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Reference Resources: Maps And Geography -- Contemporary

Congressional District Maps -- 110th Congress
Printable maps of each district in the 110th Congress (2007-08).
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Encyclopedia Of Geographic Information Science
2007 volume brings together GIS literature that is spread widely across the academic spectrum, offering details about the key foundations, and explore the developing vocabulary that is an amalgam of all of these fields.
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Estimates Professional 2007: CD-ROM
This CD provides easy to access data based upon the results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census. Included are population, household, housing, income, and expenditure data estimates for 2007 and projections for 2012. Many popularly requested statistics based on census data, such as: proportions of population by race and/or income, are included in the datafile. Maps and data tables can be generated at the state, metropolitan area, county, zip code, tract or block track group level. Study areas can also be selected by specifying a radius from a position identified by latitude and longitude. The maps and tables created can be imported into GIS programs.
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Geo-Data; The World Geographical Encyclopedia
Detailed articles on the physical geography on 192 countries of the world, plus a number of islands and dependencies. Each article includes the following components: basic geography and geology; mountains and hills; inland waterways; cartoast and islands; climate and vegetation; human population; natural resources; further readings.
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Google Local
Interactive maps, with very useful features.
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Internet Catalogue: Maps -- Worldwide
"Maps, spacial data and GIS on the Internet - and how to find them."
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Live Search
Multifaceted tool enables you to search through telephone white pages, yellow pages, images, and generate maps and aerial photographs. And more. See the options "Businesses," "People," and "Maps" at the top of the screen.
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MapQuest
Maps and directions for travel.
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Maporama
Maps and directions for travel, with particularly good coverage of Europe.
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National Geographic MapMachine
Searchable database of digital maps.
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NationalAtlas.gov
A work-in-progress, this new national atlas databases, with various types of maps, incorporates a reange of U.S. Government data -- political, demographic, geological, environmental, etc.
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Oddens' Maps And Atlases
Enormous collection of links to contemporary and historical maps.
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Perry-Castaneda Map Collection
Enormous collection of digitized maps from the University of Texas library, including hundreds of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency maps.
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ReliefWeb Map Centre
Hundreds of recent and specialized maps of countries, regions, or cities of the world in which a natural disaster or other crisis has taken place.
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State Maps
Resources for maps of individual U.S. states.
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TerraServer
Searchable database of aerial/satellite photographs and topographic maps.
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TopoZone
Easy-to-use source for online topographic maps.
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United Nations Cartographic Section
Over 100 high-quality country, regional, and thematic maps.
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Windows Live Local
Maps and directions for travel.
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Yahoo! Maps
Generate maps and driving directions.
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