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- Amazon.com - Recommended titles:
- Collecting Old Maps by Francis J. Manasek
- The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey. Describes the plundering of academic library map collections by Gilbert Bland. Hear a review of the book by critic Maureen Corrigan on the Thursday, September 28, 2000 Fresh Air
- American Geographical Society Collection - Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "Currently contains over 500 maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks."
- American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 - Library of Congress collection of over two thousand different maps and manuscripts representing an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. Almost 500 of these maps are original manuscript drawings, the work of such famous mapmakers as John Montresor, Samuel Holland, Claude Joseph Sauthier, John Hills and William Gerard De Brahm.
- Antique Maps of Iceland - National Library of Iceland.
- Iceland - Based on Bjorn Gunnlaugsson. Second half of 19th century?
- Charte von Island - Theodor Gliemann, Altona, 1824.
- Ancient World Mapping Center - Interdisciplinary research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Association of American Geographers
- Places Online "provides access to the world's very best place-based Web sites."
- 25 Archival Gems - Maynard Weston Dow"Online preview of the earliest interviews conducted between 1970 and 1993 with 25 geographers in 27 short video clips."
- Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)
- Atlantic Neptune Charts - "Magnificent four-volume atlas of sea charts and views of the east coast of North America, published during the American Revolutionary War by Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres (1722-1824). The atlas spans from the St. Lawrence River and Nova Scotia, to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. One volume also includes Havana and ports in Jamaica. The four volumes were completed between 1777 and 1781, though sheets were published individually as early as 1774." From the National Maritime Museum's Collections Online
- Magdalen Isles in the Gulph of St. Lawrence (HNS 133)
- Mississipi [sic] River from Iberville to Yazous. (HNS 172)
- Cape Elizabeth to Moose Point (HNS 103)
- A view of New York (HNS 148)
- Amelia Island, Florida (G246:2/34)
- Atlas of Canada
- Topographic Maps
- Map Archives
- Atlas Van der Hagen and Atlas Beudeker - Dutch atlases of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are searchable by source, date, name, geography and keyword. Joint project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the British Library. You can also view the maps per atlas (browse). The Atlas Beudeker consists of Volume 21: Conquests of the Netherlands with 134 images and the Atlas van der Hagen consists of four volumes with 447 images. The Atlas van der Hagen has some fine city views (panoramas) of Smirna, Jerusalem, Batavia, Peking, Hong-Kong, Algiers, Rabat, Mexico City, Havana, Hälsingborg, Kristianstadt, Krakow, Dantzig, Belgrade, London, Edinburgh, Luxembourg, Antwerp, and the pleasure gardens of Enghien near Brussels. Worthy of note is the series of views of the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turkish Army.
- AUSLIG on-line Gazetteer - Searchable database of Australian place names.
- Balkans Regional Atlas - Central Intelligence Agency site includes information on ethnic populations, minerals & resources, energy, economic activity and land use.
- Beinecke Rare Book Library Digital Collections - Yale University. An advanced search (item title field) for map retrieves 179 map images.
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec - Has over 1,000 Cartes et Plans "Plus de 1000 cartes géographiques sur le Québec, depuis la Nouvelle-France jusqu’au milieu du XXe siècle."
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (National Library of Portugal) - There is a Biblioteca Nacional Digital (Digital Library) with catalog (catálogo), as well as a author (autor) and subject index. Among the items newly digitized (Obras novas digitalizadas) are a number of high resolution images of maps (Material cartográfico) including
Atlas de Portugal and
A compleat set of new charts on thirty-eight large plates containing an accurate survey of the coast of Portugal and the Mediterrane sea Memória contains the "cultural identity of Portugal". Porbase is the online catalog.
- Bodleian Library Map Room
- BUBL LINK: Catalogue of selected Internet resources - Maps, atlases, charts, plans - See also Cartography
- Canada at Scale: Maps of our History - National Archives of Canada
- Canadian Communities Atlas
- Canadian Council for Geographic Education
- Canadian Geographical Names - Natural Resources Canada
- Cartes des Amériques - Virtual exhibition at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique.
- Cartes historiques canadiennes (1901) - François-Pierre Gingras, Département de science politique, Université d'Ottawa.
- Cartographica Helvetica: Journal for the history of cartography - With Index
- Cartoteca Digital - Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona
- Census Atlas of the United States
- "Complete content, in PDF format, of the recently published Census Atlas of the United States, the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s. The Census Atlas is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented. A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level, but data also are sometimes mapped by state, census tract (for largest cities and metropolitan areas), and for selected American Indian reservations. The book is modern, colorful, and includes a variety of map styles and data symbolization techniques."
- Centre for Topographic Information (Ottawa) - Natural Resources Canada provides access to topographic maps
- Charles Booth Online Archive - Guides, digitized images and maps of Victorial London from the collections at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of London Library.
- Charting the Nation maps of Scotland, 1550-1740 - Over 3,500 high resolution images (University of Edinburgh)
- Christies International
- Ciel et Terre - Online exhibition from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France includes images from the Catalan Atlas (1375-1380) and offers a wealth of information on the history of astronomy with biographies, a glossary, a chronology, bibliography, maps and a quantity of images from the library's manuscript collection. Elegant and beautifully designed - worth a visit even if you don't read French.
- Collection numérique de cartes et plans - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States - Ray Sterner
- Cornell's Digital Earth - "Allows users to view and print out maps showing major geographic features of a region, along with such information as the location of earthquake faults, a record of earthquake occurrences and technical data about the events."
- David Rumsey Collection - Over 2,300 high-resolution digital images of maps from the David Rumsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the United States. The collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials and includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children’s and manuscript maps. The site has 36 complete atlases including Jefferys¹ "American Atlas" (1776), Popple¹s "Map of the British Empire in America" (1733), Collot¹s "Journey in North America" (1796), Tanner¹s "American Atlas" (1823), Burr¹s "American (Postal) Atlas" (1839), and Garcia Cubas¹ "Atlas Pintoresco" (1885).
- DeLorme - Offers online mapping & driving directions in EarthaMaps
- Digital Librarian: Adirondacks: Maps
- Digital South Asia Library - A project of the Center for Research Libraries, DSAL provides "digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users."Resources include Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, Imperial Gazetteer of India and A Historical Atlas of South Asia
- Digital Publishing System (DPubS) - "Powerful and flexible open-source system for publishing digital documents" developed by Cornell University Library's Center for Innovative Publishing and Pennsylvania State University Libraries.
- Dudley Knox Library Map Collection
- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative - University of Californina, Berkeley. "An international project to develop and distribute digital data on historical and archaeological resources." You can create digital maps
See their Iraq Cultural Atlas
- Electronic Map Library - Department of Geography, California State University
- EPA Enviromapper - Maps several types of environmental information, including drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste, water discharge permits, and Superfund sites. EnviroMapper also links to text reports.
- Exploring the West from
Monticello: An Exhibition of Maps and Navigational Instruments - Alderman Library, University of Virginia
- Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth - NASA site "hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth. Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 916,992 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website." Some examples:
- Rio Negro Floodplain, Patagonia, Argentina - 14 February 2010
- Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa- 5 February 2008
- Finger Lakes, Auburn, Syracuse - 6 April 2008. See also
Photo without data
- Geocoding Products and Services Home Page - Input an address into their Geocoder for precise address information (latitude, longitude, postal carrier code, census information and map).
- GeoConnections - Canada’s geographic information on the Internet.
- GEO-Data Explorer - US Geological Survey's Java-based interface designed to allow access to spatial databases over the Internet.
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - U. S. Geological Survey database contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. Has Query Form You can search for towns, lakes, canals, schools, churches, cemeteries, brideges and many other features. The GEOnet Names Server from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency provides information about foreign geographic feature names. Other resources include U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources and the U.S. Gazetteer
- Geography and Maps: an illustrated guide - Library of Congress
- GeoImages - Images (mostly photographs) that are useful in teaching geography. Conceived, constructed, and maintained by G. Donald Bain, Director of the Geography Computing Facility, University of California at Berkeley. Includes Images of Afghanistan in 1976-78
- Geospatial and Statistical Data Center - University of Virginia Library
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - "Contains approximately 900,000 records for places, arranged in hierarchies representing all nations of the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and other relevant information."
- Google Maps
- Great Lakes Atlas: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book - Environment Canadas
- Hargrett Library Rare Book & Manuscript Library Rare Map Collection - University of Georgia
- Harvard Map Collection - For more on the collection see Christopher Reed's article, Terra Cognita in the September/October 1997 issue of Harvard Magazine
- Historic USGS Maps of New England - University of New Hampshire Libraries online collection of USGS topographic maps includes complete geographical coverage of New England from the 1890s to 1950s.
- Historic Maps of Dutch Cartographers
- Historical Atlas of the 20th Century - Matthew White
- Historical Atlas of Canada
- Historical Maps Online - "Images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory." (Joint project of the University of Illinois and the University of Illinois Press.)
- Historischen Karten - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen. Over 3,700 digitized historical maps includes one documenting the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of May-June 1864. Click on Vollbild to enlarge.
- History of Cartography Project - Multi-volume series edited by David Woodward and published by the University of Chicago Press.
- Institut Géographique National - Provides access to IGN Magazine and to aerial maps
- International Conference on the History of Cartography
- Internet Resources for Geographers - Maintained by Lance Christian and Kenneth Foote of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- James Ford Bell Library - University of Minnesota collection includes Early Maps of Russia and other historical maps.
- John R. Borchert Map Library - University of Minnesota site provides research tools including Maps in the News and links to other map-related resources.
- Kartenportal.CH - Map search Switzerland
- Kartenforum Sachsen - Deutsche Fotothek.
- Landmark Information Group Free Historic Maps - Some 85,000 images (1:10,560 scale) of maps of the United Kingdom published between 1846 and 1899. The County Name Gazetteer consists of counties with towns and villages in that county.
- Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC) - University of Connecticut's "library of digital geo-spatial information."
- Map Collections: 1597- 1988 - Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. You can search by keyword or browse by subject, creator, geographic location or title.The site is divided into seven major categories:
General Maps & Atlases,
Cities & Towns,
Conservation & Environment,
Discovery & Exploration,
Cultural Landscapes,
Military Battles & Campaigns and
Transportation and Communication
- Map History / History of Cartography - Maintained by Tony Campbell, a former Map Librarian at the British Library in London, the site "is designed for anyone, whether specialist or surfer, who wants to learn more about non-current maps." There is a Site Index, a collection of links to Map Projects and a section on Thefts of early maps and books
- Map Machine - National Geographic Society site offers maps, flags, facts, and profiles for the countries of the world and the U.S. states.
- Map Societies Around the World: Geographical Index - Cleveland State University. There's also a Organizational Name Index
- MapBlast! - Enter address, get maps, driving directions, yellow pages.
- MapFinder - This catalog contains records for over 300,000 maps that cataloged by the American Geographical Society. These records can be retrieved by specifying a geographic location in terms of degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude, or through a geographic name database using a using place name or zip code.
- MapHist - E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography
- Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity
- Mapping the National Parks - Library of Congress collection of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present.
- Mapping the World - "Collaborative support for research on overseas mapping." See lists of alphabetical list of countries and regional maps
- Mappy - Popular French map and trip-planning website.
- MapQuest - Provides maps and detailed directions, with many customized options
- Maps - The following sites provide maps and driving directions: MapBlast!, Maps On Us, MapQuest, AOL Travel, miDirections, Multimap.com, Yahoo! Maps & Driving Directions, DeLorme's Earthamaps, Expedia Maps, Rand McNally Maps and Lycos Roadmaps
- Maps and Reference - Subject directory from the Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa.
- Maps of Africa: 16th- Early 20th Century - Northwestern University Library
- Ægypti recentior descriptio : Ægyptis & Jurcis Elchibith; Arabibus Mesre & Misri, Hebræis Mitsraim. - Jann Jansson, Amsterdam, ca. 1650.
- Maps of Massachusetts - Congressional Districts Maps. (Massachusetts Archives)
- Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest - Four centuries of maps of the region of Spanish colonial Mexico encompassing what is now southern Arizona and northern Sonora held in the Map Collection of the University of Arizona Library.
- Maps On Us - Maps, directions, yellow pages (Lucent Technologies).
- Mathematics of Cartography - Cynthia Lanius
- Mercator's World - "Magazine of maps, exploration and discovery."
- Montana Topographic Map Finder (Topo Finider) - Montana State Library, Natural Resource Information System. See also their USGS Topographic Quadrangle Images
- Le miroir du monde ou Epitome du Théâtre d'Abraham Ortelius - Amsterdam: Zacharias Heyns, 1598. Digitized in MATEO - Mannheimer Texte Online, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim.:
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- A Moving Experience: The Historic Move of the AGS Library - Podcast, Apr. 17, 2009. "William C. Roselle, retired director of the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will talk about the historic transfer of the American Geographical Society's Library from New York City to Milwaukee 31 years ago. Described as "the largest privately owned geographical research collection in the western hemisphere," the library today includes more than 1.2 million items, from maps and atlases, to books and periodicals, photographs, LANDSAT images, and globes."
- Multimap.com - UK. Enter the name of a British city, town or village, street name (London only) or postcode to get a detailed map.
- National Atlas of Canada Online
- National Atlas of the United States of America - Easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. Maps on the site include the National Atlas Online, Interactive Map Browser, a West Nile Virus Maps and Potentially active volcanoes
- National Digital Map Library - University of Virginia
- National Geographic Online
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
- National Maritime Museum - Greenwich, London. Their Collections Online contain thousands of maps and charts in a number of categories including Atlantic coasts of America, with Great Lakes (345 records).
- New York Map Portfolio - Maps prior to 1830 (SUNY Stony Brook).
- New York Public Library Map Division - Online material includes:
- In thy map securely saile: Maps, Atlases, Charts, and Globes...
- American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection
- New York State Museum Bulletins Project - Columbia University project digitalizing oversized geological maps.
- North Carolina Maps - "When complete, North Carolina Maps will contain over 1,500 maps, ranging in date from the late 1500s to the 1970s, and will include detailed maps for each of North Carolina's one hundred counties."
- Oddens's Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping - Over 13,000 links to cartogrpahic resources on the Internet compiled by Roelof P. Oddens, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. [Note: This site is no longer maintained.] See also Four years of Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping by Roelof P. Oddens, LIBER Quarterly, the Journal of European Research Libraries, ISSN 1435-5205, Vol. 10(2000), No 4.
- Office of Coast Survey - NOAA.
- Omnes Viae: Tabula Peutingeriana - Roman Route Planner. "a reconstruction of an antique Roman map with internet technology."
- Online Map Creation - Create maps interactively.
- Osher Map Library - University of Southern Maine. Exhibition highlights include the Basel 1494 Columbus Letter, Maine Wilderness Transformed: Timber, Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehead Lake Region, John Mitchell's Map: An Irony of Empire, Cartographic Creation of New England and Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History
- Out of This World Exhibition: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas - Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri
- Panoramic Maps: 1847-1909 - 26 online panoramic maps, also known as bird's-eye views, from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - Over 2,000 map images organized geographically and historically; University of Texas at Austin
- Perseus Digital Library - Resources for the study of the ancient world located at the Department of the Classics, Tufts University, has a Atlas Index of the ancient world where you can click on the map to bring up a detailed map, and you can plot one or more sites by typing a string into the box.
- Presidential Elections Maps: 1860-1996 - University of Virginia provides maps showing state-by-state winners, along with percentage of vote received, for each election.
- Princeton GIS Center - A keyword search for Adirondack retrieves 17 results including Adirondack and Thousand Islands Section from Scarborough's Original Road Map of the State of New York.
- Railroad Maps: 1828-1900 - "All of the items presented here are documented in Railroad Maps of the United States compiled by Andrew M. Modelski in 1975 and contain 623 railroad maps of the United States." (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
- Rand McNally
- Resort Maps - Tourist maps of resort towns and cities. Among the maps for New York, for example, are Ithaca, the Eastern Finger Lakes and the Western Finger Lakes
- A Rival Is Charged, and a Map Dealer Wants to Say, 'Told You So' - Article by Alison Leigh Cowan,
New York Times, October 10, 2005. "W. Graham Arader III, who has been criticized by clients and colleagues for years for his attacks on E. Forbes Smiley III, a leading competitor, says he is looking forward to vindication." See also A Theft in the Library: The Case of the Missing Maps by William Finnegan in the October 17, 2005 New Yorker (unfortunately not online).
- Road Map Collectors Association
- Royal Geographical Society - UK
- Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
- Ryhiner Map Collection - 15,000 maps, charts, plans and views from the 16th to the 18th century, University Library of Berne, Switzerland.
- Société de Géographie - Paris
- Society of Cartographers - U.K.
- Sotheby's
- Starting the Hunt: Guide to Mostly On-Line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data - Stephan Pollard and Snow Ballard, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
- Streetmap - Locate UK maps. Search by street, post code, UK City, Town or Village, OS Grid, Landranger Grid and Latitude/Longitude coordinates. Related sites include Multimap, Digistreets and Les Photos de Villes
- Subway Page: Links to World Subway and Other Transportation Information Resources - Robert E. Reynolds' site includes subway maps for more than 90 cities
- Tapestry of Time and Terrain: the Union of Two Maps - Geography and Topography - U.S. Geological Survey.
- TerraServer
- Terrain Analysis Home Page - Hunter College Department of Geography, New York, N.Y.
- TopoZone: Web's Topographic Map - "Every USGS 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States."
- Toporama - Natural Resources Canada
- United Nations Cartographic Section
- United States Geological Survey - Has an Earth Science Information Center and a Geographic Names Information System
- United States Military Academy Atlases
- University of California, Berkeley, Earth Sciences & Map Library
- University of California, San Diego - Maps and spatial data
- University of Toronto Map Library Internet Resources
- U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources - U.S. Census site will take the name of any town, county, city or river in the U.S., find its longitude & latitude, and generate a high-quality, detailed map of the location and its surrounding terrain.
- U.S. Gazetteer - Place name search engine from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Virginia Digital Map Library - State, local & regional maps.
- Virtual Tourist World Map
- W. Graham Arader III - Dealer in "rare, antique works on paper and paintings". See Antique Maps page.
- W.H. Pugsley Collection of Early Maps of Canada - Black & white images of 50 early Canadian maps, dating from 1556 to 1857. (Part of the Digital Collections Program, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Libraries.)
- Who is Who in Map Librarianship - Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER
- World Gazetteer
- World of Maps | Le Monde des Cartes | Die Welt der Karten - How to find Digital maps and GIS on the Internet. Edited by Jürg Bühler, Map Collection of the ETH Library Zurich and Thomas Klöti, Map Curator Group of the Swiss Library Association
