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An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps presenting geographic features and political boundaries, many atlases and maps often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics.
FreeTrip.com – “Create GREAT road trips throughout the USA and Canada! This easy-to-use trip and tour planner produces PERSONALIZED itineraries that display the things YOU want to see along the way!”
Bing Maps – “Maps of the world, street map search, route planner, directions and traffic, satellite and aerial images, birds eye view, yellow pages, 3D cities, white pages, and more.”
CIA World Fact Book – Countries described in terms of geography, language, climate, economy, etc.
EarthMaps by Delorme – can search by zip code, street address, area code or exchange and by longitude and latitude.
Earth Viewer – Displays Day and Night Regions in Real Time
Earthquakes – Latest earthquake information from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program.
Fast Company: 12 maps that tell the extraordinary story of 2018 – To mark the end of an extraordinary year, they compiled a list of some of the most compelling maps they’ve shared on Fast Company over the last 12 months. Most of these came from Esri, a spatial analytics company whose mapping software is used throughout the private and public sectors. The images in this link are just screen grabs, but you can click the links to find the corresponding interactive maps.
Google Maps – an online service that allows users in the U.S. to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions quickly and easily. Features include: Draggable maps, Integrated Local search results, and Turn-by-turn directions.
HomeTownLocator Gazetteer – Site contains data for 1.8 million physical and cultural features, US census information for 98,000 local areas and distance calculations for 177,000 populated places. Links to aerial photos, regional, local and topographical maps.
Internet Map Resources – Site by the Univ. of Texas Library presents an extensive collection of maps resources available on the Internet. Categories include: Cartograhic Reference, City Map Sites, Country Map Sites, Historical Map Sites, State and Weather Map Sites.
Map Collections: 1500 – 2004 – Site contains the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world with collections numbering over 4.5 million maps including 60,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, numerous globes and plastic relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including electronic.
National Atlas of Canada – Learn about Canada’s geography through texts and maps; access datasets; use an interactive mapping tool; try the quiz and consult teaching resources section.
National Atlas of the United States – You’ve seen other atlases. They’re typically big books of paper maps. The pages in this atlas are here on the Internet whenever you need them. This is a new portrayal of America in maps. You’ve found the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web.
National Geographic Map Machine – “Locate nearly any place on Earth, search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas.”
onX Maps – “OnX Is Home to the #1 Hunting, Mapping, Wind & Weather Tool Used by Millions On & Offline.”
OldMapsOnline – The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world indexes over 400.000 maps.
OpenStreetMap.org – “OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.”
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection – At this comprehensive site, you will find many different types of maps along with links to related maps all over the Internet. Available sections include: country maps, city maps, detailed maps, thematic maps, historical maps, country and thematic maps on other web sites.
Rare Map Collection – a collection of about 800 historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.
Reference Maps – Locate states, counties, urban areas, school districts, places, zip codes, census tracts, census blocks, and other Census geographies.
Road Construction – Rand McNally – Rand McNally gathers information from all 50 United States and some Canadian providences and updates its database once a month. You can search by state, road name, or construction start and ending date.
Ryhiner Project, The – more than 15,000 maps, charts, plans and views from the 16th to the 18th century, covering the whole globe
TerraFly: Virtual ‘Fly’ Over the Entire U.S. – This site by the School of Computer Science at Florida International University, allows users to view Geographic Information Systems images either by place (longitude/latitude) or street address. A unique feature of this service allows users to view the images continuously and seamlessly, giving the user a feeling of ‘flying over’ the photographed land areas.
Thematic Maps – View census data in graphical format for all geographies from the nation to individual Census blocks. Data are available for Census 2000, the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, and 2001 Population Estimates.
Trailforks.com – “World’s largest mountain biking trail database and management system for trail associations, builders and riders.”
UK Street Map Page – This site provides address searching and street map facilities for the whole of mainland Britain.
U.S. Address Lookup – Using this site you can verify any U.S. address and get information on the county, time zone, house of representative member, latitude, longitude, income, home prices and more.
Yahoo! Maps – “Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, Satellite View and Traffic. Rated the best online mapping experience.”
Zoom Into Maps – Maps help us make sense of our world. This Library of Congress site explores maps and how they are used, with sectionsfor local geography, exploration and discovery, migration and settlement, environmental history, travel and transportation, military, pictorial, and unusual maps.
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Autolist – ‘Looking for the best site to find a used car? Browse millions of used car deals everyday with our free search engine. Find your dream car now!’
BabyNames.com – “BabyNames.com has been the the #1 site for names and naming since 1996.”
Biography.com – “Read biographies, play games, watch interviews and video clips at Biography.com. Check out our Born On This Day, Deathiversary, and Black History sections. Visit The Biography Channel for great TV shows like BIOGRAPHY, Notorious, I Survived…, and more.”
BookWire – the first place to look for book information
Books On-line – “Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web.”
Browser Watch – “Web browser news for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Apple’s Safari web browsers.”
Convert-me.com – interactive calculators for many measurement systems both commonly used like metric and U.S. Avoirdupois and quite exotic like Ancient Greek and Roman. U.S. to metric conversion is now easy and fast!
Currency Converter – view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST
FedEx Shipping & Logistics – FedEx.com is your single source fo time-sensitive, time-definite and day-definite package, envelope and freight transportation services both domestic and international.
Healthfinder – “Your source for reliable health information from the Federal government. Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy.”
Hoover’s Online – information on more than 10,000 of the largest public and private companies in the US and around the world.
Human Anatomy Online – over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
Information Please – from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
International Data Base – is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
netLibrary – “The World’s Largest Collection of Electronic Books”
New York Times Books – includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, and more.
Nobel Prizes – Comprehensive historical list of winners in all categories.
Pew Research Center: 18 striking findings from 2018 – Pew Research Center takes the pulse of Americans and people around the world on a host of issues every year. They explore public opinion on topics ranging from foreign policy to cyberbullying, as well as demographic trends, such as the emergence of the post-Millennial generation and changes in the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Here are 18 of this year’s standout findings, taken from their analyses over the past year.
Public School Review – “Profiles, statistics and reviews of over 100,000 public schools in the USA. Help with finding the right school.”
RxList -“Medications and prescription drug information for consumers and medical health professionals. The most popular drugs and their side effects, interactions, and use.”
Search Systems – “Free Public Records Directory at SearchSystems.net. The Internet;s largest directory of free public records databases. Search for criminal records, judgments, tax liens, bankruptcies, find people, reverse phone, background checks, search, licenses”
Smoking Gun, The – “The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents–cool, confidential, quirky–that can’t be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, we guarantee everything here is 100% authentic.”
