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Atlapedia Online. Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps (showing water marks) as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre (AGCRC): GRASSLinks. GRASSLinks is a World Wide Web interface to the AGCRC-4DGM database which includes maps covering the geography, geology, and geophysics of the Australian continent. E-mail registration!

University of California, Berkeley: EARTH SCIENCES & MAP LIBRARY

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency Office of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.):
! The World Factbook. The World Factbook is a comprehensive view of each country in the world through facts and statistics on such topics as population, economy and government. The book also includes maps and flags for each country.
See also here (by Wikipedia).

Digital Reflections, Mining and Exploration Australia and New Guinea: Maps.

! ETH Zürich, Switzerland: The World of Maps.

! The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany (under the aegis of the Commission of the Geological Map of the World): The 1 : 5 Million International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas (IGME 5000). The major European GIS project involves over 40 European and adjacent countries and the final area covered will reach from the Caspian Sea in the east, to the Mid-Ocean Ridge in the west, and from Svalbard to the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. The aims of the project are to develop a GIS underpinned by a geological database, and also a printed map providing up-to-date and consistent geological information.

Geology.com (published by Hobart King). News and information about geology and earth science. Go to:
World Political, Physical Maps and Satellite Images.

GIS OpenCourseWare (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education):
! Tutorial Cartography for Map Figures in Academic Journals & Books.

The J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). The TGN contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.

! Google Maps. and Google Maps Germany. View maps and get directions. Google provides dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable — no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. You can use the slider to zoom in and zoom out. Including satellite and aerial images. Excellent!

GraphicMaps.Com offers a large selection of map clipart from various sections of the world. These maps are free, and may be used in projects and pages that discuss the globe, world, or specific countries. Their companion site WorldAtlas.com offers additional maps and a variety of statistics about different countries and areas.

The Great Globe Gallery. There are 83 different globes included on this page.

Calvin J. Hamilton: Earth Introduction (Site is part of the "Views of the Solar System"). With earth statisitics and access to earth movies and views of the earth, sorted by continents.

Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp, Tectonic Designs, (page hosted by SIMall.com): World Ocean Floors. Unfortunately in small size 8.91 x 4.83 cm, 150 dpi (jpg). This amazing piece of work accurately illustrates the tectonic Earth including mid-ocean ridges, the giant Pacific Plate, continental shelves, and undersea mountain chains. See also here.

Geological Survey of Japan: Geological Map Database of Japan. This database is the part of the geological map of Japan, CD-ROM version.

Kartenportal.ch. Maps and Geodata (in German).

Tom Kress, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA: Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data (SDDP). SDDP main objectives are to coordinate the generation of complete, seamless, digital databases of geologic, lithologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mineral deposit information. Via the on-line tool, users may generate national, state or global maps that illustrate the spatial distribution of the data.

! Map-Generator (in German). Creates simplified Google maps.

! MSN (Microsoft Corporation, Mapblast.com): Maps & Directions. Type or paste an address (even in Europe) and find the place on the map. Excellent!

National Geographic Society: Map Machine. Downloadable maps.

! Earth Observatory, NASA: The Blue Marble. This spectacular "blue marble" image (true color global imagery at 1 km resolution) is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic. Excellent!

NASA/USGS: NASA/USGS Planetary Geologic Mapping Program. The Astrogeology Team at USGS provides coordination of NASA´s planetary geologic mapping program.

NASA: Visible Earth. The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. Images are accompanied by a description and information on file size and format, usually TIF and JPEG. Excellent!

NASA Jet Propulson Laboratory, California Institute of Technology:
! The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
SRTM obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. Navigate from here.

NASA:
The Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM).
See also: P. Lowman et al. (1999): A Digital Tectonic Activity Map of the Earth (in PDF).

The North Africa Research Group GeoNet. A platform for the exchange of ideas and information about geology and exploration in North Africa.

Jim O'Donnell, Caltech Library System, California Institute of Technology: Maps and Information about Maps.

! OMNI Resources, Burlington, NC: International Maps and Guides.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries: Digital Chart of the World Server. Downloadable maps in ARC/INFO, ARCVIEW formats and GIF files.

! The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin. Go to: Maps of Europe, or Maps of Africa.

Princeton Correspondents on Undergraduate Research (PCUR):
The Art of Cartography: Creating Maps for your Research (by Advik Eswaran, March 24, 2025).

J.-Y. Royer, R.D. Müller, L.M. Gahagan, L.A. Lawver, C.L. Mayes, D. Nürnberg and J.G. Sclater, Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), University of Texas: A global isochron chart. (Technical Report No. 117, 1992). The Paleoceanographic Mapping Project (POMP), a global plate reconstruction project, provide color images of plate reconstruction with isochrons, References for coastlines, sutures, continental margins references for plate boundaries, satellite interpretations, ship-track data by region and finite poles of rotation used to reconstruct isochrons.

! Smithsonian Institution: This Dynamic Planet. The map is designed to show Earth's most prominent features when viewed from a distance, and more detailed features upon closer inspection (interactive mapping functions, including zoom).

Stanford University: Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.

! Ray Sterner: Color Landform Atlas of the United States. Digital color shaded relief maps. Excellent!

TopoZone.com. Downloadable USGS (United States Geological Survey) topographic maps. Enter the name of a place (hill, town, stream - just about anything) and start a search.

U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior: National Geologic Map Database Project (NGMDB). The NGMDB is a collaborative effort primarily involving the USGS and the Association of American State Geologists. This Web site contains informal, generally time-sensitive material intended for project members, cooperators, and interested parties.

US Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park: The Earth´s Crust. Crustal Structure Maps (Project Crust 5.1: USGS).

John Walker, Satellite data provided by The Living Earth Inc./Earth Imaging: Earth and Moon Viewer. You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.

John Watson, U.S. Geological Survey; Reston; Virginia: This Dynamic Planet. This website (in pdf) provides thematic maps of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics.

! Wikipedia: Category:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.
Currently one of the best tools getting rapidly maps of every place on earth!
! Step one: Search in Wikipedia for a location, village, town or landscape.
! Step two: After getting your search result, in line 2, click the bottom "Coordinates".
! Step three: Get a variety of maps, photos and other informations on the "Geohack"-result page. Excellent!

WorldAtlas.com. Provided by Graphic Maps, Galveston, Texas: Temporally, this detailed world atlas only includes a limited selection of images for general use.

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