Geography and Cartography Resources

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Contents 1 History 2 Exhibits 3 Historic Map Collections 4 Maps

History

• 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.

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".