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Python

Python Cartography Library
Python Image Library
ReportLab

Generating ActiveX DLL's for Win32

Geoprocessing and ArcObjects with Python

HoBU's intro There are many excellent python references and links here.

MapServer

580 student project

NACSE http://opensourcegis.org http://gdal.maptools.org

Dawns 580 lecture sched with links

Interesting aerial photo search site using MapServer ... http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/airphotos/search.html

Toshimi Minoura -- The links change often so you might have to poke around here. http://yukon.een.orst.edu/~minourax/ms_apps_cs440/watershed/gmap75_main.phtml http://yukon.een.orst.edu/ms_apps/nhis_cs540/gmap75_main.phtml

Thurston Regional Planning – Historic property http://66.224.6.115/mox42/hist_index.cfm

Thurston Regional Planning – Water Resources http://66.224.6.115/mox42/GEN_INDEX.cfm

City of Airdrie – Select Find An Address or Find a Facility/Landmark. This is interesting because they stripped most of the functionality out of the program to get a simple, user-friendly interface. http://www.airdrie.com/Cat_Map/index.cfm

Electronics

Discover Electronics 11,000+ electronic circuits, schematics, designs or diagrams.

EDN magazine

GIS/GPS/Cartography

James Fees' blog

For GIS data, go to the Data sources page.

Shinai Serjali Helping indigineous people of southeast Peru

Oregon tide chart

Archaeology

Leica Archaeology & Heritage

University of Birmingham VISTA

Remote sensing

Aerial archaeology archive

Anhistoriton online periodical

Coordinate systems and datums

http://earth-info.nima.mil/GandG/pubs.htm

http://www.ga.gov.au/nmd/geodesy/datums/

http://geology.isu.edu/geostac/Field_Exercise/topomaps/index.htm

http://feature.geography.wisc.edu/sco/geodetic/geodetic_control.html

http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/class_info/nr502/mainpage/course_mainpage.html

GPS

http://www.trimble.com/gps/index.html A good basic introduction to GPS technology that explains how satellites determine locations on the earth.

http://gpsinformation.net/ Comprehensive site of GPS-related links. Includes a geography section with topics on maps, datums, and coordinate systems.

Projections

Colorado State University hosts Peter Dana's excellent pages on map projections

Wolfram's Mathworld

Picture Gallery of Map Projections Diagrams of familiar and unusual projections.

Cartographical Map Projections

Carto Corner from the Atlas of Canada

USGS Map Projections

Software engineering

http://www.corba.org/
http://www.cebus.org/ http://www.x10.org/
http://www.embeddedlinux.com/
http://www.linux-usb.org/
Sun Java and JINI

Standards

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium

Portals and publications

Directions magazine
Geospatial Solutions
GEO World
GISdevelopment technical resources portal and magazines esp for Asia
GIS Monitor appears as a column in Professional Surveyor Magazine
GPS World
Geocomm Spatial news
URISA Journal Imaging Notes The World's Guide to Commercial Remote Sensing

"Transactions in GIS" is available to Oregon State University students at the Valley library. You can also access articles online for $26 each.

Schools and Universities

OSU Geosciences GIS@OSU Dawn Wright
OSU Forestry Science Lab Spatial Data Management Group Python group

CORE Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
Hatfield Marine Science Center Marine Mammal Program Newport, Oregon
OSU Watershed Extension
PISCO | Lubchenco/Menge Lab (Oregon)
CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab (California)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (Massachusetts)

Professional groups

NCGIA UCSB
Willamette Valley GIS user group

Certification programs

GIS Certification Institute

Government agencies

Federal

CIA - CIA World Factbook

EPA
- EPA estuary program
- GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems

NOAA
- National Geodetic Survey
- Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
- Seagrant

US Coast Guard Navigation Center especially the publications center.

USDA Forest Service GPS
Los Alamos GIS Lab
Ask USGS

State

Oregon - Parks and Recreation Department - See also the GIS Data Sources area for Oregon data.

Non-governmental / non-profit agencies

MBARI Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (California)
Society for Conservation Biology Arlington, Virginia
Conservation Biology Institute
Institute for Applied Ecology Native Seed Network Corvallis, OR
Northwest Habititat Institute Corvallis, OR

DataPlace by KnowledgePlex

Commercial sites

Linn/Benton county

Alsea Geospatial (Corvallis, OR)
Corvallis Microtechnology (Corvallis, OR)
Geosolve (Tangent, OR)
Tripod Data Systems GPS equipment (Corvallis, OR)
Watershed Sciences (Corvallis and Portland, OR)

David Shear / Eagle Imaging low cost quick turnaround aerial photography (Corvallis, OR)

Farther afield

ESRI | Campus | EDN | OSU Virtual Campus access

Geoprinter including PDF conversion utility

Mentor Software some freebies including the geotiff examiner.
Millenium
IVS (Fledermaus)
Merrick&Co aerial surveys etc
Navtech Seminars and GPS Supply books and equipment

Woolpert consultant

http://wms-map.sourceforge.net/