LINKS

Listed below is a selection of internet sites that are map related.  These are by no means all of the great sites, but they are a good place to start.

U.S. Government

Federal Emergency Management Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
        Photo Gallery
National Climatic Data Center

National Earthquake Information Center

National Imagery and Mapping Agency
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Oceanic Data Center
National Park Service

National Resources Conservation Service
        Published Soil Surveys
National Wetlands Inventory Center

Office of Coast Survey

      Nautical Chart Catalog

United States Census Bureau
United States Forest Service
United States Geological Survey
     Maps Price List
      Thematic Maps
     National Geologic Map Database

Foreign Government

Geoscience Australia
Geological Survey of Canada
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geographica e Informatica
L'Institut Geographique National

Ordnance Survey

Historical Maps

David Rumsey Collection
Images of Early Maps on the Web
Office of Coast Survey Historical Maps and Charts

Placename Related

American Name Society
Canadian Geographical Names Data Base
Composite Gazetteer of Antartica
Gazetteer for Scotland
Gazetteer of Australia
Gazetteer of British Place Names
Geonames
GEOnet Names Server
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Latin Place Names
New Zealand Geographic Place-Names Database
Place Name Server on the Internet
Rootsweb
The LOCUS Project
U.S. Gazetteer

Aerial Photographs and Remote Sensing

Terraserver
Terrafly

Map Libraries

Alexandria Digital Library- University of California, Santa Barbara
Arizona State University Maps Collection
Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines
University of California, Berkeley Maps Library
Clark University (Guy H. Burnham Map and Aerial Photograph Library)
Cornell University Maps Collection
Harvard Maps Collection
University of Illinois Maps and Geography Library
University of Iowa Maps Collection

Library of Congress
(Geography and Map Reading Room
)
University of Minnesota (Borchet Maps Library)
National Library of Scotland
Oxford University (Bodleian Maps Library)
Pennsylvania State Maps Library
University of Texas, Austin (Perry Castaneda Maps Library)
University of Washington Maps Library
Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
New York Public Library Maps Division


Regional

Alabama Genealogy
Alabama Maps
Geological Survey of Alabama

Glossaries

Environmental/Geographic/Geologic Acronyms
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Systems, Cartography and Remote Sensing
Glossary of Cartographic Terms
Geography Glossary
Geographic Information Systems Glossary
Remote Sensing Glossary

Reference

Latitude Longitude Format Conversion
Scale Calculator
Map Projections
Unit of Measure Converter
USGS Topographic Map Symbols
How to Read the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)Grid
Outline Maps
How to Read a Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
Remote Sensing And GIS Links
Local Times Around the World
Township and Range

What is the capital of...

Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia

Other Helpful Sites

Mapquest
National Geographic
     List of National Geographic Maps
Oddens'
The World of Maps

The Map Guide

Louisana State Museum Map Database