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Map Collections : 1500-2003

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html A comprehensive collection of maps from the Library of Congress.

National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps A plethora of maps, including atlas, street-level, trail, and interactive topographic maps; star charts, the MapMachine and more.

Clocks and Times
horology site covering numerous timekeeping related materials found online
Directorate of Time
the official time from united states naval observatory's master clock
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
time and timekeeping information on the u.k. and the world's de facto standard time
Local Times Around the World
pointer to local times around the world organized by region and city
Sunrise and Sunset Calculator
sunrise and sunset times provided for cities and towns throughout the u.s.
TimeAndDate.com
information service offering timetables and time-related materials
Time Service Department
u.s. official timekeeper, with a master clock at the washington naval observatory
Time Zone Page
the global metric time service offers local times for major cities around the world
What Time Is It In Indiana?
learn about the three different time arrangements in the hoosier state
The World Clock
local times for cities and regions spanning the globe
World Time Zones
fast reference to time zones around the world

A Base for Calendar Exploration thru Time
an informative and well-documented historical guide to ancient calendars of the past
Abib Calendar
the original hebrew calendar believed to have been handed to moses by god himself
Aztec Calendar — The Pointer
illustrated explanation of the pointer of the aztec calendar
Earth Calendar
marks holidays, celebrations, and observances from around the world
Today's Calendar and Clock Page
an online reference desk for calendars, dates, and time measurement

United States Geological Survey Resources
Map History
Oddens's Bookmarks on Maps and Mapping

Raven Maps and Images

DeLorme

Last Frontier--Interactive Forest Maps

TerraServer

The Geosphere Project

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African Maps

Perry-Castañeda Library Maps: Africa
ReliefWeb: Africa Maps

Polar Maps

Perry-Castañeda Library Maps: Antarctica
World School--Maps of Antarctica

Asian Maps

Perry-Castañeda Library Maps: Asia
Japan Maps

Down Under and Pacific

Perry-Castañeda Maps: Australia and the Pacific
WorldAtlas.Com: Australia/Oceania
Maps and Images of Australia

Euro Maps

Perry-Castañeda Maps: Europe
Countries of the Former Soviet Union
Great Britain Street Maps
Central and Eastern Europe
The REC Region: Central and Eastern Europe

Americana Map Collections
a collection of historical cartographic treasures from the library of congress
Atlapedia
features physical and political maps, plus facts/statistics for countries world-wide
Atlas of the World
the u.s. navy offers an index of political maps of countries around the globe
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
collection of various color-coded topographic maps organized by state
Earth and Moon Viewer
offers topographical relief maps of lunar and earth surfaces
EtakGuide
interactive map to find a location or landmark anywhere in the united states
Geographic Names Information System
official repository of domestic geographic names information and maps
Geological Maps on the Web
online project facilitating the publication of new digital geological maps
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
an atlas illustrating historical events and political turmoil of the 20th century
MapBlast!
browse the online atlas or e-mail a map to a friend
The Map Guide
an index of geographical, online atlases, and map-related sites around the web
Map Machine
national geographic offers maps, flags, facts, and profiles for countries world-wide
MapQuest!
an interactive atlas useful in trip planning or pin-pointing any u.s. location
MapsOnUs
a map, route, and yellow pages service wrapped up in one convenient package
Mercator's World
the magazine of maps, exploration, and discovery with topics on cartography
Microsoft ExpediaMaps
find addresses, businesses, and places, and get driving directions from microsoft
National Atlas Information Service
canada's chief cartographer features thematic and geographical maps of all sorts
National Atlas of Canada
maintains an authoritative atlas detailing the geography of canada
Oxford's Bodleian Library Map Room
oxford university's maproom features geography sources and maps on the web
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
ut-austin offers online access to a variety of maps covering every area of the world
Quick Maps of the World
offers small and thumb-nail maps of countries around the world
TIGER Mapping Service
the census bureau offers high-quality, detailed coast-to-coast maps of the u.s.
Vinicity MapBlast!
vinicity's mapblast serves up detailed, interactive maps of residences & businesses
Xerox PARC MapViewer
interactive map of the world from xerox's palo alto research labs

· Alexandria Digital Library Project - "Digital library for geographically-referenced information." (University of California, Santa Barbara.)

· Amazon.com - Recommended title: 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 (in RealAudio) 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

· 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

· Association of American Geographers

· Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)

· Atlantic Neptune Online - "Guide to the historical details of J.F.W. DesBarres and his atlas of 18th Century nautical charts." (Nova Scotia Community College, Halifax)

· 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.

· 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.

· 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.

· 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.

· Dudley Knox Library Map Collection

· 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

· 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.)

· History of Cartography Project - Multi-volume series edited by David Woodward and published by the University of Chicago Press.

· Institut Géographique National Cartothèque - French map site allows you to search for Photographies Aériennes of specific locations.

· 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.

· 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 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 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.

· 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 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.

· 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)

· New York Map Portfolio - Maps prior to 1830; SUNY Stony Brook

· New York Public Library Map Division - With online exhibition In thy map securely saile: Maps, Atlases, Charts, and Globes from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.

· New York State Museum Bulletins Project - Columbia University project digitalizing oversized geological maps.

· 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.

· Office of Coast Survey - NOAA

· 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.

· 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.

· 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.

· 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.

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