Map Guide
General
Each tells a story - of wars and triumphs, biases and myths, and ultimately document modes of thought.
Mapping the locations of album cover photos.
Discover Canada through both maps and facts.
BBC series on maps; show blog.
A geographic Wiki.
Newberry Library now has an online reference for historical county boundaries (and how they have changed over time)
Atlas animation of 4000 years.
Canada at scale, from throughout history.
Map guide of New York City is a growing compendium of stories about the wonderful streets of that city; Brooklyn Elite Checkers Club or Under the Roller Coaster as examples.
Metadata from European national libraries, to provide discovery and access to contents provided by those libraries.” The site is searchable, and browsable by date, place, and individual collection.
Book review: “A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.”
Flick’r now has a map service as well as everyone else.
Download, type in your address, then get lost in it. Here’s earth at night…be sure to check out dusk.
Find addresses. Get directions. View by satellite. Even check traffic conditions. Here are some cool google maps, including maps of midpoints, gyms and even a garage sale map.
Google has released yet another map blog: of the moon, mars and the night sky.
The earliest, and surprisingly accurate map of Great Britian (1400’s) is the Gough, or Bodleian map.
Site is often interesting and perhaps even useful.
Maps and documents of the past, present and future of historic cities.
Holy land maps and ancient maps of Jerusalem; 1492 Perspective of Jerusalem, 1482 Ptomely of the Middle East, 1751 Map of Egypt, Arabia & Middle East.
Maps of the imaginary.
The history of the London Tube, from Beck’s original 1933 map to today.
A life in maps: view London throughout time through the British Library’s collections.
Map History/History of Cartography
Spread out over 100 pages, Map History delves into the history of cartography and contains over 1500 links (University of London).
Game mixing aspects of the popular game ‘Tetris’ and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location.
Feature rich site helps you plot your next run. Of course, if bike riding is your thing, there’s a companion site called MapMyRide. Or, MapMyWalk, MapMyHike, MapMyTri…
Online topo maps from USGS
National Maritime Museum
Martian Maps (in pdf)
Interactive map of the 174 major earth impacts; here’s an interactive animation of the innermost asteroids; and here’s a listing of nearby asteroids which could potentially impact within the next hundred years.
Gracenote has an interactive map where you can discover who is listening to what.
Yes, that Napoleon’s military maps; the maps are on a scale of 1:50,000 or better and provide details of terrain and unit deployments.
NASA satellite pictures of earth.
Map of the Day site with quiz.
University of Oregon interactive Nolli Map: The 1748 Map of Rome, by Giambattista Nolli is widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important historical documents of the city ever created. This project is a collaborative exploration of the exquisite Nolli engraving, through its historic significance and contemporary application.
Probably the largest collection of maps online (over 22000)
21 interactive periodical maps of Europe, from the first century to 2000.
PCL map collection from University of Texas; links to online map resources; historical maps.
Explores unconventional methods of mapping the surface of the earth, such as a dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller or the oxtant by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Some wonderful maps and visualizations (but long loading times).
NewScientist reports on the remotest place on earth; Maps; the pick: Tibetan Plateau.
Nolli, Giambattista’s incredibly detailed maps of Rome - and here’s an interactive map where you can overlay Nolli’s map with the current city.
Interactive Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome
Ruminations on the borderlands of cartography - New York Map Society.
David Rumsey historical map collection has over 17000 maps; visit in second life; 120 maps available with Google map overlay.
Map of science;
Download software to let you fly around the globe
BBC’s massive database of what’s being talked about online at any given moment.
Collection of strange maps found online, such as this one depicting US states renamed for countries with similar GDP.
John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg (1835-1903) map collection at Gettysburg College
For America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia.
Satellite view of where sunlight is currently on view.
Watch color coded map of time zone changes in real time.
Find nearby trails for biking, walking, or running, along with detailed descriptions, interactive trail maps, geocoded photos, and more.Travel Maps
Interactive travel maps; pick a country, then a region or state.
Interactive maps of North American cities as they developed (real estate purchases).
USGS waterflow maps of US rivers and streams.
Old, antique and vintage maps, such as this one of the names of the Mediterranian winds in 5 languages.
Atlas of Hidden Water (pdf, 4 MB).
Free html to show where your site’s visitors come from at ClustrMaps.
Free printable world and US map
Historical
Scans of old maps, many, many old maps, where you may indeed find yourself getting lost.
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
Topics include living conditions, government, war and religion; some interactive maps and essays.
Historical maps from the Library of Congress collection.