TOOLS FOR GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Atlapedia Online DESCRIPTION: "Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world."
WEB SITE: http://www.atlapedia.com/
Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections DESCRIPTION: Geographic resources held by the Branner Earth Sciences Library.
WEB SITE: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/branner/mappage.html
City.Net DESCRIPTION: "Searchable guide to communities around the world."
WEB SITE: http://city.net/
Geographic Names Information System United States and Territories Data Base Query Form DESCRIPTION: Query formulation and entry.
WEB SITE: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
DESCRIPTION: A wonderful site for researching geographic headings.
WEB SITE: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

How Far is It?
DESCRIPTION: "This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
WEB SITE: http://www.indo.com/distance/
Iran Topographic Map Series (Soviet Military) from Omni Resources
DESCRIPTION: Iranian topographic maps for sale
WEB SITE: http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/int/iran-top.htm#p4
Maps and References
DESCRIPTION: "The following compilation of Internet/WWW sites is intended to be an introductory guide to some of the map and reference resources available via the World Wide Web. Consider using one of the WWW search engines if you are looking for a specific type of map or reference."
WEB SITE: http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html
National Register of Historic Places
DESCRIPTION: The National Register of Historic Places is the Nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.
WEB SITE: http://www.historicdistricts.com
National Resources Canada; Querying Canadian Geographical Names
DESCRIPTION: Verify Canadian Geographical Names.
WEB SITE: http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search/search_e.php
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency; Geonet Names Server
DESCRIPTION: To verify foreign geographic places the GEOnet Names Server is a good site to search. The NIMA database of approximately 3.3 million features in countries outside the United States. Information supplied from the most recent NIMA gazetteer of that country.
WEB SITE: http://www.nima.mil/gns/html
Omni Resources Map Catalog
DESCRIPTION: The world's largest online map catalog.
WEB SITE: http://www.omnimap.com/maps.htm
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
DESCRIPTION: "The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (PCL 1.306) holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world."
WEB SITE: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Place Name Sites
DESCRIPTION: Geographic resources held by the Arizona State University Libraries.
WEB SITE: http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
DESCRIPTION: "Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. The GNIS is our Nation's official repository of domestic geographic names information. Information about foreign geographic feature names can be obtained from the GEOnet Names Server."
WEB SITE: http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/index.html
U.S. Gazetteer
DESCRIPTION: "This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. You can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code."
WEB SITE: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
USGS National Mapping Information
DESCRIPTION: The USGS National Mapping Information Home Page.
WEB SITE: http://geography.usgs.gov/index.html
Web Resources for SACO Proposals: Geography & Geographic Names
DESCRIPTION: Library of Congress sources for SACO geographic names proposals.
WEB SITE: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/resources.html#GEOG
World Factbook
DESCRIPTION: A factbook from the CIA.
WEB SITE: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html