Maps

Aerial Photography

• Microsoft TerraServer

Atlases on the Web

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States



• Environmental Atlas of the United States



• National Atlas of the United States

Create Custom Maps

• American Factfinder
  when you 'Get Detailed Data' there is an option for creating a map out of this data, from the 1990 and 2000 Census.



• Batch Geocode
  generates x/y coordinate data for anywhere in the world from spreadsheet location data (i.e. street addresses)--these points will then be put on a map for you to link to or the program will create a KML file for use in Google Earth.



• National Geographic Xpeditions
  provides a way for you to print and customize maps of anything in the world at a variety of different scales.



• UVA Historical Census Browser
  for the 1990 Census.

Distance

• Bali Online

Federal Map Resources

• Bureau of Land Management



• Library of Congress, American Memory Project
  Map Collections: 1544-1999



• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)



• National Park Service



• National Wetlands Inventory



• U.S. Forest Service



• U.S. Geological Survey Homepage

Geographic Name

• Geographic Names Information Systems (GNIS) (for the U.S.)



• GEOnet Names Server (for foreign countries) from NIMA

Map Libraries on the Web

• Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress

Online Maps

• Blank and Outline Maps



• CIA
  political maps of the world.



• David Rumsey's
  an excellent source for 18th and 19th century maps from all over the world, particularly in the Americas.



• Gapminder
  allows you to visualize changes in a number of variables over time for world countries either on a graph or on a map.



• Geography Network



• Google Maps



• Harvard Library's Cartography and GIS Links



• Historical Maps
  allows you to retrieve and map data from as far back as 1790.



• MapQuest



• Microsoft Expedia Maps



• MSN maps/Directions



• Oddens' Bookmarks--Maps and Atlases



• Online Maps from UT Austin



• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
  from the University of Texas is an excellent site for a wide variety of thematic maps spanning the entire globe.



• TerraServer
  database of aerial photos and satellite images from Microsoft



• The UC Atlas of Global Inequality



• University of Alabama's online map library



• U.S. Gazetteer
  
  
• USGS Global Visualization Viewer
  for satellite images from all over the world.

Virtual Globe Applications

• ArcGIS Online
  ESRI's answer to Google Earth and NASA World Wind.



• Google Earth
  Google Earth allows you to look at many layers of excellent satellite and aerial photography as well as view and build KML files.



• Google Earth Community



• Google Earth Hacks



• NASA World Wind

Weather

• U.S. National Weather Service



• The Weather Channel

Last Update: April 15, 2008