Geodesist's Handbook - 2004

Every four years, after every General Assembly, the International Association of Geodesy publishes the Geodesist's Handbook as a special issue of the Journal of Geodesy (previously the Bulletin Géodésique). This is the 7th edition of this Geodesists handbook describing the International Association of Geodesy.

GIS WWW Resource List

This is an index of World-Wide Web (WWW) servers which are likely to be of interest to the GIS community. It is maintained by Bruce M. Gittings and Anup Pradhan at the Department of Geography in the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Association for Geographic Information.

Geography Network

The Geography Network is a global community of government and commercial data providers who are committed to making geographic content easily accessible.

GPS Applications Exchange

The GPS Applications Exchange is an online information source on the diverse uses of GPS technology all over the world.  Sponsored by NASA and representatives of the GPS community the Applications Exchange includes GPS application stories that you can browse and view by application type or by country.

The GISPortal

Also known as Great GIS Net Sites! is one of the top web sites for Geographic Information System (GIS) industry information.

Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping

A comprehensive listing of cartographic sites. More than 14,000 unannotated links to mapping information on the Web organized in categories. Searchable by keyword and/or location.

Virtual Geography Department

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

Geodesy for the Layman

First published in 1959, was written by Lt Col Richard K. Burkard (retired). Since that time and through this, its fourth revision, a host of authors have revised and supplemented the original work. Full text online.

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Compiled by Mary W. Scott, Geology Librarian, Orton Memorial Library of Geology
Designed by Michael C. Veres, Student Library Assistant
Last updated: February 16, 2006