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Critical Lands Mapping Tool: A tool designed by GOPB and Utah State University's RS/GIS lab to map critical lands in the state of Utah. Build a model for your area and see what critical lands exist! |
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Utah State University RS/GIS Lab: Provides several different mapping and remote sensing tools for the intermountain west, including satellite imagery. |
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Virtual Utah: A tool created at the USU RS/GIS lab. Virtual Utah offers aerial imagery for most of the state of Utah beginning in 1993 up to current 2006 photos. The advanced viewer can also overlay other geographic datasets from land cover, elevation, satellite images and much more for your area . |
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State of Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center Downloads: The AGRC is the clearinghouse for GIS data in the State of Utah. Download both raster and vector data as well as aerial imagery here. |
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Google Earth: Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. |
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gvSIG:gvSIG is a fully functioning, open-source, geographic information system. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. It includes many tools and capabalities for analyzing and manipulating geographic data and creating maps.
It is aimed at users of geographic information, whether professionals or civil servants from any part of the world (offered in many languages), in addition to being free. Express download (recommended) at http://oadigital.net/ This site also features gvSIG for MAC users! View the user guide HERE. |
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UGS Aerial Imagery Collection - If you're looking for historic imagery from across Utah, look no more. The Utah Geological Survey has compiled thousands of images from 1935 to the present and made them available online. |
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National Historical Geographic Information System - The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010. A great resource for planners!
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Utah DNR Online Maps - The Utah Department of Natural Resources has created this online, interactive, resource to view and create maps from their GIS data. From geology to wildfire data, this valuable resource will aid planners in better understanding the natural resources that affect their communities.
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OnTheMap (OTM): provides detailed maps showing where people work and workers live with companion reports on worker ages, earnings, industry distribution, and local workforce indicators. |
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ArcExplorer: ArcGIS Explorer is a lightweight desktop client for ArcGIS Server, providing a way for you to publish ArcGIS Server capabilities within your organization, or to anyone on the Web. You can create your own content or tasks for ArcGIS Explorer by authoring globes and tasks using ArcGIS Desktop, then publishing it to ArcGIS Explorer via ArcGIS Server. |
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KML to Shapefile :
This script converts features in a KML file to an ESRI shapefile. KML files can be created by digitizing features in Google Earth. The script provides an easy method to convert these kml features to shapefiles. The shapefile retains the names, descriptions, and the Google Earth folder of the kml features. The script is run out of ArcToolbox and will work with any license level of ArcGIS 9.2. The tool's documentation describes its use. The accompanying word document describes how to load the toolbox into ArcToolbox. |
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Export to KML: This is an extension developed for ArcGIS 9.x by the City of Portland, Bureau of Planning. The extension allows ArcGIS users to export GIS data in “keyhole markup language” (KML) format for viewing in Google Earth. Any point, polyline, or polygon dataset, in any defined projection, can be exported. Features can be exported as either 2-dimensional features, or 3D features "extruded" upwards by an attribute or z-value. |
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NRCS Soil Datamart: Download soils data from the NRCS via this site! |
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Infrastructure Mapping Program: In a collaborative effort, the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget and the State of Utah AGRC lend a GPS unit to communities to map their infrastructure. The AGRC trains the communities on the use of this technology, and also provides assistance in making the data usable. |
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Map Window GIS:
The MapWindow application is a free, extensible, geographic information system (GIS) that can be used
as an alternative desktop GIS, to distribute data to others, or to develop and distribute custom spatial data analyses. Great for quickly viewing GIS data. |
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Quantum GIS (QGIS): Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System ( GIS ) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. Manual available HERE. |
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Google Maps: Google maps is an easy online mapping service that can quickly show maps, aerial photography, and in some instances street level photography. To see how Provo City has used Google Maps in highlighting their historic district click HERE or visit their web page at http://www.provo.org/comdev.landmarkscommission_main.html |
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ArcGIS Explorer Online:
With ArcGIS Explorer Online, you can easily explore, visualize, and share GIS information. Use it to directly access basemaps and other content. You can even use it to create an interactive slideshow.
ArcGIS Explorer is a free application that runs in a browser. It is built using Microsoft Silverlight. |
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Zonum Solutions - This collection of online tools can accomplish a variety of different tasks. From custom-colored maps to converting data to KML or AutoCAD files, this site has a variety of tools for the practicing planner. |
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OpenSourceGIS.org - represents an attempt to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects. The effort has some way to go, especially for projects in languages other than English, however, it is an excellent resource if you are looking for open source software. The definition of GIS at this site has been kept loose to encompass a broad range of projects which deal with spatial data. |
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SAGA - System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis - SAGA is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) GIS that has been designed for an easy and effective implementation of spatial algorithms. It offers a comprehensive, growing set of geoscientific methods and an easily approachable user interface with many visualisation options and runs under a Windows and Linux operating system. |
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DNR Garmin: This extension was built by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to provide users the ability to directly transfer data between Garmin GPS handheld receivers and various GIS software packages. Using this program a user can use point features (graphics or shapefile) and upload them to the GPS as Waypoints. Line and Polygon Graphics or shapes can be uploaded to the GPS as Track Logs or Routes. Conversely, Waypoints, Track Logs, and Routes collected using the GPS can be transferred directly to ArcView/ArcMap/Google Earth/Landview and saved as Graphics or Shapefiles. |
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GIS Tutorials: Learning GIS on your own can be a daunting task, these links to GIS tutorials and seminars will help make the process easier! |
