Cartography Web Sites

This page contains links to the sites used in the Cartography series, as well as other useful or related sites.

Earth Photographs and Images

• Bill Arnett's Pictures of Earth. (The NASA Apollo 11 photograph is also available from his image directory.)
• The Earth Image Index from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• EarthRISE, a searchable database of photographs taken by astronauts in space.
• University of Washington GAP Analysis Project (Washington State Landsat image).
• USGS EROS Data Center allows you to browse and select Landsat and aerial images.

Maps

• The University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research Maps and References page.
• Line maps from the Xerox PARC Map Viewer
• University of Washington Gap Analysis Project (Washington State species habitat maps).
• Color Landform Atlas by Ray Sterner at Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory.
• The Interactive Atlas from Mapquest.
• The Peters Projection presents a map of the Earth where equal areas on the map represent equal areas on the Earth.

Gazetteers and Atlases

• The US Census Bureau's U.S. Gazetteer for locations in the United States.
• The Interactive Atlas from Mapquest.

Other links

• National Weather Service Forecast Office in Seattle.

Related Information

• Cartography Table of Contents
• Technical Terms in this series
• Up to Geography: Observing and Representing the Earth

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