Cartographic Links

LINKS

NOTE: These links are based on sites we've been gathering over the last couple years. This is in no way a definitive list of sites, just sites that we found useful or interesting.

CARTOGRAPHIC INDICES
      Odden's Bookmarks - "The" site for anything cartographic
      GeoCommunity - The Source for GIS Data, News, Software, Discussion & Fun
      Geography at About.com
      GISLinx - Categorized List of GIS Sites

CARTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION & RELATED SUBJECTS
      Basics of Orthophotography
      Basics of Satellite Remote Sensing
      Geographer's Craft Project
      Glossary of Cartographic Terms
      USGS: What Do Maps Show

CARTOGRAPHIC ORGANIZATIONS
      The Association of American Geographers
      The Association of American Geographers: Cartography Specialty Group
      American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
      American Congress on Surveying and Mapping: Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
      British Cartographic Society
      California Map Society
      International Cartographic Association
      Mapping Sciences Institute
      North American Cartographic Information Society
      Society of Cartographers
      URISA

CARTOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE
      Carto-Index - Carto-Index creates an index from an Adobe Illustrator file
      GeoCart - Map Projection Program
      JShape - WWW Java GIS
      MAPublisher - Illustrator & Freehand plugin package for importing/exporting GIS files. Highly recommended!
      MapRender3D - Terrain modeling and visualization program. Still no Macintosh version!
      TreasureMapper- Converts MicroStation design files into Adobe Illustrator Documents

GIS & CARTOGRAPHIC DATA SOURCES
      Digital Chart of the World
      DRG Exchange
      Earth-Info - NIMA Datasets
      GIS Data Depot
      GIS Data for Northern California
      Guide to Mostly Online and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data
      Managed Areas Database
      NPS Division of Publications: Digital Map Data Directory
      USGS Geographic Names Information Systems
      USGS National Geologic Map Database

MISCELLANEOUS
      A Guide to Map Projections in Modern Cartography Texts
      Atlas of the World
      CIA World Factbook - Information on any country
      Freehand for Cartographers
      Great Globe Gallery on the World Wide Web
      Illustrator Resources
      HumGuide - An index of Humboldt County, California
      National Atlas of the United States
      Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
      UC Berkeley Map Library
      Highway Signs