Something I was introduced to this week at GITA 27 that falls under the category of" cool" was a service called Ask The…
Month: April 2004
ResMap
ResMap allows access to GIS-Ready satellite imagery via an Image Web Server. ResMap provides free online access to GIS-ready satellite data. Imagery covering…
A GISuser Primer on the National Elevation Data Product (NED)
The National Elevation Dataset (NED) is a raster data product assembled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The NED is designed to provide…
Valtus Imagery Services
Valtus is the largest private digital imagery distributor in Canada, specializing in providing on-line imagery solutions to diverse markets including oil & gas,…
GIS Express Visual Simulation Data Sets
Building a high quality 3D Visual Simulation based on earth imagery is a challenging and time consuming activity. GIS Express eliminates your time…
The National Spatial Reference System (NSRS)
The National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), maintained by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), is a consistent National coordinate system that defines latitude, longitude,…
USGS Celebrates 50 years in Menlo Park (1954 2004)
In January of 1954, 120 employees of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) moved into what would be the first of many USGS buildings…
A Marine Resource GIS (MRGIS) Internet Map Server (IMS)
The Marine Resource GIS IMS is an on-line mapping tool designed to allow users to view spatially referenced data, create customized queries, design…
NOAA’s Merged Extracted Vector Shoreline
Created from the Extracted Vector Shoreline Series, a topologically clean shoreline file depicting the Mean High Water line at the best scale for…
NOAA Shoreline Coastline Data
A fabulous resource enabling users to extract coastline vector data products – http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.htmlas well as a medium resolution coastline data product. Compiled from…