Geographic Information System/External Links

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• Caribbean GIS blog - A multi-author blog on GIS in the Caribbean and surrounding regions
• Directions Magazine — GIS industry news, events, discussion, etc.
• Federal Geographic Data Committee — United States federal government standards agency
• Geoconnexion Int'l Magazine — Geoinformation Serving the World
• Geoplace — free source of GIS Industry information
• GIS.COM — A portal to GIS information on the Web maintained by ESRI. The site showcases how people use GIS and geospatial technology and provides GIS users with links to resources to help them in their work. Also see GIS Day.
• giscorps.org — A program under URISA, GISCorps is a vehicle for GIS experts from all over the world to volunteer their time to developing economies across the globe.
• GISLounge.com — Articles and useful links to GIS and cartography related web resources.
• GISuser.com — GIS news, jobs, articles, discussion, webmap gallery, daily newsletter, and more.
• GITTA — Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance — A web-based eLearning course based on the eLML XML framework.
• Landscape Architecture Guide — Essay on GIS in relation to urban and landscape design
• Maplibrary — Offering GIS-data for Africa and a (free) tutorial on GIS
• MapTools.org — Open Source Web Mapping and GIS Resources
• NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS — lecture notes for educators written by the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis (NCGIA).
• NITLE Initititive on GIS in Education
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• Open Source GIS — Master Index of Open Source GIS Software
• slashgeo.org — GIS ad-free non-commercial news and discussions.
• Web-based GIS: An Overview of Sites and Resources
• ESRI Press specializes in GIS texts.