Geography Based Internet Sites
- This page was originally authored by Peter Ortner. You can see his homepage.
- This page contains content by Chris Beckhouse. You can see his homepage.
- Geography Teachers Association of Victoria ( http://server.netspace.net.au/~gtav/gtav.html )
- Useful information for Geography students covering a wide range of topics
- Australian Bureau of Meterology Weather Gopher ( gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/ )
- Weather forecasts and satellite images, areonautical forecasts- all the information which the Bureau publishes that is in demand.
- Australia Street ( http://www.australiast.uts.edu.au/ )
- A very interesting representation of our suburban style of living.
Oral history site. - National Capital Beyond 2000 ( http://actg.canberra.edu.au/actg/cm/mcgsr/mcgsr.htm )
- Urban planning in Canberra
- The Penn State Population Research Institute ( http://www.pop.psu.edu/ )
- The Population research Institute is located at Penn state University
- Centre for Co-operative Visualisation ( http://www.covis.nwu.edu/ )
- Located at North Western University, Learning Through Collaborative Visualization is a scheme for students and teachers to discuss new ways to practice science in the classroom.
- EdWeb ( http://edweb.cnidr.org:90/ )
- From the US, set up to help track down educational resources on the Internet.
- ERIN Search Form ( http://kaos.erin.gov.au/cgi-bin/wais.pl )
- This form searches the ERIN WAIS database.
- The Eric education information page ( http://ericir.syr.edu/ )
- Syracuse University
- The US Department of Agriculture ( http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ )
- This site is located at Davis, California is very interesting, and is about sustainable Agriculture.
- Zen Guide to the Internet ( http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/zen/zen-1.0.html )
- Bali Fast Facts ( http://www.hk.super.net/~rlowe/bali/bali.html )
- Bali FastFacts Maps ( http://www.hk.super.net/~rlowe/bali/maps.html )
- CIA World Fact Book ( http://155.187.10.12/world/indonesia.html )
- City Locator ( http://www.city.net/ )
- Search engine for cities, locations
- Homepages on Indonesia ( http://www.lookup.com/Homepages/55478/indo.html )
- Indonesian Government Statistics ( http://www.bps.go.id/index.html )
- Biro Pusat Statistik - Republik Indonesia
Central Bureau of Statistics - Republic of Indonesia - Lonely Planet-Destination:Indonesia ( http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/sea/indo.htm )
- News and Views of Indonesia ( http://www.newsindonesia.com/ )
- SDN-P Indonesia ( http://www.sdn.or.id/sdn/index.html )
- Sustainable Development Networking Programme was initiated by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It's aim is to help developing countries in implementing Agenda 21 by providing acces to Sustainable Development information.
- NRIC ( http://www.nric.gov.au/ )
- National Resource Information Centre.
The Australian national resource institute has a wide range of more technical material. - Global Land Cover Test Sites ( http://glcts.maxey.dri.edu/glcts/ )
- Global land cover sites around the world, a case study data base with several Australian locations.
- Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory ( http://www.ldgo.columbia.edu/ )
- National Centre for Geographic Information and analysis ( http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/ )
- Location dedicated to analytical systems.
Brief synopsis from home page:
NCGIA is a research consortium funded by the National Science Foundation. Its primary mandate is to conduct basic research in geographic information analysis and its related technology. - NOAA Coastal Resoucres Centre ( http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ocrm/ )
- From home page:
OCRM's unique mission is to make decisions, with our partners, that affect the quality and diversity of our Nation's coastal and ocean resources for everyone's use and enjoyment, and to resolve conflicts among users. We meet this challenge through three programs established by Congress: the National Coastal Zone Management Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, and the National Marine Sanctuary Program. We provide:
• Management of marine and coastal protected areas
• National perspective
• Technical and financial support
• Scientific research for management
• Outreach and education
• Conflict resolution
• Federal partnership
• Policy Leadership - Electric volcanoes ( http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/rox/volcanoes/elecvolc.html )
- The Electronic Volcano is a window into the world of information on active volcanoes.
- Images from Italy ( http://www.iiv.ct.cnr.it/ )
- Monitors Italian volcanoes.
- Australian School House ( http://www.ash.org/ )
- Global School Network ( http://www.gsn.org/ )
- Collaborative Projects.
- Board of Studies ( http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au )
- The NSW Board of Studies Home Page. The Board of Studies is the orgainisation which administers the high school education in NSW.
- All the search engines worth worrying about.
There is also a folder of 'Lookups and Searches' off the 'Dirk's Virtual Library' folder. - Alta Vista ( http://www.altavista.digital.com/ )
- What is regarded by many to be the best search engine available.
- AltaVista Australia ( http://www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au/ )
- DejaNews ( http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnquery.html )
- Searches Usenet news postings only, not the web as a whole. Keywords are used. This will only work where Usenet access is not screened.
- EcoNet ( http://www.igc.apc.org/econet )
- Excite ( http://www.excite.com/ )
- Searches not only for the presence of keywords within a site, but also deals with concepts. Matches are made using a percentage "confidence" scale. Links are also made to related document categories.
- Four11 Directory Services (SLED) ( http://www.Four11.com/ )
- Lookup someones e-mail address and other details using this system.
- HOTBOT ( http://www.hotbot.com/ )
- InfoSeek ( http://www.infoseek.com/ )
- A popular general search engine with simple search syntax. Responses are ranked.
- Lycos ( http://www.lycos.com/ )
- A very large data base using basic search syntax and also thematic indexing. This was one of the first very large and reliable search engines. Responses are ranked.
- Magellan ( http://www.mckinley.com/ )
- For many sites includes reviews and a star rating rating system.
- Open Text ( http://www.opentext.com/omw/f-omw.html )
- Queries are made using menu driven "AND/OR" syntax rules. Searching is done by title, URL, summary information, etc.
- Point ( http://www.pointcom.com/ )
- This indexes what they call the "top 5%" of sites on the W.Searches sites that have been reviewed and rated based on three citeria; content, appearance and originality.
- SavvySearch ( http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html )
- SavvySearch- The multi-search mixup.
- WebCrawler ( http://www.webcrawler.com/ )
- A good general search engine with simple search syntax.
- White Pages Australia ( http://www.whitepages.com.au/ )
- Look up the phone number for anybody in Australia!
(As long as it is listed, not silent.) - Who Where? ( http://www.whowhere.com/ )
- Yahoo! ( http://www.yahoo.com/ )
- A very comprehensive search engine with excellent thematic indexing. Will also search use net postings.
- Yellow Pages Australia ( http://www.yellowpages.com.au/ )
- Look up a business phone number that's in the Yellow Pages!
Human Geography
Cities and Planning
Graphics for visualisation
Interesting Education Websites
Indonesia
Physical Geography
Earth environment monitoring
Australia Specific
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Political Geography
Searches
Chris' Links
CIA Global Information - Statistics on every Country in the World.
