Geography

General Information

• Xerox PARC map viewer
  • Information about the map viewer
• ANU landscape ecology services
• Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products
• SUNY/Buffalo list of resources
• the University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
• Canadian Geographical Names Data Base
  • English homepage
    • English look-up form
  • French homepage
    • French look-up form
• NAIS Map
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - a database of placenames in the United States produced by the USGS.
• Project GeoSim - Geography Education software developed by the Departments of Geography and Computer Science at Virginia Tech
• Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC)
• American Geophysical Union Home Page - AGU programs, meetings, publications, information services, and news about the earth, ocean, atmosphere, and space sciences; short scientific articles, press releases, current awareness of geoscience research for members, media, educators, students and society.
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) - Institute at the University of Colorado dedicated to study of past and present earth-surface processes
• CIA World Factbook 1994
• City.Net jump-point for maps
• The Virtual Tourist
• GIS Frequently Asked Questions and General Info List - This is the FAQ for comp.infosystems.gis and the GIS-L listserv. This html is the index which leads to the FAQ's main sections.
• Geographic Institutes around the World - Index of geography institutes, departments and research centres (available in both English and French versions).
• Geography Branch of the German Virtual Library
• CYBERGEO - European Journal of Geography

Information about Countries

• WWW VL: Asian Studies
• Guide to Australia
• Brasil - Information about Brazil: geographical, cultural, political, news. Also pictures of many areas of Brasil
• WWW Brittany - Presentation of a french wild country: Brittany
• Country information: China - A very large collection of links related to China, also including a "regional informations" section.
• Cyprus
• Denmark
• Germany
• Information on India
• The Beauty of India - Unity in Diversity
• WWW VL: Japan
• WWW VL: Latin American Studies
• New Zealand
• WWW VL: Russian and East European Studies
• Scotland
  • Gateway to Scotland
  • Scotland Travels - Scotland Travels have been created to provide a wide but comprehensive set of information on Scotland, including culture, leisure, travel tips, maps, business, shopping, transportation and accommodation.
• WWW VL: Thailand
• Ukraine: the Homeland - Find out some facts about the largest European country.
• United States of America
  • Eugene, Oregon

Information about Educational Institutions

• Dept. of Geography, University of Buffalo
• Department of Geography, Syracuse University
• University of Denver Geography Department - Department description, undergraduate and graduate program information, course descriptions, etc.
• UH Manoa Geography Homepage - Web site for the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa including information about the Faculty, Courses, Facilities, etc.
• The Department of Geography at U. of South Carolina
• Department of Geography-University of Texas at Austin - Department Description, The Geographer's Craft Project, and links to other WWW Resources
• Dept. of Geography, Australian National University
• Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh - Information about Geography (and Archaeology) at Edinburgh resources, tour of the City of Edinburgh
• Keele University Department of Geography, Staffordshire, UK.
• School of Geography, University of Leeds
  • Timetable and course information
• Institute of Geography, University of Louvain (BE)
• Radford University Department of Geography - Academic info on Radford University's Department of Geography. Includes lots of environmental WWW links and an experimental "paperless classroom".
• Ryerson Polytechnic University, School of Applied Geography - An introduction to Geography at Ryerson University. This site includes a description of GIS projects and resources about Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Still under development.