Geography and Cartography Resources

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-	* [http://www.maphistory.info/ History of Cartography] is an annotated gateway to comprehensive information on anything to do with cartography. There are no images of maps here, but plenty of leads to digitized images available elsewhere.
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	== Exhibits ==		== Exhibits ==

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Exhibits

• The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas is an online exhibition of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology.

Historic Map Collections

• The map collections at the Library of Congress
• The rare map collection of the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.

Maps

• Geoscience Australia
• World Resources Institute
• The National Geographic's "MapMachine"
• Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency of Great Britain.
• TopoZone, where they've "got every USGS topographic map, orthophotomap, and aerial photograph in the entire United States."
• The United Nations cartographic section has "Maps and Geographic Information Resources"; also in French and Russian.
• The Earth Resources Observation and Science site of the U.S. Geological Survey, with maps, images, and information.
• World Atlas of "maps, flags, and geography facts".