[LM_NET] HIT: online geographical dictionary

[Robert Joyce <virginialibrarymediaspecialist@YAHOO.COM>]

Has anyone located a free  online geographical dictionary? I found Columbia
Gazetteer  of the World Online with a free trial.   I have located a
biographical dictionary.  [ I was looking for Webster's Geographical Dictionary 
type sites]

***I would also be interested in OTHER free online biographcal dictionaries...send 
those if you know of any***

Thanks.

Robert Joyce
School Librarian/Library Media Specialist
Virginia: Pittsylvania County: Brosville Elementary
robert@gcronline.com


[ I was looking for Webster's Geographical Dictionary type sites]

Check out Bartleby.  Columbia Gazeteer and many others are on there
free.
http://www.bartleby.com/

online atlases
CIA World Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Atlapedia: http://www.atlapedia.com/
Portals to the World: http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
The Worldwide Gazetteer: http://www.gazeteer.com/gazeteer/v2/index.aspx



http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html

http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm


http://www.kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk/learningzone/subjects/geography/dicti



Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information
Systems,
Cartography, and Remote Sensing

A browsable dictionary of "abbreviations and acronyms found in various
publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or
acronyms
... are not necessarily authoritative or standardized in format or
content."
From the University of California, Berkeley.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html
Subjects: Abbreviations | Acronyms | Cartography -- Dictionaries |
Geographic information systems -- Dictionaries | Remote sensing --
Dictionaries
Created by dl - last updated Aug 9, 2003 - comment on this record
GIS Dictionary

Collection of more than 950 terms related to geographic information
systems
(GIS). Entries provide brief definitions and related resources.
Browsable;
searchable by keyword, geographic region, or subject (such as
cartography or
geography). Also includes a list of GIS acronyms. From the Association
for
Geographic Information and the University of Edinburgh Department of
Geography.
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/




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