Maps
Links
"EO News: NASA Olympics Blue Marble Release; February 6, 2002"
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
"Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet."
"PresentationMaps.com clipart, clip-art, PowerPoint, custom maps"
http://www.presentationmaps.com/index.html
"Maps for PowerPoint (clipart), DTP, and graphic design. Very reasonable rates for high quality maps."
All The Worlds Maps
http://www.embassyworld.com/maps/
"To find the maps of a nation find that nation's name in the drop down menu below and then click 'Launch Map Page.' Note that all nations are not yet entered into our database, but soon will be...."
Citry Trip Distance Calculator
"This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies)."
Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/
"A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over
165,000 places in the world. Users can search all the informationù not just place-namesùand segment it."
Digital Chart of the World
http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/
"This web site will allow you to download the boundaries and layers of different countries, in Arc/INFO export format, from ESRI's Digital Chart of the World data set."
Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
"You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe."
Find a map
http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=mmfn
"Find a topographic map of any location on earth, and zoom in and out."
Finding your latitude and longitude
http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/finding.html
This site lists a number of web sites will give you coordinates for cities.
Geography and Map World Info
http://geography.about.com/education/scilife/geography/
"Maps and geographical information for every country, state, continent, and ocean."
Geography Network
http://www.geographynetwork.com/
The Geography Network is a global community of government and commercial data providers who are committed to making geographic content easily accessible.
Graphic Maps
http://www.graphicmaps.com/graphic_maps.html
An extremely good resource of maps and flags
Map Quest
"Online Maps--Looking for an address, town, or zip code? Get and print maps worldwide!"
Map Resources digital map clip art
Maps For Graphic Design.
Maps 101
"This online education package is a powerful resource for any district or school. Teachers and students can choose from hundreds of full color physical and political maps in the U.S. and World Reference Atlases, as well as from collections of black and white outline maps, history maps, thematic maps, and daily current event maps which can be downloaded and printed for immediate use in the classroom or home."
Missions Atlas Project
State of missions and transltion in the world
MSN MapPoint - Home
Microsoft's Mappoint online presence. Great for trip planning.
Multimap.com: Online Maps to Everywhere.
Country level to Streel level maps from around the world.
NASA's Visible Earth
A searchable database of images from all around the earth.
NIMA: (U) GNS Public Page
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN).
Oddens' bookmarks. The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html
The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping.
Omni Resources - Maps
The world's largest online map catalog.
Online Map Creation
http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
You may create maps interactively at this site.