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Map Collections

  • American Revolution and Its Era: 1750-1789
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
    armhtml/armhome.html
    The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.

  • CIA World Factbook Reference Maps
    http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/
    factbook/docs/refmaps.html
    The CIA Factbook contains a section of reference maps for the major regions of the world. Each map is available as a JPEG and PDF.

  • Cities and Towns
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
    gmdhtml/cityhome.html
    The Cities and Towns category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.

  • Civil War Maps
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
    gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
    The Civil War Map collection consists of reconnaissance, sketch, coastal, and theater-of-war maps which depict troop activities and fortifications during the Civil War.

  • Conservation and Environment
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
    cnsvhome.html
    The historic and more recent maps contained in this category show early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas of the United States. These maps show the changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife. Specific conservation projects such as the growth and development of U.S. National Parks are included in this category.

  • Cultural Landscapes
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
    gmdhtml/setlhome.html
    Cultural Landscapes geography is documented in this category by large-scale maps such as individual land surveys, county land ownership maps and atlases, large-scale topographic maps, and thematic maps showing economic activity.

  • Discovery and Exploration
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
    dsxphome.html
    This category documents the discovery and exploration with both manuscripts and published maps. Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th century when Europeans were concerned primarily with determining the outline of the continents as they explored and mapped the coastal areas and the major waterways.

  • Exploring Florida Maps Kid Friendly Florida Site
    http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/maps.htm
    A large collection of Florida maps from the time of the first European explorers to the present.

  • GraphicMaps.com Advertising
    http://www.graphicmaps.com/clipart.htm
    Large collection of continent images, globe images, outline maps, USA images, and world images.

  • Library of Congress General Maps
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
    gmdhtml/gnrlhome.html
    This category includes maps that typically portray the physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area at a particular point in time. The maps in this category show a geographic area larger than a city or town.

  • National Atlas
    http://nationalatlas.gov/
    The National atlas contributes to our knowledge of the environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life. Also includes printable maps of presidential election results.

  • Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Maps Florida Site
    http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/resource/
    gallery/maps.htm
    All of the maps in A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Many of the maps are formatted for printing.

  • Transportation and Communication Maps
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
    gmdhtml/trnshome.html
    These maps document the development and status of transportation and communication systems on the national, state, and local level.

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    Map Generators

  • Map-It: Form-based Simple Map Generator
    http://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/mapit/
    This form takes longitude/latitude pairs as input and plops them on a Mercator projection map along with land/sea and political boundaries. The map bounds will be about 10% larger than the bounds of the entered data points.

  • MapQuest Advertising
    http://www.mapquest.com/
    Maps, aerial photos, and driving directions for any location. The aerial photos require a free registration.

  • Microsoft TerraServer Advertising
    http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/
    default.aspx
    TerraServer provides free online access to USGS digital aerial photographs and to digital topographic maps.

  • National Geographic MapMachine Advertising
    http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
    Choose from six categories and customize your map.

  • Online Map Creation
    http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/
    make_map.html
    You may create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map will be returned to your browser. The maps are actually created by the "Generic Mapping Tools" (GMT). This means a PostScript version is drawn first which you can download onto your hard disk after completion. The GIF-version (the one you get to see in your browser window) may be saved by terms of your browser.

  • U.S. Census Bureau
    http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
    This mapping engine uses 1998 TIGER/Line data and 1990 Decennial Census data.

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    Miscellaneous

  • Color Brewer
    http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/
    cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html
    Color Brewer is an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics.


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Last Updated
September 20, 2004

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ETC is a collaborative project of the Bureau of Educational Technology, Florida Department of Education and the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida. The links included in this clearinghouse appeared to contain useful information at the time they were chosen. If you discover that a site linked from this clearinghouse is no longer relevant, or has inaccurate or inappropriate content, please email the project director.