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The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 17,400 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens, and manuscript maps. Some examples are United States map, maps New York, California map, Arizona map, America map, New York City map, Chicago map, and Colorado map. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history. Rumsey Map Island openned (Feb 2008) in the virtual world of Second Life. Maps from the collection are rendered in huge scale in this 3D environment. |
 
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Latitude and Longitude QUIZ
http://www.quia.com/rr/31012.html Latitude and Longitude QUIZ |
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Google Maps Mania Blog
http://gmapsmania.googlepages.com/100thingstodowithgooglemapsmashups Google Maps Mania Blog 100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups |
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Embedding Google Maps into Websites
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/youtube-style-embeddable-maps_21.html Embedding Google Maps into Websites YouTube-style Embeddable Maps We're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it's clickable, draggable, and zoomable. Adding a map to your website or blog is now as easy as embedding a YouTube video. No programming skills are required, and there's no need to sign up for a Maps API key. All it takes is three simple steps: |
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Printable Maps
http://alliance.la.asu.edu/azga/ Printable Maps Do you need a simple prepared map that you can print at home, at school, or in the office? Look here at our expanding list of freemaps formatted to be viewed, printed, or downloaded. |
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Google Maps in the classroom
http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html Google Maps in the classroom |
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FlashEarth
http://www.flashearth.com FlashEarth ... access several world maps such as Google Earth ... in a browser in a very easy to use interactive interface. All in a browser .. no need to download any software. |
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Mediascape
http://www.createascape.org.uk/ A mediascape is a digital activity or project enabling you to experience new things in the landscape around you with a handheld computer and pair of headphones. To create a mediascape, you start with a digital map. Using special software, digital sounds and pictures are attached to specific points on the map. "a website that provides free resources to enable teachers and pupils to create digitally-enhanced, personalised learning experiences. These are created using HP's Mediascape authoring toolkit and are a collection of location-sensitive sounds and images which are 'attached to' the local landscape, and then experienced using mobile technology." |
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Map Games
http://tinyurl.com/gdmnf Lots of Games to support mapping and map skills |
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Interactive World Atlas
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm Interactive World Atlas |
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The Riva Blog : Interactive Mountainbike Tour
http://rivablog.com/ The Riva Blog : Interactive Mountainbike Tour The screen shows a line graph of elevation / distance, a map of the cycle route and video footage of the actual trail. As the footage plays a point moves along the line graph. Useful for map reading skills or as a data handling exercise. |
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U.S. and World Geography : Maps That Teach
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/geography.htm U.S. and World Geography : Maps That Teach Free Resources for Parents and Teachers A collection of interactive maps that helps students learn about countries and their capitals. |
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Europe Maps and Pictures : Geographical Maps
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlas/index.html Europe Maps and Pictures : Geographical and Historical Maps |
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Google Planimeter
http://www.acme.com/planimeter/ Google Planimeter Measure areas on an online map using Google Maps! |
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Navigation: Then and Now
http://www.tcet.unt.edu/weblibrary2/?subject=science Navigation: Then and Now How do humans explore the world around them? How have tools used to measure and map changed from Columbus' time to the tools used today? Various navigation tools from both eras are demonstrated. resources | standards | video (13 minutes 43 seconds) | download (28.3 Mb) | 25 slides (0.87 Mb) | |
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Period Maps
http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/blatperdex.htm A period or antique map is a document created during the Middle Ages depicting the world (or part of it) as it was perceived at that time. Period maps offer intriguing glimpses into the medieval mindset. They can also be rather extraordinary works of art. The sites below offer images of period maps created sometime in the seventeenth century or earlier. |
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Animated Atlas : USA
http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html Animated Atlas : USA Ten minute presentation illustrates the growth of the USA from the original thirteen states in 1789. |
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Visited Countries : creat a map
http://www.world66.com/myworld66/ Visited Countries Choose countries and then produce a map of the world with thos countries in red. Also option for USA, canada and Europe |
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Satellite Maps Gazetteer
http://www.maplandia.com/ Maplandia.com provides the searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps. More than 2 000 000 places all over the world divided into many geographical categories according to continents, countries and administrative regions. Coloured region contours, direct Google Earth links. |
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Frappr
http://www.frappr.com/ Frappr : Create a map for your group. Share Group Photos, Get others to add themselves. Frappr brings Groups and Friends together with maps, photos, communication, and toys. Have a group but no website for it? Have no money or don't know how to make websites? Don't worry! Frappr saves you the trouble of finding a web host, domain name, and setting up software for forums, photo galleries, etc etc etc. |
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Wayfaring
http://www.wayfaring.com/ With Wayfaring.com you can explore maps created by others, or create your own personalized map. Share them with friends or the whole world. We? would like it to be a community of travelers who use our web-based tool to create, use, or share information about their travels and the places in their lives. We built Wayfaring because we thought it would be cool to see people share trip ideas and places with each other. That seemed like as good a reason as any. |
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Windows Live Local
http://local.live.com/ Windows Live Local combines mapping and local search to put the answers to your search questions in a geographical context. To do this, Windows Live Local combines MSN Search with the latest in mapping to create a new Web application built on Microsoft technology. |
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Outline Maps at 'Education Place'
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ Outline Maps at 'Education Place' | World | Europe | USA | Africa | South America | Historical | Asia | North America | Primary | |
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Make a Country Map at Planiglobe
http://www.planiglobe.com/country_maps.html Make a Country Map Select a country from the list below and click the "make country map" button. World region maps (Africa, Far East, Asia, North America, Europe, etc.) can be found at the bottom of the list. |
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Make your own digital map
http://www.planiglobe.com/omc_set.html Make your own digital map You may generate maps interactively at planiglobe. Zoom in and out, search for places and add your own locations to a map. What is a planiglobe? A map where two hemispheres of the earth are drawn side by side. You see the entire globe on one sheet. |
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Outline Map WebSites
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/outline_sites.html Outline Map WebSites Perry-Casta?da Library : Map Collection |
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Google Earth : A 3D interface to the planet
http://earth.google.com/ Google Earth : A 3D interface to the planet Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. |
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TerraServer
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ The TerraServer-USA Web site is one of the world's largest online databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States. TerraServer is designed to work with commonly available computer systems and Web browsers over slow speed communications links. The TerraServer name is a play on words, with 'Terra' referring to the 'earth' or 'land' and also to the terabytes of images stored on the site. |
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Microsofts Virtual Earth
http://virtualearth.msn.com/ Microsofts Virtual Earth Offers aerial views of cities overlaid with road networks and other information. It has new navigation tools that allow users to pan and drag maps. Because Virtual Earth uses Yellow Pages and White Pages directories, users can do specific searches for "restaurants" and other categories in the maps, save the results and e-mail them or copy them into a document. Virtual Earth, at virtualearth.msn.com, offers aerial views of cities overlaid with road networks and other information. It has new navigation tools that allow users to pan and drag maps. |
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NASA World Wind
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050405-121616 NASA World WindLong before Google Earth exisited, NASA World Wind was doing much the same thing. It's also a free service. They even have their own blog. Super Cool: Interact With Satellite and Aerial Images With NASA's World Wind Program |
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TerraFly (for the USA)
http://terrafly.fiu.edu TerraFly (for the USA) changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and our system will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth. |
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Develop Your Own LBSs Using Google Maps
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Develop Your Own Location-Based Services Using Google Maps The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed "info windows" just like Google Maps. |
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InfoMapper
http://www.infomapper.com InfoMapper is a unique Internet tool for working with large, high quality images such as OS Maps, Aerial photography and global images. InfoMapper streams these images over the Internet providing online examination techniques such as panning, zooming, layering images on top of one another, stitching images together, mirroring images side by side, and hot spotting images to link to shared digital learning resource. A unique benefit that InfoMapper brings is the ability to share and disseminate high quality digital learning resources. |
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Cool uses of Google Maps
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002626.php Cool uses of Google Maps A number of web sites and developers have been tapping into Google Maps to create great new tools. Any of these ideas would be fantastic on news sites. |
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Outline maps at abcteach
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/researchreports/maps/ Outline maps at abcteach | Continents and World | USA | Countries | |
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Where are the States in the USA
http://tinyurl.com/3wuxb Interactive online map to test if you know where each of the different States are in the USA ... would work well with an individual or a group and Interactive Whiteboard |
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Online World Quiz : with a map of the World
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/worldquiz.html Online World Quiz : with a map of the World .. countries |
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Working With Maps Lessons
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/lesson_plans.htm Working With Maps Lessons |
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Mapping Skills : Co-ordinates
http://www.mape.org.uk/startower/menu.html Mapping Skills : Co-ordinates ... online interactive exercise learning about co-ordinates. |
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Teachers and parents: web resources - early maps
http://www.maphistory.info/teachers.html Teachers and parents: web resources relating to early maps There are numerous sites offering links for teachers, on the one hand, or for maps on the other. Since there does not seem to be any site that brings together (for the benefit of teachers or parents) web-based educational materials relating to the history of maps, a systematic search was carried out on the web. No responsibility for the content of the sites linked below can be taken by the author of this page |
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History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject
http://www.maphistory.info/whatfind.html Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject What can you find about early maps on the Web? Online histories of maps | Family history: maps and place-names | Teachers and Parents: Web Resources Relating to Early Maps | Online encyclopedias | How early maps were produced | Other topics (journals, early texts, access) | |
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Outline Maps made for Printing and Copying
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/ Outline Maps made for Printing and Copying |
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Go Spatial
http://www.gospatial.com/ Go Spatial is a producer of digital geographic data products suitable for reference base mapping at global, regional or national levels. Our global data sets are seamless, modular and totally integrated. Go Spatial provides vector data at 1:1,000,000 scale comprising up to 83 data layers and 3 raster imagery products. Our raster data (one kilometer to the pixel resolution) includes Digital Elevation Models (DEM), Shaded Relief Images and True Color, Cloudless Satellite Imagery of the entire globe. GoSpatial.com makes digital mapping easy. |
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Zoom into Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/ Zoom into Maps Maps help us make sense of our world. A sampling of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division? 4.5 million treasures has been digitized and is available in Map Collections: 1500 - 2003. This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking, and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided. |
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PCL Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ Perry-Casta?da Library - Map Collection |
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Maps101
http://www.maps101.com/ Maps101 is an online database which provides subscription access to history maps, interactive maps, U.S. maps, world maps, flags, atlases, lesson plans and thousands of educational resources to support learning of social studies, history and geography in today's classroom. |
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Making Sense of Maps
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/maps/ Making Sense of Maps offers a place for students and teachers to begin working with maps as historical evidence. Written by David Stephens, this guide offers an overview of the history of maps and how historians use them, a breakdown of the elements of a map, tips on what questions to ask when analyzing maps, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using maps online. |
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Map History / History of Cartography
http://www.maphistory.info/ Map History / History of Cartography Whether you are an academic, family historian, collector, teacher or parent - welcome! All the worthwhile information about early maps can be found here, or from here. The 135 'pages' of this carefully organised site offer comment and guidance, and many, many links - selected for relevance and quality. |
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Images of early maps on the web
http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html Images of early maps on the web |
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Japanese Historical Maps
http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/ Japanese Historical Maps Access to more than 100 images and books from the collection of over 2300 Japanese historical maps dating back to the fifteenth century. |
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