Careers in Cartography & GIS (Cartography and Geographic Information Society)
Degree Confluence Project “The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here.”
batchgeocode free web based batch geocoding app. Provides zip code lookup, geographic coordinates, and plots to a web map. No longer downloadable into GoogleEarth, but can be save to a batchgeocode webpage. Unsure whether the functionality of transferring back to a spreadsheet still exists.
David Rumsey Map Collection “contains to date over 7,180 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials.”
G.Projector, NASA: FREE ‘Java’ App. explores a large collection (60 in this first version) of global map projections, allows you to project user supplied GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map images. A graticule and continental outlines may be drawn, and the resulting map images can be saved to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS format. A small library of compatible map images can be found here: http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/
The Geography Network, “online resource to discover and access geographic content, including live maps and data, from many of the world’s leading providers”
MapStory “platform is an online cartographic application developed using the GeoNode open-source platform. GeoNode is a spatial data infrastructure solution that extends the OpenGeo Architecture with several advanced features such as participatory or collaborative mapping, advanced customization, social network capabilities and metadata catalog solutions.”
TileMill is built on a suite of open source libraries including Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js, express and CodeMirror. Visit GitHub and dig into the source code.”
Ushahidi a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
Open Data Consortium
Outline Maps, geography.about.com; Outline Maps, for personal and classroom use
“Adv Cartographic Effects” (Barnes & Buckley), ESRI UC 2005, at is inside Cartographic Presentations PDF at http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.filteredGateway&dmid=3
ESRI How To: Use the ArcMap Buffer Wizard to create cartographic vignettes
Shaded Relief, Tom Patterson; absolutely awesome collection of resources plus downloads
Shaded Relief Archive, Tom Patterson and Bernhard Jenny’s scanned manual shaded relief for use by digital mapmakers, GeoTIFF georeferenced and adjusted to fit the drainage network of the Natural Earth vector data.
other resources at: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.filteredGateway&dmid=3 and called “AdvancedCartographicEffects.pdf”
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection U of Texas-Austin; the scans are copyrighted but you may be able to use them for educational purposes
http://www.davidrumsey.com/ “The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.”
Ushahidi a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
The Visible Earth, imagery typically available only to the media and scientists is now more accessible to all. Most of the images have no copyright and are available for educational and other non-commercial purposes.
The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) “is a national, non-profit organization that develops professionals for the environmental field through paid environmental internships that provide highly professional, on-the-job learning experiences for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral students and recent graduates.”