Cultural Heritage GIS Resources:
North America

Colorado Plateau Research Station - GIS Data Archive
Downloadable Arc/Info coverages include several cultural monuments: Montezuma's Castle, Montezuma's Well, and Tuzigoot.
http://www.nbs.nau.edu/GISD/data.html

U.S. National Parks Service
Gazetteer related to National Parks and other geospatial data.
ftp://ftp.its.nps.gov/pub/

Intermountain GIS Support Center
Digital orthophotos and scanned images of Petroglyphs National Monument and Pecos National Historic Park. DEM of Salinas Missions.
http://nps.unm.edu/doq.htm

U.S. Geographic Names Server
Downloadable database of over 2 million physical and cultural geographic features.
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/

Native American Maps
Online GIS of thematic maps related to Native American cultural heritage in the U.S. and Canada.
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/maps/mapmenu.html

Urbavista Project - Organization of World Heritage Cities
Future interactive GIS of World Heritage cities, to include Quebec.
http://www.ovpm.org/ovpm/english/urbavis.html

General Purpose Basemaps

CIESIN
Free downloadable demographic and basemaps of Mexico, via FTP.
ftp://ftp.ciesin.org/pub/data/Mexico

US GeoData
Free USGS maps to download.
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html

Cartographic Data Archives
Free digital maps; currently focuses on U.S. maps. Invites anyone to add their data to the website.
http://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/www/index/html

Guide to Online & Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial & Attribute Data
As the name says.
http://cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html#BASE

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Free downloadable data set of Washington, DC.
http://www.esri.com

TIGER U.S. Census Database
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

Canada NAIS
Interactive online GIS of Canada.
http://ellesmere.ccin.emrca/naismap/naismap.html

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