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Maps Guide     

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Geographic Maps

• Mapquest
  • Maps and driving directions: city-to-city routes within North America; door-to-door routes within the continental U.S. Also has topographical and street maps and maps of airport terminals, national parks and scenic drives.
• Yahoo! Maps
  • Maps and driving directions within the U.S. only.
    
    
• Atlapedia Online
  • Political and physical maps, as well as statistics on countries around the world.
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States (Ray Sterner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
  • Shaded relief maps, arranged by individual states.
• Map Machine (National Geographic)
  • Basic political and physical maps.
• Maps of the Middle of East (MidEast Web)
• Multimap.com
  • Interactive maps. Simple to use, but does not go into the city level. Excellent site.
• National Atlas of the United States
  • Maps of the U.S. natural and sociocultural landscapes.
• Online Map List (U.S. Geological Survey)
  • Find a U.S. map. More map products from the National Mapping Information page, or search for a map from the U.S. Geological Survey homepage. Excellent site for U.S. geographical, geological, and topographical maps.
• Ordnance Survey (UK)
  • Road maps of Great Britain from their Get-a-map service.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
  • A great number of map images that can all be downloaded. Excellent site.
• ReliefWeb Map Centre
  • Regional and national maps of areas where humanitarian relief efforts are being carried out. The maps are also in ZIP format which can be downloaded. ReliefWeb is a U.N. project dedicated to providing information to aid relief efforts around the world.
• TIGER Mapping Service (U.S. Census Bureau)
  • Public domain street-level and regional maps of the U.S. Designed to be incorporated into Web designs and documents. More about TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system). Excellent site.
• United Nations Cartographic Section
  • Regional, national, and peacekeeping maps in PDF format. Also available in French.
• World of maps: a gateway for maps and mapping
• German-English gateway to identifying and linking to maps, spatial data, and GIS on the Internet.

Historical Maps

• American Memory Map Collections Finder Search (Library of Congress)
  • Search and download maps from the following collections: African American Odyssey; Civil War Maps; Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870; Map Collections: 1544-1999; Mapping the National Parks; Panoramic Maps;  Railroad Maps, 1828-1900.
• Interactive Ancient Mediterranean (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  • Online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Also has an extensive list of links.
• Perseus Atlas
  • Search for sites in ancient Greece and Rome. Java script.
• Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library (University of Georgia)
  • Maps from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century, mostly of Georgia and surrounding region. Maps can be printed.

Map Search Engines

• Search Engine Guide: Maps
  • Links to search engines and directories of maps.

Cartography

• Map History / History of Cartography (Tony Campbell)
  • Extensive links.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection-Cartographic Reference Resources
  • Includes gazetteers, distance calculators, time zones, sun and moon rise/set calculators, tides, map projections, map scale, bibliographies, glossaries and guides.

Gazetteers (Geographic Dictionaries)

• Columbia Gazetteer of the World. Ed. Saul B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia, 1998.
  • (Call number: R 910.3 C726)
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) (U.S. Geological Survey)
  • Physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and Territories and Antarctica. Also links to gazetteer sites around the world.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty Research Institute)
  • Contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.
• Maps/Geographic Information Systems: Dictionaries (University of Washington)
  • Links to more gazatteers.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection-Cartographic Reference Resources
  • Includes gazetteers, distance calculators, time zones, sun and moon rise/set calculators, tides, map projections, map scale, bibliographies, glossaries and guides.
• Place Name Servers on the Internet (Arizona State University)
• U.S. Gazetteer (U.S. Census Bureau)
  • Online place-name search engine. Excellent site.