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  • Map Guide

    General

    Kitten Grass

    20 Fascinating Ancient Maps

    Each tells a story - of wars and triumphs, biases and myths, and ultimately document modes of thought.

    Album Atlas

    Mapping the locations of album cover photos.

    Atlas of Canada

    Discover Canada through both maps and facts.

    Beauty of Maps

    BBC series on maps; show blog.

    Concharto

    A geographic Wiki.

    U.S. Counties

    Newberry Library now has an online reference for historical county boundaries (and how they have changed over time)

    Historical Atlas

    Atlas animation of 4000 years.

    Canada

    Canada at scale, from throughout history.

    City of Memory

    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.

    DigMap

    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.

    Experimental Geography

    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

    Flick’r now has a map service as well as everyone else.

    Google Earth

    Download, type in your address, then get lost in it. Here’s earth at night…be sure to check out dusk.

    Google Maps

    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 Other Worlds

    Google has released yet another map blog: of the moon, mars and the night sky.

    Gough Map

    The earliest, and surprisingly accurate map of Great Britian (1400’s) is the Gough, or Bodleian map.

    Hand Drawn Map

    Site is often interesting and perhaps even useful.

    Historic Cities

    Maps and documents of the past, present and future of historic cities.

    Holy Land Maps

    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.

    Imaginary

    Maps of the imaginary.

    London Tube

    The history of the London Tube, from Beck’s original 1933 map to today.

    London

    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).

    MapMSG

    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.

    MapMyRun

    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

    MapTech Topo Maps

    Online topo maps from USGS

    Maritime Maps

    National Maritime Museum

    Martian Maps (in pdf)

    Meteor Impacts

    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.

    Music Maps

    Gracenote has an interactive map where you can discover who is listening to what.

    Napoleon

    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 Visible Earth

    NASA satellite pictures of earth.

    National Geographic

    Map of the Day site with quiz.

    Nolli Map

    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.

    Oddens Bookmarks

    Probably the largest collection of maps online (over 22000)

    Periodical Atlas of Europe

    21 interactive periodical maps of Europe, from the first century to 2000.

    Perry-Castaneda Library

    PCL map collection from University of Texas; links to online map resources; historical maps.

    PolyhedralMaps

    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.

    Radical Cartography

    Some wonderful maps and visualizations (but long loading times).

    Remotest Place

    NewScientist reports on the remotest place on earth; Maps; the pick: Tibetan Plateau.

    Rome

    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.

    Imago Urbis

    Interactive Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome

    Ruminations

    Ruminations on the borderlands of cartography - New York Map Society.

    Rumsey

    David Rumsey historical map collection has over 17000 maps; visit in second life; 120 maps available with Google map overlay.

    Science

    Map of science;

    Skyline Globe

    Download software to let you fly around the globe

    Sound Index

    BBC’s massive database of what’s being talked about online at any given moment.

    Strange Maps

    Collection of strange maps found online, such as this one depicting US states renamed for countries with similar GDP.

    Stuckenberg

    John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg (1835-1903) map collection at Gettysburg College

    Subway Maps

    For America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia.

    Sunlight Map

    Satellite view of where sunlight is currently on view.

    Time Zones

    Watch color coded map of time zone changes in real time.

    TrailLink

    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.

    Trulia Hindsight

    Interactive maps of North American cities as they developed (real estate purchases).

    USGS Waterflow

    USGS waterflow maps of US rivers and streams.

    Vintage Maps

    Old, antique and vintage maps, such as this one of the names of the Mediterranian winds in 5 languages.

    Water

    Atlas of Hidden Water (pdf, 4 MB).

    Web Site Visitor Map

    Free html to show where your site’s visitors come from at ClustrMaps.

    World Map

    Free printable world and US map

    Historical

    Hipkiss

    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.

    Library of Congress Maps

    Historical maps from the Library of Congress collection.