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Color
Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/
Johns Hopkins University provides detailed topographical maps of
every state. |
Earth
and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview/
Images of the Earth showing the day and night regions at the moment,
the Earth from the Sun, the Moon from the Earth, and many other
views. |
EnviroMapper
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/index.html
EnviroMapper maps several types of environmental information, including
drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste, water discharge
permits, and Superfund sites. |
Historical
Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
Includes materials from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
The University of Texas at Austin. |
Library
of Congress Map Collection 1500-1999
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Map Collection is organized according to seven major categories—Cities
and Towns, Conservation and Exploration, Cultural Landscape, Military
Battles and Campaigns, Transportation and Communication, General
Maps. |
Map
Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
National Geographic provides a complete atlas with physical, political,
and historic maps, as well as flags and facts about countries. |
National
Atlas of the United States
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Illustrates complex relationships between environments, places,
and people. Multimedia maps show active volcanoes and more. |
Outline
Maps
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/
A selection of outline maps for use in the classroom or at home.
Feel free to print or download any of these maps for your personal
use in activities, reports, or stories. |
Panoramic
Maps: 1847-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/
The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict
U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. |
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin. Reviewed 17 Feb.
2002.
This site, produced by the University of Texas at Austin, includes
maps scanned from the Perry-Castañeda Library collection,
as well as links to other map sites on the web. The Library’s
digital collection contains more than 5,000 maps including population
density maps, reference maps, vegetation maps, and a variety of
others. The site provides information on how to effectively view
the maps, suggested shareware, and printing instructions. The site
is easily navigated, enabling patrons to determine easily what maps
have been digitized by the Library for a particular region.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002
Fourth Annual List
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
American Library Association |
TerraServer
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx
Microsoft Encarta has aerial photographs and topographic maps of
much of the United States. |
U.S.
Gazetteer
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
U.S. Census Bureau allows students to type in a city and state to
generate a map and then customize it by zooming in or out and adding
features such as cities, street names, and bodies of water. |
World
Fact Book
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Provides maps and information about every country in the world.
Students can learn about one country or choose a category such as
geography, government or economy and compare across countries. |
Xpeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
National Geographic and the Marco Polo Project provides an atlas
with hundreds of printable one-page maps. |
