Resource List for Analytical Cartography

Geodesy:

NIMA Geospatial Sceinces Division (used to be Geodesy and Geophysics)

including Geodesy for Laymen (sic) publication

US National Geodetic Survey

• Data sheets for control points
• calculators for defection of the vertical;
• source code (FORTRAN) for Deflection interpolation;
• read me file to explain how it works;
• list of geodetic PC program from NGS;
• calculator for geodetic (angles) to XYZ; and reverse;

USGS (Biological resources division) FAQ about datums and ellispoids; white paper on datum shift;

links to geodesy pages

Dana's Coordinate Systems pages have a Geodetic Datums section

Spatial Effects (Geoff Dutton; aka Dr. Matrix) his QTM Comix;

Geodyssey Limited (Lukatela) distributes Hipparchus and some toolkits (for free!, Galileo Guide)

Computational Geometry

Geometry Resources
Analysis of algorithms

Combinatorics (at the mathematics Atlas site)

Interfaces and Metadata

Try their Green Pages (ask for Advanced Searching not totally Java compatible?) developed for ERIN (Australia)
Metadata Guide from Olympic Clearinghouse

Digital Chart of the World (now VMap0)

Norse DCW page great links to other DCW sites

Standards

SDTS home page;

VPF Mil STD 2407; Overview document

Open GIS Foundation (OGIS)

ISO efforts

Free-downloadable software

SDTS modules;

Geodyssey Limited Galileo modules

Downloadable computational geometry software

David Douglas's package XYINMAP (Fortran)

... and lots more to come...