Geography Student's Top 10 Internet Sites
GEG 101 - Harper College - Spring 1998

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Shawn Ehrke
Laura Ehrke
April Silvka
Ted Saari
Dave Goodchild

Shawn Ehrke

1. TRAFFIC MAPS OF CHICAGO METRO AREA.

This web site links you to the IDOT, Illinois Department of Transportation. It is possible to access the Chicago Metro Area and view current road and expressway maps for weather conditions and especially traffic and or construction delays. Maps are updated 24 hours a day, every 10 minutes- so you can always be one step ahead of Chicago's Metro Area.

http://www.dot.state.il.us/

2. HISTORIC PHOTOS OF ILLINOIS FROM AIRPLANES.

A web site devoted to documenting Illinois through aerial photographs taken during the last 60 years. Can be used as informative and for fun to see your home, work area years before urbanization spread through the suburbs.

http://images.grainger.uiuc.edu/airphotos.htm.

3. LATIN AMERICA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES.

A web site teaching young minds about the geography of Latin America. Beautiful photographs and extensive maps support this interesting web page.

http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Geography.html

4. GEOGRAPHICAL WEATHER AND GLOBAL MONITORING FROM SPACE.

This web site contains mulitudes of maps, taken from space. The enviroment is heavily monitored on this web site, from tracking forest fires in Jarkarta to measuring pollen counts in your home town.

http://www.capcue.org/html

5. MAP VIEWER OF THE WORLD.

For a quick view of anywhere in the world, select this web site. This site contains a Map Viewer and lets you zoom in on any part of the world. This site also contains easy-to-read maps.

http://www.hiline.net/~psjaisd/Ids/GEOGRAPH.html

6. NASA SATELITE IMAGES OF THE EARTH.

This site is run by NASA, containing thousands of photographs of the world in which we live. Using JPL imaging this site devotes geography/ not to lines and man-made boundaries but it shows the natural boundaries of our world.

http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/

7. FODORS TRIP PLANNER FOR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

This was a enjoyable web site, detailing hotels, places to eat and local customs of that area. You can enter your budget, where you might like to go and the Fodors web site does the rest. This site is for the serious traveller and can save you lots of time in researching places to visit in our geographic realm.

http://fodors.com/

8. UNITED STATES STATE DEPARTMENT.

This web site is handled by the U.S. State Dept. For geographical health and medical related information on places you might or would not like to visit. his site is printed in the Sunday Tribune-advising you current world health- crisis areas and places to avoid due to political unrest or for health reasons.

http://www.tripprep.com

9.VIRTUAL TOURS OF OUR WORLD.

This web site is for the serious person who doesn't like to leave his or her house. The Armchair Travel Company offers virtual travel to anywhere on the planet. I visited Israel and The United Kingdom from my home. You just type in the place you might like to visit and view thousands of beautiful and very detailed photographs.

http://www.armchair-travel.com

10.JOHN R. BORCHERT MAP LIBRARY.

This award-winning web site is the product of the University of Minnesota. The site contains multiple pages of sites devoted to the history of cartography, with maps depicting history. I viewed the maps of the Pioneer Trails and learned quite a bit about the geography of the Pioneers routes and why they choose them.

http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/History_of_cartography.html

Thank you and I hope you enjoy some of these sites. GEG101-059 Spring 1998.

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Laura Ehrke

1. NATIONAL GEORAPHIC

This site is like having the entire collection of National Geographic magazines, and more, at your electronic fingertips. A plethora of articles, maps, country fact sheets, and photographs (including aerial views) are available here. There is even a National Geographic store!

www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html

2. THE MOSCOW CHANNEL

This is a "hip" site which allows you to experience Moscow via the web. History, politics, fashion, entertainment, and more depict the cultural geography of the new Russia. Be sure to visit the virtual kiosk for a tour of Russia!

http://www.moscowchannel.com

3. PHOTO GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSE

This site offers stunning photos of our neighbors in space from the Hubble Space Telescope. In addition to a photo, the location, description, and related information are provided for each nebula, comet and galaxy. This site offers a humbling perspective of Earth's place in the universe, as well as how factors outside of our atmosphere may affect us.

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/BestOfHst95.html

4. WORLD ANTHEMS

This site is informative, as well as musical! While listening to a nation's anthem, you may view its map and flag, and read about its news, economy, geography, government and people. Very interesting!

http://www.emulateme.com

5. UNIVERSITY OF EDINGBURGH - DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

This site offers valuable geographical information, as well as insight into the study and field of geography. Various links are available, including current research on issues such as global geomorphology and environmental changes, and identity and cultural politics.

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/geoghome.html

 6. DIETHELM'S TRAVEL DATABASE - ASIA

This site offers travel information, as well as the opportunity for virtual travel to several Asian countries. Choose your destination country, and you can journey through colorful pictures, maps, and informative fact sheets.

http://www.asiatour.com

 7. INTERNET CATALOGUE - MAPS WORLDWIDE

A cartography buff's dream! This site offers access to an enormous variety of worldwide maps. This is also a good source for thematic maps, such as astronomy, climate, geology, geophysics and population.

http://www.maps.ethz.ch/cat-int3.html

 8. GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE - IBARAKI, JAPAN

This site illustrates to me the wide range of applications for geography. One assignment of the Geological Survey Institute of Ibaraki, Japan is to survey and map volcanic sites. Their work has become instrumental in the prediction of volcanic eruptions. Fascinating information on volcanos and volcano research is available here, as well as volcano photographs and movie clips. You can even consult a volcanologist.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/wovo/north_asia/ibaraki

9. WORLDWIDE FACT BOOK

You are transformed into an internet James Bond courtesy of this website, maintained by the CIA. Select a nation, and you are privy to information on such topics as geography, terrain, maritime claims, census (including birth rates, death rates, and life expectancy), defense, government, transportation, and communications. Of course, maps are provided.

http://www.odci.gov/cra/publications/nsolo/factbook/samr.htm

10. INTERACTIVE ATLAS OF GREAT BRITAIN

This site provides customized atlas information for the United Kingdom (except Ulster, which is still under development). Simply enter the name or post code of your desired town (or, in London, you may even select a street name), and a map of the area appears. With the scale indicator, you are able to zoom in and out. Links to local weather information and local web sites are available. Now we can track our correspondant's whereabouts!

http://www.multimap.com

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April Silvka

 1. http://members.aol.com/browermanb/101.html

This is a high school teachers web site. It includes humorous stories about maps, and several games to play. It even has map poetry. Also contains virtual tours like the Bosnia site. This site was rated one of the best sites of 97.

2. http://www.itn.is/~gunnsimapa/skaftafe.html

You can send postcards from various locations in Iceland and view the natural landscape. I used this site when we were learning about Europe.

3. http://www.vtourist.com

This site contains detailed up to date maps that link you to various geg websites. A very handy link

4. http://www.csu.edu.au/links/ozmap.html

This has info about the geographic regions of Australia.

5. http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map

This site lets you zoom in on any part of the world. We are talking really close.

6. http://lancs.ac.uk/users/geography/tutorial/geogres.html

This is a tutorial for geography

7. http://surflinks.com/geog/html

This is a link page that links you to many different sites.

8. Another place I look is in Yahoo. under http://www.yahoo.com/Regional

this is good for looking at any country, and you can go into the regional geog of the USA

9. Not related to regional geography is the human geog web site http://home.worldonline.nl/~sdb/geo.htm this talks about population research and economic geography. This has maps like those in the textbook.

10. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

This is a cool site with lots of maps on different areas of the world. Has detailed maps of the middle east and even maps of Texas. But who really wants to see maps on Texas. Has maps on politics in the countries and even on sources of vegetation. Contains maps of individual countries as well as regional areas.

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Ted Saari

1. Welcome to Finland
   http://www.publiscan.fi/
   I start with this page because my heritage is Finnish. Also, Finland enjoys the status of most wired on the web. As you will read on their page, Finland has more internet servers per person than any country in the world. I think it appropriate for this course to begin where the people have taken to the internet in a big way. Finland is located in the North Europe Region of the European Realm.
   
2. Sami Lappland Culture Page
   http://pages.nyu.edu/~jakobsng/sami.htm
   This is a very interesting site for me. I visited Lappland while in Finland and saw the reindeer running loose. At night you can hear the lead reindeer's bell clanking aroung it's neck. It is above the Arctic Circle and in the summer the sun shines at night.
   
3. A Guide to Andean Countries
   http://www.ddg.com/LIS/aurelia/titpag.htm
   This is not a very fancy site, but it does have all the facts and information you need for these countries in this area of the South American Realm. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile all share the second highest montain range in the world, the Andes.
4. Welcome to "FOCUS on the World" Online Magazine - Mediterranean Countries
   http://www.focusmm.com/
   An armchair journey around the Mediterranean sea. There are plenty of photos and information to keep you busy for hours. Visit the following countries:Spain, Morocco, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia.
   
5. Maps, Information, and Links for Russia, the NIS, and Europe -- Russian Maps http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DouglasHartman/maps.htm
   A collection of many links to sites in the realms of Europe and Russia and the continent of Africa. Information about weather, currency exchange, maps and much more.
   
6. Geography from Space
   http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/GAW/GFSintro.html
   Take a quiz on recognizing geography from space. You are given an actual picture taken from space of a country and then you must identify it. This is a topic discussed in our video tapes with this course.
   
7. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web http://www.newfoundelandes.nf.ca/home.html
   This features a multimedia presentation introducing you to the site. A very well organized site with excellent pages on the indigenous people. It has a spatial comparison of its area/population with Japan and Cyprus.
   
8. The Virtual Guide to Belarus
   http://www.belarusguide.com/
   A complete information guide to Belarus. Take a walk in a Belarus forest and view the flora and fauna. Learn a few words in Belarus' language. It has an on-line dictionary and sample sound files for a few common greetings.
   
9. Made In China
   http://china.utopia.com/
   A group of journalists travel through China. This is an excellent cultural tour of this region of the world. Follow the team as they experience China.
   
10. GeoGlobe Interactive Geography
    http://library.advanced.org/10157/
    This is a fun site. Test your geography skills and enjoy interactive video and sound.

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Dave Goodchild

1. A presentation of the island Corsica, with plenty of quality pictures.

http://www.internetcom.fr/corsica/uk/home.htm

http://www.easynet.fr/asulana/

2. Geography and climate of Malta. Along with maps.

http://visitmalta.web2010.com/climate.htm

3. Geography of the 7107 islands of the Philippines.

http://www.expedia.msn.com/wg/places/Philippines/BGGEBD.htm

4. National Atlas of Canada

http://www-nais.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/index.html

5. http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/geo/www/tiger/zip_cent.tx

ZIP Code Coordinates

Coordinates are expressed as

degrees and fractions of a

degree to six decimal places.

The decimal point is implied.

ZIP longitude latitude

60067 88048813 42109948 My longitude and latitude

6. This web site allows you to enter in a longitude and latitude and view it from space but I haven't gotten it to work yet.

http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/xearth/xearth.html

7. What is grass ? Geographic Resources Analysis Support System. It is a public domain {GIS} Geographic information system, used for data management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modeling and visualization of many types of data.

http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/welcome2.html

8. This site has interactive games that help you learn geography.

http://library.advanced.org/10157/

9. Xpeditions - discover nearly 1,800 ways to see -and print -the world.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/

10. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.

http://www.ahip.getty.edu/vocabulary/tgn.html

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