HELP with resources?

[BigScience]

hi civ-ers,
this may seem to be a truly dumb question, but here goes how can i tell what resources i have at hand BEFORE i build a city? i can recognize horses, and grapes, etc, but have not been able to find a list of the icons for the other stuff...especially iron. i can see the resources once i have built the city by looking at the window, but sometimes that's too late.....
i'd also like to get some hints on trying to get to the level of spaceship building BEFORE the game ends!!! seeems to take forever to advance that far...how do i know what advances will lead me to a given wonder? the tree is useful but has no info about the wonders.
believe it or not, i am not a novice to the civ games, but III has taken some odd turns, and getting there is NOT half the fun.

thanks:suicide:

 

[Troyens]

You CANNOT tell. It is pure luck.

Remember to go into the Editor and increase the amount of strategic resource tiles. Everyone else has.

BTW, you can only know the locations of those resources in advance if you're playing on a pre-made map and have a good memory as to where they are.

 

[cephyn]

Its actually all there in the tree. First off, each advance has little pictures...one a representation of the advance, any additional ones tell you what units/wonders can be build with it. If you click on them and go into the Civilopediea, you can learn more about each advance...for example, what resources certain ones allow you to see.

The Wheel allows you to see horses, Iron Working-->Iron, Steam Power-->Coal, Rocketry-->aluminum, Replacable Parts-->rubber, etc.