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MAPS
- Cartographic and Spatial Data on the Internet
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/mapweb.html
- The University of Chicago guide to map collections on the net.
(28 Jul 2001)
- Cartographic Modeling Lab (University of Pennsylvania)
http://cml.upenn.edu/
- Available to the public, these interactive mapping tools (including GIS) and databases are used by the lab to conduct academic research and urban and social policy analysis, with a focus on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
(10 Sep 2004)
- David Rumsey Map Collection, University of California-Berkeley
http://www.davidrumsey.com/gis/
- Historical maps (GIS overlays of current data are possible) for Boston, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., St. Louis, and St. Petersburg, with others promised soon. Also includes 253 railroad time tables and auto route maps from the 19th and early 20th century U.S.; numerous state historical atlases; and Latin American countries; and a large collection of Japanese data. It has links to free software allowing basic or advanced searches.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Geography & Map Reading Room (The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/
- Access to public domain maps digitized and posted on a regular basis by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. The online digitized maps are a small part of the inventory of "over 5 million maps, 72,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, over 500 globes and globe gores, and numerous plastic relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including electronic."
(10 Sep 2004)
- GeoNet Names Server (GNS)
http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html
- The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) database of geographic feature names. Information in this database has been used to prepare and publish the series of gazetteers approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN). Being your search at the Introduction to Geographic Names page.
(9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)
- Historic Cities
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/
- This site, located at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic European cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web.
(12 Nov 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)
- Historic Towns Atlases: Urban History through Maps
http://www.ucd.ie/~twnatlas/
- This bibliographical site, organized by Professors Anngret Simms and Ferdinand Opll in 1995 and 1996 for the International Commission for the History of Towns, lists over 250 town atlases in 13 European countries. The atlases follow the common guidelines set by the Commission. The Geography Department of the University of Dublin maintains the list.
(28 Jul 2001)
- Making Sense of Maps
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/maps/
- This interactive, online instruction on how to use and evaluate maps as historical evidence was written by geography professor Dr. David T, Stephen, Youngstown State University, for the History Matters (http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/) website at George Mason University. Of note is the use of panoramic views of Pittsburgh in 1871 and 1902 as models for teaching maps .
(11 Aug 2002)
- Map History/History of Cartography
http://www.maphistory.info/index.html
- Formerly hosted by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and now maintained by Tony Campbell, Map Librarian (retired), British Library in London, this portal site is a gateway to hundreds of links to web map images, including related information on using and storing map images, technical considerations, copyrights, and other details. An extremely comprehensive set of well-annotated links that is especially strong on Europe.
(10 Nov 2002; revised 7 Oct 2004)
Mapping Urban History: GIS and the analysis of the urban space of nineteenth-century Aarhus
http://www.mapping.1go.dk/- Full-text paper by Danish scholars Jens Toftgaard Jensen and Garry Keyes that was presented at the International Association for History and Computing’s XVth conference in Tromsø, August 6th – 9th 2003. Available as downloadable web page, Powerpoint presentation, or PDF copy.
(9 Feb 2005)
- nationalatlas.gov (National Atlas of the United States)
http://www.nationalatlas.gov
- A huge data base of federal government maps, geological environmental and social statistics, many of them interactive or multi-media. Unfortunately little is urban. Historical information includes the maps from the 1970 National Atlas and Scribner's Atlas of the U.S. (1883). There are links to historical maps in the Library of Congress and an excellent bibliography.
(9 Feb 2004)
- New York City Subway Historical Maps
http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/index.html
- Maps from 1888 to the present.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Oddens Bookmarks
http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html
- An excellent collection of links to maps and links from a Dutch university.
(28 Jul 2001)
- Paris Maps
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps/
- These 100 street maps of Paris between 1716 and 1887 were assembled by Professor Barry Bergdoll of Columbia University.
(15 Feb 2003)
- Philadelpha - Maps and Geographic Information
http://www.library.upenn.edu/datasets/philamaps.html
- Access site to the University of Pennsylvania Library's map holdings focused on Philadelphia.
(10 Sep 2004)
- Rapu (Rete Archivi Piani urbanistici)
http://pcsiwa12.rett.polimi.it/~rapu/home.htm
- An Italian digital archive of master plans, promoted since 1994 by the "Triennale di Milano". It has plan and maps for Bari, Bologna, Como, Cremona, Ferrara, Lecco, Mantova, Ravenna, Rovigo, and Venezia and links to archival collections.
(19 Nov 2001)
- Social Explorer
www.socialexplorer.com
- Andrew Beveridge, CUNY-Queens College, heads the team that put together this site of dynamic and static demographic maps drawn from census data. The focus is on Queens neighborhoods and population changes in New York City since 1910.
(15 Feb 2003)
- U.S. Historical City Maps: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historic_us_cities.htm
- Many, but not all maps are from the U.S. Geological Survey and Automobile Blue Books.
(28 Jul 2001)
- Visible Earth (NASA)
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
- Searchable directory of public domain images, visualizations, and animations of satellite images of the Earth provided by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. An interesting example
is the global Earth City Lights map -- a composite image of the earth produced by Marc Imhoff and a team of researchers in an effort to measure the effects of urbanization on biological productivity in the
USA and globally. The map is derived from 9 months of satellite observations which are superimposed on a darkened land surface. (There are also regional/continental "city light" maps.) The map can be found here: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5826. The Earth Observatory article "Bright Lights, Big City" discussing the use of city light data by Marc Imhoff and fellow researchers to map urbanization can be found here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Lights/. [Information provided by Raymond Familusi (H-Urban: 31 August 2004)]
(10 Sep 2004)
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