Welcome to the GIS WWW Server

This WWW server is hosted by the Institute of Geography within the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. It provides information on all aspects of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), as well as providing a number of useful links to other servers worldwide.

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GIS at Edinburgh...

What is GIS?
Studying GIS at Edinburgh, including our World-Leading GIS Masters Programme
GIS Research being undertaken at Edinburgh
Staff undertaking GIS Research and Teaching at: Edinburgh

Important Sources of Information about GIS...

The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and their GIS Dictionary
Bruce Gittings' Digital Elevation Data Catalogue
GIS Reference Database (contains other references too)
Collected GIS Bibliographies
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List from GIS-L: - Answers many GIS-related queries
GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference Series Home Page
Other Forthcoming GIS and Related Conferences

Other Useful GIS & RS Resources...

Links to sites providing GIS related information and data via the WWW, Gopher, or ftp.

Some Demonstrations from other places

University of Minnesota's Information Page - includes online GIS publications (e.g. Geo Info Systems)

University of Edinburgh Data Library and the national EDINA service.

USGS Geographical Data Resources

Our list of GIS World Wide Web Servers (While new sites are added to this list, it is no longer actively maintained)

Oddens Bookmarks: Mapping and certography resources

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