Other useful sites
- WWW sites
Usenet newsgroups
- Lists
- Digests
and Newsletters
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- FTP sites
World Wide
Web (WWW) sites
- You are currently reading
information at a World Wide Web (WWW) site. The number of World Wide Web sites
grows daily, and it gets increasingly difficult to navigate through them.
This section lists some WWW sites you may find useful, and some 'search engines'
which may help you navigate WWW sites.
Ordnance Survey
- Britain's national mapping
agency, the best place to find a diverse and exciting range of mapping products,
digital map data and services. The site is part of the CCTA
Government Information Service.
British Geological Survey
The British
Cartographic Society
- The BCS
GIS Special Interest Group has some issues of its' Newsletters available
on the WWW. Maplines Volume 6 Issue 3 has reports and photographs from Cartography
2000, the event held jointly by the SoC and the BCS during Sptember 2000.
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- Charles
Close Society
- Founded in 1980, the
Charles Close Society's objective is to bring together all those with any
interest in the maps, plans, and related materials of the UK Ordnance Survey
(OS), the United Kingdom's national mapping organisation, and to promote the
exchange of information, and encourage and co-ordinate research.
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- National
Statistics - Geography web site
- For Geography links using
National Statistics
Learning
and Teaching Support Network - For Geography, Earth
and Environmental Sciences
ESRC Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
- A useful site for anyone
involved in human geography
UKOLN
- The UK Office for Library
and Information Networking - a valuable reference source of anyone involved
in bibliographic management. Contains the BUBL
information service, which contains
Cartography and Geography
subject areas.
The British Library
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GB Digitised Boundary
Data
- Digitised Census boundary
data for Great Britain. Only available for academic use.
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Canadian
Cartographic Association
- For a Canadian perspective.
Many good links.
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- National
Atlas of Canada Online
- For varied Canadian material.
Many good links and maps.
- Geomatics
Canada
- Some useful links.
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- Natural
Resources Canada
- A Vision for Canada's
Natural Resources Sector
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- U.S.
Geological Survey
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The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- A guide to the Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. Amongst other
things, this site has a large collection of GIF images of maps of many cities
and areas around the world. It also has a very useful page Map-related
sites with links to many other cartographic-related WWW sites.
The Earth Sciences and Map Library of the University of California Berkley
Library
University of California, San Diego
- The University of California,
San Diego Maps and Spatial Data home page.
University of Waterloo Cartographic Materials
- Contains some useful
links
The
Photogrammetric Society
Europa
- Information on the European
Union
City.Net
- Bills itself as "the
most comprehensive international guide to communities around the world".
A good guide to both countries and major cities.
ZD Net
- Ziff Davis Publishing
publish many of the major computing magazines, with titles available worldwide.
Simply click on the banner of the title you wish to read.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Corel Corporation
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- Deneba
Canvas
- This link will take you
straight to the Support centre area of the Deneba main WWW site. Links from
here to Deneba customer service, technical information, software downloads,
and Deneba's user group. Search Knowledge Database, Online Support Forums,
Support Policy and Contact Information, Software Downloads, Canvas Tips and
How-tos, Latest Version Numbers etc. You can join the message
forum or sign up for a newsletter
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- Macromedia
Microsoft Corporation
APS Technologies
- A supplier of Macintosh
peripherals
DeLorme Mapping
- DeLorme Mapping is a
US-based company specializing in mapping software and databases for the consumer,education,
business, and government markets, and also publishes printed atlases of individual
states.
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- EARTHWORKS
- EARTHWORKS is the world
leading on-line database of career opportunities for geographers, remote sensing/GIS
staff, environmental scientists, climate/atmospheric scientists, oceanographers,
geoscientists, petroleum scientists/engineers, geotechnical engineers and
hydrologists/hydrogeologists in the academic, water, upstream oil and gas,
civil and mining sectors with particular focus on the UK, North America, Europe,
the Pacific Rim and Africa.
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- World
Construction Set
- A computer program designed
for professional photorealistic terrain modeling, visualization, rendering
and animation.
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- The
Lycos WWW Search Engine
- One way to search the
WWW
WWW Starting Points
- Another useful way to
search the WWW
College and University home pages
- A comprehensive listing
of WWW University and College home pages. For UK readers, there is also a
list of JANET servers, which has the most
up-to-date list of all UK Universities and some European and American sites.
Usenet
newsgroups
- The Usenet newsgroup
system is a global bulletin board in which people exchange information and
discuss very many different things. We have listed some links to newsgroups
which cartographers using computers may find useful. We have no control over
these groups and how (or if) you receive them. If you have problems please
refer to your system administrator. You will be able to read current
articles in the newsgroups but probably will not be able to post follow up
or new articles. If you wish to do this you will need Newsreader software.
Again, your system administrator should be able to help you with this.
- Computing systems
These newsgroups are discussion
groups about Macintosh and Windows hardware and system software.
- comp.sys.mac.announce
Press releases etc, about Macintosh hardware and software
- comp.sys.mac.apps
Macintosh applications
- comp.sys.mac.digest
Macintosh digests
- comp.sys.mac.graphics
Graphical software and hardware used on the Macintosh
- comp.sys.mac.misc
Miscellaneous Macintosh topics
- comp.sys.mac.system
Macintosh system software
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Miscellaneous PC topics
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
More PC Hardware topics
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systemsPC
Hardware topics
- Macromedia
FreeHand
Lists
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- alt.aldus.freehand is
a Usenet newsgroup for the discussion of Macromedia FreeHand on both the Macintosh
and Windows platforms. Another
newsgroup dedicated to FreeHand is also available
CorelDRAW
- alt.corel.graphics is
a Usenet newsgroup for the discussion of CorelDRAW. Not all sites carry this
newsgroup, so you may also try alt.soft-sys.corel.draw
Electronic pre-press
- Electronic pre-press
work is discussed in the newsgroup comp.publish.prepress
- There are a huge range
of Discussion Lists (also known as mailing lists, ListServs or Listprocs).
- Lists are very easy to
use. You send an email message to the Lists' address - 'the server'. This
then re-sends the message out to everyone who has subscribed to that List.
They may reply directly to you, or via the server (this way everyone else
also sees the reply). You normally have to have subscribed to the List to
send a message (otherwise you won't see the replies !). To subscribe (or unsubscribe),
you have to send a message directly to the server - not to the list itself.
Our own CARTO-SoC is an example of such a List.
- MAPS-L
- MAPS-L is an international
discussion forum for Map Librarians, other librarians dealing with (or interested
in) cartographic information, anyone dealing with cartographic information,
cartographers, remote sensors, geographers, and cartomaniacs of all types.
To subscribe to MAPS-L, send Email to: LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU with
the message: subscribe maps-l 'your full name' in the body of the
mail.
CARTA
- CARTA is a Discussion
Forum for Map Librarians and Archivists in Canada, or for Canadian map-related
questions. To subscribe to CARTA, send Email to: MAILSERV@SASK.USASK.CA
with the message: subscribe carta 'your full name' in the body of
the mail.
Lis-Maps
- Lis-Maps is a forum for
discussing news, issues, policies and practices related to map and spatial
data librarianship. Topics can be broad ranging and include amonst other things
information retrieval, relationship to GIS and remote sensing etc. To subscribe
to Lis-Maps, send Email to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the message:
Join Lis-Maps 'your full name' in the body of the mail.
MAPHIST
- To subscribe to MAPHIST,
send Email to: listserv@harvarda.bitnet
- with the message: subscribe
MAPHIST in the body of the mail.
The FreeHand list
- The FreeHand List is
a discussion group for Macromedia FreeHand for both the Macintosh and PC.
To subscribe to the FreeHand List, send Email to: listserv@galileo.uafadm.alaska.edu
with the message: subscribe in the body of the mail.
The Illustrator List
- This list provides a
forum for discussion of the Adobe Illustrator application and issues related
to its use. To subscribe to ILLSTRTR, the Illustrator List, send Email to:
listserv@primesource.com with the message: SUBSCRIBE ILLSTRTR
'your name' in the body of the mail.
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The Quark list
- The Quark List provides
help and tips about Quark XPress for both the Macintosh and PC. To subscribe
to the Quark List, send Email to: LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
with the message: subscribe QUARKXPR 'your name' in the body of the
mail.
Adobe PageMaker
- A List all about Adobe
PageMaker. To subscribe to the PageMaker List, send Email to: LISTSERV@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU
with the message: subscribe pagemakr 'your name' in the body of the
mail.
Adobe Photoshop
- A List all about Adobe
Photoshop. To subscribe to the Photoshop List, send Email to: LISTPROC2@BGU.EDU
with the message: subscribe PHOTSHOP 'your name' in the body of the
mail. Beware of the spelling when subscribing !
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Digests
and Newsletters
- Digests are similar to
Lists, except that replies are saved and sent back as a block. This is usually
because many posts are sent each day. Newsletters are, well, newsletters.
The Info-Mac Digests
- The Info-Mac digests
are a collection of posts relating to anything in the Macintosh world. There
is an associated FTP site which has the world's biggest collection of Macintosh
shareware. Info-Mac is a very useful source of help and information for any
Macintosh problem. For more details of Info-Mac, send Email requesting Information
to: info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
TidBITS
- A free email and Web
publication covering the Macintosh Internet community.
FTP sites
The
Info-Mac Archives
- A list of sites that
mirror SUMEX-AIM, Standford University's gigantic Macintosh archive. Choose
the mirror closest to you. Subscribe at www.info-mac.com
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The UMICH Archives
- An easy way to browse
the University of Michigan's UMICH archive of Macintosh software.
The Quark XPress archive
- Aims to become the world's
most complete archives of Quark shareware, extensions, announcements and updates
for both Mac and PC.
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