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Gazetteers/Placenames 
U.S. and territories (GNIS) http://geonames.usgs.gov
All nations excluding the U.S. (GEOnet) http://www.nima.mil/gns/html
UK & Europe http://multimap.com
Others/More http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/maps/dr/eldic.html
Maps  
Road Topographic Aerial Photos Satellite Images
California Weather Vegetation Earth Science
Outline/Base Time Zones Census Environmental
Campuses Zip Codes Historic Extraterrestrial
Parks Political United States Map Collections
Aerial Photographs  
Microsoft's TerraServer http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
USGS PhotoFinder http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/Webglis/glisbin/finder_main.pl?dataset_name=NAPP
GlobeXplorer http://www.globexplorer.com/
UC Davis Aerial Photograph Holdings http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/MapCollection/caaerial.html
Google Earth (for downloading on your personal computer) http://earth.google.com/ -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Users are required to at least download the free version of Google Earth.
Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps?
California Maps   State Map http://gocalif.ca.gov/tourism/pdfs/Map_CAstate.pdf
David Rumsey Historic Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com
Maps & Atlases: California Maps http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/geospatial/calmaps.htm
Campus Maps   CSU, Chico http://www.csuchico.edu/community/map/
Maps of University and College Campuses via the UC Davis Site http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/MapCollection/campus.html
Census Maps   U.S. Census Maps http://130.166.124.2/US_1.html
Earth Science Maps   National Map with physiographic features http://nationalmap.gov/index.html
National Geographic's Map Machine http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine
The USGS Geologic Map Image Library focuses on collecting and archiving scanned raster images of geologic maps that can be streamed over the Internet as high resolution digital imagery. http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ImageLibrary/
Environmental Maps   CSU, Northridge online map resources http://130.166.124.2/
New York maps http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nypath1.htm
Global Warming Early Warning Signals http://www.climatehotmap.org
FEMA & ESRI Online Hazard Maps http://www.esri.com/hazards/makemap.html

Extraterrestrial Maps   NASA, Astronomy picture of the day, June 1995 to present http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
Consolidated Lunar Atlas, photographic images http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/menu.html
Historic Maps   Digital Geographic Data Collection http://maps.csuchico.edu
Library of Congress American Memory, Maps http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
National Geographics Map Machine http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine
New England http://members.aol.com/oldmapsne/
Map History / History of Cartography http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/webimages.html
Selected Digital Historic Map Collections http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/cartography.html
Union List of Sanborn & Other Fire Insurance Maps http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanbul.html -- Lists all U.S. towns and cities covered by fire insurance maps from the mid-1800's to approx. 1950, and which university map collection owns them. These maps are typically very detailed, large scale, and show buildings, ownership, names, wells, and many more cultural features valuable to the genealogist, historians, treasure hunters, geographers, planners and others.
Map Collections  
U. of Texas at Austin http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/map_libraries.phtm
David Rumsey Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com
Maps & Atlases: California Maps http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/geospatial/calmaps.htm
Meriam Library Map Collection http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/maps/Maps_page1.html
Outline/Base Maps   Blank & Outline Maps, about.com http://geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps
CIA Country Base Maps http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
United States County Maps
World Maps -- from Oxford Reference Online (CSU,Chico users only). More than 775 maps, with locator, physical, and political maps for each country http://county-map.digital-topo-maps.com
Park Maps  

U.S. National Parks http://www.us-national-parks.net
Mount Diablo State Park http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=517
Redwood State Parks http://redwood.areaparks.com/parkmaps.html
Bidwell Park

Political Maps   Senate District Maps http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/senplan/Senate.htp
Assemby Redistricting Maps http://www.assembly.ca.gov/committee/c7/2001pdfs/newtextdocument.html
New Congressional District Maps http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/cngplan/newtextdocument.htp
U.C. Berkeley, Institute of Government Studies Statewide Database
(includes 2001 and 1991 district maps) http://swdb.berkeley.edu/info/info.html
California Voter Foundation's California Map Series (includes 2001 & 1991 district maps)
http://www.calvoter.org/maps/index.html
United States County Maps http://county-map.digital-topo-maps.com
Road Maps  

MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com/
Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps?
Online Highways (U.S. & Canada) http://www.ohwy.com/
Lycos Roadmaps/Travel http://maps.lycos.com/
UK & Europe, everywhere http://multimap.com/
MapBlast http://www.mapblast.com
MapsOnUs http://www.mapsonus.com/
US, Canada, Europe --National Geographic's http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine

Satellite Images  

Big Blue Marble http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
Earth From Space http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/
Google Earth (for downloading on your personal computer) http://earth.google.com/ -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Users are required to at least download the free version of Google Earth.
LandSat 7 http://landsat7.usgs.gov/

Time Zone Map   Timezones and Sun Clock http://www.worldtimezone.com
Topographic Maps  
Topographic Maps of California http://www.sdc.ucsb.edu/holdings/caltopo.html
Topozone.com http://www.topozone.com/
Microsoft's TerraServer http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
United States   National Atlas of the United States http://nationalatlas.gov/index.html
Vegetation Maps   Vegetation Maps http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps3.html
U.S. National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Weather Maps   Weather Map http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx
National Geographic's Map Machine http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine

Zip Code Maps  

Zip Codes, etc. from Langenberg.com http://zip.langenberg.com
 
 

 

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