Maps

Google Maps - Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of many countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business.

Beginning Google Maps Applications - Offers news about Google Maps applications development with rails.

GMap Creator - Freeware application from UCL designed to make thematic mapping using Google Maps simpler. Download, sample maps, documentation and a worked example.

Gmaps Pedometer - A hack that uses Google's mapping application to help record distances traveled and calories burned during a running or walking workout.

Google Groups: Google Maps API - Discussions group for developers about the API use.

Google Groups: Google Maps Help - Provides a discussions group to share questions between the users of the tool.

Google Maps API - Provides an application programming interface to use the tool on any website.

Google Maps API Official Blog - News of the programming interface that lets put the tool web pages.

Google Maps Directory - Provides a directory to websites offering maps.

Google Maps Mania - An unofficial blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by the tool.

Google Maps Plugin for WordPress - Provides a tutorial to use the tool on a WordPress blog.

Google Mars - Offers an interactive map of this planet.

Google Moon - Provides a photographic map of the equatorial region of the satellite with pan and zoom capability, showing locations of the Apollo landings.

Map of Strange - A repository of strange anomalies and cool sights found in Google Maps and Google Earth.

Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps - Armchair sightseeing, with links to many famous places and landmarks. Browse by location, category, and most popular.

Street View Fun - Collection of off-beat images from Google Maps.

Wikipedia: Google Maps - Offers presentation and history of the application.

OpenStreetMap - A rights-free map of the world being created by volunteers using copyright free sources and GPS tracks. Includes an interactive map and details of how to get involved.

Best of OpenStreetMap - Site showcasing the best and most significant parts of the free world map.

LearnOSM - A step-by-step beginners' guide to making maps with OpenStreetMap.

Map Kibera - Project to map one of Africa's largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Includes the map, a project wiki, dicussion groups and photos.

Mappa Mercia - Project to help develop and expand OpenStreetMap in the West Midlands region of the UK. Includes an online map, error reporting tool, details of projects, blog, and how to get involved.

Open Maps - Blog from Chris Hill detailing his progress with editing and using OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Foundation - An international non-profit organisation supporting the OpenStreetMap project. Includes constitution, details of meetings, finances, working groups, and a list of board members and officers.

OpenStreetMap: Using and Improving the Free World Map - Website to accompany a German-language book about the OSM project. [Some site content in German only.]

State of the Map - Annual conference about the progress of OpenStreetMap and free geo-data in general. Programme, registration information, and video of previous talks.

Switch 2 OSM - Advocacy site which encourages websites to switch to OSM for their online maps. Includes technical information and case studies.

Wikipedia: OpenStreetMap - Encyclopedia article about the open mapping project, with history, details of techniques, licensing information, and usage.

About.com: Maps - Several links to map-related sites, sorted into categories such as cartography and historic maps.

Alexandria Digital Library - Map related websites sorted by subject.

All the World's Maps - Provides access to national maps and maps pinpointing major cities for countries.

Bodleian Library Map Room - About one hundred map links, divided by category.

Maps on Other Web Sites - Categorized directory of several hundred links to online maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas.

StreetLookup.Com - Online maps, directions, address search, road conditions, and other information and/or links.

AltaVista Maps - USA: Street maps and driving directions.
Crawl-It-All Map Search Options - Get driving directions, plan a trip, find distances, map a city, town, country, address, search for map related sites, and more.
CustomMaps Trip Routing - CustomMaps Trip Plans include highlighted maps, driving directions and times, construction, hotels, points of interest, & more. A bound book is mailed with your trip anywhere in USA, Canada and Mexico.
DeLorme Cyberrouter - USA/ Canada/ Mexico. Uses DeLorme Map'n'Go software to give a travel plan and maps along the route between two cities.
Digital City: Maps and Directions - Detailed maps and concise, door-to-door directions.
Driving routes of Oahu - Provides virtual driving courses and other travel information for Hawaii
Free Trip - USA/ Canada. Highway Trip Planner that creates personalized and comprehensive driving itineraries, including hotel bookings.
Freeality Online Maps & Driving Directions - Search a wide variety of free online atlases and maps sites, for the exact local, city, state, and country map. USA driving directions.
InOneSearch Directions - Driving directions between two points, including map and detailed directions.
Map Blast - Interactive atlas and driving directions, create maps, locate stores and download data to your Palmtop.
Maporama - Provides street-level directional maps for fifteen European nations, all of the USA, and most of Canada.
MapQuest - USA. Interactive maps, local city guides, driving directions and real-time traffic information for many cities.
Maps On Us - USA. Interactive atlas and free personalized services including address book, personal yellow pages, map markers, and customized map/route directions
MyTravelGuide - Driving Distances - Calculates the distances between major US cities, performs distance conversions and offers driving directions.
Netscape Maps and Driving Directions - Quickly and conveniently map an address or obtain door-to-door driving directions. Powered by Mapquest.
North American RoadGuides - Unique roadtrip travel planner. Lodging, restaurants, camping, shopping and more listed by exit number. Choose your route, pick your hotel, and book your room. Note: Only a select number of Interstates listes as of 11/24/01.
Rand McNally - Road Trip Guide - Plan your trip; get information on cities and points of interest; create custom itineraries
The Really Big One's Maps & Directions - Get Driving directions anywhere in the World. Local information and attractions for easy to find destinations. Atlases of the world,maps of America,U.S State Maps,Canada Maps, and more.
SeeYouOnline Maps - Quick and easy to use driving directions.
Triscape Map Explorer - Fly online over an animated USA road map. Add annotations and link icons to customized interactive maps that you can share.
Yahoo! Maps - USA. Yahoo!'s map facility. Street maps and driving directions for US cities

Your Sky - Interactive sky mapping. You select a region of the sky in your browser and the server displays a map. Very useful and full-featured - Ed.
Atlanta Sky Maps - Designed for naked-eye viewing, these are sky maps updated weekly for the Atlanta, Georgia, area.
3-D Starmaps - Do your own 3-D star maps. See stars like in your favorite SF
The Dome of the Sky - An online planetarium showing views of the stars and constellations at different latitudes and different dates through the year.
Lunaria Calendar and Sky Maps - Designed for naked-eye viewing, there are sky maps for several U.S. cities, updated weekly.
Maps of the Solar System - Collection of maps of the planets and moons, many derived from multispectral images taken by NASA spacecraft.
MyStarsLive - Web-based interactive star chart generator. Get a preview of your own city's night sky - with moon phase.
Out of This World - The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas
Sky Atlas 2000.0 - A review of this popular printed sky atlas by Tom Polakis.
Skymaps - Maps of the night sky for the northern and southern hemispheres. Designed to be printed and used. Updated each month.
SkyView - The Internet Virtual Telescope generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray.
Solar Neighborhood - Interactive 3D map and information on stars within 25 light-years of Earth.
Solar System Live - Interactive Orrery of the Web.
Star Gazer - View a star map for any time and latitude. Click on stars for detailed information. Java program runs on version 4.0+ browsers.
Star Maps - Star maps generated from a number of cities.
Stars and Constellations
Virtual Sky - A portal to multiple representations of the night sky, including a high-resolution (1 second/pixel) optical survey of the Northern sky and the Uranometria engravings from 1603.

David Rumsey Collection - Over 2,300 high-resolution digital images of maps from the David Rumsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the US. Focus is 18th and 19th c. North and South America cartographic materials.

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