Dr. McAdams' Links

Links
Updated 11 August, 2006

Urban Geography/Urban Planning/Urban History

Urban History

Greek Cites
A link that goes to various ancient Greek cities

Ancient Turkish Cities
A tourist site,but shows some of the major ancient Turkish cities.

Teotihuacan
One of the marvels of the world. The pyramids at this locaton rival those in Egypt, but used for cerimonial platforms and not as tombs.
This city thrived around 1 A.C.E. and reached a population of approximately 60 to 80,000, making it the largest city in the Americas at this time and one of the largest in the world.

Mayan Cities

Ancient Rome

Urban Land Use Theory

Urban Models and Bid-Rent Theory
Excelent explanation of basic urban models and Bid-Rent Theory

Applicatoins of Urban Models to Detroit, Michigan USA

Review of Urban Models

More on Urban Models including Economic Applications

Urban Design

Virtural Urban Spaces

The Post Modern and Information Age City

Several On-line Articles concerning urban sprawl etc.

Planning Information Systems/Urban GIS

Urban GIS applications examples for Kadikoy, Istanbul and Ankara

On-line GIS for Urban and Regional Agencies
Baton Rouge onilne

Vancouver & Seattle online GIS

Minnesota GIS Clearinghouse

Towards the Virtual City VR & Internet GIS for Urban Planning

Online GIS program

On-line Urban related journals

URISA Journal,

Urbana

Urban Planning

Hypothetical City Workbook updates etc.

Cartography

Virtual Geography Department for Cartographic Sources

Cartography Basics

Map Projections

Datums by Peter Dana

Understanding Map Projections (interactive projectıons)

Map Projections Briefly (Powerpoint Presenation)

Coordinate Systems

More about Datums

More About Maps

Map Scales

How to Measure Distances

Do maps represent reality?

Maps for Turkey

Here are some collection of links concerning cartography:

Map Coordinates
http://www.maptools.com/UsingLatLon

Coorindates and Projections
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/f/d/fdp102/GEOG%205121%20Project%201%20Report.html
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/slvg/map.html
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/crs/geog165/mapproj.htm
http://www.gis.com/data/usingdata/map_projections.html

Map Coordinates and Datums
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/classes/geol552/wellsampling/mapcoordinates.htm
http://www.maptools.com/UsingUTM/mapdatum.html
http://geosun.sjsu.edu/paula/285/285/marc.htm http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/classes/geol552/wellsampling/mapcoordinates.htm

Geographic Information Systems

Getting Started with GIS (powerpoint slides etc.)
Basic course in GIS and good reference

GIS courses from Virtual Geography Department

GIS WWW Resources List
A very comprehensive listing of GIS related sites maintained by the Department of Geography in the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Association for Geographic Information.

USGS Mapping Information: Home Page
One of the best sites for GIS information.

Social Econonmic Data Center (SEDAC)
GIS Data and Interactive Maping for worldwide data

ESRI!
The homepage of ESRI, the company that brought you ArcInfo, ArcView etc. Highly recommended.

USGS: Geo Data
Another link to the USGS homepage.

GIS for Geologists
A private consulting company that uses GIS. This will give you some ideas about GIS applications in geology.

Free GIS Databases
A good source for free coverages. Hint: This might be a good place to look for coverages for your project.

Mike's GIS home page!
A another very good list for GIS resources.

Free Data/Software From ESRI
Want to get some free data and GIS freeware (on a trial basis)?

ERDAS
One of the leading companies in remote sensing

Geography Resources: Geo-Spatial Datasets
A plethora of GIS datasets brought to you by the Virtual Geography Dept. at UT-Austin.

Center for Remote Sensing at the University of Delaware
This is a good site for remote sensing and GIS related to coastal management.

Great GIS Net Sites!
Another good site with links.

Bureau of Land Management FTP Site
FTP site for GIS utility programs, datasets, DLG's etc.

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
An excellent source of weather data from NOAA

USGS Mapping Information
Another area in the vast USGS website. Worth a look.

Montana GIS
This is a very interesting site and definitely worth inspecting. It is managed by the State of Montana and geared toward those interested in resource management in this state. Some of the files appear to be in Arc/Info format.

GIS Analysis Links

How to Perform GIS Data Analysis Another Very Good Explanation of GIS Analysis Data Analysis using GIS

Various Examples of GIS Analysis by Prıvate Company Watershed Analysis Using GIS:

Publications Concerning Watershed Management (University of West Virginia, USA)

Watershed System Design Course at Purdue (USA) GIS Temporal Analysis for a Watershed

Watershed Management and Planning (U.S. EPA)

Spatial Modeling

short summary

A full course in spatial modeling

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/units/u183/u183.html

http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch1en/meth1en/ch1m4en.html#3

http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/gallery/TGchapter1_Methods.ppt#26

Internet Mapping

Map Server-Online Map Server

DDViewer
An excellent site for U.S. demographic information. "On the fly" mapping, databases and various levels of information and types make this one of the most useful sites for GIS, particularly those interested in using GIS for U.S. socio-demographic data. A MUST SEE! This is a good example of Internet GIS application

planiglob
Another Internet map server.

Global Warming

U.S. EPA informational site

Natural Resources Defense Council

New Scientist (special report on global warming)

North America

Physical Geography

Climate Classification and Climatic Regions of the World

Geomorphology

Interactive Climate Map

Internet Resources for Physical Geography

Introduction to the Atmosphere

Mount Rainier National Park (US)

Natural Vegetation of North America map

Global Climate Maps

Soils Orders

The Atlas of Canada - Relief

The Atlas of Canada - Terrestrial Ecoregions, 1993

The Regional Impacts of Climate Change

The Territorial Development of the United States

Population

Cahokia Mounds Home Page

Discoverers Web North America

Discovery of Viking Site at L'anse Aux Meadows (New Foundland, Canada)

Government of Nunavut

Hispanic America

History of the American Indians

American Indian Archaeological Sites

Past and Present US immigration Facts in the United States

DDViewer
An excellent site for U.S. demographic information. "On the fly" mapping, databases and various levels of information and types make this one of the most useful sites for GIS, particularly those interested in using GIS for U.S. socio-demographic data. A MUST SEE! This is a good example of Internet GIS application

General

The Atlas of Canada - Map Archives

Canadian Superlatives - Super Canada!

Map Maker - nationalatlas.gov

Tour Canada from space

US Geography Book Outline

Remote Sensing

NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial

Canadian Remote Sensing Tutorials

Annotated Remote Sensing Links

NCGIA Core Curriculum
A good source for Remote Sensing and GIS Tutorials

California DOQ's

Brief Outline of Aerial Photo Interpretation

GPS

Various GPS Links

World Geography