GeoMapping: World resources

World topography and geopolitical data

• Alasdair Rae of the University of Sheffield has drawn together a really useful collection of data for planning based research. Have a look - http://ajrae.staff.shef.ac.uk/#resources

• Global Administrative Areas - "GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software." http://gadm.org/

• Natural Earth - From the website: Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

• National Mapping Agencies of UN member states
  http://www.unsalb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=56
   
• NASA Reverb / Echo _ NASA's data and information gateway https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
   
• CGIAR -Consortium for Spatial Information - Server sites for SRTM elevation data http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp

• ETOPO1 - From the website "ETOPO1 is a 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth's surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry. It was built from numerous global and regional data sets, and is available in "Ice Surface" (top of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets) and "Bedrock" (base of the ice sheets) versions."  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html

• Open Topography - portal to hi-res topography data and tools http://www.opentopography.org/
  -  USA + world data

• D maps - free world, continent and country outline maps http://d-maps.com/ 
  n.b. Do not click on DOWNLOAD _ right click on map - 'save target as'

World geological surveys

• National geological surveys of the world http://geology.com/groups.htm
  
  
• Europe’s national geological surveys  http://www.eurogeosurveys.org/about-us/map/

Global landcover  http://glcf.umd.edu/

• Landsat satellite imagery, SRTM DEM plus other data on land cover
• Digital Elevation of Europe http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/digital-elevation-model-of-europe
• Earth Explorer: The US Geological Society's portal for a wide range of satellite data - includes strm and aster elevation models. Download requires registration.http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Oceans Maps - bathymetry

• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/gallery/maps/maps.html
   
• General Bathymetric Map of the Oceans  download gridded bathymetric data http://www.gebco.net/

E-Journals related to maps and mapping available through the Library

• Journal of Maps - International journal publishing geomorphological, geological and other thematic maps http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjom20

Virtual Globes - displaying KML / KMZ files

• Google Earth Pro – START button > All Programs > University Software > Google Earth Pro - The University subscribes to the Pro version of Google earth with additional features and high resolution printing. Much data is now available in kml format which will display instantly on the surface of a virtual globe
   
• Bing –  a more recent globe introduced by Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6436
• Nasa World Wind 1.5.1 -    free for non-commercial use.  Download from  http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasa-exp/
  World Wind Java is the latest cross-platform version, released in January 2013. Virtual globes are also produced for the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter plus the four Galilean moons.

History of Cartography

The History of Cartography Project http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/ is an immense six-volume international research, editorial and publishing venture spanning mapping from pre-history to the present.

Recent donations have funded free online delivery of Vols 1-3   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html