Desert Island Websites
By STACY MCNULTY
Newcomb, NY - What websites do you consider
your "Desert Island" sites that you can't live without? Everyone has
websites that are indispensable, whether they serve data, explain technical
procedures, or illustrate the results of a project. Here is a sampling
of some of our favorites - not all sources are listed here. Thanks
to Tom Sklebar, Working Group Chairman, for his initial list of sites. Want
to add your favorites? Just email us.
Federal sites
- 250K Hydrological Unit Boundary
- AVHRR 10-day North American composites-USGS
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- Cartographic Boundary
Files - U.S. Census Bureau
- Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
(CSDGM)
- EarthExplorer
- GIRAS Data-EPA
- EROS
- (including 1:250K DEMs, 1:24K DEMs, 30m NED, 1:2M DLG, 1:100K DLG,
1:24K DLG, LULC, NLCD, NHD)
- Gap Analysis Program (GAP)
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Government GIS
- Hydrologic Unit Boundary Data
- MODIS Web - NASA
- Major Land Resource Area Boundaries - NRCS
- National Agricultural
Statistics Service
- National Atlas
- National Hydrography
Dataset Home Page
- National Land Cover Data
- National Wetlands Inventory
Home Page
- NCGIA Home Page
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- SDTS data dictionary
- SDTS Home Page
- Soils & Soil Survey
- USDA-NRCS
- Soils Data-SSURGO - USDA-NRCS
- Geospatial Data Gateway - USDA-NRCS
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- State Data
State GIS Clearinghouse
Data Sites - from MIT - Start here!
- Idaho IDL GIS Programs and Data
- Iowa GIS data
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- Kansas GIS data
- Kansas DASC GeoDatabase Catalog
- Maine GIS Data Catalog
- Minnesota Geodata Clearinghouse
- LMIC
- Minnesota DNR - GIS Data
Deli
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- Montana 100K PLSS e00 Data
- Montana CEIC Maps & GIS Resources
- Montana State Library Geographic Information
System
- Montana Aerial Photos - USGS
- Nebraska GIS
- New Hampshire GIS
- New York GIS Clearinghouse
- North Dakota GIS (Geographic
Information Systems) home page
- North Dakota Status Graphics
- North Dakota GIS Repository
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- South Dakota Geological
Survey Home Page
Vermont Center for Geographic Information
- Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources
- Wisconsin.gov - Portal Home
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- Wyoming Geographic Information
Science Center
- Wyoming Statewide Data
Inventory - Index of Land and Biological Resources
- Non-Government sites
- Airbornelasermapping.com - Industry Directory
- Airbornelasermapping.com - News_Updates
- ESRI Online Support Center
- Geography Network
- GIS Data Depot - Free GIS Data
- Government data at GIScafe.com
- GRASS
- Home Range Software
- Technical Articles - ESRI Support registry
- Terraserver
- Spatial Climate Analysis Service, PRISM Climate
Mapping Project , climate data sets, GIS data sets
- Non-US sites
- Canada Geoconnect
- More Canada data
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