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Geography Links

For a discussion on geography related jobs read this document prepared by Occupational Outlook Quarterly.

Like many disciplines Geography has national associations that one can become a member of. These links will open a new page.

• American Association of Geographers (AAG) - www.aag.org
• Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) - www.cag-acg.ca/en
• Royal Geographical Society (IBG) - http://www.rgs.org/

In addition, there are several excellent government based websites for information related to and about the geography of the nation, state, and local community.

• United States Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/
• United States Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov/
• York County - http://www.yorkcountygov.com/
• Rock Hill - http://www.ci.rock-hill.sc.us/

If you require data for a paritcular area, you may want to consider these sites:

• York County GIS Online Mapping and Property Search - http://maps.yorkcountygov.com

• The State of South Carolina GIS Site - http://www.dnr.state.sc.us/gisdata/
• South Carolina Office of Research and Statistics - http://www.ors.state.sc.us/digital/gisdata.asp
• SC OneMap - http://mySCmap.sc.gov

• Geographic Information for North Carolina - http://cgia.cgia.state.nc.us/
• NC OneMap - http://www.nconemap.com/data.html

• EROS Data Centre - http://eros.usgs.gov/
• USGS Seamless Data Distribution Center - http://seamless.usgs.gov/

If you are looking for maps, you may to look at these sites:

• National Park Service GIS Maps - http://imgis.nps.gov/ims
• National Park Serice Maps - http://www.nps.gov/carto/
• Worldmapper - http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
• USGS Topo Maps @ the Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/details/maps_usgs

If you think that there is a site that should be included please let me know.