Internet Map Servers (IMS) allow users to create maps and do some analysis without needed specialized software or extensive training. The sites listed below show current FWS applications of this technology.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Critical Habitat Portal - Information regardingThreatened and Endangered Species Critical Habitat designation across the United States.Samples of Other Sites
The National Map - The product
of a consortium of Federal, State, and local partners who provide geospatial
data to enhance America's ability to access, integrate, and apply geospatial
data at global, national, and local scales.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- Special GIS Browser that allows detailed overlays of historical maps and current
geospatial data.
EPA On-line Mapping Application
- Creates GIF files that can be downloaded; several other options too.
GAPServe
mapping application built to allow users to view the GAP Data layers across
state boundaries.
OGC
Web Map Services from GAP, 143 web map services, defined by theme, or divided
by family of species for vertebrates.
Geography Network - An online
resource for finding and sharing geographic content, including maps and data,
from many of the world's leading providers.
Geospatial Data
Gateway - Natural Resource Conservation Service's (NRCS) One Stop Shopping
site for natural resources or environmental data.
Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas
- On-line mapping.
University of Minnesota
MapServer - An OpenSource development environment for building spatially
enabled Internet applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource
or freeware systems like Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, libTIFF, Perl and others.
MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on Linux/Apache
platforms. MapServer is known to compile on most UNIXes and will run under Windows
NT/98/95.
Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources - Interactive maps for Recreation and Natural resource
management.
Texas CLEAR Project - The
CLEAR system allows you to view different types of data such as soils, vegetation,
streams, roads, and more as part of an interactive mapping system.
USGS Web Mapping Portal - Hosted at the
EROS Data Center by the USGS. Here you will find public web map services, and
interfaces developed at the center.
USGS's Natural Hazards Support System (NHSS) - comprehensive overview of current
natural hazards events for the public as well as our Federal, State and local
partners.
For additional information regarding this Web page, contact Chris Lett, in the Division of Information Resources and Technology Management, at Chris_Lett@fws.gov
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