Maps and Atlases

In the News . . .

• Maps Of America That Will Make You See Things Differently -- OceanDraw (16 November 2020)
  
  
• Yale Says Its Vinland Map, Once Called a Medieval Treasure, Is Fake -- The New Yorker (5 October 2021)
  
  
• India and China: How Nepal's new map is stirring old rivalries -- BBCnews (10 June 2020)

• 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa -- Northwestern University Library
  
  
• 19th Century Maps by Children -- David Rumsey Map Collection
  
  
• 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire
  
  
• 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World -- A Sheep No More
  
  
• AfricaMap -- Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
  
  
• An atlas of the ice age Earth -- Jonathan Adams
  
  
• Ancient Buildings Brought to Life from Historic Maps -- NewScientist (09 February 2011)
  
  
• Andrew McCormick Maps and Prints -- University of British Columbia
  
  
• Anthropology Atlas Opens Up New Vistas for Research -- Times HIgher Education (28 July 2016)
  
  
• Antique Maps -- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library
  
  
• Artificial Anatomy: Paper Mache Anatomical Models -- NMAH
  
  
• Ask a MacArthur Genius: Can a Simple Map Change the Way We Think About Human Diversity? -- Washington Post (16 October 2015)
  
  
• Atlas -- interactive Mapquest
  
  
• Atlas Explorer -- National Geographic
  
  
• The Atlas of Early Printing -- The University of Iowa Libraries
  
  
• The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why -- Eric Millstone and Tim Lang (University of California Press, 2008)
  
  
• Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America -- United States Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (ERS)
  
  
• Atlas of Urban Expansion -- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
  

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• Bible Geocoding -- openbible.info
  
  
• Blank Maps -- Kevin Johnston
  
  
• Body Atlas -- BlueCross BlueShield of Florida
  
  

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• Canadian Geographic Atlas Online -- The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
  
  
• The Cartographic Modeling Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
  
  
• Cartography 2.0 -- Mark Harrower, University of Wisconsin Madison
  
  
• Catalonia Maps -- Institut Cartografica de Catalunya
  
  
• Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others -- New York Public Library DigitalGallery
  
  
• Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives, 1550-1740
  
  
• City Maps -- Yahoo Search
  
  
• Civitates Orbis Terrarum, The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 27, 7 July 2017
  
  

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• Dakin Fire Insurance Maps -- University of Hawaii
  
  
• Data Snapshots: Reusable Climate Maps -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  
  
• [David] Rumsey Map Collection -- Cartography Associates
  • Antique Atlases
  • Featured Maps
  • Recent Additions
  • 1979 California Water Atlas
    
    
• The Digital Atlas of Idaho -- Idaho Museum of Natural History
  
  
• Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations -- Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson, et al., Harvard
  
  
• Digital Atlas of Texas Counties -- Center for Geosptial Technology, Texas Tech University
  
  
• Digital Maps -- Harvard Map Collection
  
  
• Digital Map of the Roman Empire -- Past Horizons (18 October 2012)
  
  
• DIGMAP
  
  
• Early Real Estate Atlases of New York -- New York Public Library
  
  
• Earth Science Literacy Maps -- created by Digital Learning Sciences and NCAR Library using the NSDL Strand Map Service (SMS)
  
  
• Earth Wind Map
  
  
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative -- University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• Explore America’s History With These Richly Interactive Maps -- Smithsonian (31 December 2015)
  
  
• From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture -- Digital Public Library of America
  

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• GeoGratis [free geospacial data] -- Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
  
  
• Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the University of Virginia
  
  
• Geospatial One Stop -- geodata.gov
  
  
• GIS and Historical Maps from the David Rumsey Collection
  
  
• A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems -- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara
  
  
• Google Maps for mobile in 3D
  
  
• Google Maps Make Demographics Come Alive
  • Chicago crime database
  • Citizen ICAM
  • Florida Sexual Predators
  • Google Sightseeing
  • HousingMaps
  • Google Earth
    
    
• Green Atlas
  
  
• G. William Skinner Map Collection -- University of Washington

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• Harvard Map Collection: Digital Maps
  
  
• Here Be Dragons: The Evolution of Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps -- LiveScience (06 September 2013)
  • In Images: Ancient Maps and Sea Monsters -- LiveScience (06 September 2013)
    
    
• Hidden Secrets of 1491 World Map Revealed Via Multispectral Imaging -- Phys.org (12 June 2015)
  
  
• (Periodical) Historical Atlas of Europe -- Christos Nussli
  
  
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century -- Matthew White
  
  
• Historic Atlas Resource Library -- University of Oregon
  
  
• Historic Map Collection -- University of Delaware Library
  
  
• History of Maps -- Ordnance Survey, UK
  
  

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• Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War
  
  
• Internet Geography -- Anthony Bennett
  
  
• John H. W. Stuckenberg Map Collection -- Musselman Library, Gettysburg College
  
  

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• Lake Superior Maps
  
  
• London: A Life in Maps -- British Library
  
  
• Los Angeles Mapped -- Tthe Library of Congress
  
  
• Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon -- The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)

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• Magnificent Maps -- British Library
  
  
• Map and Geographic Information Center: University of Connecticut
  
  
• Map Collection -- University of Chicago Library
  
  
• The Map Collection -- Yale University Library
  
  
• Map Library -- Michigan State University Libraries
  
  
• Mapme
  
  
• Mapping Inequality
  ["President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC) as part of the New Deal to provide loans that would enable citizens to buy homes. Between 1935 and 1945, the HOLC, in partnership with mortgage lenders, housing developers, and real estate appraisers, assessed and mapped the relative risk of providing home loans to individuals looking to purchase homes in different neighborhoods. Race played a central role in the HOLC's conception of the riskiness of a neighborhood; as a result, white homeowners were able to gain low-interest mortgages from the HOLC that black and Latino homeowners were largely denied. Scholars from the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab, the University of Maryland's College of Information Sciences ("iSchool"), and Virginia Tech, in collaboration with historian N.B.D. Connelly, have collaborated to digitize these maps alongside census information from 1930 and 1940. Visitors to this website can explore how different neighborhoods were "graded" by the HOLC and read area descriptions, authored by HOLC appraisers, for individual neighborhoods. Mapping Inequality currently includes 150 HOLC maps and over 5,000 descriptions. This project offers considerable insight into the history, sociology, and economics of American cities." [MB, The Scout Report, July 31, 2015 -- Volume 22, Number 43.]
  
  
• MoEML: The Map of Early Modern London
  
  
• Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online -- John R. Borchert Map Library
  
  

  Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online Social studies www.lib.umn.edu/apps/mhapo "For readers with a connection to the Gopher State, the University of Minnesota offers this interactive map of historic aerial photography dating from the 1920s through the 2000s. In total, the map hosts over 100,000 photographs from the John R. Borchert Map Library. To explore this map, visitors can zoom in on any area of the state that is of interest. When they do, they will see each aerial photograph as a dot. Each dot is color-coded according to decade. Visitors may also filter results by decade via a panel on the left-hand side of the screen. Users may also search the map (for example, by zip code or the name of a city). Collectively, these images provide a glimpse into the history of Minnesota." [MMB] -- -- The Scout Report, 23 March 2018, Volume 24, Number 12.

  
  
  
• Mapping History -- British Library
  
  
• Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A Digital Atlas of the New Towns of Edward I -- Keith Lilley, Chris Lloyd and Steve Trick
  
  
• Maps -- Yahoo Search
  
  
• Maps -- Anthro.Net
  
  
• Maps in Our Lives -- The Library of Congress
  
  
• Maps On Us
  
  
• Map-a-Planet -- U.S. Geological Survey
  
  
• Maps Are Territories -- David Wade Chambers, David Turnbull and Helen Watson
  
  
• The Map Room [weblog] -- Jonathan Crowe
  
  
• The Map Room -- University of Idaho Library
  
  
• Maps: The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern -- Bartleby.com
  
  
• Maps: Finding Our Place in the World -- The Field Museum
  
  
• Map Stack -- [Map Stack allows educators, students, or anyone fascinated by maps to create exquisitely tailored cartographic images via a web-based click interface. The tool uses a system very close to the classic Photoshop platform of layers and palettes, allowing users to design their own maps without having to know any code, install software, or even do any typing. Layers are created using roads, labels, backgrounds, and even satellite imagery. In addition, the maps can be tweaked and fine-tuned with different colors, opacity, brightness, and other visuals. Best of all, the site makes sharing completed images via Pinterest and Tumblr quite easy. While learning the ins and outs of the site can take a little while, the results are more than worth it. CNH, The Scout Report, July 31, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 29.]
  
  
• Maps Tutorials -- Knight Digital Media Center, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
  
  
• Marine Geology and Geophysics Images: Visualizing Data -- National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  
  
  
• Maryland Map Collection -- University of Maryland University Libraries
  
  
• Memory Maps -- Victoria and Albert Museum
  
  
• Mesoamerican
  
  
• Maps of Scotland: National Library of Scotland
  
  
• Middleamerican
  
  
• Military Campaign Maps -- The Library of Congress
  
  
• Minnesota
  • DNR Maps
    
    
• Minnesota Maps Online -- Minnesota Historical Society
  
  
• MoEML: The Map of Early Modern London
  
  
• MSN Virtual Earth
  
  

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• National Atlas
  
  
• National Geographic Maps
  
  
• National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
  
  
• National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC)
  
  
• Nevada in Maps -- Mary B. Ansari Map Library, University of Nevada, Reno

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• Odden's Bookmarks -- maps, cartography and GIS data
  
  
• Old Maps Online -- Great Britain Historical GIS Project and Klokan Technologies GmbH
  
  
• Online Access to the Earliest Medieval Map of Britain -- Past Horizons (18 Aygust 2011)
  
  

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• Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe -- Christos Nussli
  
  
• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection -- The University of Texas at Austin
  
  
• Place and Location
  
  
• Places Online -- Association of American Geographers
  
  

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• Rambles, Travels, and Maps: Here reside narratives of  wanderings real or imaginary, travel guides, charts, and maps -- Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University
  
  
• Realms of Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
  
  
• Reference Maps from the Wisconsin Historical Society
  
  
• Researchers map 6,000 years of urban settlements -- ScienceDaily (07 June 2016)
  
  
• RoadMaps -- Lycos
  
  
• The Rochambeau Map Collection -- American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
  
  
• [David] Rumsey Map Collection -- Cartography Associates
  • Antique Atlases
  • Recent Additions
  • 1979 California Water Atlas

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• Sanborn Maps for Missouri -- University of Missouri
  
  
• Social Explorer -- Queens College CUNY

• [David] Rumsey Map Collection -- Cartography Associates
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  • Featured Maps
  • Recent Additions
  • 1979 California Water Atlas

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• Teaching Geologic Map Interpretation with Google Earth -- Carleton College
  
  
• Teaching with Maps -- National Education Association
  
  
• Topography of Faith [religion distribution map, U.S.A.] -- USA Today
  
  
• The True Size of . . . -- James Talmage and Damon Maneice
  
  
• UMapper -- [UMapper makes life easy for anyone who would like to create, manage, distribute, and even monetize their own custom maps. Umapper Basic, which includes the creation of unlimited public and private maps (but doesn't cover commercial applications) is free. Sign up requires nothing more than an email address. From there, users can create and distribute interactive maps and track their usage. The service is ideal for educators looking to spice up their lesson plans, bloggers of all kinds, and a wide range of readers with unique roles and interests. For inspiration, there are plenty of maps to peruse under the Explore tab on the site. -- CNH, The Scout Report (June 26, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 24)]
  
  
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
  
  
• University of Alaska Fairbanks: Maps -- Meeting of Frontiers, Library of Congress
  
  
• University of California Digital Map Collection
  
  
• USAPhotoMaps -- jdmcox
  
  
• U.S. Census Bureau -- Public Geographic Data Mapping, TIGER Mapping Service
  
  
• U.S. Gazetteer -- U.S. Census Bureau
  
  
• USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program
  
  
• USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer
  

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• [MSN] Virtual Earth
  
  
• Virtual Landscapes of Texas -- University of Texas at Austin
  
  
• Virtual Tourist
  
  

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• The Warner Map Collection -- W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama Libraries
  
  
• What maps reveal about ourselves -- BBCNews (30 September 2015)
  
  
• Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes and Plat Maps -- Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
  
  
• The World as They Knew It: The Legacy of Greco-Roman Mapmaking -- New York Times (30 September 2013)
  
  
• World Atlas of Panoramic Aerial Images -- California Geographical Survey, William A. Bowen, UC-Northridge
  
  
• The World Bank, Mapped
  
  
• WorldHistory Maps
  
  
• Worldmapper -- Social and Spacial Inequalities Group (SASI), The University of Sheffield
  
  
• World's First Geologic Map Was Far Ahead of Its Time -- National Geographic News (25 July 2016)
  
  
• World Sites Atlas
  
  
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Maps -- USC Digital Library, USC Libraries