Reference Resources:
Maps And Geography -- Contemporary
Atlas Of Global Development
Third edition (2011) is subtitled
A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges, covering "key development indicators, from poverty, population growth, and food production to climate change, foreign direct investment, and international trade." You can preview the table of
contents.
A companion resource is the interactive
e-Atlas of Global Development.
(More Info) Congressional District Maps -- 112th Congress
Printable maps of each district in the 112th Congress (2011-13).
(More Info) 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.
(More Info) 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.
(More Info) Google Local
Interactive maps, with very useful features.
(More Info) Internet Catalogue: Maps -- Worldwide
"Maps, spacial data and GIS on the Internet - and how to find them."
(More Info) 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.
(More Info) MapQuest
Maps and directions for travel.
(More Info) Maporama
Maps and directions for travel, with particularly good coverage of Europe.
(More Info) National Geographic MapMachine
Searchable database of digital maps.
(More Info) 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.
(More Info) Oddens' Maps And Atlases
Enormous collection of links to contemporary and historical maps.
(More Info) Perry-Castaneda Map Collection
Enormous collection of digitized maps from the University of Texas library, including hundreds of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency maps.
(More Info) 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.
(More Info) State Maps
Resources for maps of individual U.S. states.
(More Info) TerraServer
Searchable database of aerial/satellite photographs and topographic maps.
(More Info) TopoZone
Easy-to-use source for online topographic maps.
(More Info) United Nations Cartographic Section
Over 100 high-quality country, regional, and thematic maps.
(More Info) Windows Live Local
Maps and directions for travel.
(More Info) Yahoo! Maps
Generate maps and driving directions.
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