Geography List

1 Geographic Information Systems

http://www.usgs.gov

GIs is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations with geological and geospatial information by continent.

2 Mapquest

www.mapquest.com

A site to designed to get you anywhere in the world. Give locations of where you are going and where you are to get detailed descriptions of directions with maps to get from one point to another with moderately reliable accuracy.

3 Geography and Map Division for Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/

The Geography and Map Division home page of the Library of Congress. Geography and map pages for researchers. Information about the geography and map division. History and background of geography and maps. Details about acquisitions, cataloging, collection management, and includes exhibitions with resources on the Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase.

4 USGS - Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

http://geonames.usgs.gov

Browse a database detailing geographic features in the United States from the US Geological Survey and find links to similar international resources. This division was formed to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government. The Board comprises representatives of Federal agencies concerned with geographic information, population, ecology, and management of public lands.

5 Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

Site allows search on place and feature names worldwide with results identify location contextually, i.e. what state or province a city is in, and by coordinates.

6 University of Texas - Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.htm

Check out the librarys conglomeration of global images, historical maps organized in areas of interest and by locations.

7 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/

Site has multi-beam images of the ocean floor, an East Pacific Rise and petrologic database among other interesting things.

8 World Geography Resources

http://www.bham.wednet.edu

A collection of map images includes Cyber Atlas and on-line street atlas of the USA.