Maps

Subscription Sources   |  Internet Sites

 

Subscription Sources

A-Z Maps Online is the worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.

Britannica Online The online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica provides more than 72,000 articles, accompanied by more than 12,000 photos, drawings, maps, and flags, and more than 15,000 geographical articles.

CountryWatch.com Provides access to a substantial set of geopolitical and business background information and data on individual countries, including maps.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities. One can see everything from building outline, size and shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers, and more. Symbols for stables, garages, warehouses, and other commercial sites are also included. Factories are often labeled with the owner's name, as well as the products manufactured there. Also depicted are pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, and dumps. Search for the maps by typing in the state or community. Once a map is obtained, they pinpoint the streets, landmarks, and other places noted in the map's index. Once displayed, the maps can be manipulated, expanded, printed, and downloaded.

Internet Sites

• The National Atlas of the United States of America will include:
   
  • High-quality, small-scale maps
  • Authoritative digital national geospatial data sets, examples of geospatial data include soils, boundaries, volcanoes, and principal aquifers.
  • Authoritative digital national geostatistical data sets, examples of geostatistical data include crime patterns, population distribution, and incidence of disease are examples of geostatistical data.

• This information is tied to specific geographic areas and is categorized and indexed using different methods, such as county, State, and zip code boundaries or geographic coordinates like latitude and longitude. These data will be collected and integrated to a consistent set of standards to support

• U.S. Census Bureau Maps and Cartographic Resources This department of the U.S. Bureau of the Census provides links to maps in pdf format (need Adobe Acrobat Viewer) and the TIGER Mapping Service an on-line mapping service that generates high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data.

• USGS Topographic Maps provides information on topographic maps with a few examples.

• Oddens's Bookmarks or, The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping

• Geography site About.com provides annotated links to maps and geographical information about every country and continent.

• American Memory Map Collections The Library of Congress's Geography and Map Division provides access to historical maps from around the world. Several search options are available to search in a variety of categories.

• The Atlas of Canada provides digital maps and explanatory text including sections on environment, people and society, economy, history and climate change. Site visitors can manipulate interactive maps by zooming, changing display size, and by accessing attribute information on specific features. Maps include bibliographic references and related web links.

• Google Earth is an impressive geographic database with highly functional software that provides the ability to navigate the globe, flying from one part of the globe to another in seconds. A variety of functions are provided, such as Find Businesses. Other extras include an extensive astronomical chart with images, rendering a virtual planetarium.
• David Rumsey Map Collection is a digitized gallery of maps, globes, atlases, charts, school geographies, and items in other cartographic formats. The focus is on American cartography of the 18th and 19th centuries.