Cultural Heritage GIS Resources:
Europe


NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Free satellite radar images include views of Florence (Firenze).
http:www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/

Russian Satellite Images
Downloadable SPIN image of Paris, "for use as a sample."
http://www.spin-2.com/download.html

Archaeologis
Online interactive GIS of ancient sites along the Via Aurelia and Via Domizia.
http://www.aec2000.it/archeologis

Subterranean Rome / Roma sotterrane
Interactive map of subterranean cultural sites in Rome.
http://www.comune.roma.it/COMUNE/sperimentali/romasott/

British Historical GIS Programme
An electronic atlas of Great Britain during industrialization. Limited access.
http://www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/gbhgis

Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP)
Archaeological surface survey conducted in southwestern Greece and mapped onto a GIS.
http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/PRAP.html

Base Mérimée
Searchable database of French cultural sites. Provides attribute information but no geographic coordinates.
http://www.culture.fr/cgi-bin/mistral/merimee

Sistema Nacional de Informacao Geogràfica (SNIG)
Digital cartographic index for Portugal. Lists databases related to architectural heritage and an inventory of archaeological sites (Inventário de sitios arqueológicos), as well as basemaps of World Heritage cities Lisbon (Lisboa) and Evora.
http://snig.cnig.pt/snig/inv_cart_eng.html

General Purpose Basemaps

Baltic Universities Project
Free downloadable GIS files in MapGrafix and MapII/Map Factory format (for Macintosh). Includes northern Europe at 5km resolution and all of Europe at 5 minutes resolution, as well as individual countries. Also includes links to others using GIS in Macintosh OS.
http://www.hydroconsult.se/UGIS/BUGIS.html

T-Kartor Sweden AB
GIS maps of Sweden. All villages of 50+ inhabitants are shown.
http://www.esri.com/base/data/catalog/tkar/tkar_des.html

SatCITTA
Satellite images of main Italian cities and street maps at 1:10,000.
http://www.esri.com/base/data/catalog/esri/esrt_des.html

Bartholomew HarperCollins Cartographic EuroMaps
GIS maps of Great Britain at 1:250,000; London at 1:5,000
http://www.esri.com/base/data/catalog/bart/bart_des.html

Virtual Finland - Maps
Various maps at various scales, in GIF image format.
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnmap.html

Balkans Regional Atlas
Interactive maps of the Balkan region.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/balkan/regter.html

Baltic Sea Drainage Basin
Maps include Baltic country boundaries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) and major cities.
http://www.grida.no/baltic/htmls/maps.htm

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