Choose from among the following: 1. Gateway and Locator 2. Country and Census Map Sites   3. Historical Map Sites 4. Directions, Distances, and Recreational Use 5. Miscellaneous Gateway and Locator Sites (sites that lead you to other map resource sites) All the World's Maps (a useful source for locating country and city map sites at other sites; from EmbassyWorld.Com)  Harvard Map Collection: Other Cartography Sites InfoMine Scholarly Internet Resources Collection: Maps and GIS (a searchable guide, maintained by the University of California Libraries, to scholarly maps and GIS resources) Maps Locator on the Internet (guide to maps by geographical location, with some thematic maps.  Maintained by the Univ. of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research) Mercator's World Links (a well-arranged guide, with short annotations, to a wide range of maps and cartographic resources) Oddens’ Bookmarks (a comprehensive guide to map and cartographic sites from the Utrecht University.  A great place to begin.) Starting the Hunt: Guide to Mostly On-Line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data (good for a subject approach; from the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, U. of Arkansas)   Country and Census Map Sites American Fact Finder: Reference Maps (allows you to identify and see maps of the geographical units, such as Census tracts, and features, that can be used with the 2000 U.S. Decennial Census) American Fact Finder: Thematic Maps (thematic maps based on the 2000 U.S. Decennial Census) Color Landform Atlas of the United States Global Gazeteer (“a directory of 2880532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town”) Goode's World Atlas (a limited version of the print atlas, this sites allows you to select a variety of  thematic maps of the world and maps for U.S. states) Interactive Spatial Data Browser (generate selected features for states using the United States Geological Survey Digital Line Graph data set) National Atlas of the United States (maps on environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life; from the U. S. Geological Survey) National Geographic’s Map Machine (dynamic, thematic and atlas maps and facts, figures, and flags for countries of the world) New Jersey Business Resource Center’s Maps (interactive mapping application that allow you to create maps of New Jersey’s political boundaries, roads, open spaces and socio-economic variables) Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (maps of countries of the world and historical maps from the University of Texas at Austin.  Very good site with a wonderful collection of maps) TopoZone.Com (“every USGS 1:100,000, 1:63,360, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale topographic map for the entire United States. Puerto Rico (1:20,000) will be coming soon”) United Nations Cartographic Section Maps and Geographic Information Resources (regional and country maps)   Historical Maps Sites and Guides The David Rumsey Collection (focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials) Interactive Ancient Mediterranean (online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world; from the U. of North Carolina) Map Collections: 1500 to 1999 (maps from the Library of Congress’ American Memory Project) Historical Maps (from the The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin; includes maps from Shepherd’s Historical Atlas) U.S. Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996 (from the U. of Virginia) WWW Virtual Library History: Maps (a guide to historical map collections on the web)   Directions, Distances, and Recreational Use MapBlast (maps, driving directions, and distance for U. S. street addresses and maps for cities worldwide) MapQuest (maps and driving directions for addresses worldwide) Maps of United States National Parks and Monuments Yahoo! Maps   Miscellaneous Guide to Citing Maps and Atlases (from McMaster University)   Send comments and corrections to: ShapiroS@Mail.Montclair.Edu Last Modified: October 12, 2001 thematic maps.  Maintained by the Univ. of Iowa Center