Dr. Ruth Mostern's Resources Page

Ruth Mostern, University of California, Merced
“From Geographic Information Systems to Historical Information Systems: Modeling the Past in the Digital Age”

The links below will take you to a variety of resources discussed in Dr. Mostern's presidential plenary talk at the California Geographical Society's annual Conference in Chico, California; May 2-4, 2008.

Dr. Mostern's web page at University of California, Merced

RESOURCES

Background Image:  NASA Visible Earth
• http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1438
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Google Earth
•Download and information at:  http://earth.google.com/
•Global Awareness>Global Heritage Fund

Google Street View
• http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
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Gapminder
• http://www.gapminder.org/
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David Rumsey Map Collection:  Cartography Associates
• http://www.davidrumsey.com/
•Japanese Maps:  http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/

Valley of the Shadow
• http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

ECAI Iraq
• http://ecai.org/iraq/

Vision of Britain
• http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp

China Historical GIS
• http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

Rethinking Timelines
• http://www.timemap.net/timelines/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=51