Discussion and Mailing Lists

Thursday June 21st 2007
Filed Under Community, Learning GIS, Link Library 

Learn where to get your most complex questions answered. Mailing and discussion lists are an invaluable tool in keeping “in the know” in the field of GIS.

GIS Lounge Forum
Great starting place for posting questions, starting debates or sharing tips and tricks about GIS.

ArcGIS List
User-sponsored ArcGIS software discussion list hosted at Directions Magazine. This discussion list is geared towards topics relating to the new ESRI suite of software including ArcInfo 8, ArcIMS and ArcView 8.

ArcVb
User sponsored discussion list for issues relating to Visual Basic (VB) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in relation to ESRI’s ArcGIS.

ArcView-L and ESRI-L Discussion Lists
For expert advice or information on using any of ESRI software products, you can submit your questions by sending E-mail messages to one of the lists offered and moderated by ESRI.

Autodesk Discussion Groups
Discussion groups for Autodesk Map, MapGuide and others.

Chest MapInfo
CHEST has an agreement for the provision of MapInfo GIS software to the UK Academic Community. This list is for discussion on the the product and the agreement, and is not to be used for support. CHEST will use this list to communicate with licensed sites.

Chest PCI
CHEST has an agreement with PCI Geomatics for the provision of EASI/Pace, SPANS, ACE and OrthoEngine image processing and GIS software to the UK academic community. This list is for discussion on the products and agreement and is not for technical support.

Directions Magazine Best of the Net
Hosted by Directions Magazine, you can browse a range of discussion lists or search by keywords.

Email Discussion Lists
Email based discussion lists. To subscribe send a preliminary email as directed to the email list you are interested in.

ESRI Knowledge Base
Searchable archives of all ESRI discussion lists. Also search their FAQs, online documents and technical notes.

ESRI Support Community
Access to discussion forums for each software application from ESRI. Posted questions are answered by other ESRI users with occassional input from ESRI’s development team.

FreeGIS
Discussion and news emailing list for the FreeGIS project.

gisarch
This list is intended to facilitate discussion between archaeologists making use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.

GIS Jobs
This is a public discussion list to which anyone can subscribe and contribute by posting job vacancies in GIS related fields. Very short messages from those seeking jobs are acceptable.

gis-uk
United Kingdom GIS discussion list. For discussion relating to all things GIS; specifically conference announcements, help with technical problems, research news and articles worthy of note.

GRASS Developer’s Forum
Email-based discussion list for developers that improve and contribute source code.

Histbound
This list supports an international initiative on historic boundary mapping, involving a series of workshop meetings during 2000. It is intended both for builders of historical boundary GIS systems and more traditional scholars researching past boundaries and borders.

history-gis
List for the discussion of applications of Geographical Information Systems technology to historical research, with special emphasis on the UK and on the problems of incorporating historical sources and representing the time dimension within a GIS.

IMAGIN-L
IMAGIN-L is a forum for discussion of GIS in Michigan.

Intergraph Discussion List
The Intergraph Customer Forum (ICF) is a bi-directional gateway to the USENET newsgroup.

Java Mapping
List for developers of Java-based mapping software, especially those interested in creating non-commercial class libraries for Java-based GIS on a co-operative basis.

LIS-Maps
Lis-maps is a forum for discussing news, ideas, issues, policies and practices related to map & spatial data librarianship. Topics can be broad ranging including: acquisition; cataloguing; use; information retrieval; management of metadata; relationship to GIS & RS; collaborative work; conservation.

MapInfo-L
MapInfo-L is an open forum for the discussion of topics related to MapInfo and desktop mapping issues.

Maptitude Discussion List
Maptitude discussion list subscription site.

Metadata-L
The main objective of this list is to provide the GIS community with an open forum to share ideas and discuss metadata issues and strategies

Smallword GIS Research
Discussion group for all those using Smallworld GIS for research in academic institutions. Discussions range from suitability of Smallworld GIS for particular application areas to sharing technical expertise.

Spatial Database Engine
Hosted by Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, this discussion list serves as a forum for the exchange of information about large scale open systems spatial databases using ESRI’s SDE®.

Spatial News Discussion Board
Online discussion board where you can post questions, access news items and discuss issues in GIS. From Spatial News.





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