Maps / Atlases

Describes how to cite maps from print sources and from the web using American examples.

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"The Columbia Gazetteer's Advanced Search page provides comprehensive tools for locating and organizing information about the places covered in the Gazetteer in a variety of ways. Users can combine place-name or full-text searching with metadata elements on the entries, or just by metadata categories."

"Features 7,000+ maps. Rare 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic history materials are a special focus."

Federally recognized physical and cultural geographic features in the U.S. are identified by State and county locations and geographic coordinates.

Provides point co-ordinates and NTS map number for place names.

This web and ftp site distributes geospatial data of Canada. Data is available for download, without charge. Vector mapping data is available in scales ranging from 1:50,000 to 1:30,000,000 in a variety of file formats. Similarly, several types of full resolution satellite imagers are on-line.

A collection of 250 U.S. state maps which include a raised relief map, elevation map, rivers map, political map and roads/cities map with links to state and city satellite images.

A growing collection of over 100 country maps paired with Landsat images.

"Search for maps of all parts of the UK, at various scales, by entering a place name."