Map Links

These links have been categorised. Where sites fall into more than one category, an entry exists under each relevant heading.

This list of sites is updated on a fairly regular basis, but if you find sites have moved or no longer exist, or you have come across new sites which should be listed here, then please let us know.

Online maps | GIS | Remote sensing | Gazetteers | Weather | Map libraries & museums | Online journals
Mapping organisations | Resources & societies etc.GPS

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Online Maps
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Route planning in Great Britain, Ireland and continental Europe.
The geography pages of About.com have a wealth of useful information, including outline maps, data, images and lots more.
A rich source of links to online maps including collections of antquarian material.
Links to online maps of just about every country in the World - an excellent place to start looking for maps, but beware of broken links!

Antarctic Digital Database

The full coverage is available for download in ARC/INFO format. Registration is required but is free to academic and non-profit organisations.

Atlapedia

Country information and watermarked maps.

   
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Balkans 1829

A digitised 1829 military map of Balkans, which can be zoomed to a high level of detail.

Here you can find indexes to their map coverage and an electronic Census Atlas of Niagara
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The maps in this exhibition reflect the evolution of cartography in Canada.
A large online collection of maps of North America, Canada and Quebec

 The Catalan Atlas

Images from the 14th Century Catalan Atlas in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

This image collection at the University of Edinburgh includes a wide variety of single maps and maps in atlases and other bound books, together with important manuscript and printed texts relating to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740 and beyond (including around 65 Bodleian images).
William Henry Toms' Chorographia Britanniæ is an atlas of the counties of England and Wales, first published in 1742. View the entire contents of this atlas.

CIA World Factbook

Colour world and regional maps which can be downloaded in TIFF (or PDF if you have a fast link!) formats.

Maps of the battle sites with details and timelines
Maps, prints and drawings, photographs and documents from the British Library's collections
Historical period maps and information

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

This includes landforms, state maps from 1895, satellite images and more.

   
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A large online collection of 18th and 19th century maps of the Americas.
An excellent site, with demos and technical info. Their regularly updated maps of areas in the news are worth a look.
Information, catalogues and old maps of Devon.
Maps from the Inperial Gazetteer of India, published in 1909. The site also includes images and reference material.
Free outline maps of US states in editable PDF format. Other maps are available to purchase. All are royalty-free.
   
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A real-time world map showing daylight and darkness.
Free outline maps of the World, Europe, US etc to download and print for personal and classroom use.
Download GIS digital boundary datasets of designated sites, ancient woodlands and natural areas
Flood maps of the UK
 
   
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An excellent collection of links to maps of Great Britain, most towns and counties, from the 16th century to the 20th.
Free maps and data from National Geographic, ESRI etc.
A Google Maps based site with gps coordinates for places of interest etc.

Green Maps

Green Maps chart the sites of environmental significance in urban places everywhere.

The 1827 map of London by Greenwood is at ascale of 8 inches to one mile and available online from Bath Spa University.

Guildhall Library, London

This huge image database includes a good selection of London maps.

   
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Historical Atlas of the 20th Century

World history in maps, with links to other sources.

Zoomable vector street mapping of cities worldwide

Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean

Maps and data of the Southern Ocean.

Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection

Images from the collection at the Univ. of Georgia.

Harvard Map Collection

Another map library now on-line.

Heritage Map Museum

In the Amish community of Lititz, Pennsylvania USA, an interesting web site which has images of 15th to 19th century maps.

Historic Maps of Dutch Cartographers

A selection of maps by Blaeu, Jansson, Colom et. al.

A large selection of scanned maps from various sources

History of Cartography Project

Information, graphics and digital maps.

   
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Plenty of links to images of early maps.
A huge collection of links to maps and related sites. Grouped by country and subject, it is an ideal starting point when looking for maps and information.
   
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James Ford Bell Library's Historical Map Collection

Monochrome images of early maps and charts.

   
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19th century Ordnance Survey 6" to 1 mile maps of Great Britain to view and print.

Library of Congress Railroad Maps

A selection for rail buffs from the LC's extensive collections.

Live Local has street level mapping and air photography for much of the world, with good coverage of the UK. Air photography can be overlaid with roads, names etc.
   
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Good quality watermarked GIF maps at world, country, region and city levels.

Map of London

Zoomable maps of Central London and other resources.

Locate places down to street level in the UK and western Europe
Street level mapping Worldwide.
Web articles and commentaries on specific topics in the history of cartography (including links to sites with images of early maps)
Mapstor has over 20 000 ex-soviet topographic maps available for download in high-res GIF format, at scales ranging from 1:50 000 to 1:1M.

MapQuest

An online mapping site which creates personalised maps (by address in London and the US).

Street-level mapping of the US
   
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A range of maps from the collections are online, from 1560 to 1895, including 18th century military maps and 19th century Ordnance Survey town plans.
Online collection of maps of Iceland

National Atlas of Canada

6th Edition of the National Atlas of Canada is online here.

National Geographic Society

Maps, articles and plenty of nice graphics.

Search for NUTS and Statistical Regions. You can search by code or name. The results are shown on interactive maps. Overview maps of the NUTS and Statistical Regions. Display the hierachical list of codes and labels for the NUTS and Statistical Regions of Europe.
   
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Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

Providing access to Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or check out what your neighbourhood looked like over a hundred years ago.

Ordnance Survey

The national mapping organisation for Great Britain, The OS website now has downloadable mapping for the whole UK. Maps can also be used on web pages.

The original large-scale drawings made for the famous one-inch-to-the-mile maps.
The entire 1570 edition of the Theatre of the World is online at the Library of Congress.

OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource

Interactive historical data for N. America, Europe and N. Africa.

Out of This World

An exhibition of rare books from the collection of the Linda Hall Library, featuring celestial atlases.

Oxford University Computing Laboratory

Maps of Oxford, London, Europe and the world in GIF format, including pictures and info.

   
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Probably the biggest collection of maps online. Images are in jpg, gif and pdf formats and include many up-to-date maps of areas of interest around the world.
Conrad Miller's 19th century reproduction of this famous map of the Roman Empire, made around 250AD. It includes a reconstruction of the now missing western part of the map, which covered the British Isles.
Planiglobe is an online mapping website which can be used to create maps for printing or export in Postscript or Illustrator formats.
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Quick Maps

Small GIF maps of the World and individual countries.

   
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100 maps of various parts of the world from the15th to 19th century, at Reed College Library, Oregon.
Online maps of Canada.

Ryhiner Project

At the Municipal and University Library of Berne (StUB), Switzerland this site has an online catalogue and images from the collections of 16th - 18th maps. It includes useful bibliographical records as well.

   
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Scanned soil and ecological maps of the world are available to download from the European Digital Archive on Soil Maps of the World.
Sunumi has worldwide links to country and city maps, local information and resources.
   
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Travelling to a place in the UK? Create free maps at three levels of detail, which can be downloaded or e-mailed as high-quality pdf files.
A map collector's website with a selection of maps from the 16th to the 19th century
   
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UK Street Map Page

Street maps of London and detailed road maps of the whole UK, together with a gazetteer function.

UNEP/GRID-Arendal

If you need maps and GIS datasets for Europe, the Arctic and the Baltic Sea area, check out this site where you will find downloadable maps and datasets, together with links to other related sites.

The United States National Atlas 2000 available online (subscription required, but you can try for free).
General and thematic maps at country level in pdf format, datasets and more.
Maps, databases, software listings, GIS and other resources - good selection of maps in PDF format
A good selection of battlefield and other warfare maps created by the United States Military Academy’s Department of History. Digital versions from the atlases printed by the United States Defense Printing Agency.
See: Perry-Castaneda Map Library (University of Texas)
   
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An online collection at San Diego State University.
Another collection at Indiana State University.

World of Maps

A Swiss site with thematic and historical maps, links and information on Swiss cartographic publications.


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GIS
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If you are looking for free downloadable data, then look at the Free GIS data sources page!

 
A new GIS page with links and info.
Useful GIS links.
Go-Geo! is an online resource discovery tool which allows for the
identification and retrieval of records describing the content, quality,
condition and other characteristics of geospatial data that exist within
UK tertiary education and beyond.
The Grids and Datums column from each issue of Photogrammetric & Remote Sensing is available on the web. This is an invaluable resource for GIS users as it gives extensive details of projection systems used worldwide. The information on old projections is especially useful for geo-referencing scanned paper maps which used obselete projections.
Grime is an excellent source of GIS tools, including viewers, converters and other utilities. Useful information on file extensions and GIS news is there as well.
Read about the history of GIS here
inovaGIS is a small community of people developing free software in Visual Basic, Delphi/Kylix and ASP for common, simple applications that use geographic information. A free online tool for geographic coordinate transformation is a useful feature.

Japan GIS/Mapping Sciences Resource Guide

Japanese GIS, remote sensing, geospatial data products, maps, activities and information sources.

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

The SALB dataset is a global digital dataset consisting of digital maps and codes that can be downloaded on a country by country basis. Data is not available for every country but is regularly updated. Data is in ArcInfo format.
Scanned soil and ecological maps of the world are available to download from the European Digital Archive on Soil Maps of the World.

Spatial News

Daily gis press releases, classified ads, free links postings, gis discussion forum, gis newsletter, webmapping resources, free data downloads and more.

A wealth of GIS links here.

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Remote Sensing
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Where's that satellite? NASA's J-Track website shows real-time locations of the Space Shuttle, Hubble and over 500 satellites. An individual satellite can be selected from a list and its position and track displayed.
The Landmap project gives free access to Landsat 7 and DEM images of the UK. ATHENS registered users at subscribing UK institutions can also download orthorectified image files from a range of data products.

Millenium Mapping Company

Air photos of the whole of England, searchable by address, postcode etc. View a low-res. air photo and order a high-res. image on a certificate.

THE source of remote sensing data.

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

RSD/MAPB/GLOBE Server (NASA)

Have a look at this site for remote sensing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Free Landsat 4,5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM data.

Univ of Wisc-Madison Space Science & Engineering Center

Another remote sensing site worth checking out.

The USGS WRS -Lat-Lon Converter enables you to find a Path/Row using Lat/Lon coords of the location of interest - saves a lot of time when trying to locate scenes!

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Gazetteers
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Antarctic Place-names Commission - Bulgaria

A new website with placenames and maps

Searchable by place name, place type and region.

Canadian Geographic Names

Current Canadian placenames with basic location maps as well.

A gazetteer of Bhutan(519 names) created from the Geographic Names Data Base in PDF format. Coordinates are in both decimal degrees and d:m:s. Coordinate system is WGS84.
A gazetteer of India (over 46,500 names) created from the Geographic Names Data Base in PDF format. Coordinates are in both decimal degrees and d:m:s. Coordinate system is WGS84. The gazetteer is also available in two parts: India A-Lah and India Lak-.Z.
A gazetteer of Nepal (over 1,950 names) created from the Geographic Names Data Base in PDF format. Coordinates are in both decimal degrees and d:m:s. Coordinate system is WGS84.
A gazetteer of Ireland (over 24,000 names) created from the Geographic Names Data Base in PDF format. Coordinates are in both decimal degrees and d:m:s. Coordinate system is WGS84. (It can also be downloaded as a zip file).

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Place and feature names gazetteer for the US and Antarctica.

Around 5 million placenames! (outside of the USA). This is the best gazetteer to try for worldwide searches. For placenames in the US, use GNIS.
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 1,000,000 names and other information about places and includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations. Historic and variant names are also included.
A directory of 2880532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a location map for each town.

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

Tiger Mapping Service (US Bureau of the Census)

A range of services are here, including a comprehensive gazetter of the U.S. which generates neat GIF maps on the fly.

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Weather
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NERC Satellite Station Dundee University

One of the best sites for UK weather maps. You need to register (it's free).

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

Purdue University Hurricane/Tropical Data page

Data on hurricanes and tropical storms, with maps of the storm tracks can be found here.

RainOrShine

Check out the weather wherever you are - country by country.

Weather forcasts by UK postcode and cities worldwide.

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Map Libraries and Museums
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Alexandria Digital Library Project

A rich source of links to online maps including collections of antquarian material.

The American Geographical Society Collection, located in the Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Astronomical Museum

At the Universita di Bologna, this site has a wealth of information on astronomical observation, including celestial charts. Take a look at the Globe Room which has some nice gifs of early globes and armillery spheres.

ACMLA actively serves as the representative professional group for Canadian map librarians, cartographic archivists and others interested in geographic information in all formats.

British Library

Now online. The Map Library has its own web pages, with examples for the collections. Collect Britain is a growing collection of material from the British Library's collections.

Brock University Map Library

You can find indexes to their map coverage and an electronic Census Atlas of Niagara.

Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark

A new website by The Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library. The exhibition shows the evolution of cartographic knowledge of North America up to the time that Lewis and Clark set out on their exploratory journey. Most of the materials in the exhibition are from the map collections of the Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History.

This huge image database includes a good selection of London maps.

Harvard Map Collection

An extensive site, now with a new look.

Heritage Map Museum

In the Amish community of Lititz, Pennsylvania USA, an interesting web site which has images of 15th to 19th century maps.

James Ford Bell Library's Historical Map Collection

Monochrome images of early maps and charts.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek Map Collection

These web pages contain a general description of the collections of the Royal Library of The Netherlands. There are also the holdings of Atlantes Neerlandici and descriptions of manuscript atlases, together with an index to Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici to which is added new items and facsimiles.

Memorial University of Newfoundland Map Library Map Collection

Information about the library and some online images.

National Library of Scotland Map Library

Their home page is has been updated. There are new pages of images including the Pont Collection, military maps and town plans.

National Library of Wales

Now online with information and images from the collections.

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

Out of This World

An exhibition of rare books from the collection of the Linda Hall Library, featuring celestial atlases.

The National Library of Scotland's collection of 16th century maps of Scotland now online.

Ryhiner Project

At the Municipal and University Library of Berne (StUB), Switzerland this site has an online catalogue and images from the collections of 16th - 18th maps. It includes useful bibliographical records as well

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Online Journals
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CartoTalk

CartoTalk is an online Cartography Discussion Forum. Anyone with a connection to or an interest in maps can come and post questions, ideas, tutorials etc.CartoTalk is an online Cartography Discussion Forum. Anyone with a connection to or an interest in maps can come and post questions, ideas, tutorials etc.

Bibliographical references to books, articles, pamphlets, maps and atlases... etc. in the American Geographical Society Collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Mapforum.Com

Mapforum.Com is an e-journal for antique map collectors.

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

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Mapping Organisations
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Alan Godfrey Maps

Publisher of facsimiles of Ordnance Survey one-inch maps and reduced facsimiles of large scale plans.

British Geological Survey

Home page of the UK's national geological survey. Includes information about maps and other publications, now with searchable databases, photographs and other useful info.

Digital Archives Association is a small group of amateurs producing high resolution images of historical maps on CD. Areas available include Ordnance Survey large-scale mapping of London (1862-72), Lancashire and Manchester, as well as other mapping.

DeLorme Mapping

An excellent page, with demos and technical info. Take a look at their regularly updated maps of areas in the news.

Imapa features the complete collection of works by Flemish Cartographer Norbert Ceulemans including his acclaimed 'art map of Jerusalem' and recently finished topographical maps of London

Ordnance Survey

The national mapping organisation for Great Britain, The OS website now has downloadable mapping for the whole UK. Maps can also be used on web pages.

The National Soil Resources Institute at Cranfield University, is the leading independent organisation on soil resources in the UK. It conducts research, carries out consultancy, and offers a range of scientific services.

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Resources and Societies etc.
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About.com

The geography pages of About.com have a wealth of useful information, including outline maps, data, images and lots more.

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Data and images about ozone holes, meteorology and other features of the Arctic and Antarctic regions and seas.

British Cartographic Society

The British Cartographic Society, including the Map Curator's Group.

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion (tm) Air-Ocean World Map

On the Fuller Projection, this uses a icosahedron to depict the world with barely any distortion. There is more information at the Synergetics on the Web site.

Royal Geographical Society (and)
Institute of British Geographers

Home Page of the RGS which incorporates the IBG.

CartoTalk is an online Cartography Discussion Forum. Anyone with a connection to or an interest in maps can come and post questions, ideas, tutorials etc.
The Charles Close Society is dedicated to the study of Ordnance Survey maps and publications.
Population of principal cities worldwide, area and population of administrative areas and detailed maps.

Country Studies/Area Handbook Program

These are prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Comprehensive information on a range of countries.

Date and Time Gateway

This is the place to find the current date and time for just about anywhere worldwide

EcoCart

Ecocart promotes the diffusion of the knowledge concerning climates,oceans, waste, environment, forestry, fishery, ecology, water, vegetation, evolution, animals, word’s plants, earth biodiversity etc. with maps, books, CD-ROMs etc.

Genmaps is an excellent resource for genealogists and has links to images of maps of city and county maps of the UK from the 16th century onwards

Geography Resources

Numerous useful links.

Faculty of Geographical Sciences

At Utrecht University, there is some interesting material, including a huge list of useful links.

Geosource

Web resources for geographers, planners, geoscientists and environmental scientists - over 2000!

History of Cartography

This claims to be THE Gateway to the Subject. It certainly has a comprehensive collection of links, information and other resources.

History of Cartography Project

This site has text, graphics and digital maps.

Infonation

The UN's up-to-date database on member states.

A huge collection of links to maps and related sites. Grouped by country and subject, it is an ideal starting point when looking for maps and information.

Japan GIS/Mapping Sciences Resource Guide

Japanese GIS, remote sensing, geospatial data products, maps, activities and information sources.

Links to Great Earth Science Resources

Links to some good earth science reference materials.

London Topographical Society

The London Topographical Society publishes a range of reproductions of early maps and views of London.

Map Projections (USGS)

This document gives the key properties, characteristics, and preferred uses of many historically important projections and of those frequently used by mapmakers today.

The Collection of Map Projections and Reference Systems for Europe.
The National Archives has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book to government papers recently released to the public. The collections areat Kew, west London and a selection of documents are available online. The National Archives also advises people on the location of non-public records and manuscripts relating to British history.
A good collection of online images

National Geographic Society

Maps, articles and plenty of nice graphics.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

An extensive resources site.

Oddens Bookmarks

A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out!

Open Seas Instrumentation Inc

A large list of oceanographic sites. Their home page has a wealth of info on global change, ecosystems and other related topics.

Ordnance Survey of Ireland Archives

Listed at the National Archives of Ireland web site.

Postaprint

offers a mail order service for maps of the UK and elsewhere in the world. There is an online database which is searchable by subject, country, engraver etc.

Publishers of "Canadian Geographic" magazine.

Ryhiner Project

At the Municipal and University Library of Berne (StUB) Switzerland, this site has an online catalogue and images from the collections of C16th-C18th maps. It includes useful bibliographical records as well.

Scale Finder

Scale Finder is a scale conversion utility for map users and cataloguers which converts linear scales to rf and vice-versa.

Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets

These are issued by the US State Department and are are posted here.

Maps, databases, software listings, GIS and other resources - good selection of maps in PDF format

USGS This Dynamic Earth

Everything you need to know about plate tectonics, with maps and diagrams.

U.S. Census Bureau

Tne source of US Census data. You can display data profiles using point and click maps. It also links to the US gazetteer and Tiger Mapping Service.

   

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GPS
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All you need to know about the current status of GPS, including almanacs, outages and information on the new systems.
A good introductory site for newbies and for others needing information presented in a clear, understandable way.
Another good site. You can download their GPS guide for beginners in pdf format.
Where's that satellite? NASA's J-Track website shows real-time locations of the Space Shuttle, Hubble and over 500 satellites. An individual satellite can be selected from a list and its position and track displayed.
This site uses Shockwave to present the basics of GPS in an easy-to-understand manner.
A GPS/GLONASS monitoring station with useful information on horizontal and vertical positioning error.