Updated: 05/10/2004

We at the Carto Project are compiling an inventory of web sites whose content is related to cartographic data and visualization. Here are some information categories we think should be included:

• Repositories of spatial data
• Information about spatial data standards
• Sites dealing with geographic or cartographic visualization tools
• Sites dealing with VRML and/or Java3D, as they relate to cartography
• Research, applications, or implementations dealing with cartographic visualization research

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Carto Project Director (rhyne@siggraph.org)

See Carto Project Home Page

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Cartographic Maps and References Inventories

• Ping: 3map (the 3D Mapping Platform)
  (http://www.ping.com.au/3map/)

• FreeGIS: Free GIS Software and Free Geo-Data
  (http://www.freegis.org/)

• Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research - University of Iowa
  (http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html)

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States - Ocean Remote Sensing,
  John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
  (http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html)

• Terrain Analysis Home Page - Hunter College Department of Geography
  (http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/terrain/index.html)

• GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools Page - School Of Ocean & Earth
  Science & Technology at the University of Hawaii
  (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gmt.html)

• CensusCD+Maps: The Complete Census Reference Plus Maps on a single CD
  from GeoLytics, Inc.
  (http://www.censuscd.com/cdmaps/censuscd_maps.htm),
  
  (http://www.us-census.biz/geocoding.htm)

• Microsoft Corporation's TerraServer
  (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/)

• SPOT Image Data Web Site
  (http://www.spotimage.fr/welcoma.htm)

• Digital Earth Web Site
  (http://www.digitalearth.gov/)

• Curious World Maps
  (http://www.curious-software.com/Pages/home/home.htm)

Repositories of Spatial Data

• Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Activity
  - United States Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
  (http://www.fgdc.gov/clearinghouse/index.html)

• Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)
  - United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
  (http://www.gcdis.usgcrp.gov/)

• Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center
  -Provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) (http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html)

• Geo-Data Explorer - Java-based interface to spatial databases
  -Provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
  (http://dss1.er.usgs.gov/)

• Index for Geoid, Gravity, Deflection, and Data Coverage Grids
  -Provided by the United States' National Geodetic Survey
  (http://sinbad.ngs.noaa.gov/GEOID/ngdc-indx.html)

• Data Hound - Search Engine for Free Spatial Data
  - provided by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Inc.
  (http://www.esri.com/datahound)

• Census CD Blocks - Demographic & Housing data of the USA
  - a commerical product provided by GeoLytics, Inc.
  (http://www.censuscd.com/cdblocks/cdblocks.htm)

Information about Spatial Data Standards

• The Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
  (http://www.opengis.org/)

• The Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange
  Specification Project (SEDRIS) (http://http://www.sedris.org)

Cartographic Visualization Research Sites

• Santa Cruz Laboratory for Visualization and Graphics
  - University of California at Santa Cruz
  (http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/slvg/slug.html) (http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/slvg/map.html)

• IRIS: a knowledge-based system for visual spatial data exploration
  -Research by Natalia V. and Gennady L. Andrienko
  (http://allanon.gmd.de/and/java/iris/)

• Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium (MAGIC) - TerraVision Project
  (http://www.ai.sri.com/~magic)

• Geography Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo
  (http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~jkrygier/krygier_html/research.html)

• Geographic Modeling Systems Laboratory - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (http://www.gis.uiuc.edu/)

• The Hebrew University - GIS Center
  (http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~bennun/)

• GIS-VIS efforts at the United States Environmental Protection Agency
  (http://www.epa.gov/gisvis)

• IBM Data Explorer - Cartographic Visualization Projects
  (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/dx/vis96/proceedings/CART/index.htm) (http://www.research.ibm.com/weather/) (http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/DX_CERES/main.html)

• Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) - Geospatial Technology Examples
  (http://www.avs.com/solution/success/technlgy/geospatial.htm)

• A Web Cartography Forum: An Evaluation Site for Visualization Tools
  (http://www.itc.nl/~carto/webcartoforum/)

Cartographic Educational Activities

• Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
  (http://www.globe.gov/ghome/invite.html) (http://globe6.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/home.cgi)

• Virtual Field Course Project at Leicester University
  (http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/vfc/)

Geographic or Cartographic Visualization Tools

• Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - GIS Solutions
  (http://www.esri.com/)

  ESRI's ArcView 3D Analyst Tool:
  (http://www.esri.com/software/arcview/extensions/3dext.html)

• Cyze & Associate's GIS viewers and ArcView extensions
  (http://www.cyze.com/download/)

• Virtual Terrain Project - Tools & Source code
  (http://www.vterrain.org/)

• Imersiva - Multimedia, Virtual Reality and Geographical
  Information Systems, Ltd.
  (http://www.imersiva.ch/)

• TruFlite - A 3D terrain visualization tool
  (http://www.truflite.com/)

• Visual Explorer 98 - Landscape Visualization Software from WooleySoft
  (http://www.woolleysoft.co.uk/main.html)

• MountainTop Computing, Inc. - EarthMaker, a tool for VRML worlds
  (http://www.mtop.com/products.html)

• 3D Geographer - automatic 3D modeling & viewing software
  (http://www.synoptech1.com/new/)

• MapRender3D - 2D & 3D Relief Maps from Geologic Data
  (http://www.maprender3d.com)

• OpenMap - Open Source Java Beans Toolkit for geospatial information
  (http://openmap.bbn.com/)

• GeoTools (Java Mapping Toolkit) & Java Shapefile Reader
  School of Geography - University of Leeds
  (http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/pgrads/j.macgill/java/JavaShapefile.html)

Integrating VRML/X3D and/or Java3D Specifications with Cartography

• GeoVRML Working Group of the Web3D Consortium
  (http://www.geovrml.org)

• GeoVRML Open Source Tools - Martin Reddy, primary contributor
  (http://www.geovrml.org/1.0/)

• Tools for Generating Elevation Grids in VRML by Chris Thorne & Cameron Gillies
  (http://trapdoor.surak.com.au/~chris/home/vrml/elgrd/elgrdindex.html)

• VRML-Next Generation Proposed Requirement: Double-Precision
  (http://www.ai.sri.com/~reddy/geovrml/double/>

• 3-D Map: Virtual Reality and Geo-Data
  University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
  (http://habicht.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de/inggeo/koppers/eogeo/index.html)

• Tools for converting Digital Elevation Model data (DEM) to VRML
  (Provided by Bob Crispen)
  (http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/src/)

• VRML Terrain Model of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
  Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA
  (http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~auv/leaver/)

• VRML Terrain Navigator - from Seamless Solutions Inc.
  (http://www.seamless-solutions.com/html/terrainnav/Default.htm)

• DEM Viewer - for ArcGrid ASCII files, built with Java/Java3D technology
  University of Jena, Germany
  (http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/~p6taug/demviewer/demv.html)

• inovaGIS - Includes a tool for transforming Altimetry data into VRML
  by Pedro Pereira Goncalves, GASA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
  (http://gasa.dcea.fct.unl.pt/inovagis/)

• 3DEM - Freeware for Windows95/98/NT platforms
  (http://www.monumental.com/rshorne/3dem.html)

• Virtual Earth Science - selected VRML worlds at the USGS
  (http://virtual.er.usgs.gov/)

• 3D Geo-models, VR and Simulation from Equip@ge
  (http://www.virtualworlds.at/equipage)