Internet Map Sources
The Web is a wonderful source for maps--one reason why we didn't include many in Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. The sites listed below contain all kinds of maps and projections. If you want to know even more about maps and cartography in general, National Geographic has a good list of sources.
Contemporary Atlases
Aerial Photographs and Atlases: Microsoft Terraserver [frames] http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/
The ultimate voyeuristic experience. Pick any spot in the world, and zoom in until you're almost on top of it. But also a good source for learning about geography.
Electronic Map Library
http://130.166.124.2/library.html
Created by the Department of Geography at the University of California, Northridge, the site contains detailed maps of the United States.
Houghton Mifflin Social Science
Maps
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/ss/ssmaps
Good source for basic outline maps for class use or to include in essays.
Landform Atlas of the United
States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Excellent maps of the U.S. along with a good set of external links.
National Atlas of the United States [frames,
Shockwave, .tar.gz]
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/
Text Only
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/indext.html
National
Geographic Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html
Excellent source for basic world maps, political maps, and physical maps.
Oddens Bookmarks
http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/staff/oddens/maps_atl.htm
Great source for contemporary and historical maps.
Oriental Institute Map
Series
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/INFO/MAP/ANE_Maps.html
"The first installment of the Map Series presents seven Site Maps covering the ancient Near East (Egypt, Sudan, The Levant, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran), locating primary archaeological sites, modern cities, and river courses set against a plain background. All Site Maps are Simple Conic projections at the same scale and orientation."
Relief Web
www.reliefweb.int/mapc/
Superb site with physical and political maps, along with maps regarding issues such as refugees. Check, for example, the number of refugees in central Africa.
World Fact Book:
Reference Maps
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ref-frame.html
Excellent map collection maintained by the CIA.
Historical Atlases
Cartographic Images
www.iag.net/~jsiebold/carto.html
Collection of digitized antique maps. You can find maps from 6000 BC to 1500. And there is an excellent list of other maps sites on the Web.
Color Landform Atlas of the United
States--Relaunch
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Historical Map
Collection -- UGeorgia
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
James Ford Bell Library's Historical Map
Collection(University of Minnesota)
http://www.bell.lib.umn.edu
Map History/History of Cartography
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/
Index of
Cartographic Images Illustrating Maps of the Late Medieval Period 1300 - 1500 A.D.
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/LMwebpages/LML.html
Do you want to see what people of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth century thought the world looked like. This is the way it was at the beginning of the economic expansion of Europe.
Odden Bookmarks
http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/staff/oddens/maps_atl.htm
Oregon State System of Higher Education
Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource [Shockwave]
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/
Oxford University, Bodleian Library -
Historic Maps
http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/nnj/mapcase.htm
Panoramic Maps
1847-1909--Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html
The
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
The Xerox PARC Map Viewer
http://mapweb.parc.xerox.com
Look at the world and then zoom to any portion that you want to see in more detail. Excellent place to download some basic line maps.
Other Map Sites
http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/history_of_cartography.html
