The WWWVL Cartography Resources

Jan 2002 note: These pages are no longer updated!

Resources on Cartography, Mapping and GIS in the following areas:

||Online | Commercial | Federal | Educational | Relief | Map Libraries | GIS/RS ||

Oddens' Bookmarks must have a special position at the top!: Simply the most comprehensive and up-to-date listing of map and map related sites
NOAA Home Page
The Census Bureau: The Census TIGER Database; The Census also has a neat realtime map generation project from TIGER data
The USGS: This is the USGS easy-access (data about data or metadata) site on the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (NGDC) as part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Recommended.; The USGS is also accessible through here.; The USGS work on "Exploratory Analysis of Environmental Interactions in California." This preliminary report (not yet approved by the USGS) provides information on the San Francisco region and includes text, images, and animations.; The USGS blurb about what a GIS is, why they are cool, etc.
Some neat NASA stuff: Imaging radar is being used for 3D flyovers (3D glasses needed!). Also has regular flybys and pictures, shuttle photos, etc.
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).: Comprises a merging of the former Defense Mapping Agency, DMA, and the National Photographic Interpretation Center, NPIC. Reputedly the largest employer of cartographers in the USA.
The CIA: Annual Factbook about all countries here (includes small maps). Their well known CIA maps are available to the public (includes purchase info).
Geomatics Canada: The main Canadian government activity in surveying, mapping and remote sensing.; GC Products and services (also avail. in French); Canadian Cartographic Exhibit for the ICA in Barcelona in 1995.
The United Nations: Maybe not Federal, but bureacracy anyway!
DC, Maryland, and Virginia.: Interested in our local area? Take a look at the Federal Information Exchange, Inc (FIE) main home pages.
Still not enough federal data? Okay, here are ALL of them.
The Electronic Embassy: The staffs and resources of the DC embassies
The British Ordnance Survey: The UK equivalent of the USGS has a greatly improved page.
National Atlas Information Service: NAIS of Canada is the authoritative synthesis of the geography of Canada. A snazzy, well-designed site of maps, name services, quizzes, and of course the famous NAISmap (make a map online).; Cool stuff for kids: NAIS Schoolnet, hot topics, Q & A, an issue mapper, quizzes.
Yahoo listing of geography resources.
Yahoo-Entertainment:Travel:General Information
Geography at About.com: Provides resources (articles on GPS, world climate) and links to good geography sites.
GEOSOURCE (NL): Web resources for human geography, physical geography, planning, geoscience and environmental science
MicroCAM for Windows: Software for cartography instruction, includes 20 projections. Public domain for noncommercial uses.
The Virtual Tourist: Allows you to get a map-based directory of all the www servers in the world.
The Virtual Tourist II was subsumed within City.Net, and then within Excite Travel: Local and regional information worldwide. Was previously called the VT II.
Biodiversity and Worldmap: A project at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Shows biodiversity worldwide and critical conservation areas.

The Geographer's Craft project (Colorado, formerly at UT-Austin): Cartography resources page; includes notes, exercises, curriculum materials (U of Texas-Austin). Very useful for your own cart classes.; Map projections notes by Peter H. Dana. Mercator, Peters, and an equidistant conic.; UT-Austin's list of mapping, cartography, and GIS pointers
More on map projections, this time from Hunter College-CUNY.
Dept. of Cartography at the Institute of Geography, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Department of Cartography: The Utrecht University, Netherlands.
AAG map-related Specialty Groups: Cartography Specialty Group; GIS
The Peters world map: A Peters Projection site.
Project GeoSim Information Server: A joint research project of the Departments of Computer Science and Geography at Virginia Tech. Education modules for introductory geography courses, including downloadable software.
New York state maps: Cartographic images created prior to 1830.
The History of Cartography: The premier intellectual endeavor on maps, their historical and social contexts, and technical processes, resulting in a multi-volume series of the same name.
British Library based pages on the History of Cartography: Broader than simply the above project, it includes lists of journals, conferences, resources.
The Virginia on-line atlas: Make customized maps of every Virginia county and independent city.
Center for Mapping: The Ohio State University
Swiss Institute of Cartography(Zurich).
The Society of Cartographers (UK): Publishes its Bulletin, describes the Society and has begun a cartography ftp site.
Nice example of a professional campus map: By Cartographic Services at University of Western Ontario.
Interactive map making: An Australian service.
Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach (GeoCenter, was Deasy GeoGraphics) Lab.: At Penn State. The lab supports both Penn State research and teaching, as well producing educational software, web-based applications and custom maps beyond the campus.; Splendid downloadable maps!; The Penn State Earth & Mineral Sciences Learning Resources are multimedia for use in "Earth System" classes. Download now!
Digital elevation data: Meta-resources (listing) at Edinburgh by Bruce Gittings
The Great Globe Gallery: Technicolor presentation of all sorts of globes!
Digital relief: Color Landform Atlas of the United States by Ray Sterner of Johns Hopkins.; Northern Virginia; Globe maps. These are based on ETOPO5 (changing sea level models).; Recent satellite images.
How well do people understand relief on maps?: Here is a series of experiments by Richard Phillips at Nottingham Univ.
Electronic Map Library: By William A. Bowen of the California Geographical Survey. Includes:; Digital Atlas of New York City. Maps of population, ancestry, income/poverty, adult educational attainment, household types and commuters.; Atlas of the United States, Atlas of California, etc.
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division: Over 4.5 million maps, with 60,000 atlases and thousands of other items including journals, books and reference materials. Online material is scanty.
Illustrated Maps: Small is beautiful: this collection of four maps by French artists illustrates the French medieval city of Troyes.
University of Chicago map collection: Hosts 370,000 maps, 10,000 air photos, and 2000 books, with an emphasis on topo maps, urban plans and geologic maps.
Harvard Map Collection: Since its inception almost two centuries ago, has grown to encompass 400,000 maps, 6,000 atlases and 5,000 reference books.
Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.: The Columbus Letter Exhibition (Basel 1494) with reproduction, translation and interpretation of the letter.
California State University Electronic Map Library: Also has TIGER files for California in their Cartographic Resources page
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (PCL): At UT-Austin holds over 230,000 maps. They also have a cartography glossary page. Excellent!
The University of California, Berkeley Earth Sciences and Map Library.: Their map collection contains over 310,00 maps. Their online maps include example topographic maps, nautical charts, facsimile maps and aerial photography (all useful teaching resources).
The John R Borchert Map Library: The University of Minnesota. Contains 280,00 maps, 8,600 atlases, 330,000 aerial photographs (none on the web). Their Automated Cartographic Information Center provides a free map service to library patrons.
The Bodleian Library maproom: The University of Oxford. The seventh largest collection of maps in the world: over 1 million maps and 20,000 atlases.
The rare map collection of the Hargrett Library: The University of Georgia. The over 800 rare maps in the library span 500 years, from the sixteenth through the early twentieth century and include examples of the work of Mercator, Munster, and Blaeu. All are available digitally, with 20% available at this web site. For example, here is Mercator's Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio (1587, 244kb).
The Ryhiner-Project: The University Library of Berne, Switz. An online map catalog (over 16,000 old maps, plans etc). Also see the homepage of the journal Cartographica Helvetica, and the homepage of Swiss map librarians.
New York Public Library Map Division: Established in 1898, holds some 405,000 maps, 18,000 atlases and books.
UWO Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)
GIS
GIS Tools: Translators for TIGER and DLG (all formats) files to shape files and mif/mid files. Also distribute "Developing GIS Solutions: The MO/VB Tutorial".
GeoCommunity: Free downloads from over a terabyte of geospatial datasets, a high-powered, industry-specific search engine, GIS industry news, discussion forums, classifieds, and software utilities.
Spatial News: GIS-related information and resources and GIS and mapping news provider. Includes valuable leads to data, utilities, web mapping resources, GIS newsletter, a GIS discussion forum, classified ads and much more.
GIS Video Library: A comprehensive library (over 70) of GIS videos of workshops, talks and presentations by GIS experts.
Earthworks: Worldwide career opportunities in the geosciences, including GIS and RS.
GIS & Mapping Links: List of links predominantly for the GIS community, but includes many cartographic links as well. Updated monthly.
AGIS: A shareware (free evaluation available) package for Windows/NT. Display and manipulate geo-referenced data.
GisLinx: Comprehensive GIS listings for the GIS professional, including data resources, software/hardware, services, publications, and job sources.
GIS pointers: Pretty substantive, includes data. Comes from Queens University, Canada.
GIS frequently asked questions and general info list
Yahoo listing of GIS sites
The NAIS (National Atlas Information Service): The first WWW-based GIS (geographic information system). With NAISMap, you can view and manipulate National Atlas spatial data layers and construct your own map of Canada.
ARC/Info Tutorial.: You will need a unix workstation to do the tutorial.
The Baltic Drainage Basin Project
(BDBP) Database of maps and GIS analysis. ARC/Info and IDRISI formats available.
Remote Sensing
ScanEx: ScanEx - low-cost receiving stations and archived images from the Resurs-O1 satellite and the MOMS-2P camera on board the MIR station.
Spectra Resources: A consulting firm specializing in processing, interpretation, and the application of remote sensing data, techniques and instrumentation to a variety of exploration, environmental, and engineering projects worldwide.
GeoImage Technologies: Specializing in the preservation of satellite imagery archives. Have extensive experience converting older file formats such as LTWG or MSS to Fast Format.
Remote sensing and satellite imagery FAQ
Online resources for land surveying
Other
Copyrights:: International Map Trade Association (IMTA) has a FAQ about map copyrights! Read.; Stanford Libraries/Council on Library Resources provide a Copyright & Fair Use web site.; The copyright web site. Check the status of your maps.; A British comparison by the Maproom at the Bodleian Library, Oxford; The Association of Computing Machinery has some interesting copyright procedures for digital media that we could all benefit from.
Freehand for Cartographers: Specific information about Freehand and mapping.
The Norwegian Institute of Technology.: Some very interesting pointers to demo programs, the traffic problem in California, and map archives.


David Woodward, editor of the History of Cartography project
John Krygier's page o' carto-noise.
Alan MacEachren, Penn State.
Mark Monmonier at Syracuse
Nicholas Springer: A cartographer in Seattle, USA. Includes online professional map samples.
Jim Siebold: Has ancient, medieval, and renaissance maps from his image collection.