Geography

[|Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions.]

[|Gapminder] A non-boring way to view statistics and world trends.

[|Harvard Map Collection: Digital Maps]is one of the oldest and largest collections of cartographic materials in the United States with over 500,000 items. Resources range from 16th century globes to modern maps and geographic information systems (GIS) layers.

[|Locating London's Past]This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.

[|The OldMapsOnline Portal] is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.

[|Open Access Maps at NYPL] The New York Public Library recently released more than 20,000 historical maps through NYPL Digital Collections. These maps can be downloaded in high resolution to re-use in your own projects. Highlights of the collection includes maps of Mid-Atlantic North America from the 16th through 19th centuries, maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and more than 1,000 historical maps of New York City.

[|Plnnr] is a website that helps you plan your trips. It takes out the hassle and the hard work, and leaves you only with good parts.

[|Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps] A searchable database of the 50,000+ fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Includes links to 6,000+ digital images in the Library of Congress collection.

[|Scribble Maps] a tool that makes it ultra easy to draw on maps.

[|SHOW®] offers users a new way to look at the world by resizing countries on the map in relation to a series of global issues. Maps include the United States, the World, and Japan.

[|WeatherSpark] is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.

[|The WhatWasThere project]is a virtual time machine of sorts that allows users to navigate familiar streets as they appeared in the past.