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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. |
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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! | |
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The full coverage is available for download in ARC/INFO format. Registration is required but is free to academic and non-profit organisations. |
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Country information and watermarked maps. |
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A digitised 1829 military map of Balkans, which can be zoomed to a high level of detail. |
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| 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 | |
| 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. | |
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Colour world and regional maps which can be downloaded in TIFF (or PDF if you have a fast link!) formats. |
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| 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 | |
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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. | |
| 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. | |
| The 1827 map of London by Greenwood is at ascale of 8 inches to one mile and available online from Bath Spa University. | |
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This huge image database includes a good selection of London maps. |
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World history in maps, with links to other sources. |
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| Zoomable vector street mapping of cities worldwide | |
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Maps and data of the Southern Ocean. |
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Images from the collection at the Univ. of Georgia. |
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Another map library now on-line. |
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| A large selection of scanned maps from various sources | |
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Information, graphics and digital maps. |
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| Plenty of links to images of early maps. | |
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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. | |
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A selection for rail buffs from the LC's extensive collections. |
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| 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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Zoomable maps of Central London and other resources. |
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| 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. | |
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An online mapping site which creates personalised maps (by address in London and the US). |
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| 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. | |
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6th Edition of the National Atlas of Canada is online here. |
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Maps, articles and plenty of nice graphics. |
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| 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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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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| 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. | |
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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. |
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| 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. | |
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Interactive historical data for N. America, Europe and N. Africa. |
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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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Small GIF maps of the World and individual countries. |
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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. | |
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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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Street maps of London and detailed road maps of the whole UK, together with a gazetteer function. |
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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. |
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| 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. | |
| See: Perry-Castaneda Map Library (University of Texas) | |
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A Swiss site with thematic and historical maps, links and information on Swiss cartographic publications. |
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| A new GIS page with links and info. | |
| 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. |
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| 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. | |
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Japanese GIS, remote sensing, geospatial data products, maps, activities and information sources. |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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| 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. | |
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Daily gis press releases, classified ads, free links postings, gis discussion forum, gis newsletter, webmapping resources, free data downloads and more. |
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| A wealth of GIS links here. | |
If you are looking for free downloadable data, then look at the
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Remote Sensing |
| 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. | |
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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. |
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| THE source of remote sensing data. | |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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| Free Landsat 4,5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM data. |
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Gazetteers |
| Searchable by place name, place type and region. | |
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Current Canadian placenames with basic location maps as well. |
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| 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). | |
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Place and feature names gazetteer for the US and Antarctica. |
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| 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. | |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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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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One of the best sites for UK weather maps. You need to register (it's free). |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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Check out the weather wherever you are - country by country. |
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| Weather forcasts by UK postcode and cities worldwide. |
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Map Libraries and Museums |
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A rich source of links to online maps including collections of antquarian material. |
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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. |
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| ACMLA actively serves as the representative professional group for Canadian map librarians, cartographic archivists and others interested in geographic information in all formats. | |
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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. |
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You can find indexes to their map coverage and an electronic Census Atlas of Niagara. |
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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. |
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An extensive site, now with a new look. |
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Memorial University of Newfoundland Map Library Map Collection |
Information about the library and some online images. |
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Their home page is has been updated. There are new pages of images including the Pont Collection, military maps and town plans. |
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Now online with information and images from the collections. |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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| The National Library of Scotland's collection of 16th century maps of Scotland now online. | |
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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 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. |
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Mapforum.Com is an e-journal for antique map collectors. |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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Mapping Organisations |
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Publisher of facsimiles of Ordnance Survey one-inch maps and reduced facsimiles of large scale plans. |
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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. |
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| 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. | |
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An excellent page, with demos and technical info. Take a look at their regularly updated maps of areas in the news. |
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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. |
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| 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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The geography pages of About.com have a wealth of useful information, including outline maps, data, images and lots more. |
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Data and images about ozone holes, meteorology and other features of the Arctic and Antarctic regions and seas. |
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The British Cartographic Society, including the Map Curator's Group. |
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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. |
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Home Page of the RGS which incorporates the IBG. |
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| 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. | |||
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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. |
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| 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 | |||
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At Utrecht University, there is some interesting material, including a huge list of useful links. |
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Web resources for geographers, planners, geoscientists and environmental scientists - over 2000! |
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This claims to be THE Gateway to the Subject. It certainly has a comprehensive collection of links, information and other resources. |
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This site has text, graphics and digital maps. |
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The UN's up-to-date database on member states. |
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| 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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Japanese GIS, remote sensing, geospatial data products, maps, activities and information sources. |
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Links to some good earth science reference materials. |
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The London Topographical Society publishes a range of reproductions of early maps and views of London. |
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| 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. | |||
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Maps, articles and plenty of nice graphics. |
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An extensive resources site. |
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A vast collection of useful links worldwide - always worth checking out! |
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A large list of oceanographic sites. Their home page has a wealth of info on global change, ecosystems and other related topics. |
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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. |
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| Publishers of "Canadian Geographic" magazine. | |||
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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. |
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Scale Finder is a scale conversion utility for map users and cataloguers which converts linear scales to rf and vice-versa. |
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Everything you need to know about plate tectonics, with maps and diagrams. |
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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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| All you need to know about the current status of GPS, including almanacs, outages and information on the new systems. | |||
| 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. | |||
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