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.
- Factmonsters: World Atlas and Map Library
- Maps of countries of the world.
- 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.
- 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."
- National Geographic: Maps Made for Printing
- Blank and detailed maps you can print. Includes World maps, Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America, Canada, and more.
- National Geographic Kids: Find People and Places
- Includes interesting facts about different countries and their citizens.
- 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."
- State Maps
- Printable PDF maps. From Factmonster.com.
- World Outline Maps
- Grouped by region, the maps are unlabeled and placed on longitude and latitude lines. From Brigham Young University.
