Cartographic Resources on Internet |
Gazetteers
- Geographical
Names of Canada, where you can query a data base of over 500 000
authoritative geographical names in Canada, maintained by
the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC), including
basic locational information and maps.
- Geographic
Names Information System, a United States geographical
names database developed by the USGS in cooperation
with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) containing
almost two million physical and cultural geographic
federally recognized feature names in the U.S.
- Ordnance Survey - Gazetteer of Place Names: A searchable database of British place names from maps of the Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's National Mapping Agency.
- The
GEOnet Names Server, provides access to the U.S.
Defense Mapping Agency's (DMA) database of foreign geographic
feature names.
Educational
- Maps 101 Topographic maps are used for a wide variety of applications, from camping, canoeing, fishing and hiking to urban planning, resource development and surveying. Why? Because they represent the earth's features accurately and to scale on a two-dimensional surface.
- Cartographic
Materials Home Page,
of the University of Waterloo, Ontario provides an excellent
list of links to electronic cartographic resources on
the internet.
- Ordnance
Survey - Mapping for Education: From Great Britain's
National Mapping Agency, cartographic material and news
for students and teachers.
- The
Geographer's Craft
is a teaching initiative that contains valuable cartographic
related resource material on the topics of cartographic
communication, map projections, geodetic datums, coordinate
systems, GPS (Global Positioning System), and more.
- Map Projections Home Page:
From the Geography Department of Hunter College of the City
University of New York, a collection of information relating
to map projections. Check out Map Projection Related Amusements!
- Making Maps Easy to Read:
A summary of a research project into the factors that make
maps easy to read and to use. Useful data into map communication
and design.
- Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make
Me a Map: From the University of Tennessee, an introduction
to cartography for "young" cartographers.
- The
United States Geological Survey's (USGS): Check out the unit "Working
with Maps" and Other USGS Educational
Resources.
- National
Geographic Society : The Society provides educational material on
geography and cartography for both teachers and students.
- The History of Cartography
Project: From the Department of Geography, University
of Wisconsin, a research, editorial, and publishing endeavour
drawing international attention to the history of maps and
mapping.
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