Guide to Map Resources on the Internet
Gateway and Locator Sites | Country and Census Map Sites | Historical Map Sites | Directions, Distances, and Recreational Use | Miscellaneous
Gateway and Locator Sites (sites that lead you to other map resource sites)
- All the World's Maps (a useful source for locating country and city map sites at other sites; from EmbassyWorld.Com)
- Harvard Map Collection: Other Cartography Sites
- InfoMine Scholarly Internet Resources Collection: Maps and GIS (a searchable guide, maintained by the University of California Libraries, to scholarly maps and GIS resources)
- Maps Locator on the Internet (guide to maps by geographical location, with some thematic maps. Maintained by the Univ. of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research)
- Mercator's World Links (a well-arranged guide, with short annotations, to a wide range of maps and cartographic resources)
- Oddens’ Bookmarks (a comprehensive guide to map and cartographic sites from the Utrecht University. A great place to begin.)
- Starting the Hunt: Guide to Mostly On-Line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data (good for a subject approach; from the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, U. of Arkansas)
- American Fact Finder: Reference Maps (allows you to identify and see maps of the geographical units, such as Census tracts, and features, that can be used with the 2000 U.S. Decennial Census)
- American Fact Finder: Thematic Maps (thematic maps based on the 2000 U.S. Decennial Census)
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States
- Global Gazeteer ("a directory of 2880532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town")
- Goode's World Atlas (a limited version of the print atlas, this sites allows you to select a variety of thematic maps of the world and maps for U.S. states)
- Interactive Spatial Data Browser (generate selected features for states using the United States Geological Survey Digital Line Graph data set)
- National Atlas of the United States (maps on environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life; from the U. S. Geological Survey)
- National Geographic’s Map Machine (dynamic, thematic and atlas maps and facts, figures, and flags for countries of the world)
- New Jersey Business Resource Center’s Maps (interactive mapping application that allow you to create maps of New Jersey’s political boundaries, roads, open spaces and socio-economic variables)
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (maps of countries of the world and historical maps from the University of Texas at Austin. Very good site with a wonderful collection of maps)
- TopoZone.Com ("every USGS 1:100,000, 1:63,360, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale topographic map for the entire United States. Puerto Rico (1:20,000) will be coming soon")
- United Nations Cartographic Section Maps and Geographic Information Resources (regional and country maps)
Historical Maps Sites and Guides
- The David Rumsey Collection (focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials)
- Interactive Ancient Mediterranean (online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world; from the U. of North Carolina)
- Map Collections: 1500 to 1999 (maps from the Library of Congress’ American Memory Project)
- Historical Maps (from the The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin; includes maps from Shepherd’s Historical Atlas)
- U.S. Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996 (from the U. of Virginia)
- WWW Virtual Library History: Maps (a guide to historical map collections on the web)
Directions, Distances, and Recreational Use
- MapBlast (maps, driving directions, and distance for U. S. street addresses and maps for cities worldwide)
- MapQuest (maps and driving directions for addresses worldwide)
- Maps of United States National Parks and Monuments
- Yahoo! Maps
- Guide to Citing Maps and Atlases (from McMaster University)
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Last Modified: October 12, 2001