CONABIO Metadata and Digital Map Library of Mexico

CONABIO provides online cartography through cartographic metadata distributed following the guidelines in the Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata of FGDC-NBII (Federal Geographic Data Committee – National Biological Information Infrastructure), 1996. The cartographic information is queried through a database that is organized based on themes (biotic, physical and social aspects, regionalization and others), scales, and geographic area. The metadata content is presented as basic information, reports of the information (methodology) and spatial data information. The cartography is available online at no charge in distinct formats like: export file for Arc/Info (.E00) and shape file (ESRI), and DXF (Drawing eXchange Format). Maps is presented in cartographic projections: Lambert Conic Conformal, UTM and geographic coordinates system. GIF format of map images can be obtained as well.