GIS at UCD and on the Web: Links to Other GIS Resources

This guide provides a broad overview of the GIS field while informing students about what they should be looking for in a GIS educational program. Includes a comprehensive listing of GIS courses available from colleges in the USA. The guide also provides information on potential GIS careers and skills relevant to a career in GIS.

The Open Education Database has compiled links to free and open source applications and data sources which make it possible to create complex and robust data visualizations in the form of maps that display statistics and poll results.

This is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material about open geospatial data, software and standards, in order to facilitate the digital preservation and scholarly communication in the open geospatial community.

This page contains a categorised list created by Robin Wilson of links to over 300 sites providing freely available geographic datasets.

Software, teaching and research resources including free courses, such as tutorials on QGIS, from GeoForAll

The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, for historical scholars and digital humanists. It is designed to teach practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs.

GIS Geography is a website with infographics, guest posts and comprehensive lists plus articles on the uses and science of remote sensing and GIS covered, they include topics such as: What Can You Do With a GIS Degree? ; Magnetic North vs Geographic (True) North Pole ; GIS Spatial Data Types: Vector vs Raster ; Free Global DEM Data Sources - Digital Elevation Models ; 27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS ; Choropleth Maps – A Guide to Data Classification

GIS Lounge is an information portal primarily relating to the field of geographic information systems. The purpose of this site is to provide introductory text for issues relating to GIS as well as interesting news items, tips, and resources for the geospatial field. This site is run by Caitlin Dempsey Morais.

An interactive infographic with a timeline of free and open source GIS tools, both web and desktop applications. From Makepath, the infographic is designed to show students open source GIS options with a brief description of each.

Mastersindatascience.org is a website dedicated to outlining career opportunities for students interested in furthering their education or career knowledge in STEM related fields. The geospatial section has a
directory of geospatial programs with both online and on-campus master programs offered by colleges and universities by state in the USA. Information on local events, conferences and workshops are also provided.

The Open Geoportal is a collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application lead by Tufts University along with Harvard and MIT to rapidly discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories. Registration is required to view some datasets.

This is the UK open source for free geodata. Find and share geospatial datasets here.

The KnowWhereGraph improves data-driven decision making and data analytics, specifically data analytics that involve geographic data.

This is an initiative of the University of Redlands and aims to help practitioners, researchers and decision makers involved in an actual planning and decision making process find relevant information and resources for solving their specific problems.

This resource from the University of Syracuse's School of Information Studies, defines geographic information systems, offers a glossary list of GIS terms and lists 20 free, open-source software resources for building GIS maps. In addition, it offers five unique examples of GIS maps - heat, category, quantity, bubble and dot density.

WRI produces maps, charts, data sets, infographics, and other visual resources. WRI is a global research organization that works to turn information into action to sustain a healthy environment.

CoordTrans converts geographic coordinates between different coordinate systems.

A web-based tool for conversions between projected co-ordinate systems commonly in use in Great Britain and Ireland.

Helps you find the latitude and longitude of any location or placename in the world. Enter the required location into the search box, click search and the latitude and longitude details will be displayed.

General information on geographical co-ordinates and map projections are provided here.

Latitude and longitude can be measured using two different conventions. This website allows you find an address and gives both formats: Decimal Degrees and Degrees, Minutes, Seconds

For example in Decimal Degrees the coordinate for the UCD Student Centre is
53.308207, -6.226429
The first number is the latitude and the second number is the longitude.

The GPS Coordinates which are in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds for the same site are:
53° 18' 29.5452" N
6° 13' 35.1444" W

This free co-ordinate converter from Tailte Éireann allows users to transform co-ordinate points and co-ordinate point text files between the Irish Grid, ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator), and UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) co-ordinate reference systems.

Use this website if you have just a few coordinates to convert: Convert data from one of the four standard co-ordinate systems (e.g. ITM) to each of the others (e.g. ETRF89 GPS, UTM and Irish Grid) and vice-versa.