Geography on the Net

A brief introduction to the huge resources available on the Net, we have attempted to provides pointers to many of the major sites.

Useful Reference Sites | Map sites | Weather sites | GIS sites | Other selected sites

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• Introductory Internet Tutorial Using Geographical Resources This tutorial provides a guide to using the Internet and has excellent Geography Specific Resources

• National Information Services and Systems - Geography section (NISS) has built up a number of different information services - all serving the UK Higher Education sector.
• Yahoo's Geography page a good starting point for an initial look at Net resources. There are links here to six indices of geography resources on the Net.
• WWW Virtual Library on the subject of Geography
• Internet Resources for Geographers excellent collection from Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
• GIS Guide Located in the Department of Geography at Georgia State University in Atlanta
• Geography - WWW Virtual Library well laid out by General Information, Information about Countries and Educational Institutions
• Paul Coddington - Syracuse University Each subject section contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to schoolkids. There are also links to external lists of material on each subject which more advanced students can browse for further information.
• GSC Atlantic's Past Earth Science Sites of the Week this is a great starting point
• University of South Carolina USC Department of Geography - excellent list here of online resources.

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  Useful Reference Sites & Tools

• Project GeoSim Project GeoSim is a joint research project of the Departments of Computer Science and Geography at Virginia Tech. They are creating education modules for introductory geography courses. These modules typically have two parts: A tutorial program to introduce terms and concepts of the module and a simulation program with which to carry out lab exercises.
• The Geographers Craft Fall 1995 Class Projects this is particularly interesting as the projects are very diverse and each gives the lnks to the subject selected by the student, e.g. from Landmines to Environmental Issues in the Former East Bloc.

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  Map sites

• University of Iowa - Maps and References Index
• Mapquest's Interactive Atlas
• Mapblast Locate a detailed street map from almost any street address in the United States.
• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection an excellent collection of maps from all over the world. Here is their map of Ireland (253k)
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer The Xerox PARC Map Viewer is a World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a geographic database.

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  Weather sites

• World Climate Data The data here is climate data, not current weather data. This means the data shows historical averages. It is a guide to what the weather will be typically be like, not what it is like right now.
• Interactive Weather Information Network

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  GIS sites

• GIS again this could be very useful for exam purposes
• Geography Department at the University of Edinburgh. their Geographical Information Systems (GIS) section

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  Other selected sites

• Virtual Library Earth Sciences
• University of Texas at Austin - Department of Geography Home Page
• Geography Department at the University of Edinburgh.
• The Virtual Geography Department Project
• the Virtual Department Project On-Line Course Subject Index, some courses created.
• Pennsylvania State University What is Penn State Geography?
• University of Wisconsin- Madison. Physical Geography Resources, a great collection here
• Pennsylvania State University a series of interactive multimedia educational resources for teaching introductory earth science. Available Resources: Windows Versions
• GeoScience: K-12 Resources an ongoing project to see what relevant K-12 GeoScience resources are available "out there". - this is a nice site given that it is for G12 it is oriented to be of interest to students.
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• UK Ordenance Survey

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