital information and data more easily accessible

The Open GIS Consortium


EUROGI

MEGRIN

GISDATA


Resource lists

Great GIS net sites - Index

Oliver Weatherbee's GIS software listing which contains contact information and short overviews of the majority of GIS software currently available.

WWW Mapping/ Metadata resource list

University of Waterloo : Well organized resource list

University of Edinburgh/AGI

An exhaustive but alphabetical resource list

Web GIS sites ( compiled by UCBGIS Berkeley)

University of Iowa (CGRER)

Japan GIS/Mapping Sciences Resource Guide

GIS WWW Resource List

GIS Jobs Opportunities

Lists :
  1. from Osterreich Germany and Austria
  2. from the US worldwide
  3. from JRC worldwide
  4. from UK woldwide