Helpful Links

DoBeS: Volkswagen Foundation/Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI): ECAI uses time and space to enhance understanding and preservation of human culture.
TimeMap (Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney): TimeMap TMJava is a novel mapping applet which generates complete interactive maps with a few simple lines of html. It provides a way of easily enriching web pages with historical or contemporary information that goes far beyond static jpg map images. It's easy for beginners, yet provides completely customisable power and distributed backend database connectivity for the expert. It's free for personal use.

Ljuba Veselinova's Map Collection: An impressive collection of various image-based maps, including language family maps, typological and areally-oriented maps, language coordinates, and more.
THDL Gazeteer: The Gazetteer is designed to provide information about all varieties of places in Tibet and the Himalayas, in past and present times - nations, provinces, counties, monasteries, villages, mountains, natural regions and more. The current release includes administrative units in contemporary China that have ethnic Tibetan populations, with detailed information only for the subunits of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

GIS Development: As a Geospatial Communication Network, GIS Development promotes the usage of Geographic Information Science, Technology, and Applications in various areas of development, worldwide and Asia in particular. It assists community and governments in developing their productivity, policies, and management capabilities by facilitating knowledge transfer in the domain of geographic information. It fosters the growing network of those interested in geo-informatics and encourages the exchange of scientific know-how through its key platforms: Magazines, Portal, Conferences, and Training.
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.