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Digital Library - Online Maps - (dead link) Aboriginal Mapping Network - (dead link)
Focus is on British Columbia

Alabama Maps
"...is an ongoing project of the Cartographic Research Laboratory, which operates under the auspices of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama...The Historical Map Archive is a digitized collection of selected map holdings from the University of Alabama Map Library, the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the Rucker Agee Collection of the Birmingham Public Library, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History."

Alexandria Digital Library
Map and Imagery Laboratory
University of California at Santa Barbara

American Revolution and Its Era: - (dead link)
Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
"Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981. The bibliography contains approximately 2,000 maps and charts..."
- American Memory Project, Library of Congress

Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC)
"The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies."
- Davis Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Asia Maps
University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Map Collection

Atlas of Napoleonic Cartography in Italy
"This web atlas is a pilot project designed to show the number and variety of manuscript maps surviving from the Napoleonic War period and the value of internet technology for their analysis, dissemination, and use."
- Service Historique de l'ArmÈe de terre

Atlas of Global Inequality
"The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics...The Atlas explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California. We hope the information may also be of use for researchers and activists worldwide."
Sections include: Health ; Income Inequality ; Economic Globalization ; Inequality & Growth ; Teaching Activities.
- University of California, Santa Cruz.

Atlas Query:  Geographic Location and Time Zone Database

Centre for Topographic Information (Ottawa)
Canadian Topographic Maps
"Using information contained in the National Topographic Data Base, the Centre for Topographic Information produces digital and hardcopy topographic maps at scales of 1/50 000 and 1/250 000. In addition, the Centre is the custodian of the federal aerial photography archives."

Conservation and Environmental Maps
"The historic and more recent maps contained in this category show early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas of the United States. These maps show the changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife. Specific conservation projects such as the growth and development of U.S. National Parks are included in this category."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Crossroads of Empire : Early Printed Maps of Texas and the Southwest
Texas Humanities-Interactive Project

Cultural Landscapes
"Cultural Landscapes geography is documented in this category by large-scale maps such as individual land surveys, county land ownership maps and atlases, large-scale topographic maps, and thematic maps showing economic activity. These maps show the cultural modification of a physical landscape as settlers established their farmsteads and villages, constructed the connecting transportation systems, and named their surroundings. Some maps show areas occupied by Native Americans, especially after their resettlement by the United States government."
American Memory, Library of Congress

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
"...focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection."

Description of the Chicago District
By William C. Alden, 1902
"The 1902 Chicago Folio, containing economic, aereal and topographic maps."
being a part of
U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Atlas of the United States, Number 81.
"This publication is a long out-of-print folio volume about the size of a folded newspaper with the first color topographical maps of the Chicago area. These old maps show older forks of the Chicago River and man-made slips, the former lakeshore of Chicago before implementation of the Burnham Plan."
Transcribed by Ellin Beltz

Edwin C. Bolles Collection, 1765-1921
A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London
"The digital archive represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and resources on the history and topography of London. Texts, images, and maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. Together they form a body of material, heterogeneous in form, but homogeneous in theme, that transcends the limits of print publication and exploits the flexibility of the electronic medium. The digitized maps are linked to each other, to relevant source texts, and to illustrations of the locations as they appeared a the time or at present. Similarly, the texts are linked to the maps and the images, and so on."
- University Archives, Tufts Library, Tufts University

Environment Canada

  • Interactive Web Mapping
    "You must download the free Autodesk Mapguide Viewer - (dead link) before attempting to use the On-Line Mapping component."
  • Ontario Region
    • Great Lakes Atlas
      The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
      "The maps and photographs used in this on-line version of The Great Lakes Atlas are, due to file size limits, of lower quality than the original images. Should you desire better quality images, you may obtain a printed copy of the Atlas. The Atlas is distributed in both Canada and the United States."

Environmental Systems Research Institute GIS & Mapping Software

University of Georgia Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
"...maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century."
Site contents include: New World ; Colonial America ; Revolutionary America ; Revolutionary Georgia ; Union & Expansion ; American Civil War ; Frontier to New South ; Savannah & the Coast ; Transportation.

Global Forest Watch
 "...an international data and mapping network that combines on-the-ground knowledge with digital technology to provide accurate information about the world's forests."

Hellenic National Centre for Maps & Cartographic Heritage - Map Library - (dead link) In Greek or English

Historic Cities: Maps & Documents
"This site is a joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library. It already contains many very high resolution maps, and will contain literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and to facilitate the location of similar content on the web."

Historic Topographic Maps of California
"This is a project to provide Web access to the historic topographic quadrangles produced by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1895 to the present."

Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California, Berkeley

Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
By Matthew White

Historical Maps of Canada
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
U.S. Congressional Documents - United States Serial Set, Number 4015
"...contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897. (Part one is printed in United States Serial Set Number 4014.) Part two, which was also printed as House Document No. 736 of the U.S. Serial Set, 56th Congress, 1st Session, features sixty-seven maps and two tables compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an introductory essay by Cyrus Thomas."
From A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation, Library of Congress

Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) - Mainz

  • IEG-MAPS
    "Server for digital historical maps at the Institute of European History - Mainz...We offer - free of charge - high quality digital maps at your fingertips."

Iraq Maps
Includes: Country Maps ; City Maps ; Detailed Maps ; Thematic Maps ; Historical Maps ; Other Web Sites.
- University of Texas - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection

[Kentucky] Kentuckiana Digital Library
"The Kentuckiana Digital Library is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning."
Sections include: Maps ; KY Bibliography ; E-Texts ; Images ; Newspapers ; Oral Histories.

"Korea through Western Cartographic Eyes"
By Henny Savenije
Originally published in Korean Culture, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 4-19.

Lewis & Clark - Mapping the West
"This site sets the historical stage, features online access to Lewis and Clark maps and other primary resources, and provides related activities and lesson plans."
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian

Library of Congress - American Memory

  • The Rochambeau Map Collection
    "...contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. The maps were from Rochambeau's personal collection, cover much of eastern North America, and date from 1717 to 1795. The maps show Revolutionary-era military actions, some of which were published in England and France, and early state maps from the 1790s."

Library of Congress - Map Collections
"The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection."
Major categories are: Cities and Towns ; Cultural Landscapes ; Conservation and Environment ; Military Battles and Campaigns ; Discovery and Exploration ; Transportation and Communication ; General Maps.
- American Memory, Library of Congress

  • Zoom Into Maps (K12)
    "This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking, and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided."
    Sections include: Hometown, USA: Local Geography ; Exploration and Discovery ; Migration and Settlement ; Travel and Transportation ; Environmental History ; Military Maps ; Pictorial Maps ; Unusual Maps.

Louisiana State Museum

  • Map Database
    "The museumís collection contains maps related to the exploration and settlement of Louisiana during the colonial period as well as maps delineating Louisiana and her cities after the Louisiana Purchase, from 1803 to the present time."

Map History / History of Cartography
"Early maps, and the resources and activities associated with them, form the subject of over 100 'pages' on this site. All the worthwhile information about old maps can be found here, directly or indirectly. You will find comment and guidance, and links to hundreds of other sites - selected for relevance and quality."
Edited by Tony Campbell, Map Librarian, British Library

Mapas de Venezuela
From the portal a-venezuela.com

Mapping Canada
"WANDER THROUGH THE HISTORY of Canada and watch the map of the country transform. Click on the time line or on highlighted text to switch maps. And select highlighted text to learn more."
From Canadian Geographic

Maps - All The Worlds Maps
"A Compilation of Each Nation's Maps - Including Cities"

Maps and Countries of the Muslim World
From Prof. Alan Godlas' Islamic Studies website.

Maps of the French and Indian War
From the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Sections include: About the War ; About Maps ; Online Atlas ; View Maps.

National Archives of Canada

  • Canada at Scale
    "The maps in this exhibition reflect the evolution of cartography in our country: Aboriginal peoples, European colonial powers, Canadians, governments, private industry and academics all produced precious maps... From the astrolabe to computers, the history of our country and evolution in technology are laid out before us. They are on the scale of human will and dreams.

National Atlas of Canada Online
"...is responsible for the development and maintenance of an authoritative synthesis of information on the geography of Canada."

National Atlas of the United States of America
Products & Services: Online Interactive Maps ; Multimedia Maps ; Printed Maps ; Spatial Data Bases ; Metadata.

National Geographic

Natural Resources Canada

  • Geological Survey of Canada - (dead link)
    • Geophysical Atlas
      "...is a series of maps that provide a unique insight into the make-up of the Canadian landmass and its immediate offshore regions."

National Atlas of the United States Map Layers Warehouse

New York Public Library

  • American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
    "The Mid-Atlantic region of North America ñ stretching from New York south to Virginia ñ was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States. This website looks at this region and its history through maps created up to 1850...The digitized maps and atlases included in American Shores are drawn from the extensive holdings of the Map Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library."

New York Public Library West Website

  • Heading West: Mapping the Territory
    "According to an old adage, a place is not discovered until it is mapped. Through impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900, this online exhibition presents an overview of the process, which continues today...reveals the evolution on paper from an imagined West to a mapped West, seemingly defined yet still a fiction of sorts."

One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
"...Through a combination of ground photographs, current and Historical satellite images, and narrative based on extensive scientific evidence, this publication illustrates how humans have altered their surroundings and continue to make observable and measurable changes to the global environment."
- United Nations Environmental Programme, 2005.

Online Map Creation
"You may create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map will be returned to your browser. The maps are actually created by the "Generic Mapping Tools" (GMT). This means a PostScript* version is drawn first which you can download onto your harddisk after completion. The GIF*-version (the one you get to see in your browser window) may be saved by terms of your browser."

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
"Depicting with accuracy the states of this content every first day of each centennial year from AD 1 to AD 2000."
Designed and drawn by Christos N¸ssli.

Perry-CastaÒeda Library Map Collection
University of Texas

Texas State Library Map [Collection] Search
"...contains original, photoreproduced, and compiled maps covering the period from the early seventeenth through the late twentieth centuries."

Tribal Maps
EPA Region 9 [Southwest]

UC Atlas of Global Inequality
"The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics...The Atlas explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California. We hope the information may also be of use for researchers and activists worldwide."
Sections include: Health ; Income Inequality ; Economic Globalization ; Inequality & Growth ; Teaching Activities.
- University of California, Santa Cruz.

UN Atlas of the Oceans
"The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability

UN Cartographic Section - (dead link)
Maps and Geographic Information Resources

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

  • ReliefWeb
    "Serving the Information Needs of the Humanitarian Relief Community"
    Sections include: Latest Updates ; Complex Emergencies ; Natural Disasters ; By Country ; Background ; Financial Tracking ; UN Appeals ; Map Centre ; Library.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

  • Ground Water Atlas of the United States
  • National Atlas of the United States of America
    Products & Services: Online Interactive Maps ; Multimedia Maps ; Printed Maps ; Spatial Data Bases ; Metadata.
    • A Tapestry of Time and Terrain
      "Through computer processing and enhancement, we have brought together two existing images of the lower 48 states of the United States (U.S.) into a single digital tapestry. Woven into the fabric of this new map are data from previous U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps that depict the topography and geology of the United States in separate formats. The resulting composite is the most detailed and accurate portrait of the U.S. land surface and the ages of its underlying rock formations yet displayed in the same image."
      By Jose F. Vigil, Richard J. Pike, and David G. Howell
  • National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
    • National Geologic Map Database
      "We can help you find information about maps and related data for: geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology."

United States Military Academy (West Point) - Dept. of History Map Library - (dead link)

  • Atlas Index - (dead link)
    Sections include: Ancient Warfare ; Dawn of Modern Warfare ; Colonial Wars ; American Revolution ; Napoleonic Wars ; War of 1812 ; Mexican War ; American Civil War ; Spanish-American War ; Chinese Civil War ; World War One ; World War Two-Europe Theater ; World War Two-Asia Theater ; Korean War ; Arab-Israeli Wars ; Vietnam War ; Wars & Conflicts Since 1958.

University of California, Berkeley - East Asian Library

  • Japanese Historical Maps from the Mitsui Collection
    "The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are about 100 maps and books from this Collection."

University of Kentucky - Appalachian Center
 

University of Texas Libraries - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection

University of Texas at Dallas - Bruton Center

  • Windows on Urban Poverty:
    Describing and Mapping Concentrated Poverty in the 2000 Census
    "The web site allows you to create, print, and copy neighborhood level maps of any neighborhood in the United States on several demographic and economic variables."

Afghanistan
Afghanistan Maps
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection - University of Texas Map Collection

National Geographic Online

ReliefWeb Map Centre - Afghanistan

Soil Regions of Afghanistan
Soil map and soil climate map, USDA-NRCS, Soil Survey Division, World Soil Resources, Washington D.C.









 




 


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