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The following sites provide useful information on cartography, geographic names databases, government agencies, and map libraries. We have also compiled a roster of   “link lists”—gateways to other engaging sites.
 


Cartographic Images
www.iag.net/~jsiebold/carto.html
Collection of digitized antique maps.

Cartography Resources: Commercial Mapping
geog.gmu.edu/gess/jwc/cartogrefs.html
Listing of commercial map services from the Virtual Library.

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Site containing digital terrain model and links for each U.S. state.

Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in GIS, Cartography, and Remote Systems
www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html
Compiled by Philip Hoehn and Mary Larsgaard. June 1996, Version 2.0.

International Map Trade Association
www.maptrade.org/
Directory of map traders worldwide, with links to traders on the Internet.

Map Projection Home Page
everest.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/index.html
Department of Geography, Hunter College of the City University of New York.

MapQuest!
www.mapquest.com/
Electronic mapping engine by GeoSystems, Inc.

Maps and Cartography
www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/index.html
Earth Sciences and Map Library, University of California at Berkeley.

Mercator’s World
www.mercatormag.com/hihome.htm
Electronic version of the magazine dealing with the history of maps.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Large collection of electronic maps.

Society of Cartographers
www.shef.ac.uk/~sc/
Links to news groups, mailing lists, Web sites, and other resources.

Virtual Tourist World Map
www.vtourist.com/webmap/
A geographic directory to Web servers around the world.

Xerox Map Viewer
pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map/
Database for creating electronic maps.

 


GEOnet (database of foreign place-names)
164.214.2.53/gns/html/index.html
Provided by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

GNIS (database of domestic place-names)
www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/
Provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. Names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Canadian Geographical Names
ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/cgndb/english/cgndb_current.html
Provided by Natural Resources Canada. Links to databases featuring current, historical, and undersea place-names in Canada.

 


UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

1995 CIA World Factbook
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm
General and statistical information on the countries of the world. Includes digitized base map for each country.

Library of Congress Indexes to the Federal Government
lcweb.loc.gov/global/globalhp.html

Library of Congress Index to State and Local Governments
lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html

EROS Data Center
edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html
Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center. Distributor of data from Landsat.

NASA JSC Digital Image Collection
images.jsc.nasa.gov
Searchable collection of downloadable images.

National Earthquake Information Center
wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/
Information from the U.S. Geological Survey.

National Imagery and Mapping Agency
164.214.2.59/index.html
Geospatial and imagery information for the U.S. Defense and Intelligence communities.

National Weather Service
www.noaa.gov/nws/nws_intro.html

U.S. Geological Survey
www.usgs.gov/

Government Printing Office: Maps and Atlases
www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/sale/sb-102.html


INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Electronic Embassy
www.embassy.org/
List of embassies in Washington, D.C., and links to their Web sites.

Canadian Government
canada.gc.ca/

United Nations
www.unsystem.org/

World Bank
www.worldbank.org/html/

 


Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/online.html#locis
Telnet access to Library of Congress catalog, including the map collection.

New York Public Library Map Division
www.nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
Telnet access to NYPL catalog.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
University of Texas, Austin.

 


Resources for Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing
www.uwsp.edu/acaddept/geog/cart.htm
Links compiled by the Department of Geography/Geology at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.

GIS WWW Resource List
www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
List maintained by the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

Geography-Related Servers
www.ssc.msu.edu/~geo/geoglinks.html
Compiled by Department of Geography, Michigan State University.

Internet Resources for Geographers
www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/resources/contents.html
Compiled by the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography.

Map-Related Web Sites
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/map_sites/map_sites.html
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Features digitized CIA maps.

Bodleian Library Map Room
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/nnj/maplinks.htm
Useful sites compiled by Oxford University

Mercator’s World CyberSites
www.mercatormag.com/sites.htm