GIS at Penn State
Penn State GIS in the news, research, departments, and who

GIS Links
Data, Resources, Publications, Organizations
 

Companies
 

GIS Links

Data

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics Office of Geographic Information Services
• Bureau of Land Management Geospatial Information Center
• Census Burearu demographic and economic data
• Census TIGER Mapping Service produce maps
• Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) show the relief of a region
• Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) linework of topographic sheets
• Digital Raster Graphs (DRGs) scanned topographic sheets
• Digital Ortho PhotoQuads (DOQs) aerial photographs
• ESRI GIS Jump Station ESRI's site to domestic and international data links
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) manages the NSDI clearinghouse
• National Spatial Data Infastructure Geo-spatial data clearinghouse
• Pennsylvania Geologic Survey
• Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access resource of data for Pennsylvania
• also check Online Data

Resources

• AI-GEOSTATS Includes information on freeware and shareware GIS software as well as a GIS FAQ and a listserver to which one can subscribe
• EPA National GIS Program
• GeoCom a nice resource for GIS data, news and products
• GeoPlace.com a provider of geospatial information
• GIS Dictionary Online definitions of GIS terminology.
• GIS FAQ from the U.S. Census Bureau
• GIS History Project Site devoted to chronicalling the history and development of GIS.
• GIS in Education from the Wisconsin Watershed Connection. Introduces students in grades 4 through 8 to GIS with a focus on ecosystem health.
• GIS Information from the U.S. Geologic Survey
• GIS Thinktank at the National Wetlands Inventory
• GIS WWW Server from the University of Edinburgh
• PA Department of Environmental Protection
• Pacific North-West Rainforest gis layers and online mapping 
• Resources for Geographers from the University of Texas at Austin
• Odden's List

Organizations

• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
• American Society of Photgrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
• Association of American Geographers (AAG)
• Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA)
• National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC)
• Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
• PA Mapping and Geographic Information Council (PAMagic)
• Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

Publications

• ARC News ESRI's quarterly magazine
• Directions Magazine Online mapping and demographics news source with a heavy emphasis on GIS
• Geo Info Systems Online Monthly GIS magazine
• GeoTimes American geology publication
• Mercator's World a bimonthly publication