Geography and Cartography Resources

From Scienticity

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.

Projections

Carlos A. Furuti's Map Projection Pages and his page of Map Fold-Outs, maps of the world projected onto various polyhedra that can be cut out and folded.

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".