New Maps Added to David Rumsey Collection

Please take a look at new maps added to David Rumsey Collection at http://www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html. Also historical Rumsey maps are in Google Earth. See more.

World Migration Map: Europe

Looking for origins and destinations of migrants to and from... Check out this site at http://www.migrationinformation.org/wmm/.
(from ResourceShelf)

2006 GIS Day at Mason

• We had another wonderful GIS Day event at Mason yesterday. Thanks to those who participated in the Fenwick Open House Event and the Johnson Center Cinema presentation sessions. Many asked about the library resources links that I presented yesterday. Here are the lists:

• The libraries' geospatial portal : http://129.174.55.51/website/NVandDC/viewer.htm.
  

• The libraries' GIS workshop tutorials: http://129.174.55.51/tutorial

• 2006 GIS Day photos: http://129.174.55.51/website/gisday/photos.html

New 3D Maps from Microsoft

Explore skylineGlobe just released from Microsoft for 3 dimensional image of Earth and cities. It will only work on IE 6 or 7.

GIS Day at Mason-Nov. 15, 2006

Please join us as we celebrate 2006 GIS Day at George Mason. See the program in detail at http://129.174.55.51/WEBSITE/GISDAY/. On Nov. 15, Government Documents/Map unit in Fenwick Library will have open house event from 11:30 to 4:30. Hope you can come and learn more about GIS and diggital mapping!!

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2006

is now available online at http://www.census.gov/compendia/smadb/ It contains data published for 2005 population and housing unit estimates and many items from the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing for individual states, counties, and metropolitan.

Maps of Poland and Belarus

If you are looking for Polish topographic maps, you can get them through this site: www.mapywig.org It has scanned topographic maps of 1:300K, 1:100K, and 1:25K before WW2. (via Maps-L).

ArcGIS 9.2

ArcGIS 9.2, a new version of ArcGIS, will be released sometime this fall. If you want to attend free training seminar sessions, see the schedule at http://www.esri.com/events/introducing-arcgis92/index.html. You can also watch flash demos of ArcGIS 9.2 at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/about/whats-coming.html.

ArcExplorer: GIS Data Viewer by ESRI

can be downloaded for free at this site: http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html. This software offers basic GIS functions such as display (raster and vector data), query, and data retrieval from local data sets or from the Internet. Try and find out how good it is.

Broer Maps Online New Server

Please check out this new site at http://www.broermapsonline.org/members It contains 1,300 maps online including historical and modern maps. The collections are indexed and searchable.(via maps-l)

NASA's World Wind ( A 3D Digital Globe)--Update

There are three new add-ons for NASA's open source digital globe World Wind. Please check them out.

New+France Scan and TeleAtlas

This add-on makes it possible to view France Scan and TeleAtlas maps within World Wind.

+ France Geoportail Plugin and BRGM layers

This addon makes it possible to view IGN GéoportailFrance (http://geoportail.fr/) and BRGM layers within World Wind.

+ NASA Earth Observations
This add-on is of several layers found on the NASA NEO website (http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html).(via ResourceShelf Newsletter)

Online Map Archive: An Irish Genealogist's Spot of Gold

"the Irish government plans to unveil an online map archive with details of every town, street, and farm on the Emerald Isle dating back nearly 200 years -- an unprecedented achievement expected to be a treasure trove for those tracing their Irish ancestry." See the site at http://www.irishhistoricmaps.ie/historic/ (source: maps-l).

The Geography Matters Blog

If you have not seen this blog called "Geography Matters" by ESRI, please check it out.

National Geologic Map Database Map Catalog in Google Earth

USGS and the Portland State University Geology Department have developed a prototype that displays National Geologic Map Databse (NGMDB) Map Catalog search results in Google Earth. Please see this site at http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngmdb/ngm_catalog.ora.html
I think this is exciting news. After you test this site and want to provide comments on this prototype, just click on the comments link on that page to further improve this project(source: maps-l).

New/Updated Maps of Several World Crisis Spots

* Timor-Leste Atlas Map (as of June 2006) (PDF, 153k)
* Sudan: Darfur field atlas (PDF, 96Mb)
* Sudan: Darfur humanitarian access map (PDF, 482k)

Source: Resourceshelf

Primer: Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images

Primer: Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images
"USGS imagery and photos are used in some part with many of the online mapping services like Windows Live Local, TerraFly, TerraServer, and NASA's WorldWind to name only a few places where it's found. It's also possible (and easy) to download and directly access USGS imagery."(via Resourceshelf)
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Ancient Observatories Gallery

Imagery--Satellite
Source: SpaceImaging /GeoEye
Ancient Observatories Gallery is a source for ancient ruins and other locations observed from space. Images can be downloaded and saved for offline usage. Locations include:
+ Chichen Itza, Mexico
+ Machu Pizu, Peru
+ Stonehenge, UK
+ Easter Island, Chile
+ Casa Rinconada, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, U.S.
+ Several others (via Resourceshelf)

Printable Maps-United States

Printable Maps with counties and selected cities and towns are available through NationalAtlas.gov in PDF and GIF (via Resourceshelf)

Library News: Fenwick Renovation, 3B & 3C

Fenwick Library Floor 3B and 3C will be renovated this summer. The time line is May 22-Sept.1. Collections that are affected are: History, Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation on floor 3B (LC Call Numbers range from F 2100 to HB 3808) and Economics, Business, Sociology, Social Work, and ICAR on floor 3C. If you need books on this floor for the Summer, you better check them out "Now" or before May 15. If the titles needed are not accessible this summer, library staff will take extra measures to obtain books through consortium library service (CLS) or interlibray loan service (ILL).

Aerial Imagery for European Cities

If you want to see aerial images of cities in Europe, click on "Aerial Photos" to the Mappy Home Page for 63 cities in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium.

NASA's Worldwind Application

is another interactive 3D application for maps and images of Earth. Including are MSN's Virtual Earth Imagery, Imagery of Venus, and National Parks, etc. The good thing is that you can download the images. It's available at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Online Historical Maps

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection recently added more than 1000 new digitized map. The direct link to this is at http://www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html

Display GIS Data on Google Earth

If you want to display your existing GIS data on Google Earth, please see this wonderful guide provided by Brian Flood: Getting Data into Google Earth Using Arc2Earth
Declan Butler has also displayed his Avian Flu data using Google Earth. Visit the site at http://declanbutler.info/Flumaps1/avianflu.html

Googe Earth Pro: free for one year

I just learned that free 1 year license for Google Earth Pro is available for qualified academic users. Send email to den@google.com requesting for a one page authorization document to use the software. Then, you can download the Googe images and work them with GIS software.

Cool Tool: Location based Internet Search and Navigation

"A Boston company is giving away software that can turn nearly any laptop computer into a global positioning system, enabling users to find the nearest restaurant, hospital, or gas station at the touch of a button." (via Boston Globe, 3/23/06)
You can download this software directly from LOKI

Welcome to Google Mars

Following Google Earth and Google Moon , now Google Mars.
"Google Mars doesn't provide driving directions, but users can see the planet in three different formats: The Martian elevation map is color-coded by altitude; the visible-imagery map shows the surface in black-and-white pictures; the infrared map indicates temperature, with cooler areas dark and warmer areas bright."(Souce: Google's New Frontier: Online Maps of Mars. /San Francisco Chronicle/, Mar. 14, p. D1. 2006).

Open Source GIS

I found an annotated and useful listing of Open Source GIS software. See the definition of Open Source from here.