These are some of the pages that I encourage you to check out. Most deal with GIS, Real Estate Information Technology, Land Economics, Marketing Geography, and general "Business Geography." Some have interesting leads to other informative sites. Use your www browser's 'Back' function to return to this page. Be sure to bookmark this page or Thrall's home page; come on back and see our new additions.

GeoSpatial Solutions (formerly GeoInfo Systems). Great souce of GIS information. The leading GIS magazine with commentary by the best columnists in the industry!

GIS Jobs. Businesses can post their classified job advertisements here for a fee of $50 per month. Job seekers at no charge to them, can query the classified ads by topical area. Job seekers can also post their resume at the site for a fee.

Wage survey for people in GIS and business geography that I have compiled from various email received. Also, check out GISjobs.com has reported their survey of wages in geography/gis; you can even break down the wage rates by specialty such as business geography.

Jobs in Land Economics & Real Estate {Real Jobs} a new www site managed by Professor Norm Miller from the Department of Real Estate at University of Cincinatti. The www.real-jobs.com site was constructed primarily to serve university students and members of the American Real Estate Society. I should put my resume there.

Jobs in Geography, a site managed by the Association of American Geographers. Most of the job postings here are are university level academic positions and require a Ph.D. However, an increasing number of postings are with private firms at either the MA or Ph.D. levels.

Jobs In Real Estate, a site managed by the American Real Estate Society (ARES). Most of the job postings at this site are university level academic postins and require a Ph.D. A few of the postings are with private firms at either the MA or Ph.D. levels. There is an increasing number of jobs, I am very pleased to write, have been posted at the ARES site for Real Estate Information Technology (REITech). The evidence is then that REITech is being accepted by the rank and file of real estate academics as a worthy subfield within the discipline. Fantastic!

American Real Estate Society. The American Real Estate Society (ARES) is a society of and for high-level practicing professionals and real estate professors at colleges and universities throughout the United States and the world. he Society was incorporated in 1985 to serve the educational, informational, and research needs of the thought leaders in the real estate industry and real estate professors at colleges and universities.

GeoBusiness Association. The GeoBusiness Association is a professional association charged with promoting, communicating and advancing the understanding, implementation and application of geographic information, technology and methodology for business applications.

Bibliography of GIS. A good place to start researching what has been written on GIS topics and who wrote it. While the bibliography is neither inclusive of everything, nor exhaustive, Duane Marble's site at Ohio State University is a good first step. Go Buckeyes! {of course I am a biased alumnus.}

Spatial Statistics for Free!!! Looking for a cheap Spatial Statistics / GeoStats book. Isobel Clark wrote Practical Geostatistics in 1979 (Elsevier Applied Science) and has put it now in a digital format available for free on the web. The whole book has been scanned and each page is in a .bmp format. You can download the zip file at http://www.stokos.demon.co.uk/practica.htm Remember, a lot of geostatistics have been developed in the past twenty years.

Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin's overview on global positioning systems. His site was selected as the "Best GPS Site," one of GIS World's "Best of the Net" sites for 1996!

Good place to find other GIS sites. They need to update more often though.

Official Geography Resource WWW Page for the American Real Estate Society and the American Real Estate & Urban Economics Association. It looks a lot like this www page. I wonder why?

American Business Information: data available on the www useful for marketing and real estate analysis with GIS. This site offers for sale mailing lists. An example of their charges would be for a mailing list of the 304 restaurants in Alachua County Florida, the total charge would be $152.00. A few of the data services at the ABI www site are at no charge.

US Census is the most important source of original data, including the TIGER/Line data. Find out about TIGER/Line data from this US Census www site.

TerraServer by Microsoft shows Microsoft's long term commitment to geographic technology. Claimed to be the world's largest online database. The images you see in the Microsoft® TerraServer Web site come from two sources: The United States Geological Survey (USGS) provided georectified digitized aerial photographs (known as digital orthophotoquads) from their vast files. SPIN-2 provided high-resolution satellite images, products of a joint Russian/American venture to market declassified satellite photographs from sophisticated Russian mapping satellites.

ZIP+4 lookup by the US Postal Service. ZIP+4 geocoding for business use is generally sufficient. But, how do you get that +4? The monthly release of the US Postal tapes is one way. This www site provides interactive look-up of ZIP+4 for one address at a time.

Watch this space for exciting developments. Please submit manuscripts for publication on this topic to me as I am the editor of Journal of Real Estate Literature for the Real Estate Information Technology section.

Grant Thrall, yep, thats me, the guy that brings you this web site, has placed some articles on the www. Please note they are copyrighted. They can be accessed from my "Professorial" page. Scroll down and find 'Reprints" and select one. The reprints have been input using OCR so may have some funny typos. Most have been published in Geo Info Systems.

Larry Daniel Vice President, Research & Information Systems, Castillo Company, has a manuscript available on the www titled "GIS Helping to Reengineer Real Estate," a "webreprint" from Earth Observation Magazine, November 1994.

Fair Lending: and Power Reporting, www based bibliographies by Bill Dedman of The New York Times. This is a very impressive compilation of www sites that deal with the banking industry. The articles are a fine example of how GIS technology has contributed to changing how banking is regulated. There might be other pages of interest that Bill Dedman has put together that can be reached from his www page called Resources for Journalists.

Counselors of Real Estate have posted as a www page an alphabetical list of articles that have appeared in their Real Estate Issues since 1976. Their journal articles are also listed by general topic including education and research issues. Both the "education" and "research" topics include references to articles on GIS and real estate (co-authored by Grant Thrall, incidentally). I would like to see abstracts added to their www posting; with that exception all journals should follow the example of the Counselors of Real Estate's Real Estate Issues www site.

Future of Real Estate www site. I am authoring this www page. The page is at its early stage of development. My goal is to select internet www sites that show how Internet technology and GIS technology will affect the future of corporate real estate. Your comments and suggestions on URL links will be greatly appreciated. Contact me at "Grant Thrall" <thrall@afn.org>

US House of Representatives. A GIS point-in-polygon like operation to determine who your representative is to Washington. Allows you to also send an email to your representative. You enter your address, and the www site determines who your representative is. The representative has a district which is a GIS polygon.

Xerox PARC Map Viewer

EPA geographic (GIS) data on the South Eastern US Region Including Florida

Canadian National Atlas Information Services (NAIS) NAISmap

Kinesava Geographics' Virtual Tourist

On Target Mapping is a geography technology www provider with examples at their site of: Flood Plain Finder, Telephone Exchange Finder, Wireless Coverage Finder, and Wireless Customer Care.

MSN HomeFinder, brought to us by the folks at Microsoft, provides an opportunity to view lots of demographic and other descriptive information by ZIP code. Go to HomeFinder and select "Neighborhoods", enter a ZIP code and explore the demographic information.

Density. Calculate the relationship between various densities and employment

Demographics of Alachua County (Gainesville FL), including Lifestyle Segmentation Profiles of parents of University of Florida students.

Florida Internet Real Estate Guide lists new build homes on the www. View a cool map. No real GIS, but there is evidence that these www developers are going in the right direction with this www page. ... a cool example of real real estate information technology.

Homebuyer's Fair, mortgage calculators and cost of living by city. Check out how much more income you will need to live the same lifestyle from city to city. Do you really need to ask why I live in Gainesville Florida?

Cyberhomes, a home buyer web search engine through broker listings

HomeScout, a home buyer web search engine through broker listings

Owners Network. a home buyer web search engine for your own 'for sale by owner' listings. Free listings.

Cherokee Nation Indian tribe of Oklahoma, their Inter-Tribal Environmental Council, uses GIS.

GeoChallenge, a geography competition for talented U.S. high school students. Launched by the National Geographic Society, in partnership with ESRI. U.S. high school student participants must design, conduct, and report on an independent geography research project. The competition promotes an understanding of the real-world applications of geographic research. A total of U.S. $50,000 in college scholarships will be awarded to national championships.

World outlook. While the manner in which the numbers at the "World Millennium Institute" have been calculated can be easily questioned, their calculation does raise some very important questions. We believe in involvement - don't sit and wait. Be an example! Contribute solutions!

Immigration to the US. Where are immigrants arriving from and where are they going? This USA Today www page has some very interesting data showing current immigration levels for the US and also by ZIP code.

Metacrawler, submits your query to many of the major www search engines. I believe this is the place to start your www search!

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