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Geography Organizations
 
American Geographical Society, http://www.amergeog.org/
Association for Geographic Information (UK), http://www.agi.org.uk/
Association of American Geographers, http://www.aag.org/ 
Canadian Association of Geographers, http://www.cag-acg.ca/en/
International Geographical Union, http://www.igu-net.org/
National Council for Geographic Education, http://www.ncge.org/
National Geographic Society, http://www.nationalgeographic.com
North American Cartographic Information Society, http://www.nacis.org/ 
Royal Geographic Society (UK), http://www.rgs.org/
Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG), http://www.geography.vt.edu/sedaag/
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, http://www.ucgis.org/
West Virginia Geographic Alliance,  http://www.labs.net/wvgeo/index.html
 
Online Maps and Interactive Mapping
 
Dave Leip's Atlas of US Presidential Elections, http://www.uselectionatlas.org/
Fair Plan (electoral and demographic maps), http://fairplan2000.tripod.com/fairplan/InteractiveMaps.html
Google Maps, http://maps.google.com/
MapQuest (road maps and driving directions), http://www.mapquest.com/
National Atlas of the United States, http://nationalatlas.gov/
National Geographic Map Machine, http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine
Perry-Castaneda Library's Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
TerraServer (aerial photography and topographic maps), http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
TopoZone - "The Web's Topographic Map," http://www.topozone.com/
U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder - http://census.factfinder.gov (click on Maps and Geography from the menu on the left side of the page)
U.S. Library of Congress, American Memory Map Collection, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, http://gis.wvdep.org/ (click on Interactive Mapping from the menu on the left side of the page)
West Virginia Region One Planning and Development Council, http://www.gis.regiononepdc.org/

GIS - General Information

Association for Geographic Information's GIS Dictionary, http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/root/agidict/html/welcome.html 
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), http://www.esri.com/
GIS Day http://www.gisday.com/
Internet Guide to GIS, http://www.gis.com/
 
Free GIS Software Online
ESRI's ArcExplorer, http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html 
 
Free GIS Data Online
 
ESRI Data http://www.esri.com/data/download/index.html
Geography Network, http://www.geographynetwork.com/
US Government Maps and Data, http://www.geodata.gov/gos
Web GIS, http://www.webgis.com/
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, http://gis.wvdep.org/
West Virginia GIS Technical Center, http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/data.php
West Virginia View (remote sensing data), http://www.wvview.org/

Geography Education

The GeoNet Game, http://www.eduplace.com/geo/ 
National Geographic GeoBee Challenge http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/splash.html
National Geography Standards http://www.ncge.org/publications/tutorial/standards/
US Department of State for Youth http://future.state.gov/
 
   

Last Updated: 10/18/05 GT/GA