FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Office for Victims of Crime
U.S. Department of Justice
810 Seventh Street NW.
Eighth Floor
Washington, DC 20531
202–307–5983
Fax: 202–514–6383
Web site: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc

Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety
National Institute of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 Seventh Street NW.
Seventh Floor
Washington, DC 20531
202–514–3431
Web site: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps

OVC Resource Center
P.O. Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849–6000
Telephone: 1–800–627–6872 or 301–519–5500
(TTY 1–877–712–9279)

Web Links

OVC does not exercise control over external Web sites. Read the Web site links disclaimer.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/

Center for International Science Information Network
www.ciesin.org

CyberInstitute short course on GIS
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/tools/gis/referenc.html

Digital chart of the world
www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw

Digital maps
http://magic.lib.uconn.edu

EROS Data Center, the clearinghouse for U.S. Geological Survey digital data
http://edc.usgs.gov

Federal Bureau of Investigation
www.fbi.gov

Federal Geographic Data Committee
www.fgdc.gov

Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
fjsrc.urban.org

Geophysical data
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html

GIS datasets put together by ESRI for the production of live maps www.esri.com/data/index.html

GIS dictionary
www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html

GIS education and training
http://campus.esri.com

GIS FAQs
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gis_gateway.html

GIS Guide for the Neophyte
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/local/gis/gis_primer.html

GIS links: Free datasets, standards, U.S. Geological Survey sites, U.S. Census Bureau, etc.
home.comcast.net/~rickking04/gis/gis.htm

GIS Support Center
www.state.oh.us/das/dcs/gis/

Global Resource Information Database
www.grid.unep.ch

Justice Research and Statistics Association
www.jrsa.org

Map FAQs, products and support data
www.mapfacts.com

MARIS spatial data
www.maris.state.ms.us

Massachusetts GIS site and geographic databases
www.magnet.state.ma.us/mgis/massgis.htm

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd

National Center for Victims of Crime
www.ncvc.org

National Organization for Victim Assistance
www.try-nova.org

Natural Resources Research Information Pages
www4.ncsu.edu/~leung/nrrips.html

Pennsylvania State University, access to spatial data of Pennsylvania
www.pasda.psu.edu

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources GIS Data Clearinghouse Home Page
www.dnr.sc.gov/gis.html

Thematic maps
www.oseda.missouri.edu

University of California at Berkeley online map collection and links to other data and map sources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, GIS reference database and an elevation data catalog
www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html

University of New Mexico Earth Data Analysis Center
http://edac.unm.edu

U.S. Census Bureau
www.census.gov

U.S. Geological Survey digital map data
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/

U.S. Geological Survey on transferring data between systems without any loss
http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/whatsdts.html

Victim Assistance Online
www.vaonline.org

General Web Resources for Training Seminars and Conferences

(As listed in Crime Mapping News, spring 2000, volume 2, issue 2. )

www.urisa.org/meetings.htm

http://msdis.missouri.edu

http://magicweb.kgs.ukans.edu/

www.nsgic.org

www.mapinfo.com

www.esri.com/events

www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/training.html

http://www.justnet.org/Pages/cmap.aspx

www.nijpcs.org/upcoming.htm

www.cops.usdoj.gov/

http://giscenter.isu.edu/training

www.alphagroupcenter.com

For information on training and technical assistance available from OVC, please contact

OVC Training and Technical Assistance Center
10530 Rosehaven Street, Suite 400
Fairfax, VA 22030
Telephone: 1–866–OVC–TTAC (1–866–682–8822)
(TTY 1–866–682–8880)

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Using Geographic Information Systems To Map Crime Victim Services:
A Guide for State Victims of Crime Act Administrators and Victim Service Providers
February 2003