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GIS resources on the web

• Glossary of meso-scale landforms defined within 6 macro-scale terrain types. From the IAEG Commission 22 - Landscape evolution in Engineering Geomorphology
• Bibliography of geomorphological mapping - Extended bibliography of geomorphological mapping literature including German and international references (also as Endnote 9 file )
• FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization - Geologic Data Subcommitee (GDS) of the Federal Geographic Data Commitee (FGDC) standarisation of geologic map symbols
• German Geomorphologic Maps - All the German geomorphic maps in a WebGIS environment, form the Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Geomorphologie (German Working Group for Geomorphology) where you can find all geomorphic maps from Germany in a WebGIS.
  Direct link to the WebGis-Application
• Symbols for geomorphologic mapping in high mountains for ArcGIS - ArcGIS symbols from Jan-Cristoph Otto, Salzburg University, Austria
• Regolith and Landform mapping from CRC LEME - an on line map index for regolith maps of Australia. Most maps can be downloaded as PDFs
• ASIRIS Australian Soil Resource Information System - an on line soil mapping system for Australia.
• Guidelines on Geomorphological mapping of the Geological Survey of Italy - Booklet - Quaderni, series III, 4/1994 (only in Italian)
• HAYDEN, R. S. (1986): Geomorphological Mapping. In: SHORT, N. M. (Ed.): Geomorphology from Space. Downloadable here. The whole book can be found at: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/geomorphology/
• Symbol sets for geological maps from Geoscience Australia - ArcGIS symbols, including many related to geomorphic and regolith features (Colin Pain, Geoscience Australia)
• Landscapes of Europe (LANMAP2) website maintained by Alterra @ Wageningen University, with links to downloadable kml files of European landscapes.
• Dutch geomorphological map only in Dutch but most probably soon in English too
• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure with very interesting information about courses and latest release of spatial data from all over the world. It has very informative, continent dedicated, newsletters (Africa, Asia, South America)
• National Academic Press - Earth Science a resourceful web page with links to freely downloadable texts