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Map Resources
Map Access & Use Policy

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  • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (current and historical maps)
  • MapQuest (international city maps, trip planning)

    GENERAL MAP RESOURCES

  • Odden’s Bookmarks (Universiteit Utrecht—7000 links to maps, gazeteers, electronic atlas, etc.)
  • Alexandria Digital Library
  • University of Virginia (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center)
  • Penn State Maproom (Excellent links to other sources of maps)
  • Microsoft Terraserver
  • The Library of Congress
  • Atlas of Cyberspace (maps of internet, network backbones, historical maps of ARPANET)
  • Dag Hammarskjold Library, United Nations
  • National Geographic (select Xpeditions)
  • Digital Urban Atlas of U.S. Cities

    CIVIL WAR MAPS

  • Library of Congress Civil War imagery
  • The University of Kansas, Thomas R. Smith Map Library
  • The University of Georgia, Rare Map Room
  • The Battle of Chancellorsville
  • Coast Survey’s Historical Collection

    OTHER WARS

  • Normandy virtual reality homepage
  • The Battle of Hastings 1066
  • The US-Mexican War
  • Korean War Project
  • WWII homepage
  • Gulf War Map
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Bay of Pigs

    PEACEKEEPING

  • Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations
  • RELIEF Web, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
  • InfoNation
  • Balkans regional atlas (CIA)
  • Bosnialink
  • Alexandria Digital Library

    IMAGERY

  • Microsoft Terraserver
  • USGS Earthshots
  • NASA radar imagery

    GOVERNMENT MAPPING SITES

  • NIMA
  • National Mapping Information (USGS)
  • USGS (listing of maps)
  • National Atlas (USGS)
  • NOAA
  • Atlas of Canadian Resources
  • British Ordinance Survey (Britain’s national mapping agency, includes GIS)

    MAPPING RELATED RESOURCES

  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • CIA World Factbook
  • Canadian Geographic Names
  • Travlang (dictionaries, currency exchange rates, hotels, etc. worldwide)

    DOWNLOADING ASSISTANCE

  • Suggestions for successfully downloading maps from internet
  • Using Maps in PowerPoint [draft]

    NATO CLASS HANDOUT (includes mapping sites)

  • Map resources for NATO Staff Officer Orientation Course


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