MAPS
AND EARTH IMAGES
Insightful
Blog about Maps-- The
Map Room
• Atlas of Canada-- Current maps, tables, images,
geographical facts, and archive of historical maps,
from Natural Resources Canada.
• Geography and
Map Reading Room-- From the U.S. Library of
Congress, posts many online maps of a wide variety, of
places in the United States, other countries, and the
world, historical and contemporary, plus a blog and guide to maps
elsewhere on the Internet.
• Google
Earth-- Excellent free site that "puts a
planet's worth of imagery and other geographic
information right on your desktop... combines
satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search
to put the world's geographic information at your
fingertips." Also allows virtual "ocean exploration."
Several versions
are available, including a more elaborate Google Earth Pro version for
download. Recommended for beginners: Gizmodo's
guide to Google Earth.
• Map Fight-- Allows you to
compare, visually and by percentages, the relative
areas of countries and other geographical areas by
overlaying outlines of the areas chosen.
• Map Resources--
From the National Defense University in Washington,
D.C., "A guide to map
resources on the internet. Prepared by the NDU Library
staff in support of the courses, conferences, and
research requirements of the National Defense
University."
• Maps of the
World-- From Nations Online, access to a wide
variety of fine maps of many types.
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map
Collection-- At the University of Texas, one of
the very best online, with finely detailed maps of
different styles and dates. Note their lengthy link
list of other online
sites for many kinds of maps.
• Reference Maps-- Detailed maps
from the World Factbook reference
annual of the Central Intelligence Agency of the
United States.
• United Nations Atlas of the Oceans-- "An Internet portal providing information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans. It is designed for policy-makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and for scientists, students and resource managers who need access to databases and approaches to sustainability."
• United Nations Geospatial Information Section-- An excellent site, with many general and peacekeeping maps online and links to other U.N. map sites. Maps are in PDF format for best display and print results.
• World Time Zones Map-- Time
zones of the world, with the current times, sun clock,
time zone maps to print.
• World Wind-- From the U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, an
excellent free downloadable program with many plug-ins
that "lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any
place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery
and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind
lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D,
just as if you were really there."
• Worldmapper-- "A collection of
world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map
according to the subject of interest." From the
University of Sheffield, these cartograms show the
relative global distribution of many attributes, such
as population, trade flows, immigration, refugees,
tourism, and so on
