GIS Links
GIS_Software_Manufacturers
GIS Map Conversion Services
Universities
Government Agencies
GIS Data
GIS_Glossaries
Other_GIS_Links

Links to GPS/GIS Jobs
Trimble Navigation, Ltd. Employment Opportunities http://www.trimble.com/about/at_emply.htm
ESRI, Inc. Employment Opportunities http://gis.esri.com/jobs/jobs.cfm
GIS Jobs Clearinghouse www.gjc.org
GIS Jobs.com www.GISjobs.com
GeoSearch, Inc. www.geosearch.com

GPS Links

GPS Equipment Manufacturers

THANK YOU! To Trimble Navigation, Ltd. for their generous contribution of equipment and software for this course!

Trimble Navigation Ltd.
www.trimble.com

Trimble's GPS tutorial
www.trimble.com/gps/index.html

Ashtech (Magellan Corporation): visit the About GPS link, look at the GPS glossary
www.ashtech.com

SOKKIA
www.sokkia.com

Corvallis Microtechnology (CMT)
www.cmtinc.com

CMT GPS Book: Information on basic GPS theory & receiver technology
www.cmtinc.com/gpsbook

Garmin International
www.garmin.com

Magellan Systems Corporation
www.magellan.com

Fleet Management Solutions: a system that delivers real time GPS, mobile asset tracking and wireless vehicle tracking.

www.fmsgps.com

GPS Equipment Dealers

THANK YOU! To Electronic Data Solutions for their support of MSU's programs over the past 10 years.

Electronic Data Solutions
www.elecdata.com

Navtech Seminars & GPS Supply
www.navtechgps.com

Differential GPS Services

Omnistar Worldwide DGPS Service
www.omnistar.com

Racal: The Racal LandStar Global Differential GPS Service
www.racal-landstar.com

Starlink, Inc.
www.starlinkdgps.com

GPS/GIS Magazines

GPS World Magazine
www.gpsworld.com

GEO World Magazine
http://www.geoplace.com/gw

Professional Surveyor magazine; check out the archives to see past issues since March 1996, and check out September 98 (vol. 18 #6) for article about Trimble receivers on Mt Everest! Great articles on the application of GPS, GIS and related uses; 21 links; job exchange page.
www.profsurv.com

Precision Farming Magazine
www.precisionfarming.com

Government Agencies

Schriever Air Force Base: GPS Site
http://www.schriever.af.mil/gps/

U.S. Coast Guard: SV operational status, satellite outages, launch dates, info on NDGS beacons, etc.
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/default.htm

GPS/GIS Mapping and Consulting Companies

GeoScience Associates, Inc., Billings, MT
http://www.gsax.com

Global Positions, LLC, Bozeman, MT
www.globalpositions.com

DTM Consulting, LLC, Bozeman, MT
http://www.dtmgis.com

Marshall and Associates, Boise, ID
www.marshallgis.com

Plangraphics, Inc., Frankfort, KY (This site provides a thorough list of WWW GIS Links)
www.plangraphics.com

Red Hen Systems, Fort Collins, CO (precision agriculture applications)
www.redhensystems.com

GPS Glossaries

From GPS World online
GPS World On-line Glossary

Navtech GPS terms
www.navtechgps.com/glossary.asp

International GPS waypoint registry glossary of GPS terms
www.waypoint.org/gps1-glos.html

Other GPS Links

GPS FAQ: GPS Reviews, Forums Articles and source of information for Garmin, Magellan and other GPS manufacturers.
http://www.gpsfaq.com

About.com: GPS and GIS
http://geography.about.com/od/geographictechnology/Geographic_Technology.htm

GIS Links

GIS Software Manufacturers

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
www.esri.com

ESRI Virtual Campus: ArcView software required to run tutorial.
campus.esri.com/campus/home/home.cfm

ESRI ARC-INFO tutorial: ARC-INFO software required to run tutorial.
boris.qub.ac.uk/shane/arc/ARChome.html

Caliper UK: GIS desktop and Internet mapping software with extensive bundled data for the UK, Great Britain, and London
Maptitude for Great Britain http://www.maptitude.co.uk/
Maptitude for Great Britain (Web Edition) http://www.maptitude.co.uk/
TransCAD for Great Britain http://www.maptitude.co.uk/

GIS Map Conversion Services

GeoVect http://www.geovect.com/index.html

GeoVect specializes in the conversion of paper or raster maps into vector data for your GIS, CAD or scientific analysis application.

Universities

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIS): GIS curriculum materials. The National Center for Geographic Information Analysis (NCGIA) is a research consortium whose main focus is to conduct basic research in geographic information science and its related technology. There are three sites in the consortium: University of California at Santa Barbara, State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine.
www.ncgia.ucsb.edu

NCGIA at the University of Maine
ncgia.spatial.maine.edu

NCGIA at the University of New York, Buffalo
www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia/

Global Positioning System Overview, Peter H. Dana: Overview of GPS, a module from The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html

Iowa State University, GIS Support & Research Facility: 31 links to GIS, GPS, research dept's; software, published material and magazines
www.gis.iastate.edu/Links.html

Government Agencies

National Geodetic Survey (NGS): maintains our national spatial reference system (NSRS) mapping coastal waterways and navigational charts
www.ngs.noaa.gov

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): visit the mapping and internet resource links
www.usgs.gov

USGS National Mapping Information: lots of good info and educational resources
http://mapping.usgs.gov

U.S. Census Bureau, GIS Gateway
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gis_gateway.html

GIS Data

Gallatin County GIS has an interactive mapping application, including an address finder, a parcel finder and a county building finder. So far, data can only be viewed and printed, but not downloaded. County data layers are available from the County GIS Department on CD by request.

City of Bozeman GIS has downloadable data for the City of Bozeman and an interactive map application.

NAIP (2005) 1-meter imagery Natural-Color Aerial Photos of Montana, 2005, from the U.S. Farm Services Agency National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP.

The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) includes a listing of data by 28 different subject areas including; crime, census, health, remote sensing, etc. It also has a great listing of national and international GIS data catalogs, and a listing of US State GIS data centers.

The Geography Network provides access to digital data for use with geographic information system (GIS) software.

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) maintains access to a collection of over 100 spatial data servers that have digital geographic data primarily for use in GIS, image processing systems, and other modeling software.

USGS Geographic Data Download provides 1:2k DEM, 1:24K DEM, 30m NED, 1:2m DLG, 1:24K DLG, LULC, NLCD, and NHD.

Digital Chart of the World Web Server allows you to download the boundaries and layers of different countries, in Arc/INFO export format. The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is an Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) product originally developed for the US Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) using DMA data.

The Harvard Geospatial Library provides an online tool for locating data around the world. Dated located on their web site includes; Digital Chart of the World, Census 2000 Block Groups and Tracts, ESRI Data & Maps (6 CDs), MassGIS vector data, municipal data for Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and the National Transportation Atlas.

National Geophysical Data Center is a general site for geophysical data. Data sets are not necessarily in GIS ready formats.

Microsoft's Terraserver is a large catalog of aerial photographs and remotely sensed imagery.

Map Digger has a listing of weather, road, nautical, historical, and aviation maps.

The GeoCommunity Data Store provides custom data products, delivered to you and custom written on CD-ROM.

GIS Glossaries

Association for Geographic Information, GIS dictionary, 980 terms
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html

ESRI GIS terms
http://www.esri.com/library/glossary/glossary.html