Maps and Geography

• BADGER: Geo-Data for the San Francisco Bay Area
• City Scenes: digital imagery of major cities
• Curious Software, who make software for creating maps for use by the press, etc.
• CyberGeography
• Download Planet Earth: viewer for free maps of Earth
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• Earth from Space: An Astronaut's views of the Home Planet
• Earth Observatory from NASA
  • Blue Marble: true-color global imagery at 1km resolution
• Earthviewer 3Dfrom Keyhole
• Fourmilab, source of free earth and sky mapping programs
• Geocoder.US: find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Google Maps
  • Google Maps Mania: an unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps
  • Google Sightseeing, a blog that is not affiliated with Google but which shows interesting sites through Google Maps's satellite-image feature
  • Google Textual Maps
  • Info Sports: Free geocoder. Get latitude and longitude through Google Maps.
  • Mapki: a forum for sharing ideas, implementations, and help for the Google Maps API
• GRASSGIS (Geographic Information System)
• Great Circle Mapper
• Hey, What's That?: provides panaromic sketches and the names of visible peaks
• Lighthouse: weather information from The Tech at MIT
• Manifold.net, who provide mapping software and downloadable data
• Mapblast
• MapMaker
• Mappa Mundi: mapping the Internet
• MapQuest, who now also have aerial photos of the U.S.
• Maps, freely distributable, on a Xerox Corp. machine
• Maps of War
• MassGIS Digital Orthophoto: zoom in on satellite pictures of the Boston area
• Microsoft Encarta
• Movoto: real estate site with excellent maps
• MyTopo.com: Build your own custom topo-map
• National Geographic Map Machine
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency
  • GEOnet Names Server: database of foreign geographic feature names
• Natural Resource Software, makers of Terrain Tools
• OpenMapat BBN
• Planetary image maps by James Hastings-Trew
• Satellite tracking applet
• SkyServer: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Space Imaging, who have launched the Ikonos commercial imaging satellite
• Terraserver: satellite images of earth from Microsoft
• Topographic Maps of the U.S.from JHU APL
• U.S. Geological Survey
  • Cartographic Data
  • Digital Elevation Models (1-degree)
  • Geographic Names Information System: Look up the locations of features in the U.S.
  • National Mapping Information
  • USGS information on recent earthquakes in California
• University of Texas map collection
• US Census Bureau Data Access Tools
• XEarth: Display a rotating world map in your X root window
  • WEarth, a port of XEarth to Windows
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer
• XGlobe
• Xplanet