Geospatial Standards of the USGS National Mapping Program
U.S. National Atlas
U.S. National MapUSGS Quads in PDF
FEMA Flood Maps (U.S)

Online Coordinate Conversion Java Applet

Martindale's Reference Desk Cartographic Calculators

US National Wetlands Inventory
Topo Zone, the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States.

The Geographic Name Server located at martini.eecs.umich.edu (University of Michigan) has crashed and will no longer be on-line. The Geography Department at Rutgers University is hosting a new telnet Geographic Name Server. It is located at geogns.rutgers.edu, port 3000, and uses the newer 1997 data from USGS
MIT has an interface to the old martini server data.

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names can even find "neighborhoods", vernacular and historic names, worldwide.

USGS NMD GNIS [Geographic Names Information System] can also locate topographic features. Mapping is provided by
The U.S. Census Bureau also maintains a Gazetteer with links to its Tiger Mapping Service and 1990 data

USGS National Atlas of the United States of America provides an interactive graphical link to the GNIS.

NIMA's GEOnet Names Server provides GNIS features for the rest of the planet.

mapping sites with international orientation: mappy.com and maporama.com
Mapping products for Europe are provided by Tele Atlas, which has now acquired Etak.

MapQuest's MapStore has a search facility which locates the USGS Quad sheet for a given city.
So does the USGS Map Finder
or continue to use this handy site which has been around for a long time:
Click on map to find USGS map name for scale of: 1:250k or 1:100k or 1:24k

Here's a service to use the GNS to compute distance between two points (in US)
with optional map via Xerox PARC Map Viewer
and optional driving directions via MapQuest.

the Online Map Creation Site

Az_Proj Azimuthal Equidistant Projection customized global maps created online

CIA World Fact Book

ETAK's on-line Eagle Geocoder provides map and lat/lon for a given address

Watershed Mapping from the EPA

Yahoo! creates interactive maps by address, and point to point driving directions
powered by MapQuest Interactive Mapping
Yahoo's Yellow Pages can map the nearest sites to a specified location. Very useful.

Lycos creates interactive maps by address, powered by Vicinity Corporation (formerly Proximus?), creators of MapBlast, borged by Microsoft

Maps and driving directions and yellow pages from Maps On Us

National Geographic Society's Map Machine

US National Park Service Cartographic Resources

ESRI's ArcData Online

I'm not currently [Aug'02] finding the Canadian National Atlas Information System
There is a [new?] GeoConnections site and Mapping page at Natural Resources Cananda and Atlas of Canada

Browse Digital Orthos of Boston area

not interactive, but Terminal Maps of US Airports

USGS Quads in Digital Formats from:

see:

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