Oil & Gas Industry Clients and Equity Partners

Practical, Academic and Historical Cartographic Resources

Technology Used to Build this Site and the Maps Found in It

Sexton Oil & Minerals Corporation

Geology and exploration leader.  Envisions, generates, assembles and markets oil & gas prospects.

Tejas Energy Partners

Legal and land rights research and acquisition

Browning Oil Company, Inc.

Mezzanine financier

CNG

Consolidated Natural Gas, Inc.

Major financing, 3-D seismic, drilling and production operations

Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc.

Purchased CNG to take over major financing, drilling, and production operations

Maguire Oil Company

Purchased a significant farm-out

eog resources

Purchased a significant farm-out

Magnetic declination calculator

Some terrific student map projections

Great Circle Mapper: Chart the shortest course between any two airports or Latitude/Longitude coordinates.

More cool globes

Antique Maps

Antique Maps

Antique Maps

Ptolemy: the Geography

Geographer David Joyce has set about the project of creating a digital model based on the manuscript of Claudius Ptolemy’s 2nd century AD Geography.  I am very glad he did -- it saves me the trouble.

MapForum,Com: Specialist Antique Map Magazine

Mappa Mundi Online Magazine

An excellect magazine of contemporary and historical cartography.

Old Map Gallery, Denver, CO

Antique Maps

United States Geological Survey

Geographic Data Download

The Texas General Land Office has enormous quantities of data available for download.

The free Volo View Express viewer plug-in allows you to view true scaleable vector drawings in AutoCAD’s .DWF (Drawing Web File) format on the web.  You can pan, zoom, and turn layers on and off. Some of the maps on this website are extremely detailed and are designed to be viewed closely at sizes as large as 10 feet by 3 feet.  If you do not have this driver, you are are missing the most interesting portions of this site. For this site, the 10MB DWF-only version is sufficient -- the version that also views DWG and DXF is 24MB.

All of the maps and many of the drawings on this site were created in AutoCAD or AutoCAD Map. Most of the Sexton Geographic software titles are written in AutoLISP, bringing the power of the language of artificial intelligence to geographic information systems.

Continually routes a subscription URL to a dynamic IP address.  About $35/year, versus $90/month for a static IP address.  Useful for self-hosted websites, remote control applications, web-based video and audio conferencing, Virtual Private Networks, etc. Be found at yourname.dynip.com.  For a little more money, you can even be found at yourname.com, still without paying for a static IP address.  Even now that I’m migrating to a commercial server, I still use Dynip to access my intranet.

The most powerful and simplest to use free and low-cost firewalls available. ZoneAlarm protects the SextonGeographic server from an average of 50 hacker attacks per week.

Hosted with Microsoft Internet Information Services and Personal Web Manager. Windows 2000 Professional has a hard-coded limit of 10 concurrent visitors.

Connected to the internet via a Road Runner high speed cable modem. Download speeds approach 4MB/sec.  Upload speeds are throttled to about 128KB/sec.

Host 200MB on a Unix server with 100 email addresses for $7.77/month. Domain registration for $15/year. 12GB of data transfer per month across their OC12/48 connection.  Can you beat that with a stick?  I can’t.

Free and low-cost website visitor counters.

Use the free Adobe Acrobat viewer plug-in to view PDF files. The Adobe PDF format is the lingua franca of digital document archiving.  Documents written in PDF are viewable by any browser exactly as you meant them to be: the same fonts, the same sizes, the same layout. They cannot be editted, but that is precisely the point.

NetObjects Fusion is not just another page editor. It is a full-blown website creation and management application. Nor is it an HTML debugger.  Someone at a bar asked me if I write my own HTML.  My answer: I write in 25 languages. I don’t have to prove that I can write HTML.  It’s kind of like asking an author if he writes his own Postscript. That’s what word processors are for. About $90. I used it to create this website in about 3 days.

The Apollon Project is the freeware component collection of German NetObjects Fusion enthusiast Ingo Fischer.  I use his ImagePreloader5.0 to improve response time by preloading raster world maps.

Free CGI Scripts by Paul Williams, including the Guestbook script I use (please sign it!). With remarkably sophisticated installation and administration routines, these scripts virtually install themselves.  Thanks, Paul!