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There are a lot of sites on the Web which provide information of interest. Some of it is just fascinating to browse through - the Bodleian Library Map Room at Oxford University for example. Other sites are more practical and provide you with a road map of some obscure (or not so obscure) city, with map outlines and with specialised maps e.g. vegetation or climate. I'm sure you'll find something to suit your purpose. Let me know of any other good cartography links and I'll add them in.

Ordnance Survey - a useful link for ordering stuff or getting some information about products. It is now adding more useful free facilities - e.g. outline maps of the UK. Webmasters can now use FOR FREE a small number of O.S. maps on their websites (see Virtual Fieldwork for examples).

The Society of Cartographers- based at Sheffield University - all things cartographical, useful for those thinking of following a career in this direction.

Bodleian Library Map Room Oxford University- lots of very old maps - fascinating stuff.

ReliefWeb Map Center

World Maps Xerox PARC Map Viewer- you will come across this when using other sites - it seems to be widely used but I have mixed feelings about it.

National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection- lots of maps in the University of Texas Map Library - a very highly regarded site.

Center for Mapping- The Ohio State University.

City.Net- lots and lots of city maps - they are good - give them a try.

Cartographic Materials Discipline Page- what a catchy title! - from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

ArcData Online-ArcData Online is ESRI's Internet Mapping and Data Site. The site contains a wide assortment of geographic information that users can access to create map images. Data can be downloaded to use with ESRI GIS software e.g. ArcView and ArcExplorer.

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Images

Space Shuttle Images - a clickable world map with space shuttle images of various locations.

Space Shuttle Images - includes clouds from space (without the detailed text) plus plate tectonics, volcanoes, etc.

Earth From Space - more space shuttle pictures but grouped into categories such as cities, earth landscapes, hurricanes, geographic regions, etc.

Space Radar Images Of Earth - another large collection of images grouped into categories which include cities, ecology & agriculture, rivers, volcanoes, snow, ice & glaciers.

Terraserver - a Microsoft site which you will either love or hate! The concept is wonderful - declassified high resolution images from Russian spy satellites which you can zoom in on right down to fields and individual buildings. The site can be busy, slow and awkward to use - try it and see...

Satellite Images of the Earth at Night - from the International Dark-Sky Association who campaign against light pollution, comes this weird and wonderful set of images.

Earth and Moon Viewer - generate a live image based on topography, cloud patterns, etc with current day/night superimposed.

Global Hydrology & Climate Centre - global weather views. Includes visible, infra-red and water vapour images. Areas covered: N.America - GOES satellite, Japan, Australia & Asia - GMS-5 satellite, Europe, Africa & Atlantic - METEOSAT-7 satellite.

Space Science & Engineering Centre - from this site comes one of the best images that I have found on the Internet. These are full-colour global maps showing differences in land and sea temperatures. They make wonderful windows wallpaper images.

Russian satellite images collected from the polar orbitting satellite NOAA. The images are processed in Irkutsk, Siberia and Moscow. The weather images show most of present-day Russia plus its neighbours.

Pictures Of Earth- a collection of classic pictures of Earth.

United States Air Force Operational Weather Centre (USAF OWS)- I only recently discovered this site. It is well organised and full of quality weather images and data. Some areas have restricted access with passwords.

Mount Ranier Armchair Tour - a photographic tour of glacial features of Mount Ranier.

University of Cincinnati Photos - photo database of glacial features (with notes).


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