Resouces - GIS

Internet Mapping Resources

  • ArcGIS Explorer
    ArcGIS Explorer is a free GIS viewer that gives you an easy way to explore, visualize, and share GIS information. You can use it online or download it to your desktop.

  • ArcGIS.com
    A new ESRI site that includes contributed community basemaps, links to GIS web and mobile application, and a place to create your own maps.

  • City-Data.com
    City-Data.com has collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities. They have tens of thousands of city photos, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, housing, businesses, birthplaces of famous people, political contributions, city government employment, weather, hospitals, schools, libraries, houses, airports, radio and TV stations, zip codes, area codes, user-submitted facts, similar cities list, and comparisons to averages.

  • GeoMAC Wildland Fire Support
    The Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group or GeoMAC, is an internet-based mapping application originally designed for fire managers to access online maps of current fire locations and perimeters in the conterminous 48 States and Alaska. Using a standard web browser, fire personnel can view this information to pinpoint the affected areas. With the growing concern of western wild land fires in the summer of 2000, this application has also become available to the public.

  • Google Earth
    Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.

  • Google Maps
    Google Maps provides maps based on keyword, place name, or address search.

  • MacroHistory - Prehistory To Yesterday
    For all teachers that teach geography, history, world change, and all sorts of other subjects, here is a site that has maps from the Ancient World to the 21st Century.

  • Mapquest
    Mapquest provides maps based on keyword, place name, or address search.

  • National Atlas
    The National Atlas of the United States of America on the World Wide Web. Nationalatlas.gov provides a Federal source of national maps and geographic information on the Web. It contains an online map maker, dynamic maps, printable maps, articles, free geographic data, and additional resources for geographic information about the US.

  • National Geographic's MapMachine
    National Geographic's redesigned online atlas gives you the world—your way. Find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much more. Plus, browse antique maps, find country facts, or plan your next outdoor adventure with our trail maps.

  • National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
    The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that contains information about surface water features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, springs and wells.

  • National Map
    The National Map is an online, interactive map service created by the USGS. The USGS is striving to provide current, complete, consistent, and accurate information that is available and useful to the Nation.

  • Nation Master
    NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables, and refer to fully integrated encyclopedia with over one million articles.

  • Safe Routes to School
    The safety of children walking to school is a major concern for parents, school administrators, and public officials. Utah state law requires each elementary, middle, and junior high school to create a child access routing plan to outline and address community concerns about walking routes. To facilitate this the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has created the Student Neighborhood Access Program (SNAP).

  • State Interacivity Puzzle
    Online web games teach the geography of The United States of America. Enjoy travel more by learning before you go.

  • StateTris
    An interactive map game based on a variant of tetris.

  • State Master
    StateMaster, a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states. We have compiled information from various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. More than just a mere collection of various data, StateMaster goes beyond the numbers to provide you with visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots. We also have thousands of map and flag images, state profiles, and correlations.

  • TerraFly
    TerraFly allow you to enter an address, and it will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore a digital earth.

  • Utah Maps
    The maps.utah.gov web site is an statewide index of maps available online, listing map titles, descriptions, and links to traditional & interactive map sites pertaining to the State of Utah.

 

 

 

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