GIS: Geographic Information Systems

Internet Resources

- ESRI software vendor with free GIS downloads www.esri.com

- Inland Empire GIS User Group meetings www.iegis.com

GIS Data and Maps Online

- An excellent web site for sampling a GIS Internet Map Service that provides property information for South Western California, including marketing information, zoning, general plan, schools, parks, etc. is the South West Alliance:  www.southwestcalifornia.com

- GIS data www.geographynetwork.com

- Geospatial solutions www.geospatial-online.com/0301/0301urisa.htm

- Search GIS Café and IT/GIS Technology News for e-news
  UC GIS Consortium www.ucgis.org

- Geocommunicator land survey information system http://www.geocommunicator.gov/

- Gisdatadepot repository for free GIS data http://data.geocomm.com/

- United States Geological Survey http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html

- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html

- National Aeronautics and Space Administration http://www.nasa.gov/

- California Spatial Information Library http://gis.ca.gov/ims.epl

- Riverside County’s Virtual Counter http://www.rcip.org/maps.htm

- Southwest California Business Alliance Site Finder   http://www.swcaliforniasitefinder.com

- Several universities offer “atlas” or libraries of digital data
  http://atlas.lsu.edu
  http://wri.csusb.edu/

- USGS maps and high resolution aerial photos http://Microsoft.terraserver.com
  or search “Google Earth”

Other Sources of Information

California Geographical Information
  Association (CGIA)
P. O. Box 914
Adelanto, CA 92301-9998
www.cgia.org

American Society for Photogrammetry and
  Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society
5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 210
Bethesda, MD 20814-2160
(301) 493-0290
www.asprs.org

Association of American Geographers
1710 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009-3198
(202) 234-1450
www.aag.org

University Consortium for Geographic Information
  Science (UCGIS)
43351 Spinks Ferry Road
Leesburg, VA 20176-5631
(888) 850-8533
www.ucgis.org

Urban and Regional Information
  Systems Association
1460 Renaissance Drive, Suite 305
Park Ridge, IL 60068
(847) 824-6300
www.urisa.org