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Paul B. Anderson and Paul S. Anderson, Geography-Geology Department at Illinois State University: MicroCAM for Windows. This a microcomputer based program designed for use in the instruction of computer-assisted cartography. The program is placed into the public domain for non- commercial purposes. Worth checking out: Outline Maps, a set of high quality maps that you can download and print as master copies for unlimited reproduction.
Atlapedia Online. Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps (showing water marks) as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre (AGCRC): GRASSLinks. GRASSLinks is a World Wide Web interface to the AGCRC-4DGM database which includes maps covering the geography, geology, and geophysics of the Australian continent. E-mail registration!
Muawia Barazangi, Dogan Seber, Eric Sandvol, and Marisa Vallve, Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC), Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY, and Cornell University-Department of Geological Sciences: The Middle East and North Africa geological and geophysical information, data, and map server. This Web server is organized to provide you with the maximum ability to obtain information about the geological and geophysical databases available for the Middle East and North Africa region. See: INTERACTIVE MAP MAKER
University of California, Berkeley: EARTH SCIENCES & MAP LIBRARY
CIA: The World Factbook, Go to: Reference Maps. Available in JPEG and PDF. Excellent!
Alakananda Deonath and Abhijit D. Deonath, geoIndia.8m.com: The Geological map of India. Click on an area on the map to know what lies underneath that area.
Digital Reflections, Mining and Exploration Australia and New Guinea: Maps.
EarthRISE: Topographical World Map.
Claire Englander, and Philip Hoehn, The Library, University of California, Berkeley: Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps. Excellent!
Martin Frey, Institute of Mineralogy, Basel: Metamorphic maps of the Alps. Edited by M.Frey (Basel), J.Desmons (Nancy) and F.Neubauer (Salzburg) with contributions of more than 50 scientists. A small GIF image is available via the WWW.
Michael T. Garrison: Websurfer´s Biweekly Earth Sciences Review: Websites for Geological Maps: USA States. Part of the web index "Maps and Cartography". Excellent!
GEOnet Names Server (GNS): GNS provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency´s (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 12,000 of the databases 3.3 million features are updated monthly with names information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN).
Geomar, Kiel: Online map creation. Create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map (as GIF or PS-file) will be returned to your browser.
The J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). The TGN contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.
US Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park: The Earth´s Crust. Crustal Structure Maps (Project Crust 5.1: USGS).
The Great Globe Gallery. There are 83 different globes included on this page.
Cheryl Hallam, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston: Atlas of Antarctic Research.
Calvin J. Hamilton: Earth Introduction (Site is part of the "Views of the Solar System"). With earth statisitics and access to earth movies and views of the earth, sorted by continents.
Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp, Tectonic Designs, (page hosted by SIMall.com): World Ocean Floors. Unfortunately in small size 8.91 x 4.83 cm, 150 dpi (jpg). This amazing piece of work accurately illustrates the tectonic Earth including mid-ocean ridges, the giant Pacific Plate, continental shelves, and undersea mountain chains. See also here.
Dilshat Hewzulla, David Gee and Michael Boulter: Global Plotter This is a program for plotting geographical information. You can query a biodiversity databases or you can create and add/edit your own data.
InterGO Communications: World Atlas. Countries and oceans of the world.
Institut für Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz, University of Hannover: Karten. Meta-Index, in German.
Geological Survey of Japan: Geological Map Database of Japan. This database is the part of the geological map of Japan, CD-ROM version.
Raino Lampinen, Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History: CARTOGRAPHIC LINKS FOR BOTANISTS. This page has links to internet sites with online plant distribution maps as well as links to computerized mapping in general and the coordinate conversion software chapter. Excellent!
Multi Media Mapping UK: Interactive World Atlas . This page provides an interactive world atlas combined with different scales. There is a scale indicator at the bottom of the map; you can zoom in and out as you please.
National Geographic Society: Map Machine. Downloadable maps.
NASA/USGS: NASA/USGS Planetary Geologic Mapping Program. The Astrogeology Team at USGS provides coordination of NASA´s planetary geologic mapping program.
National Geographic Society: Map Machine Atlas. Country maps, flags and profils. Map resources, political and physical maps.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland: GLOBE Visualization The GLOBE Visualization server provides images of environmental data worldwide.
NASA: Visible Earth. The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. Images are accompanied by a description and information on file size and format, usually TIF and JPEG. Excellent!
Oddens´s Bookmarks. The fascinating world of maps and mapping (> 1700 links).
Jim O'Donnell, Caltech Library System, California Institute of Technology: Maps and Information about Maps.
Pennsylvania State University Libraries: Digital Chart of the World Server. Downloadable maps in ARC/INFO, ARCVIEW formats and GIF files.
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin: Maps of Europe, Maps of Africa.
Malcolm I. Ross, Houston: The PALEOMAP Foundation. Palaeomaps with costs.
J.-Y. Royer, R.D. Müller, L.M. Gahagan, L.A. Lawver, C.L. Mayes, D. Nürnberg and J.G. Sclater, Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), University of Texas: A global isochron chart. (Technical Report No. 117, 1992). The Paleoceanographic Mapping Project (POMP), a global plate reconstruction project, provide color images of plate reconstruction with isochrons, References for coastlines, sutures, continental margins references for plate boundaries, satellite interpretations, ship-track data by region and finite poles of rotation used to reconstruct isochrons.
Joop Schillemans, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Country Maps from W3 Servers in Europe.
Susan Clark Slaymaker, Geology Department, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Sacramento: Links to topographic map examples which illustrate symbols commonly used on maps for cultural and natural features, Links to examples of landforms depicted on topographic maps, Links to topographic maps which have been selected to illustrate common geologic processes, cultural features and topographic map symbols, and Classic stereoviews of Geologic features.
SOSIG Internet Catalogue: GIS and Cartography, Europe.
South Dakota Geological Survey, Vermillion: Maps & Mapping Agencies.
Blanka Sperner, Research Project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: The World Stress Map (WSM). WSM is one of the fundamental global databases about topography, gravity, heat flow etc. The database contains information on the contemporary tectonic stress in the Earth´s crust.
SRTM Project Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena (NASA): Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Mapping the World in 3 dimensions. Go to: SRTM Image Products: Clickable Map, or SRTM Image Products: Listing. The primary products of the SRTM mission are the digital elevation maps of most of the Earth's surface. JPL images are available for use by the public free of charge.
Stanford University: Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.
Ray Sterner: Color Landform Atlas of the United States. Digital color shaded relief maps. Excellent!
ThinkQuest team: The Living Atlas. This is a growing collection of maps of Africa, e.g. continent maps and country maps, including national parks and wildlife reserves. Visitors can contribute their maps to the site by uploading them in the land section of the "Living Knowledgebase".
Vicinity Corporation: MapBlast. MapBlast, a free mapping service, allows you to create, customize, and save easy-to-read digital maps pinpointing almost any location. Excellent!
John Walker, Satellite data provided by The Living Earth Inc./Earth Imaging: Earth and Moon Viewer. 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.
John Watson, U.S. Geological Survey; Reston; Virginia: This Dynamic Planet. This website (in pdf) provides thematic maps of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics.
Ian West, School of Ocean and Earth Science , Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton University: Geology of the South Coast of England. This set of field geology guides contains more than 50 subpages dedicated to individual field trips, 15 subpages of bibliographic entries keyed to the field trips, and a subpage with complete geological maps (old) of England, Scotland, Cornwall, and Wales.
WorldAtlas.com. Provided by Graphic Maps, Galveston, Texas: Temporally, this detailed world atlas only includes a limited selection of images for general use.
Kartensammlung der ETH-Bibliothek Zürich,
Internet-Katalog, Karten - weltweit:
Thematischer Katalog (Sachbereiche).
A sorted index of online maps (in German).
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! Apacho: Routenplaner (in German). An online route planer link directory for Germany. Excellent!
Falk: Online Route Planer Germany. In German. Excellent!
reiseroute.de: Route Planer Europe.
Tele-Info.
In German.