WWW-VL: HISTORY: MAPS
Research Tools
- Map Reading and Allied Skills
Bibliographies and Portals
- Odden's Bookmarks
[with 8400 links. accepted as the best cartographic collection on
the web]
WWW-VL Cartography. The
History of Cartography, by Tony Campbell
The World
of Maps - Die Welt der Karten: A Gateway for maps and mapping
- ein Portal für das Kartenwesen "Maps, spacial data and
GIS on the Internet - and how to find them. Links to catalogues of
map holdings, map collections and map archives,map curatorship and
map history, map institutions, map events and many others .... "
Encyclopedia of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: Geography
An Illustrated
Guide to the Map Collections of the Library of Congress
Index to the History of Cartography
Geography Links [about.com site with excellent selction of links]
- Electronic Cultural
Atlas Initiative (ECAI), International and Area Studies, University
of California, Berkeley.
- HistoGrafica, an online community whose aim is to show in pictures how the world changed throughout time - we are creating an archive where people can look up a town or a street and see what that place looked like 50 years ago, 30 years ago and so on. Our members share their pictures through our site, tag them by date and locate them on a map; as a result our archive is expanding to show the "fourth dimension" of all places. (At the moment, pPictures mostly from the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Germany and Poland, etc..)
- Maps in NIG - History Guide cooperates with the netzwerk internetressourcen geschichte (Network Subject Gateways History) (nig). This service currently lists more than 13,000 metadata records including records from the InformationsWeiser Geschichte (Bavarian State Library) and the Webdirectory of Clio-nline.
- Journals
- Software's
- Centennia: is a map-based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East from the beginning of the 11th century to the present. It is a dynamic, animated historical atlas.
- Great German Hand-Atlases - großen deutschen Hand-Atlanten (Fineatlases.de by Martin Hensen): "This site is designed as a quick illustrated online-reference for collectors of the Great German Hand-Atlases with a focus on the 19th century".
Historical Map Collections
Organizations
- Libraries
Associations
- Publishers
- Museum/Exhibitions
Earth Images
- Google Earth
-
Aerial
Photographs and Atlases, Microsoft Terraserver [frames]
- CyberAtlas--Guggenheim Museum [frames, Java]
- EOSDIS
DAAC at EROS Data Center
-
Global Images From GRASS GIS
- Multimap
NASA Earth images
- Picture Gallery
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
- HistoGrafica, an online community whose aim is to show in pictures how the world changed throughout time - we are creating an archive where people can look up a town or a street and see what that place looked like 50 years ago, 30 years ago and so on. Our members share their pictures through our site, tag them by date and locate them on a map; as a result our archive is expanding to show the "fourth dimension" of all places. (At the moment, pPictures mostly from the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Germany and Poland, etc..)
Regions and Countries
-
Asia
- Europe
- General
- Nations
- DE Germany and
Europe at the Institute of European History, Mainz
FR Historical Maps of Paris
Netherlands
- France and the Mediterranean
- "The Mediterranean Map Library is a project developed by the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH) in Aix-en-Provence. It takes its source from the growing request of the social science researchers for cartographic information and associated tools."
- Germany
- A free web-based information-system on the development of the German states between 1820 and 1914 has been released with an english version: Great German Hand-Atlases - großen deutschen Hand-Atlanten (Fineatlases.de by Martin Hensen): "This site is designed as a quick illustrated online-reference for collectors of the Great German Hand-Atlases with a focus on the 19th century".
Russia
United Kingdom
- Mediterranean
- Historical Atlas of the Mediterranean, the maps are interactive as you can choose different dates and see how boundaries changed over time and you can click on map features to see images and read articles. Deals with the Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval period.
- Middle East
- Oceania
-
Astronomical
Historical by Periods
- Ancient
- Medieval
- 16th Century
17th Century
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
- XXth Century
History of Cartography
Web Resources
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