Information Resources for Information Professionals

Maps and Geographic Information

Compiled by:
Joe Ryan

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  • Gazetteers and Locators
  • Maps

    Location of Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, Syracuse, NY
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    Gazetteers and Locators

    Canada Gazetteers

    National Resources Canada. Geomatics Canada.

    National Resources Canada. Geomatics Canada. Canada's geographical names.

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    United States Gazetteers

    Census. (1990 census). U.S. Gazetteer.

    Gazetteer: Geographic Nameserver.

    Put in a U.S. town and a state and you'll get latitude and longitude, elevation, and zip codes for the town.

    U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

    Contains information about almost two million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The federally recognized name of each feature described in the database is identified and references are made to a feature's location by state, county, and geographic coordinates.

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    General Gazetteers

    Atlas Query: Geographic Location and Time Zone Database.

    Provides longitude, latitude, and time zone information for locations throughout the world.

    Kindred, Darrell. How far is it?

    This service uses the University of Michigan Geographic Name Server to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Ma p Server.

    National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA). GEOnet Names Server.

    Provides access to non-U.S. geographic feature names.

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    Maps

    Guides

    Oddens'bookmarks.

    World of maps.

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    Collections

    About.com. Blank & outline maps.

    All the worlds maps.

    Bowen, William. Electronic Map Library. California State University, Northridge, Department of Geography.

    Includes digital atlases for Boston, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, the US, California, and New York City.

    Carnegie-Mellon University. Maps at CMU.

    geoCOMMUNITY.

    United Nations Cartographics Section.

    University of Texas, Austin. Perry-Castaneda Library map collection.

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    Canada Maps

    Environment Canada and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (1995). Great lakes atlas (3rd ed.).

    National Resources Canada.Geophysical atlas of Canada.

    National Resources Canada.National atlas of Canada online.

    National Resources Canada. ReSources atlas.

    National Resources Canada. Mapping Service Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, Centre for Topographic Information.Canadian topographic maps .

    National Resources Canada. Toporama--Natural resources Canada.

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    Cyberspace Maps

    Atlas of cyberspace.

    Dodge, Martin. Geography of Cyberspace

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    United States Maps

    Cornell University. Digital earth.

    EPA. Enviromapper.

    MapBlaster.

    Give map blaster an address in the U.S. and it will produce a street map of it which you can e-mail to a friend or use in your web page. For Example, the School of Information Studies:

    Sterner, Ray. Color Landform Atlas of the United States. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

    TopoZone .

    Contains "every U.S. Geological Survey topological 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States. Search by place name or latitude and longitude.

    U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). National Atlas of the United States.

    U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Topographic map symbols.

    Yahoo Map Site.

    Provides map of any street address in the United States, allowing for varying degrees of detail. Can also search by city/state, cross streets.

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    General

    AT&T Labs. AnyWho.

    Given phone number will provide name, address, and MapQuest map.

    CIA. The CIA World Fact Book. (Latest).

    EPA. Enviromapper.

    Map Quest.

    Maps.com.

    MultiMap.com.

    Focus on UK, Europe and world.

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Atlas of the world.

    Online map creation.

    The World Atlas

    Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Map Viewer.

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