Web Resources
About Maps
- How Stuff Works: How Maps Work
- How Maps Were Made
- From New York Public Library
- How to Read a Map
- From New York Public Library
- How to Read a Topographic Map
- From How Stuff Works: Hiking
Maps
- Blank Outline Maps of the Countries and Continents of the World
- Education Place Outline Maps
- Arranged by continent. Also includes individual maps of the 50 state and historical American maps. Includes some unlabeled maps.
- Google Maps
- Maps, driving directions, business locations, and more. Users without high speed Internet might prefer to use the HTML-only edition of this service.
- Library Spot's Maps
- Includes links to maps collections, U.S. maps, world maps, and specialized maps such as aerial, zip codes, space, topographic, and many more.
- MapQuest
- Generate maps of locations as well as driving directions to and from destinations. You can also locate places by address and find attractions and services local to those areas, including hotels, dining locations, stores, schools and universities, museums, libraries, and more.
- maproom.org
- A collection of atlases published before 1923 searchable by keyword. Requires Adobe Flash. Each click on a maps zooms in for more and more detail. Maps are in color and black and white. Includes "Historical Atlas to Modern Europe" covering the Roman Empire through to the end of the 19th century.
- Maps
- From government agencies. Topics: Community, Environmental, Health, Historical, Space, United States, Weather, Where to Buy U.S. Government Maps and World. From USA.gov.
- Maps for Students
- A collection of free, mainly historical digital maps for educational use. It gives teachers and students an expanding set of small-scale reference maps for classroom and personal use. Each may be downloaded from the website in multiple formats. A blank version of each map is "suitable for map quizzes and customization."
- Modern Language Association Language Map
- View and compare color coded maps of the United States as a whole or by each state. Bar graphs can be created by state, zip code, town, city or county.
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- "The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (PCL 1.306) is a general collection of more than 250,000 maps covering all areas of the world. Many of the maps are included in our Library Catalog. More than 11,000 map images from our collection are also available online."
- Rand McNally
- Street maps, driving directions, North America travel guides, trip planning, blog, fun facts about major destinations, and more.
- Rare Map Collection
- A collection of more than 800 historical maps of America spanning nearly 500 years.
- U.S. National Atlas
- Provides printable maps including a map of the United States and state capitals. Other maps include Time Zones, Presidential Elections (1789 to 2000), Indian Reservations, Congressional Districts, and more. From the United States Department of the Interior (DOI).
- World Outline Maps
- Grouped by region, the maps are unlabeled and placed on longitude and latitude lines. From Brigham Young University.
- Yahoo Maps
- Maps, driving directions, business locations, and more. Two versions currently: one for dialup users, one for broadband users
