Geographical Information
Links to cartography, gazetteers, maps, city plans, trip routers, flags and time information.
Cartography
- Cartographic and Architectural Records
- (National Archives and Records Administration)
- History of Cartography
- (University of Wisconsin)
- Maps: Alabama Historical Maps
- (Department of Geography, University of Alabama)
- Easy Flag Identifier
- Select a design or style to identify a flag.
- Flags of All Countries
- (hosted by Information Technology Associates, Inc. (ITA), Ashland, Oregon)
- Flags of The World
- Flags of the World (FOTW), established by Giuseppe Bottasini, recently earned a Scout Award. It is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Included are more than 18,000 pages about flags and more than 32,000 images of flags.
- Flags Reference
- (Internet Public Library)
- Links to resources relating to flags and banners of political and other entities.
- Mapping the National Parks
- (National Park Service and the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
- The 200 maps that comprise this collection date from the 17th century to the current day and provide samples of early mapping practices as well as information on the areas that would become the parks themselves. Of special interest are the nautical maps of the Acadia National Park and the maps of the Grand Canyon.
- National Geographic Society Map Machine
- (National Geographic Society)
- High quality maps with concise information and flags.
- Symbols in Battle: Civil War Flags in NPS Collections
- (National Park Service)
- Information about flags carried in the Civil War and conserved by the National Park Service. Images of the flags, along with some history, are included.
- Geographic NameServer
- (maintained by the Student Information Processing Board, M.I.T)
- Includes Zip Code search.
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- (U.S. Geological Survey)
- Information about almost 2 million geographic features in the United States.
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- (Getty Research Institute)
- Population of the 200 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States
- (U.S. Bureau of the Census)
- U.S. Gazetteer
- (U.S Census Bureau)
- Access to Tiger Mapping System by place.
- World Factbook
- This online version of CIA World Factbook offers a great deal of information about countries, territories, and regions of interest with maps and country profiles.
- The American Revolution and its Era: Maps & Charts of North American and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- (Library of Congress, American Memory Collection)
- This site represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.
- American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
- Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection, New York Public Library
- Drawing on the holdings of the New York Public Library, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this online exhibit is devoted to offering a number of historically significant maps of the Mid-Atlantic region up to 1850. The section 'Geographical Areas' includes a survey map of the tidewater region on Virginia completed by Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas Jefferson.
- Civil War Maps
- (Library of Congress, American Memory Collection)
- This section features maps from the approximately 2,240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. Most were made during the Civil War.
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States
- Relief maps and color composite satellite images showing land formations and vegetation patterns.
- Cool Map Sites
- (John R. Borchert Map Library, University of Minnesota)
- Maps On Us, MapQuest, DeLorme Cyber Router, Yahoo! Maps, U.S. Census Bureau Tiger Map Service, Subway Navigator, and many others.
- Maps & Geographic Information
- (University of Pennsylvania Library)
- Links to worldwide and United States maps, including links to historical cartographic pages.
- MSN Maps
- These maps appear clearly and cleanly both on screen and when printed out. Overview maps are available for the entire world; street level maps are available for several countries included the U.S.
- Mapping the National Parks
- (Library of Congress)
- This web site features close to 200 maps, dating from the seventeenth century to the present day, of the areas that eventually became four of America's finest national parks: Acadia, Grand Canyon, Great Smokey Mountains, and Yellowstone.
- MapQuest
- Real-time traffic reports in 28 metropolitan areas including Washington, DC.
- National Atlas of the United States
- (U.S. Geological Survey)
- This site uses map-like views of America's natural and socio-cultural landscapes to promote geographic awareness.
- National Geographic Society Map Machine
- (National Geographic Society)
- High quality maps with concise information and flags.
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- (UT Library Online, The General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin)
- Electronic maps of many countries including U.S.G.S. and other maps of many U.S. areas, historical U.S. city maps, National Parks, Monuments and Historic Sites, other historical maps. Also has electronic gazetteers, distance calculators, bibliographies and glossaries, U.S.G.S. map symbols, map projections, time, tide and sunrise tables, and links to many other sites with maps and other geographical information.
- Road Map
- (Lycos)
- Enter street or e-mail address or domain name to get a personalized map.
- SmarTraveler: Travel Information Services
- Real-time traffic reports for 11 major cities, including the Washington, DC area.
- TIGER Mapping Service
- (U.S. Census)
- TIGER offers access to 1990 Census data, which can be plotted onto maps chosen from city, state or zip code information. Since the maps and data are in the public domain, customized versions can be used on web sites.
