Geographic Information System Development Guides
New York State Archives and Records Administration in cooperation with NCGIA

Designed to help local government officials successfully implement GIS, these guides cover needs assessment, conceptual design, evaluating and acquiring software and hardware, database planning and design, database construction, pilot studies, system integration, application development, and GIS use and maintenance.

NCGIA Core Curricula
National Center for Geographic Information Center

Currently undergoing extensive revision, the NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience provides course units based on a one-hour lecture format in fundamental geographic concepts for GIS, implementing geographic concepts in GIS, geographic information technology in society, and application areas. GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs is an interim home page for the National Science Foundation supported project to develop a Web-based curriculum building resource for community colleges and similar instructional environments.

The Virtual Geography Department
Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder

This source collects instructional modules and course syllabi for cartography, the earth's environment and society, GIS, remote sensing, statistics, the history and philosophy of geography, physical geography, urban and economic geography, world regional geography and area studies, and virtual field trips.

GIS and Environmental Science for K-14 Teachers
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

K-14 educators can find GIS activities and lessons based on ArcView GIS software, application forms for the Foundation's Leadership Program for Teachers, and information on the GIS & Environmental Science Institutes.

The Geographer's Craft
Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Geographer's Craft experiments with active learning, problem-solving methods of instruction, and Internet-based course materials to improve teaching introductory geographical techniques. It promotes analytical reasoning and critical thinking by having students address problems with appropriate geographical concepts, whether drawn from cartography, GIS, remote sensing, or spatial statistics.

Geography Network

This distributed global network provides the infrastructure needed to facilitate sharing of geographic information between data providers, service providers, and users around the world. The Internet is used to deliver geographic content to the user's browser and desktop.

National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

The FGDC site includes information on metadata and standards as well as a spatial data clearinghouse connected to hundreds of public and private sources. The FGDC coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), encompassing policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data within the United States.

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
UC Berkeley et al

Focused on the social sciences and humanities, ECAI is a collaborative, international, cross-cultural project to create an interactive electronic atlas of the world combining global mapping, imagery, timelines, and texts. Developed from and for academic research, ECAI allows the combination and comparison of scholarly data that would otherwise be isolated, preserves it, increases its range of uses, and improves access to it.

Alexandria Digital Library Project

Named after the classical library and center of learning in Egypt, the Alexandria project attempts to bring together spatial data sources from libraries, academia, companies, and government agencies. The Library Project is headquartered at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The National Science Foundation has announced funding for the next stage of the project, the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT).

GEOnet Names Server
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)

Find geographic names for 3.5 million places worldwide, excluding the United States and Antarctica, in NIMA's database.

Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey

Developed in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, GNIS lists almost two million physical and cultural features in the United States. A separate Antarctica Geographic Names Data Base contains names approved by the Board on Geographic Names.

Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
UC Berkeley Library

Do you find that you and those around you talk in acronyms as if they were words? Definitions for thousands of acronyms and abbreviations will help translate them into English.

GIS Dictionary
Association for Geographic Information

This on-line dictionary of 980 GIS terms compiled from a variety of sources is maintained by the Association for Geographic Information and the University of Edinburgh Department of Geography.

Glossaire SIG
ESRI France

Approximately 130 French language terms make up this glossary, weighted towards ESRI software terms.

The URISA Glossary of Terms
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

A URISA Working Committee began this glossary by soliciting commonly used terms from URISA members; then allowing members to comment on them in an open, shared decision making process.