The Geography Network, an Internet portal for map and GIS users and providers, features the Geography Network Explorer, links to publishers, maps, data, and more.
Enabling Technology, Inc.,
announces the Spatial Metadata Management System
(SMMS), a software tool for the creation and management
of FGDC-compliant metadata. For more information
and to download a free trial copy, see SMMS
on Enabling Technology, Inc.'s Web page.
NOAA Coastal Services
Center has created a free downloadable extension
for ArcView GIS for FGDC-compliant data. See the
ArcView
GIS Metadata Collector for more information.
An online catalog
of available GIS data sets in HTML documents
for use both internally and externally
An online descriptions
of the geospatial data sets and their attributes
for access in ArcView applications
A tool in management
of the GIS data sets on the MPGIS system
The basis of the text
file of required for data transfer.
Converting
and Using SDTS Digital Elevation Model Data—This
article tells how to locate, download, and process
1:24,000-scale digital elevation model (DEM) data
in Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) format.
Visit the Terrain
Modeling Using ArcView GIS page for links
to earlier articles in ArcUser magazine
that describe how to download, convert, and model
other types of data from the U.S. Geological Survey's
Earth Resource Observation Systems (EROS) Web
site. This page also contains links to the EROS
site, sample data sets, and data conversion utilities.
