• Atlases - United States Military Academy
  Maps encompassing both America’s wars and global conflicts.
• Canadian Geograpic Names
  Names of places and geographical features in Canada.
• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America
  Comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features (Columbia University Press, 2000).
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
  
Contains thousands of maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.
• Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 (for Illinois)
  
Large-scale plans of a city or town created to assist fire insurance companies in risk assessment; the maps list street blocks and building numbers in use at the time the maps were made.
• Encyclopædia Britannica World Atlas
  Maps and articles related to the world's nations and major cities.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  Names and other information about places on all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. The emphasis is on places important for art and architecture.
• Historical Maps Online
  Iimages of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory (University of Illinois).
• How Far is It
  This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
• IllinoisAtlas.com
  
Illinois (and U.S.) maps based on a wide variety of characteristics, including data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other government sources.
• Infoplease Atlas
  Regional and country maps (includes printer-frienuly feature).
• Map Collections: 1500 - 2004
  The focus of this collection is Americana and cartographic treasures of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress' American Memory Project).
• Maps and Atlases
  An extensive collections of links to various maps and mapping resources (Internet Public Library).
• Maps Online
  Provides links to a variety of online map resources (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University).
• National Atlas of the United States of America
  National-scale geographical information of the United States (U.S. Dept. of Interior).
• National Geographic Society
• Xpeditions AtlaS
  World atlas with printable maps from National Geographic.
• Maps and GeographY
  
Links to various maps and mapping resources.
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  An extensive collection of electronic maps (University of Texas at Austin).
• United Nations Cartographic Section
  Maps (PDF format for quality printing) and geographic information resources.
• World Maps
  Includes over 775 maps, with locator, physical and political maps for each country, over 120 island maps, state maps for North America, Canada, and Mexico, and more than 100 city maps (Oxford Reference Online collection).
• World Factbook
  Country maps provided by the CIA; Regional maps available in PDF format.

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