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Web Directory

• Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World - The Barrington Atlas, created by the Classical Atlas Project, is a reference work of permanent value. It has an exceptionally broad appeal to everyone worldwide with an interest in ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they encountered in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Scholars and libraries should all find it essential, although it is not just for them. It is also for students, travelers and lovers of fine cartography.
• Bodleian Library Map Room - The Map Room houses the world's seventh largest collection of maps.
• Census TMS Home Page - The home page for the TIGER Map Service, a project sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The goal of this service is to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data.
• Earth and Moon Viewer - From Fourmilab. Coverage: world, moon, solar system. Realtime weather, terminator, Living Earth data.
• Exploring the West from Monticello Home - An Exhibition of Maps and Navigational Instruments, on View in the Tracy W. McGregor Room, Alderman Library, University of Virginia.
• FEEFHS Map Room - The FEEFHS East European Map Room has a map collection from the Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World (published by Blackie and Sons in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland) cover almost all of central and eastern Europe, including all of the German Empire and the Russian Empire.
• GIS / Cartography Starting points - This page is situated at Department of Surveying and Mapping, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and can be used as startpoint to find various sites related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cartography.
• Historical Map Web Sites - The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas at Austin.
• The History of Cartography Project - A research, editorial, and publishing endeavor drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping.
• IAM's Map Room - Here in the map room, you can download maps of the ancient Mediterranean world, specially prepared by the IAM staff in cooperation with the APA's Classical Atlas Project. So long as you agree to certain basic conditions on the use and distribution of these maps, you can use them without charge in your papers, reports, articles, course packs, handouts, tests and web pages (see our Copyright and Fair Use Statement for more details).
• Cartographic Images - Illustrating maps from the Ancient, Medieval, & Renaissance periods.
• Index of Maps of Ancient Greek World - This page provides an index to the maps of Ancient Greece provided as background to the study of Plato and his dialogues. On all the maps, most names of locations are individually clickable to get to an entry providing information on the location (mythology, history, famous citizens, etc.) For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
• James Ford Bell Library - The purpose of [this collection] is to establish an historical background and knowledge of this great economic force [trade] and the part it has played and still plays in the development of the present-day world.              --James Ford Bell, 1954
• Kelsey Museum: Maps of the Ancient World - Geography, both cultural and physical, is extremely important for understanding the ancient world. However, many students are uncomfortable with it. We plan to make available a set of maps particularly tailored to the collections in the museum, which will complement the other on-line materials in this resource.
• MAGELLAN Geographix - Interactive Atlas
• MapBlast! - From Vicinity Coverage: US, world. Links to weather, news, satellite Spatial data.
• MapQuest- From GeoSystems Global. Coverage: US, world. Point of interest markers, 1.5 million maps/day.
• Map of the Roman Empire -
• Maps - Mapmaking tools for Game Masters.
• Maps of Ancient Earth - Cenozoic through Paleozoic eras.
• Maps of the Ancient Roman World - Biblical / history maps.
• Mesopotamia (Ur) - This image is a reconstruction of the ancient city of Ur, established around 2100 B.C. as the capital of the Mesopotamian Civilization, which arose about 3500 B.C. The people of this civilization built a wonderful city, which was centered on a temple called a ziggrat that towered above all other buildings.
• Microsoft TerraServer - Coverage: US, world. Multi-scale declassified Russian/US satellite imagery with interactive front-end.
• Out of This World Exhibition - The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas. An Exhibition of Rare Books from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library
• Perseus' Ancient Mediterranean World Atlas - Currently the area covered is mainly Italy, Greece, and Turkey, but we hope soon to expand to Spain, France, and other areas once under Roman control. Sites are selected by name only at the moment. We hope soon to implement selection by region (eg "Attica") and selection by clicking on a large-scale map of the ancient Mediterranean world.
• PCL Map Collection - Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection: A feature of UT Library Online
• Rome Resources - This site is a collection of "Rome resources" for the The Dalton School community. Anyone interested in Classical Rome will find this site to be a valuable research tool.
• Tesarta's Map Resources for Gamers
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer - A World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a geographic database.