GIS Resources

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an awesome collection of historical maps

http://www.davidrumsey.com/index.html

including civil war era for the americans

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet ... War?pgs=50

a bunch of places with open data sets.

http://www.geonames.org/

http://www.freegis.org/database/?cat=1& ... 4pUgVUBlBE

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

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Google and Microsoft have javascript based slippy maps but the best for doing open work without licensing surprises is

http://www.openlayers.org/

its quite simple to use if you already know html/javascript and has plenty of examples.

[Tinker]

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US raster and vector nautical charts


http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/index.htm

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/cpdownload.htm US Coast Pilots

They work great in a chartplotter like , as well as a GIS.

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"Your Ubuntu is ready for daily, professional GIS work. Getting started it's just a matter of minutes. You can easily install on your machine each of the GIS applications listed below (in brackets the package name), through the Synaptic Package Manager or typing sudo apt-get install program-name from the command line, just like any other package. "




GIS system on a thumb drive.

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a personal GIS

http://www.everytrail.com/

Geotagged photos have more meaning.

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A small slice of US history which could be made much clearer with GIS time series analysis.

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"The objectives of this project are three-fold: (1) Produce a web-based, user-friendly interface aimed at the planetary research community that will support Geographic Information Systems (GIS) graphical, statistical, and spatial tools for analyses of planetary data, including the distribution of planetary GIS tutorials, tools, programs, and information; (2) Create planetary GIS databases consisting of peer-reviewed digital geologic maps, feature maps, topography, and remote-sensing data under the scientific oversight of the NASA Geologic Mapping Subcommittee (GEMS); and (3) Support and encourage the use of GIS in planetary research including geospatial open standards"

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Data Visualization is friggin' cool









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Pure point cloud spatial measurement data (X,Y,Z,Intensity)with , a laser scanning distance measurement tool developed for mapmaking and cruise missile targeting.



Some raw LIDAR data, vis tools, etc at

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cool

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friggin' Nerdfest...

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Amazing what you can do with some all-consuming hellbent rage and a good GIS: