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Geography Resources

Reference Resources

Collective Resources

• The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection The General Libraries - The University of Texas at Austin
• Geography and Map Reading Room, Library of Congress
• ReliefWeb Map Center
• Maps and Geographic Information Resources, Cartographic Section, United Nations
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Odden's Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping, KartLab, Utrecht University

Bibliographies

• Concise Bibliography of the History of Cartography: A Selected, Annotated List of Works on Old Maps and Their Makers, and on their Collection, Cataloging, Care, and Use, compiled by Robert W. Karrow, Jr., 1997
• Newfoundland and Labrador Map Bibliography, Memorial University
• Cartobibliography of Pennsylvania Maps Prior to 1800, John W. Docktor
• 19th Century Changes in the US-Mexico Border: Annotated Map Bibliography, Paul Bary, Tulane University
• China Maps Bibliography Database, CIESIN

Dictionaries, Glossaries and Thesauri

• Glossary of Cartography and Map Terminology, Maps for America, 3rd ed.
• Definitions of the word map, 1649-1996, copyright J. H. Andrews, January 1998
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Map Generators

• GoogleMaps
• GoogleEarth
• MapQuest Interactive Atlas
• Yahoo! Maps

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Climatology

• Atlas of the Cryosphere, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado
• Geospatial Data Gateway, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
• Upper Air Maps, University of Wyoming
• Upper Air Data, Ohio State University
• Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States, US Department of Energy, October 1986
• US Soil Moisture Monitoring, Climate Prediction Center, NOAA
• US Snow Monitoring, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
• MODIS Snow / Ice Global Mapping Project, NASA

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Countries and Regions

Collective Resources

• Geographical Names, UN Statistical Division
• CIA Maps and Publications
• MapQuest Interactive Atlas
• The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection The General Libraries - The University of Texas at Austin
• ReliefWeb Map Center
• Map Machine, National Geographic
• World Atlas of Panoramic Images, William Bowan
• The Columbia Gazeteer of North America, Saul B. Cohen, ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 2000

Africa

• Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870, American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
• National Atlas of Tanzania, Mike Shand, University of Glasgow, 2001

Antarctica

• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer, Australian Antarctic Division
• Antarctic Maps, Australian Antarctic Division

Arctic

• Maps of the Arctic Region, Arctic Theme Page, NOAA

Asia-Pacific

• Maps of Australia, Geoscience Australia
• Australia Natural Resources Atlas
• Gazeteer of Australia, Geoscience Australia
• Australian Place Names Search, Gazetteer of Australia, Geoscience Australia
• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer, Australian Antarctic Division
• Divisional Profiles and Election 2001 Results Map, Australian Electoral Commission
• Whereis, mapped addresses in Australia
• Geographical Names Register, New South Wales
• WebMap: City of Sydney's Interactive Mapping System
• Place Names in the Northern Territory, Australia
• Australian Coastal Atlas, Queensland Node
• Atlas of South Australia, Government of South Australia
• Place Names Online, Southern Australian State Gazetteer
• VICNAMES - Geographic Place Name Authentication, Victoria, Australia
• China Dimensions, CIESIN
• Japan Atlas, Japan Information Network
• Macau: a selection of cartographic images, American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
• New Zealand Geographic Place Names Database, Land Information New Zealand
• New Zealand's Online Street Maps, NZmaps
• Maps and Images of Tibet, T. Matthew Ciolek

Canada

• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, Saul B. Cohen, ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 2000
• GeoConnections Discovery Portal, Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
• Atlas of Canada Site Map, Natural Resources Canada
• Toporama, Natural Resources Canada
• Geographical Names of Canada, Natural Resources Canada
• Alphabetical Table of Names of Localities, with year of first mention in the various Census returns; by Provinces, Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871, Statistics Canada, Cat. No. 98-187-XIE
• British Columbia Geographical Names Information System
• Mapcentre, St. John's
• Place Names Database, Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia Geographic Names
• eMap, City of Ottawa

Europe

• Autoriserede stednavne i Danmark, place names in Denmark
• Luxembourg Gazetteer of villages and towns
• Atlas van Nederland, Universiteit Utrecht
• Sveriges Nationalatlas
• Ordnance Survey, UK
• Gazetteer for Scotland, The Robertson Trust, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, The Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh
• UK Street Map Page

United States

• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, Saul B. Cohen, ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 2000
• USGS Geographic Names Database
• MapQuest Interactive Atlas
• The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection The General Libraries - The University of Texas at Austin
• US Census Bureau Geography
• US Gazetteer, US Census Bureau
• Geography, USGS
• National Atlas of the United States
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States, US Department of Energy, October 1986
• Electronic Map Library, US state and city atlases, courtesy of the Department of Geography, California State University and the California Geographical Survey
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• Street and Parks Maintenance Maps, Anchorage, Alaska
• Mapping, Anchorage, Alaska
• Arizona Electronic Atlas, University of Arizona
• Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer
• Conservation Atlas Online, Missouri
• Maps of Montana, Natural Resources Information System, Montana State Library
• Historic USGS Maps of New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire
• New Jersey Local Names Search
• Tennessee Place Names and Post Offices, Tennessee State Library and Archives
• Texas Historic Sites Atlas, Texas Historical Commission
• Virginia Locator Service: A Geographic Reference Tool for Virginia Locations, University of Virginia
• Virginia Gazetteer, University of Virginia
• Online Statistical Atlas of Virginia, University of Virginia
• Washington Place Names Database, Tacoma Public Library

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Fauna and Flora

• Checklist of Online Vegetation Maps, Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn, Earth Sciences Map Library, University of California, Berkeley
• Atlas of Seed Plants of Cuc Phuong National Park, D.D. Soejarto, et al., Program for Collaborative Research (PCRPS), College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001
• Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants, University of South Florida
• Atlas of the Vascular Flora of Wyoming,
• Herp Atlas Project, New York State
• National Amphibian Atlas, USGS
• Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas, Middlebury
• Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding, volume 1: Doves, Cuckoos, and Hummingbirds through Passerines, 1921-1995, D. Brewer, Special Publication, Canadian Wildlife Service, 2000
• South Dakota Breeding Bird Atlas, USGS
• Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas, Wisconsin Society for Ornithology

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Historical

Collective Resources

• Atlas of World Culture, Washington State University
• Mapping History, University of Oregon
• Ryhiner Project, Municipal and University Library Berne
• The Earth and Heavens: The Art of the Mapmaker, British Library Exhibition
• Historical Maps, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnisota
• Rare Maps Digitisation Project: Map Images, National Library of Australia

Africa

• See also: Middle East and North Africa
• 16th- Early 20th Century Maps of Africa, Northwestern
• Historical Maps of Africa, University of Alabama

Americas

• Modern Language Association Language Map: A Map of Languages in the United States
• John Mitchell's Map: An Irony of Empire, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, 1997
• Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia
• Maps Collections: 1544-1996, Library of Congress
• National Atlases, American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
• Panoramic Maps, 1847-1925, Library of Congress, includes the US and Canada
• W.H. Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps, McGill
• Atlas of York County, New Brunswick, H. E. Halfpenny, 1878
• Atlas of Saint John City and County, New Brunswick, F. B. Roe and N. Geo. Colby, 1875
• US Territorial Maps, 1775-1920
• Lewis and Clark: Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814, 11 November 2002 - 5 May 2003, University of Virginia Library
• Historical Map and Chart Collection, Office of Coast Survey, NOAA
• The National atlas of the United States of America, USGS, Washington, 1970
• Statistical atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census ..., Washington, Govt. print. off., 1898
• Scribner's statistical atlas of the United States ..., New York, C. Scribner's sons [c1883]
• Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870 ..., [New York] J. Bien, lith., 1874
• Historic USGS Maps of New England, University of New Hampshire
• The Cartographic Collection of New England, an exhibition of early maps that chronicles the effects of European exploration and settlement in north-eastern North America in creating a spatial concept called "New England", University of Southern Maine, November 30th, 1996 to April 27th, 1997
• Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University
• New York State Historical Maps, SUNY Stony Brook
• Long Island Maps and Their Makers, David Yehling Allen, SUNY Stony Brook
• Historic Pittsburgh Map Collection, University of Pittsburgh
• Texas Historical Sites Atlas, Texas Historical Commission

Astronomical / Celestial

• See also: Space
• Google Sky
• The Earth and Heavens: The Art of the Mapmaker, British Library Exhibition
• Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas, An Exhibition of Rare Books from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library
• Celestial atlas, Franz Niklaus König, 1826, Municipal and University Library Berne
• Atlas coelestis, Dipartimento di Astronomia e Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna Biblioteca

Classical World

• Classical Atlas Project, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, University of North Carolina
• Index de l'Atlas historique de L'Antiquité tardive, Denis Bellemare
• Islamic Historical Maps, via the University of Pennsylvania
• Maps of the Roman Empire, the Dalton School
• LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World, Bill Thayer

Europe

• Paris Maps: Slide List, from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Barry Bergdoll, Art History, Columbia University
• Finland: 500 Years on the Map of Europe, Museum of Central Finland
• FEEFHS East European Map Room
• Russian Empire -- Europe, FEEFHS East European Map Room
• Russian Cartography of the Baltic Sea, Atlas of the Baltic Sea by Aleksei Nagaev, 1757
• Map Case, historical maps of Great Britain, Bodleian Library

Middle East and North Africa

• 16th- Early 20th Century Maps of Africa, Northwestern
• Historical Maps of Africa, University of Alabama
• Islamic Historical Maps, University of Pennsylvania
• Israel's Story in Maps, Government of Israel
• Jerusalem 3000: Three Millenia of History, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, 17 April to 5 October 1996
• Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views, Government of Israel
• Jerusalem Mosaic Maps Gate Index, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Maps and the Historical Topography of Beirut, Michael F. Davie, scanned from: Berytus, vol. 35, 1987, pp.141-164, by Elie Wardini

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Oceans, Lakes and Rivers

• Pacific Sea Floor Mapping Project, USGS
• Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
• The Great Lakes: an Environmental Atlas and Resource Book, 3rd edition, 1995, jointly produced by Government of Canada and United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Watershed Atlas, Fisheries Inventory, British Columbia Fisheries
• Seminole County Watershed Atlas, University of South Florida
• Hillsborough County Lake Atlas, Hillsborough County Public Works Department, the Southwest Florida Water Management District, and the University of South Florida
• Broad River Watershed Atlas, [Georgia], Broad River Watershed Association
• Neuse River Watershed Atlas, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
• Watershed Atlas of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, Allegheny Watershed Network
• Rhode Island Critical Resource Atlas, University of Rhode Island
• An Atlas of the Watersheds of King County, Washington, King County, Washington, Department of Natural Resources, 1995

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Projection

• Map Projection Home Page, Hunter College
• Map Projection Overview, Peter H. Dana, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, University of Colorado
• Map Projections: From Spherical Earth to Flat Map, National Atlas, US
• The Irish Grid A Description of the Co-ordinate Reference System, Ordnance Survey of Ireland and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland

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Space

• See also: Astronomical / Celestial: Historical
• See also: Space Studies
• Google Sky
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, USGS
• Indexes of Maps of the Planets and Satellites, 1992, by J.L. Inge and R.M. Batson, USGS
• NSSDC Photo Gallery, NASA
• Welcome to the Planets, NASA
• Planetary Data Systems Imaging Node from NASA
• Gateway for Astronaut Photography of the Earth, NASA

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Weather

• Weather Office, Environment Canada
• US National Weather Service, NOAA
• Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, ECMWF
• Danish Meteorological Institute, English site
• Met Office, UK
• Astronomy Weather Forecasts, Weather Consultancy Services, UK
• La Niña, NOAA
• El Niño: Research, Forecasts and Observations, NOAA
• Interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Images, GOES, NASA
• Lightning Imaging Sensor Data, NASA
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, NASA

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