- Andrew Hudson-Smith Digital Urban Blog
Andrew Hudson-Smith is a Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA); he is Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet Journal, an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Course Founder and Director of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at University College London.
The main topics of his research involve developing visual techniques for urban planning, three dimensional city visualisations and public participation by means of web-based systems utilising GIS and CAD. He has been instrumental in developing CASA into a world leading research lab in the area of visualisation and transferring research into the commercial and private sector.
His work has featured widely in the media including, most recently, New Scientist, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5. His recent projects include MapTube, TalesofThings and SurveyMapper, he is also author of the digital urban blog which attracts over 2000 daily readers and was recently voted one of the Top 5 Web 2.0 Blogs by PC Pro Magazine.
- D-Maps
For cartographers, for map librarians needing base maps for creating map indexes, and for those writing papers for journals, a very useful site that contains 5944 free outline maps of countries and regions, in various versions (blank, with rivers, with towns, with administrative units etc) , each one in 6 graphic formats, vector and raster (GIF, PDF, CDR, SVG, AI,WMF).
- Go-Geo!
The place to discover geospatial information and services for those in education and research in the UK.
- Old Maps Online
The project will construct a search portal for finding online historical maps based on locality and period. Currently users must visit individual library websites and search their map catalogue, often via publication information or sometimes by typing in co-ordinates.
- Ordnance Survery freely available to public
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