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Maps - Oddens (Utrecht U.)
Oddens' bookmarks was started in 1995 by Roelof Oddens, the curator of the map Library of the Faculty of GeoSciences and is today perhaps the most extensive online map collection in the world. (The number of links in the database has grown from 6500 in 1999 to over 22000 in April 2004.) You can find almost any map you are searching for via this enormous site. The site is searchable by country, region, and category. Key sections include Maps and Atlases, Map Collections, Government Cartography, and Touristic Sites.

Map History/ History of Cartography
Map History, managed by the former Map Librarian of the British Library, is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and forms part of the WWW-Virtual Library. Spread over about 100 pages, it provides a well-organized global overview of the history of cartography as well as over 1500 links. The site provides reference information and web articles, and it lists activities, opportunities, and resources for surfers and scholars. There are also leads to the collecting of early maps. Furthermore, there is a section aimed specifically at parents and teachers.

National Geographic: Maps and Geography
You can search for Maps in their MapMachine Online Atlas but National Geographic.com also provides interactive quizzes, games, expeditions and tours as well. Xpeditions Atlas offers teacher-tested lessons plans sorted by standard and grade level as well as interactive lessons and a virtual museum called Xpeditions Hall. You can also get print-friendly and black-and-white maps in Xpeditions. The online National Geographic Atlas of the World profiles 192 independent nations and in each entry you'll find key geographic, demographic, and economic data as well as a brief overview. Students will benefit from the Homework Helpsection where they can research pictures, articles, maps, and more for reports, presentations, and more. The GeoBee Challenge is a game that features five new geography-based questions every day. Map Machine provides physical and political characteristics of countries and includes aerial views. You can view nearly any place on Earth by population, climate, and more.

Geography World
A teacher from Pennsylvania has put together this resource. Check out the links to Maps and Globes as well as the Geography Quizzes area. (Site is slow to load.)

Open Directory: Geography
The Open Directory Project on Geography contains 1,177 websites: Cartography (76), Dictionaries (4), Education (95), Geographic Information Systems (787), Geomatics (719), Human Geography (48), Navigation (55), Organizations (25), Physical Geography (22), Place Names (59), Publications (12) and Regional Planning (868).

SCORE Map Resources
The Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) project is a terrific resource for teachers and students alike. (see description under General Resources)

Animated Atlas
Animated Atlas portrays history by animating maps. This site features a ten minute, interactive movie that is a geographic history of the United States, locating major events and the admission of every state. Also sells classroom videos.

Shock-ing Geography
An interactive outline map site created by Daniel J. Pfeifer of Wake Forest University. Students can quiz themselves on physical, current political, and some historical map information. Historical maps are so far only for Europe 1763, World 1800, Europe 1815, and Europe 1914, but physical and current political maps cover most world areas. Instructors can have results of student self-quizzes emailed to them. Requires Shockwave software.

OSSHE Historic Atlas Resource Library
Extensive, colorful, and often interactive, the maps in this library cover Europe, Middle East, North Africa, and North America. The U.S. maps are limited in scope and can be slow to load if you don't have Shockwave software.

David Rumsey Map Collection
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 8,800 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps.

 Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
An interesting and informative collection of information on the twentieth century. Atlas topics include: General Trends in Living Conditions, Government, War, and Religion. Maps are often interactive, allowing you to zoom in on details. There are even essays, FAQ's and links.

Periodical Atlas of Europe
The Periodical Atlas of Europe features 21 online maps showing the countries of Europe at the end of each century from year 1 to year 2000. Also includes a few images of historical sites.

PCL Map Collection (UTexas)
Has a diverse set of physical, political and historical maps

The Effectiveness of GIS in High School Education
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is a powerful software mapping program. With GIS teachers have a dynamic mapping tool allowing them to create almost any required map, but the software also allows students to create, query and detect patterns involving demographic, historical, and scientific data. Experiments conducted in geography and special education courses in Boulder High School, Boulder Colorado, USA, provide some of the first empirical and case study data as to the effectiveness of GIS in teaching

A Nationwide Analysis of the Implementation of GIS in High School Education
The survey provides some of the first comprehensive data on the geographic and curricular extent to which GIS is being implemented, why and how GIS is being implemented, forces that motivate teachers to adopt GIS, and the benefits and challenges of adoption of the technology.

Geodesy
GEODESY is a comprehensive and integrated application of remote sensing and geographic information systems for K-12 schools. Students and teachers using GEODESY learn to interpret and analyze geographic information about their local community.

Quia
Has assorted links to geography quizzes and games. Also helps teachers create their own quizzes. You must be a paying member in order to use the site.

Historical atlas of Europe: The development of Europe's modern states 1648-2001
This site provides an overview of the political changes in Europe during the last 350 years.

Mapping.com
A commercial site that has a good set of links, geography quizzes, and a resources page. See "Hot Links."

Blank Maps or Outline Maps

WorldAtlas.com: Blank Maps
WorldAtlas.com offers a large selection of blank maps of various regions of the world as well as map tests. All outline maps and map tests may be used (at no charge) for any educational application whatsoever.

Houghton Mifflin Eduplace Online Maps
Has freely-usable blank outline maps. There are political and physical outline maps of the world and various smaller regions.

About.com Blank and Outline Maps
About.com offers collections of blank and outline maps to print out for educational or personal use at home or in the classroom.

National Geographic: Maps and Geography
National Geographic offers outline maps in the Xpeditions Atlas section and allows you the option of modifying the maps to print with or without borders.

Europe
Academie D'Orleans-Tours site with political maps of European countries and regions. (Site is in French)

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